Good morning a very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc im wilfred frost. Lets check in on the Global Market picture and futures this morning are looking at a positive open. We are higher in the premarket coming off a day where we did see gains for the dow and the s p. But we closed well off the days highs, both indices coming into today down about 1 week to date yesterday the nasdaq was lower fourth negative session in a row. But only slightly lower. Such that week to date its down just 0. 4 . Today, as you can see, up significantly. The dow is up 187 points s p up 16. Nasdaq up 45 points. Coming into today all 11 sectors of the s p are Lower Consumer staple is the worst performer, down 3 we saw yields rise at the start of the week and pull back, but today tenyear above 2. 9 . We spiked at the start of the week and just have come back a bit. Asian equities, its been a negative week overall, just seeing a bounce today. Up about half a percent or so for shanghai but hong kong and
What a deal could mean for the other chip stocks. Power lunch starts right now im Brian Sullivan the markets moving just enough today to give your investment dollars yet another new high, thanks to the saudi news oil is moving up again data is pushing Energy Stocks higher chevron and exxon among the dow leaders. We talked about Semiconductor Companies as well. It is fair to say that lately, it rocks sox at new alltime highs. Michael kors soaring, the fashion retailer beating earnings estimates and raising its outlook. More on that ahead and reports the Pharmaceutical Company may becoming a takeover target thank you very much im tyler mathieson. Welcome to power lunch. Target gearing up for the holiday season, announcing deeper black friday discounts and plans to open 6 00 p. M. To midnight on thanksgiving day i will be asleep staying with retail, amazon cutting prices of Third Party Products in the face of stiffer competition. And the new york fed present William Dudley plans to retire
U uncertainty of a number of saudi princes and ministers were arrested over the weekend on corruption charges and of course as you probably have heard by now, that includes prince al waleed bin talal well look at what this means for u. S. Companies looking to do business in saudi arabia we havent even gotten to the Qualcomm Broadcom story but theres other things to get to now. We have the breaking news now that disney has held talks to buy most of 21st century fox. David faber back again anything new on this is. We can advance the story a little bit and refresh it for people, guys 21st century fox, as bill just said, has been holding talks to sell most of the company to walt disney leaving behind a Media Company that would be tightly focused on news and sports according to people familiar with the situation these talks have taken place over the last few weeks and given their complexity, it continues to be seen as a tough deal to get done by those whove been working on it the two sides
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