Points. S p up by close to 2 points above fair value pt and the nasdaq is up by 3. 5 points. Andrew, tag, youre it. Thank you, becky. We have Corporate News for you this final thursday morning before a long weekend. We should tell you that lululemons founder and advisers, the one that was kicked out, you might recall, chip wilson for those comments about who should be wearing those pants, hes reportedly talking to some private equity firms gauging their interest in a buy out of the yoga wearmaker. The wall street journal reports there is no deal in the works. A buyout would face a number of big issues because the premium that would be needed over the companys 6 billion market capitalization might be too high. But that is what people are talking about this morning. Also, volkswagen denying the report is planning a bid for u. S. Truckmaker paccar. Earlier today. Two analysts, two Research Analysts noted included the head of dominos truck unit saying that he has been told that volkswagen
The yield on the ten year in the last week is up about 15 basis points. Thats not even the peak. We were at 267, 268 early on. So were getting a swift market response to all of this strong jobs data today. The question is whether well close above 17,000 here, bill, and right now it looks like weve got a comfortable margin. Lets look across the markets. Dow is up. Session highs, 92 points. Again, only an hour to go until the close here. The nasdaq meanwhile, out performer this week up almost 2 . Its turning in a decent performance adding 23, another half percent. Finally the s p 500, at levels we have not seen for this index. Up almost 10 points. 1984, just 15 points away from 2000. Talk about this important trading day. Monica madea, part of our closing bell exchange. With seventh capital. John manly and ben willis from princeton, Keith Fitzgerald said it would be like this from Money Map Press and our own rick san telly. Cant wait to talk bonds with him in a minute. Is this a green li
Welcome to countdown. Also coming up today the winners, the glitz, the blam more, the Golden Globes in hollywood. Lets get back to our top story. France begins a new week with an unprecedented message of defines against terrorism ringing out across the world. Questions remain over the long term political implications of the charlie killings. No fewer than 56 World Leaders join the largest crowd in french history yesterday in the wake of three days of violence that killed 17 people, the french capitol is still on high alert. Sharp shooters were positioned on roofs lining the route of the march. Among the millions of marchers, it was the simple example that empathy with the victim of the masacre that told the story. Cartoonist pencils. Now from paris, i suppose what a show of global dip plat i can support. It really captures the worlds attention. What next for france after this very initial mourning and show of grief passes . This march was very historical moment for france. You had 3. 7
Thank you very much for joining us. With thearting off world cup and france is heading into the second group game against switzerland in high spirits after a winning start against honduras in their first match. That game is picking off in salvador right about now. Stan leavy is in brazil covering the world cup. France is feeling very confident going into this match. This is a very different atmosphere compared to the last world cup. Ago toourse, four years the day, france was failing to give up because they were on strike and now of course competing with a chance to make it through. The french side taking on the swiss. The swiss are ranked sixth in the world. They feel they have a good chance of making it past. The lastminute goal to win their opening goal. The game underway, couple of changes in the starting lineup. Coming in to find it. Probably moving up. Exchanging positions during the game. A change of midfield as well. Coming into the midfield three. The french side has every rea
We are. We got a papal disconsent im sue herera in for kelly evans. Kelly will be back on monday. Were watching a market that is having a rough week, as you know. Its been very volatile, but its trying to end on a positive note, and if it closed right now, it would be positive. Well take you through the final hour of trading. Plus, we have these stories also ahead today. Is the consumer sick or are some retailers, though, using them as an excuse, as they might do . Right. Are they blowing it . Are the consumers doing the weather . Theyre pinning their problems on the shopper. We dont know if thats appropriate or not, but were going to debate it. Rentacenter, the Container Store, walmart, all of them saying consumers are hurting them and their bottom lines, but is that legitimate . Were going to take a closer look at that. Ah, yes. Meanwhile, wells fargo, the nations biggest Mortgage Lender. So, when its newest chief Financial Officer said in an interview people are just not buying home