3 30 p. M. Eastern today here is to follow the president to missouri. Future the Federal Reserve on deck set to testify today in the state of the economy on capitol hill as her possible successor thatcher nominee Jerome Powell was questioned by lawmakers. December 13th at the meeting. Features indicate a rally that will not quit on the heels of a triple digit. Dow industrial a quarter of a percent higher. The s p 500 positive. European bases right now but they make story with the ft 100 down to third to 1 . Caci passes a percent of the dax up almost 1 . Markets in asia close in japan, shanghai and china both. Hang seng and kospi lower. Suspect in deadly murder spree in custody this morning. Florida authorities have arrested a man they believed to be connect to do a series of killings in the tampa area. Details of a possible serial killer and his arrest is morning. 1 billion for freedom billion for freedom. One of the senior princes arrested in saudi arabia in recent crackdown has been
Weakness in asia but again it looks like germany and france are turning things around at this point. Okay. Well talk about ebola this morning. The first case of a person contracting ebola on u. S. Soil has been confirmed. A Health Care Worker treating Thomas Eric Duncan who died last week contracted the deadly disease. We are joined this morning from dallas by meg tirrell. Meg . Reporter thats right. Good morning. This Health Care Worker was taking care of Thomas Eric Duncan. On friday she started to feel ill, went to the hospital to be assessed on saturday and tested positive. Yesterday the cdc confirmed it was ebola. Now we know that as of yesterday her condition was stable. One of her contacts has been proactively placed into isolation. The cdc director tom frieden said it is unknown exactly how the Health Care Worker was exposed. We dont know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient in dallas. But at some point there was a breach of protocol and that bre
A selloff in the markets. Another 1 move to the downside. Thats three in five sessions, actually. The fed minutes, as we said, coming this afternoon. Yum cutting its forecast for the year. The scandal in china continues to weigh on sales. Jcpenney is holding its investor meeting today. The stock has almost doubled since february. Is jcp really back . More retail numbers today. Costco earnings are out. Theyve beaten estimates on the top and bottom line. First up, stocks are looking to shake off Global Growth numbers. The dow suffering its worst day since late july. The s p falling 1. 5 , settling at the lowest level in almost two movanths. The worst day for transports in about eight months. Oil today below 87. If cramer were here, he would say that is pointing to real demand concerns around the globe. A sign, as you say, of just slowing growth around the world. Thats the key. When you talk to people this morning as i did or even late yesterday, first thing they catch is oil. Down today
Same. Were pretty much at session highs. At the high today, the dow was up 90 points. So, again, we are at 85. Yesterday we saw some buy orders on the close, so well keep a close eye on it here, and on apple, tyler, in particular. Yeah, it could close at 100 or so for the First Time Since splitting 7 for 1, and that means apple would be back at 700 on a presplit basis. Say that five times fast. Well monitor how apple finishes during this final hour of trading. And could we see dow 18,000 this year . Professor Jeremy Siegel thinks so. Hes here exclusively, with no surprise, a pretty bullish market call for this year, and for perhaps beyond. Well get into the details with him and talk about valuation as well, coming up. And how about that new deal from sprint . Did you hear about it . 20 gigs a month of data for 100, but there is one catch, youve got to be a new customer. So, what about someone whos been with sprint for years . Why do they have to pay more . And this isnt unique to sprin
Rallying and the 10year moving high owner the fact that the fed if anything worried about inflation and growth move, i mean, try to put it altogether and create a coherent narrative. I cant. Maybe the panel can. We have other news but first of all keep an eye on this level. 1962 was yesterdays high on the s p 500 index. Write that down. We took out yesterdays low on the open this morning. If we were to close above yesterdays high, technicians call ate key reversal day and would put a potentially bullish move for the markets. If we get a push higher here in the hour and see what apples doing because carl icahn put out now very sophisticated with the tweets. He is tweeting of what to tweet about. Well, thats true. Thats true. Almost like we have to watch his communication strategy as much as he tweeted out to send an open letter to tim cook, ceo tim cook, tomorrow. With all of the agitation at apple, the stock is up 50 in the time. Hes going to send an open letter to tim cook tomorrow an