Markets close in about two hours. Lets check on where things stand. It is the end of the month, final trading day of the quarter. To dow is up 190 points finish friday close to where we began september. It is the same for the s p 500. That brings us right around to the beginning of the month. Day,asdaq having a nice. 9 higher. There is speculation of deals. To go through some of the individual sectors, the banking index and major banks is what we have been concentrating on most of the day. Deutsche bank has rallied up 15 . At one point, we saw a down 9 in german trading. This is on speculation the department of justice may fine Deutsche Bank like . 4 billion. Citigroup rallying and bank of america. Next is notbanks include Deutsche Bank but there is a followon effect. Lets move on to other movers making highs today. Amazon. Com up 1 . Qualcomm up 1. 9 . Check on the bloomberg first word news. David mark . Mark Hillary Clinton wants to enlist 5 million millennials in the National Servic
Came out. We saw stocks declining and that turned around just an hour ago. We had a big beat on the top line. The big miss came from the gain or lack thereof in average hourly earnings. Right now, we are seeing a gain in stocks. Take a look at the s p 500. We were lower at 10 30 or so. Commodities come energy and material stocks leading the gains we are seeing right now. Haveems to not necessarily as much to do with the job support as the moves we are seeing elsewhere in the market. If you look at the biggest ,ercentage gains today Chesapeake Energy gaining once again come 80 now over the past three sessions. Today, weveins been talking about its cooperation in the investigation late founder the of the company. Hewlettpackard beating estimates with its first earnings report. Copper and gold benefiting from what we are singing commodities here. Rising to the highest weve seen alix chesapeake was under two dollars three or four weeks ago. You can look at the gain in oil as well. More tha
Attempts to woo before next years election. Were live where the Central Bank Governor tells krvenz that the easing actions will help spur demand in the long run. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And we just had the eurozone pmi come in at 51. 1 for november. That is broadly in line with where its expected to come in, but does point to a 16month low. This follows individual Country Service pmi that weve had in the last 20 minutes or so, seema. It does. Lets focus in on germany. Germanys private sector grew at the slowest pace in the month of november as new business output prices fell. The reason were putting so much focus on pmi data is because this is the last piece of Critical Data that will come out ahead of the ecb meeting on thursday where mario draghi is expected to provide some type of additional commentary on monetary easing. Of course, the big question is if sovereign bond buying will be announced. Pmi data largely
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