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Nasdaq had its ninth positive month out of the last ten. The worst performing sector, energy not a surprise given wtis performance, down about 6 thats the worst month for wti since march. As for the year so far, the nasdaq is leading the way. Its up more than 19 . The dow is higher by 11 the s p 500 is up by 10. 4 check the global markets. Things were kind of friendly in europe not much happening in the asian markets. Japan and the hang seng and shanghai european equities were more positive a ha...

To 4. 4 . And those hefty gains from june and july, revilower by 41,000. Hampen pearson has the story. It jobs and government hiring took a hit in august while the Auto Industry and constructie g. The president s top economic adviser says a stall does not off set the momentum in the economy and the key to creating more jobs x reform. If we get a tax system that allows us we will hire people. When you hire people, you compete for labor. When you compete labor, you drive wamgs. We need wages and j...

Put in pla help prop up the economy during the great recession. Its plan is to begin rolling off its 4. 5 trillion damage sheet, which consists mostly of treasuries and mortgagebacked securities. Officials also hint one more Interest Rate rise this year is likely. As a result, bond yields rose and stocks why volatile. The Dow Jones Industrial average advanced 22 points to an alltime high. The nasdaq was off five. S p 500 rose one, also a record. Hampton pearson has more on the new era the fed wi...

Kind of a mix. Spain and france both slightly in the red the ten year note yield holding firm around the 2. 2 or so percent. You can see at the bottom of our screen weve gotten that news. Equifaxs stock had been halted. Rick smith announcing he will retire as the companys ceo. Want to get more details on when that retirement is coming, whether its immediate or not. Of course, hes been undergrea pressure given the huge breech there for some 143 million or so potential accounts that were compromis...

Tyler mathisen, coming to you once again from the new york stock exchange, hi, sue. Good to see you, bill. Im sue herera. A record close for stocks. But we begin tonight with the job market. And the potentially unprecedented impact that hurricanes irma and harvey could have on the labor market, at least in the short term. Today we learned that american employers created fewer jobs in september than they had in any single month in nearly a year, primarily because of hurricanes harvey and irma. As...

Nasdaq up by almost 10 points. S p down by a point. This comes after the markets closed at record highs again the longest streak of record closes for the s p 500 in years, going back to 97 or something and its six in a row, but remember two weeks ago and three weeks ago and four weeks ago, we were saying how many records there were back then this one didnt start until last thursday so the one that takes us back to 1997 it was 130 points yesterday on the dow or 113 after all these moves. 22,775, ...

Harvey and irma. And while many see the decline as a short term blip, it did catch forecasters by surprise. In september, the economy shed 33,000 jobs, while economists were looking for a gain of 80,000. The Unemployment Rate did dip, to 4. 2 , the lowest since 2001. And as Hampton Pearson tells us,. Here were other bright reporter hurricanes harvey and irma, which closed thousands of business in texas and florida, ended the 83month streak for job gains. And the loss of 33,000 jobs in september ...

Our billion dollar buyer, tillman furtita, notching his first win as the owner of the rockets on Opening Night for the nba. He did it in thrilling style the former commissioner, david stern, will join us. The anthem protest Team Valuations and much more this slamdunk addition of power lunch begins right now there is nothing wrong with the slamdunk addition if i could do it, i would do it all the time i am brian sullivan. Nobody is feeling blue about these markets. Your money is now just 3. 5 awa...

Chipotle, express scripts, Texas Instruments, just a few of the names set to report earnings in just about an hour we will have our hands full at that time but lets get straight to our big story. The strength in the market today from the Big Industrial companies cat and 3m getting that boost on earnings driving the dow higher ge and ibm trading lower, bob pisani give us some more. Well, heres whats going on. Theres a very unusual divergence between the dow and the s p. Its happened a lot this ye...

Mixed week right now, youre looking at the dow on pace for its eighth consecutive weekly gain as kevin was talking about. Hard to find down days the s p 500 is hovering around break even if it does end in the positive territory, it would be its eighth consecutive weekly gain nasdaq on track for its sixth week of gains. Dow futures indicated up by 30 points nasdaq indicated to open up by 20 points. S p fight pictuutures indicate 0 1. 5 this morning the hang seng ended up by 0. 3 in korea, the kos...