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Percentage point, up 71 points. Fox Business Team coverage. Gerri willis on floor of new york stock exchange. Phil flynn watching all action, Hillary Vaughn at u. S. Trade representatives office. Start with gerri. Reporter what a day for retail today. We had great reporting out there, two companies reporting, targets and lowes with really positive results, sending the dow up 241 points. The entire sector target, as you can see is up 20 today, after beating on both top and bottom lines. The company out with really, amazing results, raising its full year outlook. Lowes also having a dynamite quarter, up 10 as you can see right here. The company eps, coming at 2. 15 cents a share, versus two dollars. Very good news there. As you can see, these are companies that really appeal to people. Theyre discounters. Really have a lot of room to have broad appeal with americans. After the close today. We will get nordstrom. Estimates there, eps of 75 cents a share. Revenue estimate of 2. 93 billion.
Individual stocks literally minutes from now. All right. Watch out, google. Peter thiel is coming after you and so is the president. Thiel appeared with Tucker Carlson last night. He wants the fbi and cia to investigate. He implies google is a National Security threat. He thinks china wants to infiltrate googles Artificial Intelligence operation. He offered no evidence of that infiltration. Now, thiel is a very powerful man and the president has been listening. About investigating the company, the president tweeted the administration will take a look. Googles stock this morning, this tuesday morning, premarket, down eight bucks at 1142. Watch out facebook and its libra currency. The treasury secretary has quote, very serious concerns about its use by terrorist financiers and drug dealers. Theres a hearing about it on capitol hill this morning. Facebooks stock this morning premarket is down only a fraction. A mere fraction. Is this a joe biden gaffe . Hes made promises about his Health
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Yeah. He was asked during that press conference where we heard him speaking earlier today. He said that we would know in a very short period of time and he followed that up by saying that reporters would be disappointed with what they hear. So the president has been and remains to be pretty ambiguous when it comes to whether or not these tapes exist, liz. All right. Thank you. Meanwhile, House Minority leader nancy pelosi says she is now convinced that the president engaged in an abuse of power. She is also questioning his fitness for office after his tweets today attacking james comey. I i i very worry about his fitness but thats thats something he and the people in the white house have to make a judgment about and i dont know if theres the courage or the conviction in the white house to say that the president , you shouldnt be tweeting Something Like that. Its beneath the dignity of the office you serve. Meantime, cbs news political director John Dickerson says its no surprise that P