starting to rebuild some momentum. i'm going to take a little bit of credit, the old c.p. effect, but really also it's earnings, the mother's milk of market rallies. we had some really good names, good reports and some solid names, you know, industrial names, blue chip names. these are the things that used to lead the market, but we know there's new leadership out there. people talk about magnificent seven, those are the names that really, really have to do extraordinarily well. they're making a ton of money. the top line growth is going to be phenomenal for these companies, the bottom line growth is going to be phenomenal for these companieses, and what i love about them is they're investing. they're making the r&d investments to stay on top. so microsoft and google after after the bell. we'll see what happens. ashley web or the, i gotta tell you -- webster, i think they're going to be okay. i know you've got us for the next hour. ashley: i would never disagree with charles payne, so i'm right there with you, charles.

thank you so much, sir, appreciate it. good afternoon, everyone. i'm ashley webster in for liz claman. we're seeing green across the screen. all the major indexes moving higher as you can see, but we are off session highs. and when you look at the intraday chart, you can see that all three indices spiking up right around 1 p.m. there you go, you can see that moving on up less than an hour after house republicans voted in a closed door meeting to elect republican majority whip tom emmer as their nominee for speaker of the house. now, the nomination has a long way to go though, he needs the votes. and we'll start with a vote on the house floor. fox news senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill this afternoon. chad, what's the timetable from here? >> reporter: well, there's no timetable right now because tom emmer is in this room right behind me listening to his opponents. he won this race against mike johnson, got 117 votes, mike

johnson 97, but that is a far cry from the 217 he needs to have to win on the house floor. we're told that he has about 200 or so is members who would vote in support of him. i'm told that this is doable but tough. i spoke earlier with republican representative ken buck of colorado. >> but with, yeah, i think it is different person, same problem. problem is people are is are to want to get to 3218. and i'm hopeful -- to 218. i don't know, i think tom doesn't want to to go to the floor until he either has 217 or gets are close to 217. >> reporter: they keep describing this to me as the airing of grievances inside this room as tom 'em or is listening to his detractors. one person who he's probably not going to get is jim banks, republican of indiana. jim banks anticipated that he would vote no on the floor against tom emmer. listen. >> i can't go along with putting one of the most moderate members of the entire republican conference in the speaker's chair. that betrays the conservative

values that i came here to fight for. so i'm, i hope there's a change along the way. he doesn't have the support in the room right now. >> reporter: emmer is hearing from these members, and i'm told it's onesies and two says about what their grievances are with his candidacy for speaker. i spoke earlier with ely crane, republican of arizona, who said the base so posed to him, and that's why the telephone lines are lighting up on capitol hill. i also spoke with a republican from pennsylvania who endorses him but says some of the problem is the fact that he voted to certify the presidential election from 2020. >> mr. 'em orer agrees with me that the election was not stolen. he voted to certify, as he should have. there are some people that are criticizing him for that. >> reporter: that's some of the criticism in the room right now in. >> yes. >> reporter: the fact that he votes to certify. >> one of them, yeah. other people, you know, just don't like anyone cently in

leadership. currently in leadership. >> reporter: we just got a statement here the from former president trump about tom 'em or, and that is what he said, emmer never respected the power of a trump endorsement. he's out of touch with republican voters and voting for a globalist rino like tom emmer would be a big mistake. so far from the clear as to whether or not tom emmer can get the votes. he got fewer votes hand jim jordan did just about a week and a half ago. back to you. ashley: my goodness. chad, so much. on we go. we'll have to continue to follow that, of course. chad, thank you. let's get back to these markets. we are moving higher. the bulls, well, they're making a run for it at this hour hoping to secure a much-needed win. the s&p 500 is lifting off of its lowest level since may 31st and on track to snap a five-day losing streak. the nasdaq on pace also for a second day of gains in a row, and the dow rebounding off of

five-month lows and set to snap a four-day losing streak the as well, the dow higher by 250 points. at one point it was up, let me see, the high so far of the session is up 335. the dow being propelled by verizon, 3m, coca-cola after their upbeat earnings as you can see there. verizon also taking the top the spot, by the way, on the s&p 500. general electric, number four. as you can see, there's the numbers forral a pa bet and microsoft as well -- alphabet and microsoft as well. ge raising, a raise on increased demand for its aerospace business. that helped. by the way, 30% of the s&p 500 set to report this week. it's a biggie for earnings, and among them microsoft and alphabet coming up right after the bell. ahead of the report or, both of those stocks moving higher. alphabet/google up 1.5%. we're going to preview what to expect, by the way, from big tech with premier tech analyst

mark mahaney. be interesting to see what mark is expecting from big tech. but first, a quick check on one of the biggest movers on the session, bitcoin. topping $35,000 this morning, that's a 52-week high on etf optimism. will the sec finally give its approval? anyway, or let's dig into what's driving all of this positive market momentum with our floor show. joining me now is cfra research's chief investment strategist sam stole, and from the floor of the cboe, scott bauer. gentlemen, thank you both. sam, what's today's sentiment about? we've seen treasury yields stabilize, we've seen some pretty nice earnings reports. is that the main reason for perhaps more positive attitude today? >> yes, ashley, i think those are the two primary factors with with the 10-year yield peeking its head above 5% and causing investors to experience a chill

go down their spine. now by having it dip back toward the 4.8 area, that has allowed investors to breathe a sigh of relief. also as you just mentioned, one-third of the companies in the s&p 500 are reporting earnings this week. and as we headed into the week, expectations for the full reporting period was the s&p down 1.5%. but investors remember that in 54 of the last 56 quarters actual results exceeded end of quarter estimates. and so i think wall street is on the optimistic -- optimistic that it'll happen time as well and maybe push us into the green on a year-over-year basis. ashley: and, scott, is this partly was we set the bar so low these days? and also it's interesting, isn't it, you expect higher interest rates to slow the economy, to impact third quarter earnings, and yet here we are. just another example of the

resiliency of both the economy and the consumer which are the same. >> and, ashley, that the word, resiliency, because all expect with interest rates the way they are a lot of these high growth and high-tech stocks, that they would have worse numbers. but, yes, the bar has been lowe. azzam said, 54 of the last 56 have beaten, i expect this to be another one. and valuations, quite frankly, have gotten to a point for a lot of these big tech, big growth stocks so low that any beat here and any sort of positive guidance, this could really be a sustained rally going into the end of the year. one thing i want to really point out, right behind me is the s&p 500 options pit. right next to me is the vix pit. now, the vix we all know, people look at it as the fear index. the higher the vix goes, the more fear there is. typically that happens when the market's selling off. on a daily basis, typically we will see calls outtrade puts by

about a 2.5 to 1 margin. over the last week, we have seen that almost flip-flop where it's a 1 to 1 ratio. to me, that's telling me that the sentiment, the retail paper coming in when vix got to that 322 and 23 handle -- 22 and 23 handle last week which was the highest since march, people said enough is must have, and they started coming -- enough is enough, and they start buying put options instead of call options. whether that was a market bottom call or maybe just saying, you know what? volatility is not going any higher here in the near term. that's what i saw last week leading into the big earnings that we're seeing this week. ashley: that's interesting point, scott. sam, could we have seen perhaps a little bit of a bottom even though, of course, we could also always take a step lower, such is the nature of the markets. but, you know, maybe some people jumping back in here saying, hey, there's some good stocks to be had at good prices.

>> absolutely. i take a look at the 153 sub-industries in the s&p composite 1500 index, and we recently saw only 8% of them above with both their 50-day and 200-day moving averages, and that is usually a sign of downward excess imflying that we're pretty -- imflying that we're pretty close to a bottom, if not getting ready to recover. and certainly we had the final shakeout possibly yesterday with the better results today as the yield withs came down -- yields came down and earnings are coming in. so maybe we are due for that en-of -- end of year rally. and in the pre-election year fourth quarter for first term presidents since world war ii, the market has never declined and has risen on a total return basis nearly 6%. ashley: i feel better already, sam. [laughter] very quickly, scott, we have a lot of analysts who say, wait a

minute, we are going to pay the piper eventually, probably next year. again, we're talking about soft landing, hard landings. how do you see this playing out next year? >> yeah. i think that we're already in a recession, to be quite honest with you. not a deep one, but i know what the technical definition is. by technical definition we're not there, but i think that main street already is. so if we, you know, some of the analysts are talking about being there next year, i think we're are already there. and i do think though there is the possibility of a soft landing. it certainly looks, at least according to all expectations right now like the fed is not raising this year. the probability even into the first quarter of them raising rates is less than 30%. so almost 70 president chance by -- 70% chance by first quarter next year that rates are going to be the same. so i think the market is very accepting of that. and if we do have a recession from the technical standpoint,

which i believe we're already in, i think it could be very moderate. ashley: well, i feel so much better about things. sam and scott, thank you both, gentlemen. for raising my optimism. all very good stuff. thank you both. now this, the eighth installment of the mission impossible franchise has been postponed for a year. why? if well, actors' strike surpassing three months and still going. major studios and the union returning to the negotiating table today. we'll have the very latest on that. let's take look at the studios stock for you, comcast, disney, netflix, pair -- paramount. it's a mixed bag. walmart and the disney moving lore. "the claman countdown" is coming right back. ♪ (adventurous music) ♪

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stocks -- talks stand right now? >> reporter: the big four studio heads are going to present a new proposal today, and they actually reached out to the union over the weekend to resume negotiations. that's certainly a positive sign. remember, talks broke down about who to weeks ago primarily over streaming residuals. the union had proposed a fee for every streaming subscriber. studios called it, quote, an untenable economic burden that would run an extra $800 million per year. of course, another key piece of this though is artificial intelligence. profit rather than subscribers has been an ever growing focus on these earnings calls, and a.i.-generated con content could be a big way for the streamers to get there. actors are looking for protections and, of course, so that they don't get pushed out of the business. experts in the entertainment industry tell us this really could be a water shed moment. >> a.i. is probably the single most thing that's going affect the entire industry.

artificial intelligence and computers can do it faster, quicker and cheaper. so if the industry takes the position that we care about the bottom line and the bottom line only, then i do believe that creativity's going to suffer. >> reporter: studios though, actually, they're face thing short-term financial pressure. many major productions have been delayed. paramount just announced that mission impossible got pushed from next summer to memorial day of 2025, deadpool 3 also recently pushed back with, stranger things' season five delayed. there's an interesting dynamic here. netflix could actually be better positioned to withstand the strike than franchise-driven studios like disney. they can still film a lot of content overseas like a squid game, but both sides are definitely looking for a resolution. the economic impact to the industry has reached over $5 billion at this point, tenses of thousands of jobs have been lost since may. so fingers crossed these talks move forward today. ashley: let's hope the solution

is not mission impossible, for sure. kelly, thank you very much. interesting stuff. we'll continue to follow that. while movie and tv content is delayed, well, guess what in there's always gaming. e-sports leader phase clan brings its video game trophies and founders, guess what? 9 into the fold of dallas cowboys' owner e jerry jones' portfolio. we're going to talk with the ceo in just a moment. but first, let's take a look at video game stocks, ea sports, microsoft, of course, nintendo, roblox and take who two bear active, they're all moving higher except for take two which is down a third of a percent. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ we got this. we got this. we got this. we got this. we got this. yay!

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ashley: jerry jones' investment portfolio? if guess what? it's growing. after gamesquare holdings backed by the that's cowboys' owner is set to buy video game influencer and e-sports company phase clan in an all-stock deal worth about $17 million. once the e-sports purchase is complete in the fourth quarter, jerry jones will own 55% of the combined entity while phase shareholders will own the other 45%. now, the acquisition comes after phase made its debut on the nasdaq last year i have. >> a concern via a spac merger with a valuation of nearly $1 billion, but the poplar gen-z bran has since plummeted, and

today the market cap is just $14 million. guess what? joining us now in a fox business exclusive life from the game square headquarters in texas is ceo justin keller. justin, great to see to you. let me begin with, you know, having just outlined the problems that we've seen with faze clan, why do you think it makes sense to game square? >> yeah, absolutely s. and thanks for having me. i was actually formerly the cfo at faze clan, so it's a bit of a full circle moment for me. ashley: wow. >> talks really initially began faze, we've been a client for some time, so talks initially began around strengthening that partnership. when it became evident to us that they would be looking at a potential liquidity event, you know, we saw this as a huge opportunity. i reconnect with the faze founder s which was really important, got their backs and

support -- backing and support and here we are. we're extremely excite to be combining the world's biggest bran in this space -- brand in this space to be able to monetize that audience. ashley: talking of monetizing, you kind of, what, you focus on the youth culture, i would assume, with these products. let me ask you what kind of monthly audience are you attracting right now? >> yeah. i mean, the monthly audience is staggering. i mean, we are combining the biggest creators in the space. our current talent of tim the tap man ninja, athletes such as trayvon decision, compliancing -- combining that with some of the audience, so the combined audience of faze clan complexity and now media network actually reaches a billion fans. we have the largest audience in gaming bar none. but importantly, i think with

the game withsquare infrastructure and especially given the markets we're in today, this isn't just about the story and the audience, it's truly about monetizing that audience, and that's what we think gamesquare brings to the table with the huge sizzle that faze clan brings. ashley: you merged with engine gaming and media earlier this year, and at the time you said the merger transformed the gaming and e-sports industry. you hoped to be on the path to profitability this year. how's it worked out so far? >> yeah, it's be been great, and i think this should give shareholders, you know, really great confidence that we have the ability not only by combining these entities to get to scale, but importantly, reduce cost. these tougher markets right now, it's expensive to be a public company, so we've combined three entities soon with the closing of the faze deal in q4 to get to scale and, importantly, pull out

a lot of costs here. we identified and called -- pulled out close to $8 million in annual cost with the engine deal, we're aggressively pursuing profitability and very much on the at of that -- path to that within q4 of this year, and we've identified around 18 million annualized cost savings at faze clan. we're going to be aggressively pursuing profitability, and we think consolidation and getting to scale here is are really key. ashley: i have to ask you before we have to to let you go, justin, you know, jerry jones is perhaps famous for his hands-on management style, let's put it that way. does he have a lot of say in what you guys do? what kind of interest does he have? >> yeah, i mean, the jones family have been fantastic. i originally explained the tap man as signing aaron rodgers if we didn't have dak prescott, and

the example was tom brady, so so we definitely used a few football analysis -- analogies. they've been incredible supporters, and i think that's a huge plus for the e-sports industry and the gaming industry mored broadly. ashley: very quickly, justin, you also had said earlier in the year that you foresee a billion dollar valuation, maybe three years away. are you on track? >> yeah, we're on track. we're, you know, we're keeping our head down. we're, you know, pulling costs down, we're continuing to grow revenue. ashley: right. >> and we feel really good about where we're headed. and i think as the markets start to turn, we're going to be in a really good spot. ashley: well, congratulations on this latest deal. clearly just moving onwards, or forwards and upwards. justin ken that, thanks so much for joining us from frisco, texas. thank you so much. >> thank you. appreciate it. ashley: thank you. let the games continue, why not? shares of online sports and gaming company draftkings winning on wall street today

after moffett nathanson upgraded the stock from neutral to buy and hiked the price target from $31 to $37 a share. the brokerage citing product enhancements which include strong parlay options, 22 out of 23 brokerages have a buy rating or higher on this stock the, today up more than 3.5%. shares up more than 150% year to date as a well, we should mention. meanwhile, spotify, good day for spotify, in sync with investors at this hour. shares powering higher for the music streamer, posted a surprise third quarter profit. the results largely driven by stronger than expected subscriber and listener growth. spotify adding 6 million paying subscribers during the quarter compared with estimates for 4 million additions. spotify really pushing higher today, up nearly 10%. kimberly-clark, meanwhile, shares under pressure after the parent company of brands

including huggies, kleenex and continue knell reporting below expectations. the consumer goods company did, however, beat on profit. it also boosted its annual profit forecast for the third time this year. the company seeing resilient demand in the face of price hikes. the stock, though, down 1.5%. and aerospace and defense rtx corporation looking skyward. shares are on pace for their best day in three years. after the company beat third quarter estimates and approved a $10 billion share repurchase program. rtx, by the way, also raising its full-year outlook. of course investors love it, it's up more than 6.9 5%. now this, israel is intensifying airstrikes in gaza as it faces pressure to delay a ground invasion. this as hamas releases two more hostages. coming up next, we're going to talk about the reaction in america about the conflict with the ceo of the jewish community center, or jcc association of

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ashley: well, the israeli ambassador to the united nations demanding, as you could hear, the resignation of u.n. secretary-general antonio gutierrez after he said in a security council meeting today that the, quote, palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. all of this comes as israeli defense forces step up airstrikes saying they are already and determine for the next stage of war as intense talks to free more hostages goes on. hostages so far -- two american, two israeli -- have been released with more than 200 still believed to be held by hamas in gaza. local israeli media also reporting the idf is delaying the ground offensive as it makes tactical and strategic considerations. i want to bring in the president and chair of the jcc association of north america now. darone krakow is in israel as we speak. his son, as we mention, has also

been called up to the israeli army. let me begin with what's the mood in israel right now in we're 17 days after the barbaric attack by the terror group hamas. how would you describe the food today today? -- the mood today? >> ashley, first of all, i'm very pleased to be with you. the mood here is deeply troubled. we have not yet finish burying our dead from the barbaric attacks of october 7th. there are still bodies to be identified that were damaged to such a degree that even dna identification has not been possible to date. there are upwards of 3200 people who are -- 2900 people who are still -- 200 people who are still missing in action, it is not clear if they are in the hands of hamas in gaza or not. there isn't a family in this country that is not mourning a loss or or fearful of the fate that awaits a friend or relative

in the hands of the terrorists. and we know that an escalating war is in the offing. so the mood here is tense, but it is also absolutely resolved and determined. ashley: you know, you mentioned, you know, we're waiting for the next stage of this and that the goal has been stated by prime minister netanyahu and others that they just want to stamp on hamas, wipe it out. and i guess the question to you is, is that possible? >> look, that remains to be seen, and clearly beyond the scope of my personal expertise, though israel's vaunted citizen army has demonstrated extraordinary capability in the past, and i expect in that ifs that is the determined goal of this effort, that they will succeed in achieving that goal. at a minimum, eliminating hamas' ability to wage war against israel and eliminating its role in the political leadership in

the gaza strip. ashley: i want to talk a little bit about the reaction that we've seen in the united states. we've seen some very big protests, pro-palestinian protests, you know, both on college campuses but in some of the major cities. does that surprise you? >> it doesn't surprise me, but i think it's important to draw a cities 2006 between -- a distinction between demonstrations in support of palestinian sovereignty and palestinian rights in the face of a complicated geopolitical environment and demonstrations in support of hamas which is a designated terrorist organization not just by the united states of america and israel, but by the entirety of the western world. demonstrations in support of the heinouses and horrific acts of hamas which is responsible for the worst slaughter of civilian jews since the defeat of nazi germany is an affront. that's not to say that there isn't a legitimate basis to advocate on behalf of civilian

rights for palestinian citizens, for a two-state solution for political achievement, but supporting hamas is beyond the pale. they are a murderous, barbaric terrorist organization, and so seeing demonstrations promoting their message and promoting their agenda is an affront not just to j jews and to israel, but to the byer free world. ashley: and we have seen a rise in anti-semitism. we've spoken to several students on campuses who say they don't feel safe. we've had incidences of businesses being targeted. we've even had swastikas being placed in sop of these which is -- some of these which is absolutely reprehensible. does that surprise you? >> i would say the level and degree to which students and members of our community have been made to feel unsafe by the actions of those who are supporting hamas and are viscerally anti-israel has taken us a little bit by surprise. i think in times of political and social discord forces of

evil that lurk below the surface are somehow allowed out. i think we are living through a time of dedivisiveness in our society and in the western world. i think we're living through a time of accusation and allegation and victimization. i think, unfortunately, jews have often found themselves on the wrong side of these kinds of times throughout history,, and so therefore, while we are surprised by the extent of it, i don't think we should be surprised by the nature and the existence of it. that having been said, in a free society we have a right to stand the up for ourselves, for our rightses and to expect -- rights and to expect the country to deploy itself in defense of freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of identification and freedom. to stand with our allies and the members of our people. ashley: absolutely. and very quickly, d the oron, have you managed to stay in touch with your son? how's he doing? >> i appreciate your asking.

we had my son home for a 24-hour leave where he got to spend a little time with his wife and his now-two-month-old son, his first born. before he headed back to his unit which is stationed in the north. these are tough times. we don't know what's in the offing, but we do know that this military confrontation is going to be a bloody one, and so we like every member of israeli society are walking around with knots in our stomach concern concerned about his safety and looking after one another here. i made the trip here to israel in order to watch over my daughter-in-law and grandson until hi son's safe return -- until my son's safe return. >> well, we appreciate, dorom, very much that you took the time the talk to us, and we wish the best to you and your family. thank you for talking to us today. >> thank you, ashley. ashley: thank you. now this, gm is idling more workers as the uaw has expanded

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♪. ashley: breaking news, general motors stock falling at this hour down two 1/3% after the company just announced it will lay off an additional 139 uaw members because of the strikes earlier today. 5000 uaw members joined the picket lines at gm's largest plant in arlington, texas. according to the uaw that arlington plant is gm's biggest moneymaker, producing suvs like the chevy tahoe, chevy suburban, and chevy escalade. doesn't seem to be getting better. jeff flock is outside after gm distribution center in pennsylvania with the very latest. hah there, jeff. >> reporter: ashley, you would think on a day where you announce a three billion, with a "b" profit in the third quarter, that would be a good day for the company. not so much for gm. some way it adds fuel to the fire. by the way there is fire back there, they're trying to stay

warm out there. adds fuel to the fire the uaw is building, making the case gm is making a lot of money so they should too. they have pictures of the arlington plant a short time after the workers walked off. as you point out they make the big suvs down there in arlington like the ones you mentioned and those suvs cost big dollars and make big profits for the company. mary barra on the conference call says i agree we make a lot of money but i will not do something that will bankrupt this company down the road. here is how she put it on the conference call. >> the current offer is the most significant ever proposed to the uaw accepting unsustainably high costs put our future and gm team members at risk is simply something i will not do. >> reporter: if you look at the numbers of workers on strike with that additional 5000 it is up to 45,000. that is about a third of the uaw

overall national membership. ford about 16,000 plus, gm, stellantis each 14,000 workers on strike. as for losses gm says today it is losing about 200 million a week. if you put that together with ford and stellantis, the total loss thus far in the strike, about $4 billion. suppliers big losers too, almost three billion. dealers, customers, another almost two billion and the striking uaw workers have for scene about half a billion dollars in wages. gm and tell lant tis got a surprise strike yesterday at its sterling heights plant reacting to these strikes and the folks at stellantis saying quote our very strong offer would address uaw