As Fallon Sherrock becomes the first woman to beat a man at the pdc World Championship at ally pally. Why dennis the Shetland Pony is in the front line in the battle against loneliness this christmas. Good morning. We have some dense fog and icy patches to watch out for this morning. Generally speaking, eastern areas will be drier and brighter in the west, it will be wet and increasingly windy stop i will have more details in 15 minutes. Its wednesday 18 december. Hundreds of thousands of people are facing a wait of months to have their faulty and potentially dangerous washing machines replaced. Whirlpool recalled 500,000 appliances yesterday because of a fire risk, but customers are struggling to get information because of problems with its website. The company was already dealing with problems with its dryers as dan johnson reports. More than half a million of these washers are at risk of sparking a fire if a part in the door lock overheats. It has happened to 79 machines already. Th
Power lunch starts right now good day, everybody. Welcome to power lunch. Im Tyler Mathisen as michelle just highlighted, the dow and s p 500 hitting records again. But we are well off those levels at this hour nasdaq basically getting slammed. Down more than 1 . Big selloff in tech. Check out what is leading that nasdaq 100 lower Lamb Research down so auto disk down 15 now applied materials, invidia also in the tank today. In fact, the whole Semi Conductor industry on pace for its worst day in almost a year more on this group coming up forget ten, folks. Lets move on to 11,000. Bitcoin breaking past 11,000 just hours after topping 10,000 for the first time ever. Everybody is talking about bitcoin. Crypto currency up more than 30 in the past week and now up well over 1,000 this year, brian. Its like an auction. Do i hear 12,000 im Brian Sullivan heres what else is happening at this hour. Tyler drilled down on bitcoins record run the nasdaq planning to launch Bitcoin Futures next year.
Halftime report starts now. Just because were not up or down a thousand points of the dow does not mean the markets are calm in fact, the dow has been up and down tripledigits today now right now we are holding on to the strong gains, but with three hours to go, you never know what could happen risk also coming off just a bit as stocks rise volatility gauges are falling but the vix still above 20 match. Com soaring the dating site which oend owns tinder as more people sign up chipotle down and comp sales missing targets and it expects the decline to continue toward the middle of the year and wynn resorts and michael kors an and hasbro rallying and wynn, get to that story soon. Im Tyler Mathisen breaking news out of washington, Senate Leaders have announced a longterm budget deal. Kayla is on the hill with details. This is a deal in discussion since this fall. But earlier today just a few minutes ago leadership from each party in the senate took to the floor to announce they had resolve
Dartmouth, just a few minutes from now. Lets get you caught up on some of the top stories. One of the most serious crises on the Korean Peninsula in years, talks between the north and south are in its third day of talks. Demands that south korea and the propaganda broadcast. Harry reid has come out in favor of the Iranian Nuclear deal. He was one of the democrats who hadnt announced how they would vote. Upma has been trying to line enough lawmakers to make sure it doesnt get killed in congress. Today the french president franceshree americans highest decoration. They prevented what could have been a mass shooting on a french train. The gun man would have been successful is my friend had not gotten up. I want that lesson to be learned going forward, in times of terror, do something. Moroccan gunman is a who had been flagged as a radical islamist. Hiringe is planning a binge on september 9. They will add 4000 employees. The Restaurant Industry has been struggling to retain staff. Chipotl
By a fraction of a percent crude oil, this is the one weve been watching very, very closely. We have wti down by 1. 6 brent it down by 1. 5 . This is quite a rebound from the lows back in june. We are up by 12 from june 21st lows so staggering move in just a short amount of time weird. Weird to see the dow so strong and the nasdaq so weak thats been happening more the nasdaq had been stronger on a relative basis then the rotation happened. I dont know what it means. Maybe its healthy this is scary and not healthy. Maybe the meeting is good, but the reason for it frightening. The u. S. Requesting an emergency u. N. Security Council Meeting today after north korea tested an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The missile could put all of alaska, so mainland i dont know if you call that mainland, but pretty close late yesterday the u. S. Military said u. S. And south korean troops fired missiles into the waters off south korea in a show of force back that way apparently it can reenter the