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It is starting to develop a centric eye wall, which means it is close to that eye wall replacement, which means we could see temporary weakening as we head through the next hour or so but after that, it is likely that will intensely, rapidly intensify and continue to work its way toward the gulf coast, as a category 3 storm, as we head through the rest of your friday, expected to make landfall later this evening. So well show you here, its exact track, as it continues to track really to the nort...

Ford, Kayla Tausche this morning at post nine. First it was utx, now boeing, and now donald trump has a new target, Lockheed Martin. Speaking with Chris Wallace on fox news on sunday. We dont have that sound, but he did talk to Chris Wallace, and, of course, the tweets followed up this morning, in which he talked about the cost of the f35, the cost overruns, the amount of money he hopes to save. Bill george joins us this morning, cnbc contributor, former exxon board member. Bill, good morning to...

Sure, but not overly expensive. Are there some risks out there . Of course. The tenyear rate is probably reaching the threshold. Its at a 27month high today. 2. 5. Probably you now have to start worrying about it. The damage has been done so far. Its not turned off the Housing Market, which is the one worry you would have, and if it did turn off the Housing Market, you can bet that the fed would back off the peddle a little bit as far as rate hikes go. They dont want the Housing Market to crater...

Lets begin with the markets. The march towards dow 20,000. A busy take for the markets and investors with the fed beginning its meeting, pete. People are wondering how long this thing can last. It just continues to move higher. It does, and part of the reason behind that, scott, is the fact that rotation just continues. Yes, we were into energy. Today you look at technology, and Technology Stocks are ticking up. Look at microsoft. Look at intel. Look at apple and facebook. You start to go throug...

The fed decision is coming today. A decision that has already been made by this point. Right. Any visurprises today . The market is discounted fully. The real issue is what the chair says in her press conference. It will either be a nonissue because its already discounted or whatever she says in terms of the future path and the key operative words are slow and gradual. Do they change from that or not . Well see. If you are sitting in the room today or you have been advising or around the table o...

It seems are just written in stone, judge, you fade whatever the fed whatever movement you get out of the fed day, you fade that. We were down 130 yesterday. If you would have faded it, boy, did you have a nice comeback today. To your point, moving up 150, 160 points, looked like it could overtake 20,000. The same sort of thing, the pullback, well see if the pullback in the bonds because that is one of the things that we and jeff have cited over and over again, if we blow right through 260 and h...

Into the market. And there he was. The man known as the god father says the market is setting the stage for a vigorous rally. Ralph acampora will explain why. Goldman sachs has been the big winner since the election. The banks ties to what is being described as one of the largest financial flaws in history could be a red flag for investors. We have details on the important story coming up. And a survey says economists are skeptical of president elect trumps growth plan. Billionaire carl icahn ap...

News for twitter. We start off with the retail getting dragged down. Trump euphoria, colder weather, it should ben nirvana for these guys. Until we get tax clarity, is this group suddenly a notouch, guy . I think it is. We get a lot wrong, this one i think we all got collectively ride. Nordstroms, for example, this stock had a tremendous run up to 60 in november. We talked about it and said, the run in nordstroms, too much, too fast, all the shorts have gotten forward. At 20 times forward earnin...

Weve got going on here, judge. Its selectively bad just like its selectively good. Nordstrom coach, target, gap. Not a single stock in that group that i just read is up. True. Buy on labor day. Sell them black friday. If you adhered to that, you did very, very well. If you overstayed your welcome in some of the names you just talked about, scott, then its a rough week for you, but i think a lot of folks did do that seasonal trade and took the money off because the runs were so spectacular. You h...

Was interesting. Whats your headline here. Why should stocks continue to rise well after 20,000 . Well, really what were noting this week as we head into the final week of the year is the potential for what we call bullish outside year, and basically in simple terms all that means is throughout the year weve traded below last years low, which was 1867 on the s p 500. If we were to close the year about last years high, which is 2135 and we have three days left, but it looks pretty good to do that...