Yeah. Didnt scrooge send over a turkey at the end . He did something. He sent over dinner. And tiny tim was like, wow, its the best christmas. I dont know if that was the book version or the movie version. Im getting a little wait a minute there was a book huh . Yes, charles dickens. I know you know this we had this discussion there was a book it wasnt just a movie some people we know get all their news in tv which we hope is you at home. We hope you are getting your news here today. Look at the u. S. Equity futures. This is after major averages closed at record highs the s p 500 closed above 2600 for the first time as we saw this technology rally. This morning things are mixed. Dow futures up by 12 s p is down by a point and nasdaq down by 3 points. The major averages have been up three of the last four sessions. The dow had its 60th record close of 2017. The s p 500 saw its 54th record close of the year. Guess how many times, if you want to get to the record, 54 so far this year. The
A next the next gear. Yeah, if you went out for lunch, like came back and checked the market, you went, what the heck happened yes. Ooersheres a look at our se heat map energy dealing well, had of course the opec extension, industrials, financials, goldman the best performer in the dow. Those are all the big winners. Ug the ten year yield is creeping up a little bit today. Real estate also in the red. Coming up, well go to washington for an exclusive interview with senator Chuck Grassley about tax reform. Chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. The dows rise, 24,000, has been rapid compared to other big milestones a few of the signature trader hats for each milestone on set with us here courtesy of our friend, the trader peter tuchman, one of the most famous traders on the floor, looks like albert aeinstein if we can zoom out for a second, so we crossed 20,000 january, we crossed 21,000 on march 1st. That day was sort of reminisce soent of today crossed 22,000 in august crossed 23,
Ecommerce growth that even as they do sends some other packages out through u. P. S. , fedex, logistics and others the vast majority, Something Like twothirds of their packages go the last Mile Delivery to peoples doorsteps through the Postal Service back over to you. Sometimes Postal Service delivers on sunday specifically for amazon, several years ago. Thanks, morgan. Lets talk about this. Are the president s attacks on amazon a sign of bigger issues ahead for the company . Donald, and dave are both with us. Welcome to you both. Tom, you think a strong argument could be made that amazon is getting a sweetheart deal here right . I definitely think if you look at the research ive read, theyre getting as much as a 1. 46 subsidy on a perpackage basis. I do think in the case of the u. S. Postal Service Amazon is definitely getting a sweetheart deal, yes. Donald, what about you . Well, absolutely. You know, the bottom line is the post office is subsidized its Parcel Delivery through its fi
Look forward to the return and congratulations again. Welcome, everybody, to the closing bell. Im wilburt frost in for bill today. Markets stormed out of the gates this morning, but a dramatic reversal in the last hour. A big day for earnings. After the bell, facebook, microsoft, qualcomm, at t, and more reporting what you need to know ahead of the reports. Starting with the initial rebound and selloff and since then pull back we are uptown at the nasdaq, and bob pasani is at the new york stock exchange, bob, starting with you the important thing is what happened in the last hour because we have weakened now, everyone is talking about the feds statement about market based measures of inflation compensation increasing in recent months, but remain low. They added that phrase they are more hawkish on inflation, but its modest, and the s p, lets look at the s p it did not move at all for the first 15 minutes after the feds statements if you thought, they would have been moving more aggress
Countrys capital last month. North koreas leader kim jong un celebrates his birthday and rattles his saber. Our missiles can hit you, he tells the United States. Well ask whether that is true. Also on the show tonight, he haunts g germany stitill. Adolf hitlers manifesto for the third reich, mein kampf, is selling well here a year after being published for the first time in postwar germany. We will find out why it is selling like a bestseller. And la la land sweeps a politicized golden globes. We will show you what happened when hollywood rolled out the red carpet for the these names in film and tv around the world. Brent it is good to have you with us. Tonight, Iraqi Special forces battling the socalled Islamic State in mosul averaged the eastern bank of the river tigris in that city. It is an important step in the u. S. Backed offensive to capture mosul. We will bring you the latest from our correspondent in the region, but first, this report about the human impact. Reporter iraqi fo