And we got better than expected manufacturing data here in the u. S. , but the imf did lower its Global Growth forecast joining us for the hour is steve grasso from Stuart Frankel you know, we hit these highs earlier in the session didnt hold on to it for very long what do you make of todays action we didnt hear about impeachment. We didnt hear about china trade, really. We havent heard much about a lot of things, but we did hear mostly about were earnings so the market wants to get back to something that they can look at and say, its binary. Either services it was a win, it was a beat, they got it higher or lower and were going to run with the market there. Not enough to make new highs, but were on our way there with earnings, i would guess. It is interesting to look at companies fundamentals, actually push the trade headlines aside just a bit still hopeful, perhaps but let the day be run by earnings its true everybody has been run by macro lately so twothirds of all stocks trade with
Trade talks in october and some disappointing data here at home. Home price growth loses momentum Consumer Confidence numbers fall sharply. We are covering all angles of the market and developments out of washington with bob pisani, eamon javers, and ylan mui, also standing by. First, lets bring in steve grasso from Stuart Frankel hes joining us for the entire final hour of trade. What do you make of the price action around these headlines around impeachment i think its what you said, it was the u. N. Presentation and then it led to a little harder stance on china and it went from there to the impeachment hearings or the impeachment process. And then when President Trump said hes going to release the transcripts, the market rallied. Because how incriminating could it be if they were going to release it, right right, they thought there was a smoking gun issue that was going to arise, so if he was going to release it, maybe that wasnt the case, and were back to the impeachment process ag
Manufacturing data this morning. Weve got full Team Coverage of todays selloff bob pisani is covering the markets reaction to that weak manufacturing data Bertha Coombs is watching the movers at the nasdaq Rick Santelli is looking at todays action in the bond market lets check in, though, where we stand. We are down 281, the low of the session on the dow was down 347. A slight improvement in the last 30 or 40 minutes or so but a significant fall from where we opened up 129 points or so lets check in with steve grasso from Stuart Frankel whos joining for the full hour. Steve, what is this . Recession fears again or is it justified to see this slippage you know, its funny, you know, im tempted to just jump onboard and say its all recession fears. And then you have the first day of the month and then you have impeachment. And then you have trade. But definitely, this is recession fears, but i wouldnt read into it as much as Everyone Wants to you have the first day of the trading month, th
Were going to tell you about the new drug trial results weighing on that company today. Guess how it went. Well, it went well for someone else yeah. Exactly. Box office blues Movie Theater stocks are getting crushed again today. Six superheroes cant even save those shares being very opaque here but well explain coming up in a little bit. First, breaking news, just this afternoon on fed chair janet yellen, our dom chu has more on the story. All right, so guys, Federal Reserve chairman janet yellen will be leaving the fed completely in february and this is what some fed observers say is no real surprise. Fed chair yellens term as chairman expires in february we know this and President Trump has already made his pick to be the next fed head thats current fed governor Jerome Powell, of course, pending confirmation by the senate there had been some speculation around the notion, perhaps, yellen would maintain a presence on the fed board of governors since her term adds a governor of the cen
Telling cnbc we may not need the type of tax cuts being proposed. We have those details coming up. And a major deal in the media space. Maybe youve heard about it. It brings together bbetter home gardens and people magazines, Meredith Buying Time Inc for nearly 2 billion. Will this pave the way for more deals especially in the media sector where theyve been trying to get them done we have that coming up in a little bit. First, our top story today, the cyber monday surge amazon shares hitting yet another alltime high today. Courtney reagan joins us from an Amazon Fulfillment Center in robbinsville, new jersey, with the very are you packaging anything and sending it off as well reporter no, no, im not allowed to touch anything, so i will not be touching anyones packages dont you worry about it amazons prime day, bill, actually still Reigns Supreme at least as far as we know for its biggest day on record. Last year on cyber monday, amazon shipped 64 million items worldwide. Thats what was