For you on that. And rolling out the red carpet, denver one of a dozen u. S. Cities now battling to be amazons hq2 were going to go live to the mile high city with the governor of colorado. Power lunch starts right now Rocky Mountain high colorado Rocky Mountain high welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Tech leading todays record breaking chart the s p 500 topping 2,700 for the First Time Ever. Commodities on the move as well. Crude above 61 for the First Time Since june 2015 platinum by the way highest level in more than five weeks. And gold is trying for nine Straight Days of gains nat gas taking a hit today with prices up 10 in the past week as tyler mentioned this record breaking cold really causing people to stay inside. Shares of scana up South Carolina residential customers will get an average of 1,000 within 90 days of the deal being completed, brian. Melissa, thank you im Brian Sullivan as much as the world focuses on trumps tweets, lets stay focused on your money. And can
Chicken soup. President elect trump making his big administration nominations and announcing his picks for National Security adviser, attorney general nca director today. We have all the details. Meanwhile, stocks are giving back their early gains today, but its been quite a week for the bulls with stock inflow levels not seen in nearly two years. Well discuss whether the record trump rally has come too far too fast. Trump has promised to roll back regulations but would that eliminate rules . We begin with the president elects new leadership appointments. John harwood has the very latest. Kelly, weve got some action today on the transition front. Three hardline appointments by president elect donald trump. First of all, Jeff Sessions, the senator from alabama, to be the attorney general of the united states. Jeff sessions is someone who was his views on race were too controversial. He was blocked a judge in the 1980s. Hes a staunch foe of legal and tangled with Big Tech Companies over
Its been. To talk about swings, talk about crude oil, talk about the ruble which after that surprise decision by the Russian Central Bank yesterday to raise to 17 , the ruble immediately jumped up 10 and then fell back by about 8 and a 20 percentage point swing here. If you just looked today and didnt know what happened this morning you might think its an expected reaction and hide a lot of volatility we have seen, again, in global asset glasses here. Whiplash is only term some people are using to describe it. Yeah. No doubt. In the major averages right now, where we stand on the street. Theres the s p 500. A fractional mover. Thats sort of again helps to tell the story. Again, back under 2,000. The nasdaq under pressure today to the tune of 17 points and this ones interesting because some of the decliners on the session of note include tesla back below 200 mark off 2 . Amazon off 3 and meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial average seeing a gain of 40 points t trying to hold on here and
Began early in the afternoon when a woman allegedly struck a barrier outside the white house. She attempted to ram her car into the white house gate. She got out of the car and allegedly began engaging with police with a gun, firing some shots. That is still a little iffy. We dont have confirmation of that yet. She then got back in her car and wrc, which is the nbc affiliate in washington, has this exclusive video which were going to roll for you right now of the we believe is the car moving down the road. As you can see theres a black car thats going to come into view. You can see it in the distance. Thats wrc. Its an exclusive. Thats the nbc affiliate. She goes down the probably about two miles between the white house and where she eventually ended on capitol hill. At that point, she rammed a police car. That is when one of the Police Officers was hurt. Initially we thought that a Police Officer had been shot. But kim dine, head of the Capitol Police, says that no officer has been sh
The trading day here in the United States today and the gains we got, theyre not exactly anything to write home about, but its a welcome reprieve from the run of triple digit losses that weve been suffering through. Its a cycle. So last night asia was still responding to what we did yesterday. Now were beginning a new cycle today. At least thats how it looks right now because take a look across markets. The Dow Jones Industrial average adding 85 points, about a half a percent. Interesting to see the s p up about 15 points to 1757, and the nasdaq back above 4,000 after closing below that level yesterday. Its now up 42 points, 4039, adding 1 today. And, you know, bill, you have to say, if you look at whats happening with, folk, the tenyear Interest Rate, some headwinds weve seen in currency, not a bad way to kick off this session. Lets talk about it as we go toward the close of trading on this tuesday. Is the worst over or are todays green arrows just a speed bump before we continue the