American shoppers havent gotten the negative memo. They are supposed to be worried about trade tensions and the Global Economy or perhaps brexit if they knew what it was, apparently not this is a crazy day as the dow dipped and nasdaq lost. 43 . We started the session with that sharply better than expected retail sales figure, just an eye opener the numbers are good and makes you feel like there is no way in hell we could be near a recession and at the same time we got a remarkable set of results from jp morgan, the nations largest bank and by the way, so is the data about the consumer when i finish the jp morgan call, which was really terrific, by the way, and what citi group told us yesterday, it made me feel like we were in a bizarre situation where the consumer spending, not taking too much credit paying it off on a regular basis. It was one of those building and loan moments from its a wonderful life not the timeline where george kills himself and potter takes over thats the 2009
Social responsibility. Should they take the lead on possible gun control power lunch starts right now and welcome to power lunch, im Michelle Carusocabrera and stocks are carving out accident gain ahead of the fed minutes but that could change in less than an hour. Yields on the twoyear note hitting the highest level since the beginning of the financial crisis and watch the fiveyear because results of an auction moments away Home Building stocks are rallying today tripoint and kd home and pulte are leading the way and fueled by advanced auto parts, stocks are up doubledigits on the back of the earnings. We have eamon javers with breaking news at the white house. Reporter weve been watching this student protest in front of the white house this afternoon protesting against gun violence. Weve seen the president has a meeting later on today with a number of students who have been affected by gun violence and i spoke to a white house official who signaled new flexibility on the part of the
Snap sevenday winning streaks. Allianz launches a 3 billion euro Share Buyback after posting bumper profits for the fourth quarter. The cfo outlined the Insurance Firms m a plans earlier on the show. If an acquisition fits our business and our future strategy and we ca can do it, we certain look at it. It is not a must for us. Its a further opportunistic thing. Samsung heir jay y. Lee is arrested as part of a corruption probe, sending political shockwaves through south korea and sending shares in the smartphone maker lower. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. Good morning. Traveling, that beautiful shot in switzerland yesterday. I did bring back chocolate, i think its gone now. I brought it in at 6 00 this morning, gone at 6 05. Trump getting everybody up and going. The dotcom people cant keep up. Being a journalist on trump these days, effectively youre on 24 hours. You get maybe five hours. Head online and look at the key points from this speech, if you havent already. Well talk m
December as investors await their g. D. P. Numbers out. And that is what you need to know. David for more on those g. D. P. Numbers, we turn now to carl, chief of u. S. Economist. So we have five quarters of slim pickings. What are we looking forward to . Its growing at 3. 3 five quarters ago. Now were growing at 1. 3 which is below the feds neutral growth separate and thats problematic for the economy. Consensus going into todays number have steadily deteriorated over the course of the quarter from north of 3 , 3. 5 well say at the start of the quarter down to only 2. 6 . And i think theres a risk maybe that Consumer Spending which was the major Growth Engine in q2 could fire on a much softer level in the Third Quarter. Alix inventories. We saw it drop on the Second Quarter which is unheard of when youre not in a recession. When is the payback for that . That subtracted about 120 basis points off the headline growth figure. And the expectation was well, that will turn into a significa
You can see . Morning the nasdaq is indicated higher by about 22 points. Nearing correction territory. Wti trading up about 3 . A pop of 1. 34 to 45. 12. Among the reasons for the surge in prices escalated fighting in libya thats disrupted production there. Some canadian pipelines shut down as the precaution after a wild fire shut down the oil city of forth mcmurray in canada. Weekly jobless claims forecast. James bullard is in Southern California today to speak about the economy and monetary policy. And alibaba and merck reporting results before the opening bell and also news corp, square and gopro after the close. And dont miss an exclusive interview with John Williams. That happens this afternoon at 1 40 p. M. On power lunch. Bullard an here a lot. He comes here a lot. If he wants to Say Something. He could some here and thats it. So many approximate of them the time that the if they really want to Say Something to us. Come here and do it. Else were not going to cover it. Fitbit Fir