October. Lift off and landing. Spacex gets its rocket in orbit and lands safely back on earth in a space first. We still have a couple of hours to go to the open but were called a tad bit lower. We saw a stronger close out here in europe yesterday. A little bit of weakness coming through from wall street overnight and thats set to continue as of now. Now when looking at our year penne equity markets here today this morning we were called a little bit higher. We reverse that here. We initially opened green and now were very very flat. Lighter volumes than usual due to the holidays. The cac, xetra dax and ftse mib all lower. This is on the back of wall street rallying to a close. The nikkei 225 though, off by 0. 2 . In part because toshiba is down by roughly 12 at a six year low after yesterdays major, major profit warning. Elsewhere were seeing modest gains. The shanghai comp up by. 3 . In the commodity space were seeing a little bit of a rebound for wti and brent crude. Up by 0. 2 . 36
Well ask john calamos. He has an interesting take on stocks you definitely want to stay tuned for. Holidays are a huge time of year for our consumerbased economy. President of American Express ed gilligan will join us. Is he worried about the timing of that terrible storm making its way across the nation . Well ask him that and plenty more. A lot of people are worried about that. How about walmart trading higher today, even though some are worried about the timing of the announcement of a new ceo. Much faster than many people had expected. If thats a sign of trouble ahead for the giant retailer and what do we make of doug mcmillans age . Hes only 47. Youngest walmart ceo since founder sam walton. Stay with us for that story as well. Lets take a check of markets. Dow is up about 30 point, not a huge move. As we continue to find new levels, new record perhaps. The nasdaq, look at that. Back and forth across the line, psychological important if nothing else. The s p, caterpillar adding to