All right, folk, it aint all pretty, but liz is. Liz oh, charles, thank you so much is. [laughter] and the markets arent bad looking either. Okay, enough. We are watching the markets always very closely as we kick off the final hour of trade. Right now green on the screen. Folks, the s p 500 at a record, it needs to close up 32 points. Right now it is up 47. The nasdaq needs to be up 243 points for a record. It was but right now its up 227. So slightly below that. But at 3 p. M. Eastern, right now, we are also keeping our eye out on the credit card issuers and some of the big banks behind them as we wait headlines from the feds Monthly Consumer credit report. May have the power to move the markets. Its released on the fifth business day of the month. Its almost a temperature gauge of Consumer Health because it covers most credit extended to individuals including auto and student lobes, but it ex loans, but it excludes loans secured by reality. Last month the Federal Reserve bank of new
Stopgap funding bill to kick the can down the road a bit longer. And later on, a closer look at one sector that is sis gaini lot of ground in 2024. Its friday, march 1st, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im frank holland. Lets get you road ready for the first trading day of the month. The check of the stock futures. The s p and nasdaq sitting at alltime record highs leaping to them on leap day. You can see a bit of a mixed picture. Dow down 35 points. You see the nasdaq firmly in the green. S p is fractionally higher and almost flat right here. The dow, s p and nasdaq off the fourth straight winning month in h a row. The nasdaq is the leader. With the nasdaq coming off the first record close in more than two years, we get a check of the stocks to help us get here. Nvidia is up 61 . Constellation energy may be a pr surprise. The best stock in the s p and followed by meta up 39 . The bond market check after the pc
Crude pared the losses and that commodit climbed and so did the stocks. At the close, the dow jones was 93 points higher. It had been down more than 200 points and the nasdaq rose five points and the s p 500 gained 12 points. Mary thompson is at the New York Stock Exchange with more. A remarkable tu 200 plus p reverses th11n market closed indicating heavy selling weighed on u. S. Stocks in the early trading. E day and that he. The index falling below a key technical level during tht level, held by helped by broad based buying that was seen later in the day. A decidey def stance as they await news from greece on wednesday. Start of the u. S. Earnings season. Thats when alcoa reports and any more signs to stem a slide in the stock market are working. The groups that led the markets higher in tuesdays session utilities and consumer staples. For nightly busine im mary exchange. Though oil losses may have pared the losses they still fell. Gold prices also tumbled and l very wary of whats go
Crude pared the losses and that commodit climbed and so did the stocks. At the close, the dow jones was 93 points higher. It had been down more than 200 points and the nasdaq rose five points and the s p 500 gained 12 points. Mary thompson is at the New York Stock Exchange with more. A remarkable tu 200 plus p reverses th11n market closed indicating heavy selling weighed on u. S. Stocks in the early trading. E day and that he. The index falling below a key technical level during tht level, held by helped by broad based buying that was seen later in the day. A decidey def stance as they await news from greece on wednesday. Start of the u. S. Earnings season. Thats when alcoa reports and any more signs to stem a slide in the stock market are working. The groups that led the markets higher in tuesdays session utilities and consumer staples. For nightly busine im mary exchange. Though oil losses may have pared the losses they still fell. Gold prices also tumbled and l very wary of whats go
Crude pared the losses and that commodit climbed and so did the stocks. At the close, the dow jones was 93 points higher. It had been down more than 200 points and the nasdaq rose five points and the s p 500 gained 12 points. Mary thompson is at the New York Stock Exchange with more. A remarkable tu 200 plus p reverses th11n market closed indicating heavy selling weighed on u. S. Stocks in the early trading. E day and that he. The index falling below a key technical level during tht level, held by helped by broad based buying that was seen later in the day. A decidey def stance as they await news from greece on wednesday. Start of the u. S. Earnings season. Thats when alcoa reports and any more signs to stem a slide in the stock market are working. The groups that led the markets higher in tuesdays session utilities and consumer staples. For nightly busine im mary exchange. Though oil losses may have pared the losses they still fell. Gold prices also tumbled and l very wary of whats go