technology is lagging today. we ve got information-technology down about .6%, paring its earlier decline, but still the biggest drag on the s&p 500 as it is the heaviest weighted group. consumer discretionary also lagging. energy shares up 1.7 percent and financials being led higher after those goldman sachs earnings. alumina is a health care stock, but the company does make genetic sequencing machines, down 24% after preliminary earnings that missed estimates. netflix down after its forecast for international subscriber missed estimates. we have amazon and google also lagging today, perhaps because of their exposure to video as well. announce that standalone video service and google the owner of youtube. facebook with a price target related to facebook messenger, those shares up by 1.4% today. overall, the clients and technology today. lisa: talk about up and down energy. wasn t it leading the gains earlier today? julie: because oil is getting a lift today. up better than 3%
the push upward is materials, energy, financial. techolar downward has been and discretionary. the stocks working are those within that energy and materials group. what does this have to do with the dollar on the climb? the lowest in about nine months. when you glance here, the only one down is sugar. highering else trading as we see that continued dip in the dollar. betty: surprisingly, it has been on tech. julie: that is that drag we have seen. ibm coming out with a missed estimates. those shares have been down and some of the other large cap tech share. act has been the balancing throughout the session. mark: hillary clinton has lost seven of the last eight primary or caucus is to senator bernie sanders. now the democratic presidential front-runner is hoping to regain the upper hand. this is clinton is favored in the new york primary. is counting on his home state to provide a big boost to the republican presidential nomination. surveys show esther trumbo with johnble-digi
i never go to the movies. i did see a couple of movies. i know kate won the golden globe, but sandra bullock was spectacular. am also watching bankers. they re getting paid less over at goldman sachs. i have to point this out, $12.6 billion. that means every single one of their employees could make $384,000 a year. however, goldman sachs is doing pretty well compared to the other banks. sanve in san cisco francisco, where everybody wants to work at a startup and nobody wants to work at a bank. how is goldman sachs going to get the best talent? jpmorgan also has a lower top rate. all the six major firms are paying less. the question is, what industry do you want to go into? microsoft has been going through a lot lately. they are looking for a new ceo. our next guest will be with us for the hour. he is the cofounder and serial entrekin entrepreneur who used to work for ibm. you have been following this whole thing. what do you think? i think it is time for a new leade
spirited discussion about the themes here. that ford on bloomberg surveillance, arnie sorenson from marriott international has a global feel for the ebb and flow of american global business. ken rogoff joins us in a bit, a lot to talk about. whereeems to be a davos the business crew, the corporate crew is taking over the meeting. corporations are everywhere. hans nichols was showing the helicopters with london tv, they are out. joining youe shortly. we need to get to michael mckee with our morning brief. you are going to play weatherman. so coldannot avoid it, and so much snow on the east coast. over in england, bank of england has released minutes showing that members saw no need to raise rates soon, u.k. unemployment is supposed to be the trigger at a threshold of 7% , they are supposed to consider raising rates. like 6.5% in the u.s. the u.k. reported unemployment is at 7.1%, going to raise the question of what they do sooner rather than later. in tokyo, no change in ban
pamela brown. the president s racist attacks may be getting a congressional response. house speaker nancy pelosi is calling for republicans to join her party s proposed resolution condemning, quote, the president s xenophobic tweets. and it s happening just as the president denied that the tropes he tweeted against four congresswomen are racist. what s more, he s asking for an apology from the four democrats he told to, quote, go back and fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came. well, here was the president moments ago. these are people that, in my opinion, hate our country. and all i m saying, if they re not happy here, they can leave. they can leave. and you know what i m sure there will be many people that won t miss them. but they re americans. when i hear the statements they ve made, and in one case you have somebody that comes from somalia, which is a failed government, failed state, who left somalia, who ultimately came here and no