Still have some value in them. 2014, of course, marks cnbcs 25th anniversary. Earlier this year, we revealed our list of the 25 rebels, icons and leaders who had the greatest impact on the world of business, commerce and maybe even culture over the past quarter century. Now were going to turn to the future with our list of 100 who we say will have the biggest influence over the next 25 years. First to one of the great influencers, sue at the nyse. Oh, thank you, ty. All right. Well, we have record intraday highs for the Dow Jones Industrial average. The dow transports and the s p 500. So its starting out to be a very strong day. But oil is really the thorn in the side of the market. It continues to be under pressure. Right now we have west texas intermediate off just about twothirds of a percent. And ice brent crude looks like it may go positive. It just hit unchanged. Opec is slashing its demand forecast and outlook for prices ahead. Oil plunging more than 20 in the past three months. Join the conversation with oil dropping and the u. S. Becoming more energy independent. Is opec becoming irrelevant . Go to cnbc. Com vote. First we set the scene. Now lets get perspective on that with jackie at the nymex. Hi, jackie. Reporter hi, good afternoon to you, sue. Well, the headline out of the opec report this morning is that opec is cutting its longterm price forecast. Right now looking at prices to stay around 100 a barrel for the long term. Thats down from 110 that they forecasted last year. Oil supply expected to grow about 22 by 2040. Part of that is going to be as the u. S. Ramps production, but they also say that the middle east will continue to be a significant factor in whats coming out of the Global International oil trade. Now, analysts are focusing in on the fact that opec cut its production forecasts by 1. 8 Million Barrels per day by the end of 2017. Thats a shortterm forecast. This is key, of course, as concerns are he grohhi ingrowin about a supply spot in the space. Also, the report is highlighting transportation and logistical issues here in the United States. Of course, getting that oil around. That makes me think about the Keystone Pipeline debate, especially after the midterm elections. The bottom line here, opec is finetuning things. Its not really having a huge impact on prices today. But the thing to watch for in answering your question to the poll there, whether opec is relevant or not anymore is the discord within the group. Watch saudi arabia. Do they continue to take unilateral action and cut prices at this point or do anything else drastic . Right now it seems to be theres a little disagreement within the cartel. Back to you, tyler. One big oil tycoon has called the bottom on oil prices. Kate kelly is here with more. You remember the hanes bottom . Were going to call this the ham bottom. The ham bottom. Continental resources chief, harold ham, is calling the bottom in oil prices right here and unwinding his own companys hedges in order to show it. We feel like were at the bottom rung here on prices he said in an Earnings Call just a short while ago where he predicted oil would rise to the 85 or 90 range in the very short term. He also said the current pullback in oil prices will help Producer Companies like his by lowering well costs and avoiding longterm supply issues. Continentals board authorized hamm for next year and also 2016. That netted the company about 433 million in realized gains for this current quarter, the fourth quarter. That money will come in handy as continental continues a brisk Drilling Program in the u. S. , a business that relies, of course, heavily on having cash handy to keep the rigs running. Analysts and investors were skeptical about the move. And nicholas lowered its price target in the wake of that decision, but theres precedent for this as well including, for example, American Airlines which earlier this year joined its now sister company, usair, in believing that hedging is so risky and too expensive to bother with. And to play it safe in this environment, tyler, continental has actually slashed its cap ex for next year 12 so theyll save a little bit of money that way as they weather this storm and wait for hamms prediction to come true. Its a big gamble. It is. A big gamble on his part. It is. Lets lock in the vote coming back. Has opec become irrelevant . 56 of you said yes, it has. 44 say no, it has not. Now to another big story involving couldnntinental resou ceo, harold hamm, and that would be his contentious divorce battle. Robert frank here with more. This has become quite something. This really has. This would be the biggest divorce in history, plus it could have big implications for shareholders. His wife is claiming a share of his 17 billion fortune in an oklahoma courtroom. But there are questions today about the role that continental is playing in the trial. Reuters reporting the companys general counsel and chief risk officer eric eisenstat has emerged as one of the most important figures in the courtroom. He interjected during proceedings. He talked with the judge. He met with sue anns lawyers in chambers. He even sat with the jury box during a witness testimony. Very unusual. Divorce attorneys tell me this is highly unusual, especially in a trial that is closed to the public. Now, this is also likely to lead to an appeal with sue ann arguing that the companys attorney had improper influence. And the other question here, tyler, is whether continental could be spending money that should not be spent in a private dispute of its ceo. Lawyers say its normal for the company to comply with court requirements, but it would be unusual if the companys attorney is actually advising harold hamm in this. Of course, the bigger hit to shareholders here, if harold hamm has to sell billions of dollars worth of shares to pay this divorce. That would put pressure on the shares. On the stock. Exactly. A lot at stake. Do we have any idea why the corporate attorney is there in the courtroom, sitting in the jury box . There are reasons for him, the company has to comply with subpoenas. This is all about the value of his shares in the company and how he grew it. So there are some reasons, but the level of his involvement, very unusual. Setting off concerns. Alarm bells, exactly. In some quarters. Robert, thanks very much. Sue, down to you. While Oil Prices Head lower, the transports are driving higher up some 12 from the october 15th low, up 20 so far this year. So dominic chu is going to take a look at the stocks that are powering that sector for us. Hi, dom. Hey, tailwinds for the transport companies, sue. Thats our theme because with Oil Prices Going down, these transportation stocks that use oil and gasoline may stand to benefit. Look at the dow industrials, up. 25 . Look at whats happening with the dow jones transportation index. Its hitting alltime highs. Another record high for that index in todays trade overall. If you look at the year to date, its up 21 . Leading the way higher are a variety of stocks in the dow transport index. Theres 20 of them. But one of them is trucking, j. B. Hunt, one of the bigger Trucking Companies in america, those shares are up just over the past month, you can see, 8 . Investors have been buying trucking stocks. Check out another one in package delivery. What can brown do for you and for investors, well, u. P. S. Shares are up almost 10 over that one month and the single best performing dow transport stock over the last one month is, of course, an airline. Of course, its Alaska Airlines which has gained a staggering, tyler, 28 in just the last month. Back over to you. All right. Thank you very much. Dom. So if you missed this big runup, how can small investors play catchup, joining us is a guy who knows a thing or two about the market and trading, former president of charles schwab, former ceo there, now heading up both a Wealth Advisory and a private equity firm. Welcome, dave, to power lunch. And you have a new book called stacking the deck how to lead and bring about change against any odds. Well talk about that in just a minute. I want to get your sense of the mood of individual investors. Obviously youre not working with him as intimately as you did when you were at schwab, but you know as the cohead of an Investment Firm what theyre thinking these days. What are they thinking . Well, i think that investors struggle with volatility. And theyre not sure what to do. Some of the moves theyve made to they overworry it . Yes, they do. Of course they do. Theyre looking at their nest egg. A lot of our investors are retired or coming close to retirement and thinking about what do i have in my portfolio thats going to take me through the rest of my life . And so they look at how do i achieve the upside and protect myself in the downside . Its really what we all want is to understand how to get that kind of upside opportunity with some downside protection. Youre doing lets move on now to questions of leadership. Youre doing a lot of teaching. Youve written the book. We have a new congress that is going to convene the 1st of january, or thereabouts. Theyre both at opposition here. How can you lead when one side is so opposed to what you want to do, whether youre mr. Mcconnell or youre mr. Obama . Well, it seems to me that the American People have spoken that they want something done. Both parties talk about the need to have something done. And i think the president and the leadership in the house and the senate need to start to stack the deck to take a phrase. They need to start to put the pieces in place that create momentum. Momentum is the key to any great change. You have to build momentum and build the perception of momentum. Right now we have a perception that were going nowhere. We start with little wins. Obama talked about it in his speech. Boehner has talked about it a bit. We need to find those little places where there is agreement. Agreement. Exactly. And build on that. One of the passages in your book talks about overcoming resistance. This is a classic case. Youve got to know who the resistors are, their points of resistance and how you overcome that. I guess it goes back to little wins. What we talk about is the fact that you dont overcome emotional resistance with logical arguments. You have to appeal to the emotion. You have to get at where the resistance is coming from and help the party youre trying to move to see things differently. Youve got to talk from their Vantage Point. Zoo and when you were at schwab, the context of this example was a debate over whether to cut commission costs. Right. Exactly. Way down. And what i think many people internally at schwab thought was a race to the bottom. Right, exactly. So we were looking at different pricing for our online trades. And the debate internally was do we have to cut prices . And of course at the time we were doing really well. And so thats the most difficult time to make a change is when you seem to have a lot of momentum. As we looked down the road, however, our view was this is not going to last. We need to make the change now and get ahead of things and not make the mistakes that blockbuster made or that Tower Records or blackberry, for example. It takes courage within the context of a big institutionalized enterprise like schwab or blackberry or blockbuster. Right. Thats why i wrote this book because the course that i teach at wharton on leading breakthrough change, i try to teach my students how do you build the momentum . How do you build a Leadership Team . How do you create the small wins that lead to big wins that you can stack the deck in favor of success . Dave, always great to see you. Thank you for coming on today. Appreciate it. The new book is called stacking the deck. Find it in bookstores and i assume on digital sources. Sure. Sue. Guys, two key reads on two very different economies today. Michelle carusocabrera on the event in europe that helped the markets rally today. And Steve Liesman on the u. S. Economy. Steve, youre up first. Thanks, sue. Very strong which means very low. Jobless claims in the u. S. Are making economists optimistic not only about tomorrows jobs numbers but thinking this trend will continue into november. The numbers suggest a u. S. Economy that is so far weathering weakness from overseas. Claims fell more than expected to 278,000. The Second Lowest since the year 2000. And the fourweek moving average shown here is at the lowest level since 2000. Less firing, well, what does it mean . It means whatever hiring takes place in the economy adds that much more to jobs. Ian over at pantheon says claims are low enough to signal very strong november payrolls. And joe at Deutsche Bank writes, over the last 25 years when claims have lohover around 280,000, nonfarm payrolls have increased by 330,000. Thats not the estimate for tomorrow which is the october number well get. 233 is the number. It would be the eighth time in the last seventh time in the last eight reports weve been above 200,000. The Unemployment Rate unchanged at 5. 9. The september number still 248,000. Stronger productivity data than expected. And low unit labor costs puts the fed in position of changing nothing. The jobs data, if its strong, but not too strong, with a big decline in the Unemployment Rate should keep the fed on track toward a midsummer nights dreamy rate rise and the prukivity number should mean strong growth with little threat of deflation. None of what i just said, of course, is true in the case of europe. As michelle will tell you. No, absolutely not. And thats why a lot of economists here in the United States think that the ecb should be doing a lot more. The European Central bank. Look at what the euro has done. Its moved to 1. 23, yet another new 52week low for today. Interest rates dropped in places like italy and spain after mario draghi, the head of the European Central bank, reiterated the commitment to increasing the size of the banks Balance Sheet dramatically. Thats a kind of version of qe. Draghi also said that the staff of the ecb was instructed to prepare for the possibility of additional measures to be implemented if needed and that there was unanimous support for those measures, even though he didnt say exactly what they would be. He also played down a reuters story earlier this week suggesting that there is deep internal conflict at the ecb which might prevent him from doing a u. S. Style quantitative easing. First of all, its fairly normal to disagree about things. It happens everywhere. Its important to add another thing. When we differ in our views and in our policies, there is no thats another obsession of some of you there is no drawing line between north and south. Theres no coalition. His statements came as once again today there are protests in europe against the very measures that draghi says needs to be taken to improve europes competitiveness. Take a look in brussels. Cars and trucks were overturned. Smoke bombs were fired as unions and Police Clashed during protests against Government Spending cuts. Ladies and gentlemen, back to you. All right. Thank you, michelle. Very much. Thank you. House Speaker John Boehner getting ready for his News Conference. Hes laying out his agenda for the gop. We will take that live as soon as he begins. Power lunch is back in two minutes time with the dow up 47 points. Theres confidence. Then theres trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. Our expertise, technology, and high quality parts means your peace of mind. Its no wonder last year we sold over three million tires. And during the big tire event, get up to 140 in mailin rebates on four select tires. House Speaker John Boehner is expected to make a statement very shortly right after these midterm elections. Any moment now we expect him to appear there. Eamon javers is live in the capitol. What can we expect to hear and will he be taking questions . I think what youll hear is a similar tone from yesterday from mitch mcconnell. Mcconnell very much offering an olive branch to president obama saying because we have divided government essentially doesnt mean we have to be at each others throats all the time. I think what youll hear here from Speaker Boehner is more of that sort of olive branch, bring us together postelection rhetoric. The question is, though, beyond some smallball opportunities, are there real specific areas where these republicans new in power on capitol hill and president obama can actually work together. Youve heard a couple of different ideas come out over the past 24, 48 hours of what that might be. International trade agreements, for example, could be won. But on the big things, these parties just simply disagree. And you heard president obama come out yesterday saying, you know, if the republicans have a good idea, ill sign it. The problem with that is that he doesnt think that they have all that many good ideas or he would have signed some republican bills already. And he seems very poised to veto bills that come his way that now ones that might not have gotten out of a democratcontrolled senate, that may now come out of a republican one. You know, mr. Boehner, mr. Obama, mr. Mcconnell, they all Pay Lip Service to the idea that they want to work together. Will they . Can they . Well, thats exactly the question here. I mean, for Speaker Boehner, the question is not whether or not hes going to pass bills that will then be passed by the senate, but will the Republican House of representatives pass bills that they think could be signed by president obama if they get all the way down to the white house . Lets listen in now to mr. Boehner who has just appeared at the podium. I hope you didnt believe it. Im going to