Stitch fix is having its first trading day doing, well lets see, it started out higher it did dip below the 15 ipo price. Its just above that level right now. Does the Subscription Service have ha what it takes to take on amazon a you know there are 2,000 companies in the same business essentially. Im shocked that its that high, actually. Birch box does makeup, and my favorite is the one called bark box for your dog they send treats and other fun things each month. Sounds like its right up your alley i guess President Trump said that he was focused on fair and reciprocal trade in asia during his trip overseas. Larry kudlow is going to weigh in on what that could mean for wall street. And whether investors should be concerned. Larrys not real hes not exactly seeing eye to eye with the president on trade issues ri right now. Thats for sure. We begin today with media merger talks heating up, sources saying comcast and 21st century fox, some of foxs assets and the cable giant, comcast, may
View on facebook, stick around for this story the social network announcing a new tool to see if they followed russian propaganda he had to have liked one of those pages. Youre nots on facebook anyway i didnt like anything are you sure you dont like anything well, i didnt capitalize like anything. Thats what i mean. Thats pretty, you know, thats hard core, bill. Were running out of facebook video. Record number of americans will be driving today, but gasoline prices are at the highest level in nearly three years. Were going to look at where those prices may be going from here as we look at the parking lot last night in los angeles. Although, you know, they showed that, but its like that every day in l. A i dont know why took a while to come up from d. C. To new york last night though what, five or six hours. Old 95, always busy lets begin with the breaking news this afternoon from the federal reserve. Steve leaseman, those exciting minutes. Fed officials continue to grapple with the pe
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
A next the next gear. Yeah, if you went out for lunch, like came back and checked the market, you went, what the heck happened yes. Ooersheres a look at our se heat map energy dealing well, had of course the opec extension, industrials, financials, goldman the best performer in the dow. Those are all the big winners. Ug the ten year yield is creeping up a little bit today. Real estate also in the red. Coming up, well go to washington for an exclusive interview with senator Chuck Grassley about tax reform. Chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. The dows rise, 24,000, has been rapid compared to other big milestones a few of the signature trader hats for each milestone on set with us here courtesy of our friend, the trader peter tuchman, one of the most famous traders on the floor, looks like albert aeinstein if we can zoom out for a second, so we crossed 20,000 january, we crossed 21,000 on march 1st. That day was sort of reminisce soent of today crossed 22,000 in august crossed 23,
Along with other white house staffers so this is a relatively large group for this meeting you remember, last week they tried to have this meeting and the democrats didnt slow up we saw that visual of the president with the empty chairs on either side of him waiting for chuck and nancy, Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi, to attend the meeting they never came. Today theyll be here. We should see all these chairs filled today what theyre going to discuss, though, is a mystery weve seen a dampening of the tone going into this meeting both sides know theres a lot at stake here in terms of a potential Government Shutdown as early as tomorrow if they dont get a continuing resolution to kick the can down the road another two weeks in terms of government spending. So Sarah Huckabee sanders just briefed the press within the past hour or so, and laid out sort of her expectations from the white house perspective of what well see in the meeting. Heres what she said in terms of the Government Shutdown