far today. we do have a flurry of tweets from the president this morning and he s holding his hard line on china trade. one of those tweets says this. we are now a much bigger economy than china and have substantially increased in size since the great 2016 election. we are the piggybank that everyone wants to raid and take advantage of. no more. i call that hard line trump on trade. let me throw these headlines into the mix. the new york times says the administration has a plan for deploying up to 120,000 troops to the mideast. that after reports of attacks on shipping in the gulf. the saudis say the iranians did it. big news from walmart. they are going for one-day shipping. that is a direct hit on amazon. it s all about delivery and walmart looks to get ahead of the game. bayer takes a huge legal hit. a jury in san francisco has awarded $2 billion to a couple who claim the weed killer roundup gave them cancer. more lawsuits to come. bayer faces financial ruin. va
the patents but hardware, some 2,000 patents and trademark portfolio going to lenovo. first new phone to come out of the deal was moto x that came out last year. has not been a big hit. multiple price cuts. meantime lenovo is on major acquisition spree, making this deal just days after buying ibm s low server business. the deal does still need to be approved in the u.s. and china. google s c.e.o. said in a blog post, this will enable google to devote our energy to drive innovation across the android ecosystem for the benefit of smart phone users everywhere. on a side note, this does not signal a larger shift for our other hardware efforts. c.e.o. and founder of tech- economy joins us from new york. and brad is here from us in the studio. is google trying too hard to be apple? yes and no. no in that the deal in 2012 primarily happened because of intellectual property. tons of litigation, threatened litigation in the android world. they wanted the patents. and they wants
wall street journal but joined me for an exclusive interview. i talked to the head of the anti-deaf mags league, abeprosmham this morning. following up on a letter i sent over the weekend apologizing for the use of the word crystal knox. it was a terrible word to have chosen. i, like many, have tried to nderstand the 20th century and the incomprehensible evil of the holocaust. it can t be explained even to try to explain it is questionable. it s wrong. it s evil. now, i used the word because during the occupy of san francisco by the occupy wall reet crowd, they broke the windows in the wells fargo bank, they marched up to our automobile strip on van ness avenue and broke all the windows in all the luxury car dealerships. and i saw that s, irmed that the police just stood by frozen. and i thought, well, this is how crystal knox began. so that word was in my mind. i did, i don t necessarily need to read from this letter but if you re interested i can. sure. go ahead. well
a year ago. a little bit of perspective. home prices rose a modest just under 1%. what does that suggest? may be a slowdown in the works. everyone has wondered about that. housing is not the only bright spot. a handful of retail stocks touching an all-time-. nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange to talk about sparkling retailers. reporter: the day after thanksgiving. amazon already started their black friday deals. every ten minutes they have some sort of deal. that is really what they re going to see with the holiday season. in the meantime, stocks are doing so well. moving some highs. macy s, tiffany, and walmart as well as limited brands. but you look at these names doing well and touching highs. but also outperforming the s&p 500. but they are still a performers with amazon of over 50% year today. limited branson 38%. tiffany s up 54%. doing so well not only here at home, but also abroad so much so that they raise their full-year numbers. japan a
publicly listed listed mutual funds. they are whiting the investor , and we will take you to las vegas to show you the latest from the contributor consumer electronics show. procedural vote, six republicans joined democrats to vote yes, and archie washington correspondent peter cook is with us. even though the move over from was there,can side it is a long way from being a done deal. they did break ranks and joined with those democrats to move forward today in the u.s. senate, and even before the vote happened, we had top senate leaders lamenting this. we had six republicans, some of them from some very high unemployment states deciding to for a the final tally further conversation and perhaps another vote later this week. this would extend the unemployment benefits for another three months retroactively. this would affect those who lost them at the end of the year. they say it is important to keep that money flowing, and the president hailed the vote and said he would si