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julie hyman has the latest on pending home sales. down, actually. of january,he month yes, down 2.5% month over month. year-over-year we have a decline of 9/10 of 1%. of ans a little bit offset there, but we are seeing a decline of 2.5% as the biggest drop in two years. this does represent a setback in residential real estate going into the spring selling season, which is a very important one for home builders. this is something we will continue to watch, taking a lateron homebuilders today as well. we have a mixed picture over in china. we saw chinese stocks fall here in the u.s., with a mixed picture, the nasdaq rarely holding on to gains as the s&p and dow are lower. for a bit of a deeper dive into the mixed picture, take a look at the map of the various sectors on the move. materials, utilities, discretionary. the biggest drag today is financials and health-care shares. on that front, let s point out some movers. valeant is down. not on the s&p 500, but they are tak ....
we re seeing right now. we re trying to parse that out. that s what makes the markets so interesting. let s start here as we head into the final hour with where we stand on the major stock market indexes indexes. the dow is up 168 points and remember we ve had many, many more 1% swings this year than we had last year, and today by the way, we ve had them in both directions. the dow is up about 170. the s&p is up 18 points right now, nearly 1% there to 2085. the nasdaq adding 36. it s actually the underperformer on the session to 4,922. we ll also and we ll get to this in a moment talk about what we re seeing across the benchmark interest year 10-year. have to talk about oil as well. very strong. i don t know if you can show oil right now, but last i saw it was up about 5%. it s now 6.25% gain for u.s. oil. wti. that s at $52. brent north sea crude is at $58. that almost feels like a short squeeze. let s all make sense of this. all of our guests today except rick ....
this was severance back in march when he was first arrested in west virginia. he fled the ashburn townhome he shared with a girlfriend once he found out police were looking for him. chief cook says there was no sudden breakthrough that led to the decision to seek murder charges now. rather a steady collection of evidence as alexandria police teamed with the fbi. i assure you, the last five months has been very intensive in terms of following up on the things we needed to do to see his relationship with these cases. and that evidence that we discovered in those five months largely is why we re standing here today. reporter: the investigation does continue. cook says the guns used in the killings still have not been recovered. the relatives of victims nancy dunning and ron kirby sat in the front row of the news conference, listening. afterward, dunning s daughter made this brief statement. our family is grateful to the police and investigators to continue to pursue ....
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