continuing breaking news coverage. i m ayman mohyeldin in new york. it is five a.m. and gaza city. fighting between israel and hamas now enters a third day. just the last few, hours nbc news has learned that several u.s. citizens are among those dead and israel. that s according to a national security council spokesperson. the has said it s monitoring the situation closely and the state department is ready to provide assistance to any u.s. citizens ill in the country. ght, now 700 israelis are dead, 2300 injured. according to israeli officials. the palestinian health ministry says their death toll stands at more than 400 with at least 2300 injured. israel has confirmed that forces have taken both military and non military israeli captives. israeli media says that number is actually at 100. it includes, women, children and the elderly. earlier today, family members of some of those taken by hamas held a press conference. they shared their stories and pleaded for help. here i
can these stocks keep surging. with us for the hour, pete najarian, steve weis, also with us on set is tony dwyer. weis, i ll begin with you. you like this group? you own netflix. i do. you say you may buy facebook today? i would love to buy facebook. i ve been talking about it for a number of days, a couple of weeks. i agree that mark zuckerberg is one of those unique individuals, like a steve jobs, who is creating an entire new asset class, as we look at it, and technology, of course. look, the nasdaq is not expensive. and if you it s like 18 times earnings as you go forward, you re still going to have this low inflation. i mean, we looked at durable goods orders today it was a disappointing number. the revision was disappointing if you have that low inflation, you ll want to go for growth you re not going to get the ten-year moving much above where it is. so growth is personified by the f.a.n.g. stocks. so they will keep going. there s no doubt in my mind in this e
doolittle. we are building right now? we had a pullback, then a little bit of a rally. really building on small gains from friday. the nasdaq all sharply higher. of the for the best day week in months in some cases. s&p 500 on pace for the best day since april. a rebound from the selloff last week that was induced by geopolitical tensions. investors are looking past that. this is par for the course of intellectual partners, suggesting that five days after a big selloff tends to bring a pretty decent rally. this is the imap map in the s&p 500, a way to get a quick look at what is happening sector-wise. all sectors are trading higher. up top we have tech and financials sharing the top spot. real estate and financials both of their considering the yields rising are helping the financial sector you would think that that would hurt real estate. not today. tech is being helped by all of the big names. asrgy had been flipping red oil is down 2% among concerns around china s refining
caroline: there s no way they re going to negative rates anytime soon. that seems to be fortunate. i appreciate stanley fischer saying it does seem to have some limited effectiveness where is employed, notably, japan and the ecb. alix: he says we are near full employment, pounding the drum as we are three days away from that all-important job number on friday. caroline: so much focus on that. they are going to be poring over the case schiller numbers as well. there s so much to do over the u.s. economic data today. the housing market front and center with robert shiller joining us later in the program. but first, we have to get on to the markets. to thatthey reacting stanley fischer discussion? alix: we are seeing a lot of action in the treasury markets. the yield moves lower by about two basis points. yields are moving lower by two basis points, and we are seeing buy across the board. as the yield comes down, counterintuitive, considering stanley fischer says we are not just
public of the need for validity of a broad program. the concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. there is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. an example of a concern that i at least have was revealed through a usa today piece that came out last month that revealed that the dea had been conducting a metadata collection program ten years before 9/11. one of the concerns and maybe this is pessimism or paranoia depending on who you ask, is that stopping a program like the telephone metadata collection program that is ongoing under authority, how do we know it does not show up under another 30? it is a sincere question that pre-much everybody, because there s no reason to hold the community to such a paranoid standard, but how do we get to that point? i think this question is a real challen