We are standing by for the White House Press briefing, sean spicer returns to the podium for the First Time Since the firing of james comey. The president shocking many this morning by tweeting, considering stopping having press briefings and issuing paper statements instead. America waiting to find it out if the president was just making a bad joke. That pressure expected live right here. When it begins, we will take you to it. To your top money news. Today, once again, the continued decimation of retailers and their investors money. Today jcpenney and nordstroms. Not impacting your Broader Market investments. Three major indexes are little changed. The dow down a scant 31 points. A little more good news for your money on this friday. Shares of apple and mcdonalds hitting new records. Owner of darden doing well as we bulk up on pasta. Right now lets get back to what appears to be the sad new retail re reality for investors. Jcpenney wiping out hundreds of millions as sales disappoint.
And big bets against one of the most wellknown Tech Companies out all also all matter to you and your money and we hit it all as power lunch begins right now. Welcome to power lunch, im melissa lee. Lets look at the markets right now. Dow and nasdaq hitting alltime highs during the comey testimony. Take a look at the vxx right now. Take a look at that below 10, 9. 93. Financials leaving the markets today this on the back of the house vote of overhaul of doddfrank. Jp morgan, bank of america, Goldman Sachs among the top performers. And take a look at some of the names hitting alltime highs today, netflix, united health, fed ex, ebay. Thank you. Well, we begin where else with the Political Drama in washington, d. C. Aimen jaifrs like millions of others listening on every single word of the fascinating comey hearing and he joins us with reaction and an update. Thats right. There were a number of astonishing moments. Let me bring you two of those. One was when the former fbi director used
A springtime special power lunch begins right now. And welcome to power lunch. Sorry. Brian mentioned stocks hit record highs midday. We saw the nasdaq turn lower. Amazon, microsoft and google. The intradays are even more dramatic and a lot of volume at last check trading at the 125 of its average daily volume. Extraordinary volume for a friday afternoon. And as stocks rally the vix hitting a 24year low. Financials big movers. Among the leaders in the group bank of america, Morgan Stanley and regents financial. With us on set you saw his finger, lets show the whole person, the one and only guy adami. Josh brown was walking off set. He yelled my name, i looked over at him, im sorry. Lets first talk about the tech selloff. Start to roll over at 12 20. You pull up any intraday chart including it tesla, nvidia, amazon, apple, all of them rolled over. Nvidia sticks out to me. Its been on everybodys radar screen. At 1 00 it traded is 50 million shares. After making an alltime high the revers
Comes within ten feet of a navel vessel. The american crew was menaced by The War Plane for almost 20 minutes. And hit the road, jack. Apple eliminates the headphone plug from their newest iphone. They call it the courage to move forward with the latest technology. Will the customers pay for the high end Wireless Headphones . Donald trump says as president , he will ask american generals to present him with a plan within 30 days for taking care of isis. Trump previously said he has his own Foolproof Plan to defeat isis, but says he is keeping it secret because i dont want the enemy to know what im doing. Clintons campaign is a Family Affair today with bill and chelsea speaking in key battleground state. And Donald Trumps attacks on the Clinton Foundation are an attempt to change the subject. And a dangerous encounter with a russian jet and a navy vessel. At one time it came within ten feet. Well talk about that with our guest retired general michael flynn. Former head of the defensive
Who fought back when teeth clamped down on her leg, how she got him to let go. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc nightly news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin with stunning late breaking news. President trump has fired james comey as director of the fbi. It comes without warning and sending shock waves across washington this evening, the president dismissing the man who was leading the investigation into his campaign. Comey, an obama appointee, with less than four years into a 10 year term when he became a political lightning rod over the last year between investigations into Hillary Clinton and into possible collusion between the Trump Campaign and the russian government. We get late details now from our chief white house reporter, hallie jackson. Reporter tonight, a Stunning Development that seemed to come with little warning. The president abruptly firing james comey, writing to him, you are not able to