But the dow is still on pace for its longest monthly winning streak in 59 years. What is driving it . We are here with allstar panel. Well look ahead into 2018 and your money. The president flatting fbi director an did i mccabe oaf ties to Hillary Clinton. Could this be the reason for his early retirement . Blake burman is at the white house live with more. Break, what will you start with . Trish, the white house, the president , making it clear the first item legislatively when it comes to 2018 is a big infrastructure package. Here at the white house, director of legislative affairs, mark short, come january the president will have a meeting at camp david with the top two republicans and there they hope to nail down some of the details. I think you will see the r c president roll out a infrastructure plan in january. The president already invited leader mcconnell and speaker ryan to camp david first weekend in january to make sure were all on the same page for the priorities of 2018.
Well, tha a big question a big meeting on capitol hill tomorrow may give us some answers perhaps the fist big test of the new year will come from iran. Deadly empty government protest there, least 20 people reported dead calling those protesters, quote, enemies of iran. Big day, of course, as we kick off a new year 218 is here and Varney Company is about to begin. Well, have you noticed unless you live in very southern, florida or out on west side in california it is freezing outside frigid temperatures continue to grip wide swaft of the country from pink and purples youre in deep purple youre in deep cold. Heres that weather map where windchills bundle up we mean that is obvious isnt it and snowstorm by the way, is brewing we are told off the atlantic coast. And if it it pushes east it could be a major storm up and down i95 corridor, oh boy looking forward to that. Or more for us on that, potential storm about three minuteses from now. Lets take a quick look at the stock future for yo
7. 2trillion. Thats how much the value of all stocks has gone up since the election of donald j. Trump. Thats why we call it the trump rally. We are already seeing more gains from the Big Tech Companies closing at record highs last friday. The big five are going to open mostly higher again this monday morning. Pay very close attention to amazon. The super cold weather for the last two weeks has surely helped them. Who wants to go outside in subzero temperatures . It was minus 13 at my farm yesterday. That has helped founder jeff bezos to increase his fortune. Hes now worth 103 billion. A half hour from now, no sell off. The dow closed friday just shy of 25,300. Well stay right around this level when the opening bell rings. Monday, january the 8th, Varney Company is about to begin. More fire at trump tower in new york city. Ashley well, fire and furry, and it had nothing to do with a book. Apparently its a electrical fire on the cooling tower. As you can see from this video. It was firs
Two of the nation ooegss Biggest Oil Companies down. The clock is ticking for puerto rico. Major bond payments due this weekend fwlchlt. And why netflix wants to be like pixar. Well explain. As we enter the final trading day of the month, the s p is up. The dow is higher by. 7 and the nasdaq with gains. Consumer staples, up more than 5 hitting tom intraday highs this week. Although the 52week low list everything from sugar to gold to platinum to copper to oats to the mexican peso to the aussie dollar. The dollar suffered the best month since january. The real story in terms of the action in july was in commodities. Weaker. Many of them reaching multiyear lows. The dollar stronger and its hard to imagine the s p is managing to gain 2 in what was a bumpy ride earnings. Overshadowing some of the concerns about china and about greece. Earnings did it in big tech. Amazon up 24 in the month. Google up 23 . Big question i guess for august becomes the fed. Some would argue its a function of m
Chevrons earnings dropped 90 from a year ago. Exxons earnings were cut in half. And these two dow components saw their stock prices take a hit. Chevron was off nearly 5 . Exxon sank 4. 5 . And today crude prices continued their tumble, settling down nearly 3 to 47. 12. The commodity is now down 21 this month. Its worst month since october of 2008. And that was the heart of the financial crisis. Jackie deangelis has more now on the pain in the oil patch. Reporter when big oil speaks, investors listen. What was said today was not encouraging. Exxon mobil reporting its worst quarterly profit in nearly 13 years. And chevron seeing its profits plunge, triggered by impairments and charges, based on lower oil prices. Exxon noted that higher profit in refining couldnt offset losses in its upstream businesses. Thats the exploration and production side of things. Exxon making a move to conserve cash confined to the market but it doesnt expect to see a quick rebound in crude prices. The Company P