60 were going to wait because theyre looking for deals. The reality is they can get emof this the other reality retailers recognize it. And it is growing to hurt profits in a big way. Thats a concern for the retail season of the interesting numbers were, on saturday and sunday, they actually were up up over 2 last year which is a good thing for the country. At least it is going up. It was not flat. 42 million versus 41 for the year. Tracy is that because many of us did not shop on black friday . I personally waited because i knew deals and discounts would get better. I got myself free twoday shipping. There is certain point you can really hold out to get the best deal. That was part of it. People are recognizing with the game and with apps and technology and software that helps you figure this out. But heres big warning. Dont wait any longer. Today is really day to do it. I recognize a lot of companies are suggesting you can get shipping even the day on wednesday, Christmas Eve but i also know of a lot of horror stories. In fact people were already expecting theyre shipments and are not getting them. Push the button. Go ahead do it today. Make sure you get it done so you dont end up with unhappy kid or loved one on Christmas Day. Tracy right, otherwise, god forbid you would have to actually go to a brickandmortar purchase the thing. That to me is blasphemy at this point. You have have amazon offering same day delivery. Ebay is offering five bucks. Google express. There are some deals out there . You can get sameday delivery as they suggest but practical reality it doesnt always happen. So the more time that you can give yourself the better. There are also many stores that you can still go into and pick up the same day. That may be a safer bet. At least you can get your hand on it. The worst thing that could ever happen, you order something and it doesnt show. Tracy been there, done that. No hot gift, right . I guess iphone 6 aside, nothing really driving people to the malls . Well, if youre a kid, anything from the frozen movie. Fair enough. Bar by and ken are both in trouble, theyre hurting this year. If youre sale, youre elsa, youre kilometer mored. For adults, clothe something hot, but definitely electronics. Those things you can get in the stores even the last few days. Tracy eric, do you feel like gas prices helped at all . It makes us feel good but at the end of the day are we really spending more . Gas prices for those that havent felt it directly have absolutely helped. Oil is now below 60. It has affected gas in a big way. It is lowest its been in years. So people have more money to spend but they are also smarter and theyre careful what they want to do with that money but they are spending it. I think you will see increase over last year of roughly 2 . Not the best but at least were moving in the right direction. It could be even better. Gas helped that. Tracy thats something. What about the day after . This year Christmas Falls on thursday. So everyone can go shopping on property christmas sales on friday. I would say that is the best day to shop. There is no question, after christmas you will always get better deals. So if you can hold out, if you dont have anyone thats waiting or there are other things you want to get, no question you want to do that. Again, online would probably be your best bet there because of the reality, you wont have the shipping crunch and you will be able to wheel and deal more. Tracy yeah, amen. God bless elsa, right . We love her. God bless elsa. Tracy eric, Merry Christmas. Thank you. Merry christmas. Take care. Tracy we want to know what you think. Here is our question tonight, have you finished your Christmas Shopping . Log on to gerriwillis. Com and vote on the righthand side of the screen and well show results at the end of tonights show. Here is a gift, just in time for holiday travel, a nasty weather system heading our way again. If the snowstorm this thanksgiving wasnt enough. It is expected to impact the eastern half of the country bringing on major holiday headaches. Here with what to expect, accuweather meteorologist. Justin, really . It is not snow though, right . No, it is a mixed bag of a lot of things, a lot of rain coming in, some wind. A little bit of snow. We love to see snow around the christmas season, like you said a lot of travel in packs even though this is not extremely intense storm, it is big storm in size. Covering a lot of real estate into the midwest and eventually the east as well. Well see soaking downpours and a lot of travel delays along heavily traveled interstate 95 corridor, especially washington, d. C. Northbound to boston. Biel deal with Severe Weather along the gulf coast states. There is outside chance of a tornado and damaging wind as we. As we go through time Christmas Eve, low pressure into the great lakes. A couple of inches of snow from chicago into central michigan. That is about it. Much of it is green. With rain, comes travel delays on roads and also through the air. Looking at potential for flooding as well into central and northern new england. There is snow as system kicks its way north and eastbound, much of us deal with colder conditions on thursday. Poor traveling conditions in the areas highlighted in red. Not just the east coast. If in the northwest, another storm on the way. As we head into Christmas Day well look through snow an Intermountain West and snow in the northeast. Biggest travel impacts are wednesday and thursday night up and down the eastern seaboard. Tracy Merry Christmas to you there too, justin. Thanks. Merry christmas to you. Thanks. We still have a lot more to come this hour. Including your voice. We want to hear from you. Facebook us, send us emails, do something at gerriwillis. Com. At bottom of the hour well read your comments. Next north korea is knocked offline. Is this retaliation or the sony hacking . Well have details after the break. You dont need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. Because we do. Were exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. Because boiling an egg. Isnt as simple as just boiling an egg. Life takes energy. Energy lives here. Thanks. [ male announcer ] fedex® has solutions to able Global Commerce that can help your company grow steadily and quickly. Great job. mandarin cut it out. See you tomorrow. Tracy well the u. S. Is still considering what to do with north korea after the sony hacking. Seems president obama is trying to calm things down a little. Now calling attack, cyber vandalism, not sigher terrorism like many others are calling it. Call it what you like. The white house says it will respond. Maybe that response has already been done. North korea today suffered severe internet outages according to people that monitor this. We have gordon chang here, author of youre perfect person to respond. Senator cree internet is down. Who do you think it is . I think it is us. Clearly group goes after our country say it was me. They take pride in doing. That we heard no claims of responsibility. This was after president obama said we would do something proportional. This is what north korea did to us. We have gone after north korea i think. Tracy why wouldnt we in the United States say, huh, this is us, dont mess with us anymore . Because Everybody Knows that it is us. That is where deterrent effect comes from. North korea knows were willing to do something. It is up to them to decide if they will counterattack. They could do so, even though the internet is down and most of their Cyber Warriors are in china and some in germany and u. A. E. Most of them are in china. If north korea wants to make a decision to go after us they can do it. This will be very interesting to see what happens in the next 24 hours. Tracy how does china fit into this whole story with you . China was accomplice wit the attacks in north korea. The reason is we know chinese ip addresses were used to attack sony. The firewall, which is internet controls, china knows everything that crosses its boarder with regard to the internet there. Is large amount of data going out of china and see enormous amount coming in. Because sony lost more than 100 terabytes of data to the North Koreans. All that data went across the great firewall into china. Tracy gordon, i want to get to peter barns with mon on this. Kt mcfarland call it cyber war. President calling it cyber vandalism. What are you calling this. I think it is cyber war especially what weve seen today. I dont think it is important what we call it. Important thing we have Effective Response that prevents North Koreans doing this again. This went to the core of human democracy. Tracy right. They tried to affect discourse in the United States which is absolutely bedrock of our system. Tracy go to peter now. Has the white house responded to any of this . We got a comment out of the National Security council saying quote, we have no new information to share regarding north korea today, if in fact north koreas internet has gone down we refer to you that government for comment. Thats all that the National Security council would say. But, just to speak to what gordon was talking about there, listen, we have got very effective cybersecurity force on our side of the ocean here. This is totally within our capability to knock out north koreas internet and, and it is a very weak internet infrastructure to begin with. Not a heavy lift for to us knock that out and like gordon, i assume we did it. Tracy totally fair enough. But is it enough. Should there be economic sanctions as well . I think there should be. We should put the sanctions the Bush Administration did in 2005 when we cut the North Koreans off the Global Financial system. We should enforce about the sale of Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Technology which we have been lax about and we should call out china because china was complicit in these attacks. If he were to do that that we will and North Koreans say that oh, my gosh, president obama is actually serious about this. Tracy peter, have you heard anything to that effect that the president will take further steps other than wiping out the internet . He said over the weekend he wants to add north korea back to the list of states that sponsor terrorism. That brings with it some additional sanctions. To gordons point, the main sanction we could impose would be on Financial Relationships that north korea has that were dropped during the Bush Administration, when the Bush Administration tried to negotiate a Nuclear Treaty with north korea. There is, gordon, correct me if im wrong, the bank of macau is like bank of north korea. We could go after that one bank and some, some Trading Companies that the north korean leadership controls as well. You guys are awesome, gordon, peter, thank you so much. Gordon, im glad youre here us today. Thank you. Tracy later in the show, 2014 brought us a rise of wearable tech and new iphones. What is in store for 2015 . Thinking of giving a taste of the holiday spirit this year . Hmmm, coming up, 12 bottles of christmas, that deserve a big spot under the tree. Well be right back. Shes still the one for you. And cialis for daily use helps you be Ready Anytime the moment is right. 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Tracy whether youre looking for last minute gift for the adult on your Shopping List or looking to get the holiday started we have festive spirit to toast the holidays. We have market watch reporter Charles Passy with really cool stuff. Before we get to the list, what is hot . Is it wine, brown liquors, scotch, whiskeys of the world, is it champagnes . You have to start with the brown spirits and particularly bourbon is superhot right now. Rye is right up there. Weve got a few examples here of some things that might be trending by Irish Whiskey is getting really popular right now. With wine, california is still hot. Tracy what is up with that fireball . That is whiskey, right . Yeah. That is flavored spirit. I think i would want to avoid that one. Tracy im with you. Theyre serving that at the fraternity house. Go through your list of the top things you should give or consider giving. Number one is the bubbly. You can never go wrong with a bottle of bubbly, what i like it carries through to the new year if you give it as a gift. What i love champagne producers do plenty of packaging. Pipeer has done it this package doubles as a candle holder. Tracy brilliant. Just a very classy way of presenting it, classic brut, great champagne. 40 bucks for the bottle. Really solid pick. Tracy we had it the other night. Great champagne. Look what you get. Tracy i didnt get that well. Red bottle. Red and green for the holidays. I have from lee polled brothers a distiller in colorado, very boutique, they make a tart cherry liquor. It is absolutely delicious. We were talking before whether or not you could have stand alone or cocktails. Works great in cocktails. I know a chef does it in pork loin recipe. It works as a standalone sip. Very, very tart. You will pucker up. Tracy finally we come to the whiskey. Right. Tracy Irish Whiskey, sales are off the charts, right, up 400 since 2000 two. This is my green bottle. As in ireland. I get it now. This is a new one on the market. I think well hear about it especially as we head into st. Patricks day. Wellpriced like all Irish Whiskey, it is incredibly drinkable. Very smooth. For people who may not like scotch, Irish Whiskey is beginners whiskey. Tracy how did that happen the resurgence of these brown liquors . The basically Cocktail Culture played a huge part. Speaking of cot take culture tracy which is coolest thing ever. This cocktail kit at the end, make your own bottle . Make your own liquor . Make your own party i would really say. Tracy fine, thats fair. This is from a company that is very hipster and very brooklyn. Theyre out of new york. What they basically do give you all the ingredients to make a great cocktail at home. This is to make a moscow mule. They have q, which is a great brand of mixers. They have their mixers in there. They have a few bar tools. For 85 bucks you can pretty much assemble and have a party at home. Tracy i see. Make your own cocktail. What happened to the martini . Used to be what everybody drank. Right. Martinis i think we had a little bit of resurgence with mad men, where it is frankly at is clever cocktails and quality ingredients. Tracy vodka too, not so much. All of this surpassed vodka sales. Vodka is the number one spirit, because it goes well with anything. I think for gifting, people like something a little more distinctive i would say. Tracy beauty of vodka, when you spill it, it doesnt change. I wouldnt guess that about cherry liquor. Tracy the full list is on marketwatch. Com . Absolutely. Tracy charles, thank you so much. Thank you. Tracy these are good ideas. Time for a look at stories youre clicking on tonight at foxbusiness. Com. Existing home sales tumbling of the National Association of retailers reporting home resales dropped 6. 1 in november. That is the slowest pace in six months. But despite disappointing housing report, the dow and s p 500, hit closing highs today. The markets extending rallably from last week after the federal resaid it would be patient in raising Interest Rates. 2014 was a banner year for ipos. According to dealogic, this years ipos raised 95. 9 billion. That is the most since 2000 when they raised 104. 6 billion. This year saw the biggest ipo ever with chinese ecommerce giant alibaba raising 25 billion in its public debut. Dish networks subscribers are still unable to watch the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network because of contract negotiations. Dish had similar disputes with other networks including cbs, cnn and the cartoon networks. Those are some of the hot stories on foxbusiness. Com right now. Still to come well break down tech hits and misses of 2014. And next. 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