All that and more on nightly Business Report for monday, december 1. Good evening, glad you could join us. Susie gharib has this evening off. December is traditionally a strong month for the markets but there was no santa claus rally today no, siree. Oil prices went on a confounding ride, down and then up, and stocks seemed caught in oils spell. But that wasnt all. Stocks were also tripped up by weak Economic Data from china and signs retail sales here in the u. S. Werent so hot this past weekend. More on that in just a moment. But heres how the markets looked at the closing bell. The dow ending 51 points lower than fridays record close and the dow transports were sharply lower today, too, we should point out. The nasdaq lost 64 points and the s p was down 14. But once again, the big story today was the price of crude, which began the day by sinking below 64 a barrel to a fresh fiveyear low. But then midsession crude began surging higher. Finally gaining more than 4 . Its biggest oneda
All that and more on nightly Business Report for monday, december 1. Good evening, glad you could join us. Susie gharib has this evening off. December is traditionally a strong month for the markets but there was no santa claus rally today no, siree. Oil prices went on a confounding ride, down and then up, and stocks seemed caught in oils spell. But that wasnt all. Stocks were also tripped up by weak Economic Data from china and signs retail sales here in the u. S. Werent so hot this past weekend. More on that in just a moment. But heres how the markets looked at the closing bell. The dow ending 51 points lower than fridays record close and the dow transports were sharply lower today, too, we should point out. The nasdaq lost 64 points and the s p was down 14. But once again, the big story today was the price of crude, which began the day by sinking below 64 a barrel to a fresh fiveyear low. But then midsession crude began surging higher. Finally gaining more than 4 . Its biggest oneda
All that and more on nightly Business Report for monday, december 1. Good evening, glad you could join us. Susie gharib has this evening off. December is traditionally a strong month for the markets but there was no santa claus rally today no, siree. Oil prices went on a confounding ride, down and then up, and stocks seemed caught in oils spell. But that wasnt all. Stocks were also tripped up by weak Economic Data from china and signs retail sales here in the u. S. Werent so hot this past weekend. More on that in just a moment. But heres how the markets looked at the closing bell. The dow ending 51 points lower than fridays record close and the dow transports were sharply lower today, too, we should point out. The nasdaq lost 64 points and the s p was down 14. But once again, the big story today was the price of crude, which began the day by sinking below 64 a barrel to a fresh fiveyear low. But then midsession crude began surging higher. Finally gaining more than 4 . Its biggest oneda
All that and more on nightly Business Report for monday, december 1. Good evening, glad you could join us. Susie gharib has this evening off. December is traditionally a strong month for the markets but there was no santa claus rally today no, siree. Oil prices went on a confounding ride, down and then up, and stocks seemed caught in oils spell. But that wasnt all. Stocks were also tripped up by weak Economic Data from china and signs retail sales here in the u. S. Werent so hot this past weekend. More on that in just a moment. But heres how the markets looked at the closing bell. The dow ending 51 points lower than fridays record close and the dow transports were sharply lower today, too, we should point out. The nasdaq lost 64 points and the s p was down 14. But once again, the big story today was the price of crude, which began the day by sinking below 64 a barrel to a fresh fiveyear low. But then midsession crude began surging higher. Finally gaining more than 4 . Its biggest oneda
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