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Of course, the jobs number next week. We begin with good, not a great. Thats how one group is describing black friday retail sales. Live checks from malls across the country. Plus, a lawsuit against Sumner Redstone making some shocking allegations. Well have more on what that means for viacom and cbs and their response. And Vladimir Putin saying he will cooperate more with the terror fight in syria, but the war of words between russia and turkey continues. First up, though, black friday has arri...

Consensus, 18. 2, 18. 2. Meantime were watching the month of december and stocks heading into the premarket. A month of gains, of course, for the First Time Since the month of may. Year to date the s p up in positive territory while the russell and the dow are in the red. Interestingly, jim, down for the first time in the past ten years. Thats surprising. I would think the people trying to make contributions for the 401 k would get started. I find that someone who regularly contributed soon has ...

We have been conditioned to believe that good news is bad news because it might make the fed raise rates. Now though when the fed has finally declared its going to raise rates we regard this strong jobs number as a sign that things are good enough for the fed to tighten so bring it on. Dow roaring 370 points. Just higher all day. S p rocketing 2. 5 . Nasdaq 208 . Is it correct . Theres a lot of weakness in the u. S. Manufacturing economy but thats now less than 10 so maybe it doesnt matter that ...

Oil inventories on the way and the fed minutes, 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. Our road map begins with raids overnight in france. More from the ground in paris this hour. And a number of deals this hour. Norfolk southern and Canadian Pacific probably not going to happen. But air gas finds a buyer and a deal among some semiconductor companies. Retail, lowes, target, staples are all out with results. First up, this raid by heavily armed police in france targeted the suspected architect of the paris ter...

Thanks very much. We have a puzzle here. I have the rapid update of gdp in the Fourth Quarter but the data which leads to a downgrade also makes economists optimistic. Here is the data. Q4 tracking 2 . That is down 0. 3 because of the data this morning. Q3 gdp 2. 1 . Thats tracking right now. Here is the Fourth Quarter outlook. Bank of tokyo mitsubishi at the high end at 2. 8 . Goldman sachs, barclays at 2 . Atlanta fed gdp, 1. 8 . Morgan stanley at 0. 9 . Here is the data that brought down the ...

Breakout . Today the market answered that question and the answer is not as long as the bears think they can. Todays the day when many stocks that have been languisher or puttering or just plain going down finally awoke from their slumber and regained their gusto as part of a broerd moader move higher. S p up 1. 6 , nasdaq 1. 9 . Lets start with apple. After reporting a terrific quarter back in october where the company delivered on every single metric, apple stock had started percolating like t...

Wells fargo sales tactics being under investigation. Today we have new comments from the wells fargo ceo. While amazon has seen big gains over the last two months in the stock market we have data that shows now may be the time to sell that stock. We will explain why. And giving the gift of stocks. Stocks, not sock, stocks, we will introduce you to the ceo of new company thats selling gift cards before buying shares in the checkout line. It does give new meaning to stocking did you ever, doesnt i...

Apple. Josh lipton has the story in san francisco. Well, it is a big new title for Jeff Williams. He is now going to be apples chief operating officer. He is also in charge of apple wash. Some might think theres a Succession Plan in place since this was tim cooks old job. Apple now grooming Jeff Williams as the next ceo. Sources of the company telling me this is not the intention of this promotion. This is simply a recognition, they say, of jeffs contributions. Tim cook, by the way, in a stateme...

Yield over those last couple of days. How does oil look and the tenyear note . Just got news from opec. Theres the tenyear. Is there anybody who doesnt expect there will be a rate rise in december . Im sure theres somebody out there. They may be harder to find. Our road map this morning starts with that jobs number. 211,000 jobs were added in november, plus upward revisions to previous months. The case building for that rate hike later this month. Futures higher coming off an ugly day in the mar...

Country, and that is why what is going on in mali is such big news here in paris and in france. Here back in paris the french Prime Minister is announced that the death toll has risen to 130 from 129 in fridays deadly attacks. This morning paris police met with members of parliament to discuss Security Issues and one member of Parliament Told us the list of topics they talked about. The whole list of very difficult issues ranging from the protection of schools to public transportation, protectio...