Crude that was the story yesterday. Look at that. You were just at 50. We were just pushing 50. You saw the latest caseshiller home prices, they were just released at the bottom of the screen. San francisco, denver, portland have the biggest home price gains. Lets get to our road map this morning. Earnings, earnings, earnings. Alibaba higher in premarket after profits and revenue beat expectations. Yahoo goes up when alibaba goes up. Mixed results in from dupont, ford and u. P. S. The cfos of u. P. S. Will be up later in the show to give us more insight. Pfizer, merck, bristolmyers all beating consensus and boosting fullyear guidance. Take a closer look at pfizer. Those were particularly good numbers. Lets start off with alibaba, up sharply in premarket. Posting better than Third Quarter results. Revenue up 32 . Strong growth across the board, particularly in mobile. Yahoo owns stake in alibaba, it will be putting that in a separate company, hence it goes up, almost as much as alibaba
Federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to hand over the grand jury material from former special counsel Robert Muellers investigation before the end of the month. And in this case, the judge explicitly rejected the Trump Administrations argument that the impeachment inquiry is illegitimate without a full house vote authorizing it. That is what may be the most important part of this ruling. The administration is likely to appeal it. This is a big win right now for House Democrats, especially if it establishes a precedent allowing house investigators access to more documents because the Judicial Branch recognizes what theyre doing as an official impeachment inquiry. Now, this news comes as the New York Times reports and nbc news sources confirm that a probe by the president s attorney general bill barr into the origins of muellers investigations has changed from an administrative review into a criminal investigation. Now, we do not know when this criminal inquiry began and we d