Futures coming back slightly, but now goldmans out with a new very pessimistic note on the market. Hp is buying samsungs printer business for 1 billion. Were going to talk to hp inc. s ceo about that deal in a cnbc exclusive squawk box, donald trump saying were in a false market. And janet yellen is keeping rates low because president obama wants her to. Well have much more from that interview coming up as well. First up though, futures are recovering a bit after this mornings losses following the friday selloff sparked by those rate hike fears. This morning atlanta fed president Dennis Lockhard saying theres been enough economic improvement, he says, for a, quote, serious discussion about a hike at next weeks fed meeting. Nearterm theres enough economic momentum to basically say the fed has met its goals, in the medium term, mike. Yeah, seemed pretty noncommittal. Obviously they were going to be having serious discussions at the meeting in september anyway. I think the market, the bon
Yearend edition of the closing bell. We are finishing the sixth year in a row of gains for the dow. By my math of the last six years, this year will only come in number five. It will rank the fifth best performance. The only one that was number six is 2011. The others outperformed what we did this year with the gain on the dow thereabouts. Here we are. The dow down 82 though. Just off the lows aft session. S p down 13 and the nasdaq is down half a percent today down 25 points. Lets wrap up what we saw today in the markets and in 2014 overall with the closing bell exchange. Keith fitzgerald and david sourbee. Everyone happy new year to you. Absolutely. Thank you for joining us. Monica hindsight is always 20 20 but if we have rewound to january of this year people were saying okay the markets going to cool down for equities. We are going to see yields start to rise. 10year around 3 where we started and oil stable and almost none of that proved to be the consensus by now. What say you ent
Good to have you here. Good to be here. Not so unusual on the first trading day of the year that you would have a reversal of some of the trends you saw last year. Overall stocks were up and now they are down. Individual stocks did very poorly last you and are up today. That is right. Tried to play the counter trade. Time for a big picture. To tell you what is happening right now, we will start with the s p 500. Down about one percent. We were up six percent in 2013. No one wanted to sell them. Today, fine. We put a little bit of the profitability in our park it pocket. This is a surprise. Right now, the yield is 298, about twoyearm high. That is in spite of that her data. Manufacturing, construction, and jobs, all better. It may be the same sort of thing. You take ons down enough and people will buy them. That in turn pushes the yield down. You take hold down far enough and eventually people will buy it. It had the worst year in 12 years. Today, people are buying it. Everything is run
Career counselors at three top american universities and ask where are the jobs for these grads. First, though, to sue at the nyc. Hi, ty. U it cant be understated. Meg terrell who covers the industry is going to get us ahead of the knews that will be coming out this weekend. Meg . Thats right. It kicks off today in chicago. It will give us a deep look into where medicine stands in the fight against cancer. Its a disease that affects us all in one way or another. Half of all men and a third of all women will get cancer. Cancer will cause more than 500,000 deaths. Worldwide, of course, the numbers get even bigger. But we have been making progress. Now more than twothirds of people diagnosed with cancer survive beyond five years, thats compared with fewer than half in the first half. The World Health Organization says that more than 30 of cancer deaths could be prevented by modifying lifestyle, things like smoking, being overweight or obese, not exercising enough and drinking too much al