time hour of fox & friends weekend a. fox news alert, prosecutor nathan wade resigns from the trump georgia case so da fani willis can continue in the embattled da slamming unjustified attacks from the media. rachel: plus, in massachusetts the governor said she s appalled by this haitian immigrant s charge with rape ago disabled 15-year-old girl and says this : it s a horrible situation. it is unfortunate that from time to time things will happen. will: and a live look at st. patrick s cathedral where we re going to catch up with the fighting 69 before they leave today s parade. the second hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. [ bag pipes playing ]. rachel: good morning, everybody. it s 7:00 a.m. and you re listening to the suffolk county police emerald society pipe and drums playing for us. how appropriate this morning on the eve of st. patrick s day. we were just out there, it s a great crew. will: right ahead of the st. patrick s day parade. pete: long da
the dow crossed 24 how for the first time yesterday, but for the month the dow was up 3.83% the s&p up 2. 1% and the knanasdaq up 2.17%. telecoms led the way for the month. check out the u.s. futures those gains yesterday were something to see the dow jones crossing 24,000 for the first time the s&p 500 was up by 0.8 % yesterday. all of these things we have been watching closely you are seeing a pull back this morning. maybe related to what we re seeing in europe the declines there are more significant. declines in europe are because of the tax deal. you think absolutely. after we got so close last night. it s not just the declines in europe, europe is not matching 350 points of gains that we had here yesterday but the 350 points, that was at 4:00, all of this stuff they were supposed to vote yesterday. i m surprised there s not a bigger decline this morning based on the snags in the tax bill it was supposed to happen if we knew it would happen today, there woul
volume figures for the s&p 500 75% from the 20 day average. not much price movement, and not as much participation on the part of investors are traitors. all three are in the green. the dow and the nasdaq are up, 2/10 of 1% each. after the gain that we saw last recalibration of investor expectations for a aseral reserve rate hike, well as hearing from some fed speakers. groups on the move, material solidly in the top spot throughout the session today. you don t see any movement of 1% or more. utilities and telecoms pulling back the most. of a changing landscape here as we head into the afternoon. stocks we have been watching, viacom has been experiencing a lot of drama. cvs, not moving much, but a developing battle going on. sumner redstone controls the company. both of them vying for control at this point. suing to block that. the redstone family is asking for that to be confirmed. it is sort of a back-and-forth situation that is continuing. just a note, those shares have pe
cut interest rates after the uk s shocking brexit vote. he definitely said that there needed to be more stimulus. but look at that. despite that, still at $1.32 when it comes to the british pound. almost went down to 131. but still holding on to that level. the british ten-year guilt at 0.863%. compare that to the u.s. two-year. and the ten-year note is 1.495. bob pisani is here with me at the nyse on this last trading day of quarter. and the six months, bob, the one major european average that s in positive territory, london! ftse 100. the 250 broader market is not in positive territory. everyone loves easing. carney hints at easing. says economic conditions are deteriorating. the markets start moving to the upside. take a look at the s&p 500 and the important thing today, the rally continues. even after carney was making his marks about economic conditions deteriorating, the markets helicoptered to move to the positive side. we re at highs of the day here. let s take a lo
higher. up by a quarter percent. the cac down by half a percent the ftse down slightly. after the friday night release of the european bank stress tests, they were not nearly as stressful as some thought they should be. but you did see a lot of concerning things that came out of it. you can see uni-credit is down by 7.5%. we ll find out how much it could impact the u.s. markets in a few minutes. let s check out crude oil prices because each though crude was up on friday, if you looked at last week, it was still down by over $2.50. oil sitting right around 41.60. this morning, wti under additional pressure. that september contract right now is trading just above the $41 mark at $41.07. brent crude at $42.93. it may be august, but things aren t slowing down. earnings and important economic data, all this as the dow starts the month on a six-month win streak. today, we get the july ism manufacturing index. tomorrow, june personal income and spending and your auto sales numbers