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Tenth Straight Record close driven by all the names that worked all winter long plus a strong read on Retail Holiday shopping numbers do not disappoint. And jobless claims fall pointing to continued strength in the labor market joining us for the hour, anastasia om row sew it is great to have you with us. Great to see you. What do we make of this its typical. We melt up into year end i mean, think about all the things that got resolved in december weve got the phase one basically a done deal between u. S. And china maybe a little bit overlooked by the usmca getting passed by the house. Weve got a lot of good enthuse. We started to see the inflection point. Whats interesting in the internals of the market is what people are buying. What do you do when the s p is up almost 30 for the year you start to look for the laggards its emerging markets, health care, energy those are th ....
The first model 3 built in china rolling off the Assembly Line and elon musk tells his employees quote, pay no attention to the stock price, unquote. Im Ashley Webster in for stuart. Varney company about to begin. Ashley lets take a look at the gains for the major averages this year. Wow, oh, wow. The nasdaq, 35 . The dow, 22 . The s p, a mere 29. 25 . Joining us now, market watcher keith fitzgerald. Fitz, for big gains for next year . What do you say . Why not . Oh, i think weve got all the right things in play. Weve got record consumer confidence, great economics, companies growing. This is a great time to be alive and be an investor. There is always a possibility of shortterm correction but you know what, even a busted clock is right twice a day. Ashley more and more of those socalled experts are calling for that correction. Ten, maybe 20 . Whats going to trigger that . Wel ....
But still red for each of the major indices. Joining us for the full first hour of the show Courtney Gibson from loop capital markets. Courtney, thanks for joining us. Whats your take on today . Investors in a sort of holding pattern, are they, until we get to the fed unbelievable holding pattern. I mean, volumes are down precipitously today. At least they were before i came on the show today. I talked to our equity desk at loop capital and in the u. S. Alone volumes were down somewhere near 30 and even in europe spain was down i think somewhere near 40 on volumes our desk flow today was down substantially as well. It looks and feels as though investors right now are really kind of sitting on their hands markets as you can see, dow down just slightly but recovering back to the highs of the session. Russell is lagging down 0. 7 utilities, real estate the bestperforming sectors. Energy and tech towards the bottom we have got apple ....
Complete report. And macys Ceo Terry Lundgren will join us at 7 00. And jerry storch will also join us live. Stocksindicating opening higher. Ri the dow would open higher by 52, the nasdaq, 3 1 2, and the s p 1 1. 63. In asia, hang seng, higher bay half percent. European equities have been relatively flat. Right now all are lower. The italian market, theres a big referendum being held on sunday, november 4 t december 4. The economist endorsed a no vote to telling italians when they go to the polls to vote no. The underlying issue is this doesnt speak to the core issues that the italian people face. If they vote no, what happens here . How does this spin out . Everybody thinks its gloom and doom. I dont think people believe that anymore in the wake of brachial plexus and the election. So you tell me what youre thinking, ill think the opposite. The elite think it will be horrific, the polls say no. Which makes me think yes. That ....
The early trading most of the major averages are trading higher. The dax is up by better than o. 6 . The cac and ftse both sitting just under 0. 6 higher. North Korean Leader kim jongun has ordered his country to be ready to use its Nuclear Weapons at any time. He told the military to be in preemptive mode attack. The saber rattling follows harsh new sanctions imposed by the u. N. Over north Koreas Nuclear program. Also, new data this morning on where investors are putting their money to work. Nearly 5 billion went to riskier, u. S. Based junk bond funds. Thats making the groups largest inflows on record. Federal prosecutors have now moved to dismiss the indictment of Chesapeake Energy founder aubrey mcclendon, as expected, following his death. Mcclendon died in ....