Futures picking up on this. Jim cramer was tweeting if youre buying this because of what happened in japan, be careful, because he does not think the markets are correlated. Watch out for it. Also, news out of europe, a survey showing that german analysts and Investor Sentiment climbed more than expected in august. That news suggests that europes largest economy is regaining momentum. Well have more from our colleagues in london in a few minutes. In corporate news, yum sales in china sliding more than expected in july, down 13 . Among the reasons, the heat, some analysts say the companys lack of cool drinkz and ice cream meant could nsumers looke elsewhere. The kfc parent is trying to bounce back from the dublg double impact of a food safety square and bird flu outbreak. A new director may be named as part of an effort to resolve the dispute with bill ackman. Ackmans effort immediately remove interim ceo mike ullman would apparently be put on hold. We talked about this story. I dont ge
Thanks very much. The dow down again today. Hit its lows about 11 00 and then i got in the car to come down here and then it started to come back. Each passing block, as i drew nearer, the dow industrials rose a little higher. Nonetheless, down about 82 points, about half a percent over the past couple of days. Were town 1 . 15,530. 19, well above 15,000, up about 18 year to date as you see on that chart. Lets take a look at the s p and see where it stands, down again half a percent at 1699, nipping below 1,700. The nasdaq off 22 points, twothirds of a percent and the russell, after sort of high after high at 1053 right now, down 9. 99 points. Tenyear note, there you see the yield at 2. 66 and change, and gold down 19 an ounce at 1,282. Thats the first time below that i guess below 1300 in a couple of weeks for gold. Lets get some of the trading action here with bob pisani. A little fed speak, a little whatever. Believe it or not, this is practically the weakest day since the end of ju
Losses. Weve seen the nasdaq move into the green today and make record new highs that we have not seen in 13 years to the nasdaq. Dow and s p, though, pulling back, no highs today. There is certainly this negative tone to the market today. The dollars been flat, most of the names on the Dow Jones Industrials are lower theyd with a few exceptions, about 24 of the names are read while only six are green, so that is a lot of names pulling back today. I wanted to also look here at fossil. They make watches, accessories, due to report, analysts now citing some skepticism, barclays, for example, they are now predicting that theres going to be deaccelerating sales trends based on what they have been doing the checks and finding this out. We are seeing fossil to the downside. Back to you. Lori thank you for that. Commodities, gold fell, get this, fifth straight session now, longest slump since may. We are in the trading pits of the cme. Phil, gold, wow. It is hit today, lori. It has to do with
Today, monday, february 10th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from olympic park in sochi, russia. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today at the Olympic Games in sochi, russia. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside a dancing al roker, Natalie Morales and, of course, some of our closest friends here in sochi. The Russian Police choir. Many of you know them by now because on friday before the Opening Ceremony, their warmup act went viral. They did a wonderful rendition shed led after the downhill portion and impressive slolam portion. We have speed skating and hockey and the team usa and women in action right now. Now with the competition is any indication, sochi is an olympics for the ages. Julia mancuso won the first medal in Alpine Skiing with bronze and the womens Ice Hockey Team beating switzerland in a 90 preliminary match. A giant day for Jamie Anderson. Claims gold