out of this as they possibly can by opening up last night, 5:00. when you talk about the doorbuster deals, though, and you talk about the next couple of days, how much this meant or the last couple of days, retail federation says about 90 million people last year or shopped black friday, thanksgiving, representing some 4.3% of all holiday sales. they ve been doing it since yesterday. ashley? ashley: and i can tell by the crowds behind you, are they looking at things, or are they actually buying? i guess that s the key. reporter: they are buying. we talked to one woman who was doing some holiday shopping for her kids, and so the toys in her cart were stacked up to about her. and then she came up to about here. [laughter] and she was taking it on the subway too. ashley: she is very, very brave, indeed, braver person than i. thank you so much for braving the crowds here in the times square area of new york. let s head out west now to robert gray who is at the target store in c
connell: we have decided i will root for the cardinals and you will root for the red sox. dagen: i care. i am legitimately rooting for the red sox. connell: i will root for the cardinals. dagen: the red sox kind of anybody hard times. connell: no, they don t. we have a lot coming up to start us off on markets now. nicole: good morning. the dow jones industrial average down 73 points. that is down about .5%. the nasdaq composite down almost a full percentage right now. today we have a mixed bag of earnings. we are seeing some selling underway. boeing raised their full-year earnings. following is a winner. other names like tesla, a nara and coach are pulling back. connell: thank you. dagen: discussing some of the problems hurting the rollout of the health exchanges and the affordable care act. connell: we are going to go to the white house right now. rich edson is standing by. rich: these folks are losing the customers they need to be paying these insurance premiums. later this
car, your taxes, the whole thing. the next big headline for market baby jobs friday. where is the job creation coming from in this economy. ad space is just about gone, apparently, for this year s super bowl. you will not believe some of the money that companies are throwing around this year. welcome, everybody. we have to start with the markets. at the top of the hour, we go to the new york stock exchange. nicole: we are seeing the markets with thing this morning. we have seen all the major averages over a 2% gain. a stellar day on wall street with the dow jones industrials of 245 points. i just checked a moment ago. all 30 name remained in the green. hewlett-packard really got beat up last year. it is a top performer today. bank of america out which was up over 100% last year moved to a 52 week high. gains across the board. connell: thank you. we will talk about the fiscal cliff deal in a few minutes. what does it really mean for you. what is in this thing for, peter barnes
12,000, government cut their teen thousand mainly in local education jobs, sectors that hired last month include retail up 55,000, no surprise given the holiday shopping season, attempt agencies added 40,000 workers and manufacturers added 9,000. ashley: the markets climbing from the lows of the day but still in the red. let s head to the floor of the stock exchange, nicole petallides. kind obama mixed reaction to this jobs report. nicole: you get the jobs report and there was nothing great about it. it wouldn t have been great if we added more jobs and the labor force participation rate showed improvement. it did not do that so it brought uncertainty to the moment, the economy is not as good as we had hoped. that said the dow jones industrials, 16,400 down 41 points and the nasdaq lower, the s&p virtually flat at the moment and also watching other names overall, looking at the indices for the week, the nasdaq and the s&p look like they will squeeze out some gains but not the
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