>> let's go back to robert putnam from harvard, this is a decade-long trajectory where people are spending less time in groups, less going to church which was a natural place of community where your meeting people with similar value systems, that plays a role but the pandemic kid a lot of relationships really hard we were not getting together for girls night out and guys were able to hang out as much as possible in receiving the residual effect. unfortunately men and particular are hard-hit by the loneliness epidemic. we have guys that feel like they can provide and can't find jobs. charles: would gotta leave it there, what i would say anybody out there, i'm looking for a friend, liz claman over to you. >> the fewer friends the less money you have to spend on presence. charles: so true. >> everybody put the credit card

down and back away from the mouse, breaking cyber monday news that will give you a much clearer picture of the stock heavily depend on the consumer. these two retail stocks are hitting 52 week highs, while completely different the price action in amazon and buy now pay later company are sending and thus to a very important clue we're going to get you that and all the market news in just a moment but first breaking news in the last couple of minutes from israel where it's after 10:00 p.m., the idf is reported that 11 hostages are on their way to is really territory after being received by the red cross based on the truce agreement between hamas and israel this is an exchange for 33 palestinian prisoners including 30 minors and three women. 33 verses 11. video from last night show some of the 58 hostages hamas has released over the first three

days over the four-day pause and fighting. we will have much more on the breaking news from a family member of one of the hostages being held by hamas coming up later on in the show and as hostages returned back to israel, tesla and spacex founder elon musk is on the ground in israel. he tweeted out earlier that actions speak louder than words. there is much more to the story he is meeting with relatives of hostages and he visited were one of the atrocities by hamas occurred. let's get to kelly o'grady who is following musk strip. it comes after he received quite a bit of backlash after he publicly endorsed an anti-jewish post. we don't want to be cynical but it looks to a lot of people that this is his come back to her or apology tour. aside from that, what more can you tell us. >> is not explicitly stated reason but the timing rudely seems so. as you mentioned earlier in the day he posted the message on x.

he said actions speak louder than words and many are taking that to be a reference to his previous comments. he spent the day touring the destruction of the october 7 attack by hamas he was with prime minister benjamin netanyahu he was shown video and he spoke with some of families of the victims and hostages. in a live discussion on x he described the video of the massacre as jarring he said it was a tough day to get through. he even went so far to agree with prime minister benjamin netanyahu assertion that hamas must be destroyed and he said those that are intent on murder much must be neutralized he also met with prime minister herzog in a big focal point was combating anti-semitism online. at one point herzog said this to musk. you hatred impact the behavior of human beings in so many places around the world, you

have a huge role to play, we need to fight it together because on the platforms which you lead, unfortunately there is a harboring of a lot of the hate. elon musk agreed whatever is necessary to stop the hate must be done but did not identify anything specific. one concrete thing to come from the visit elon musk has provided to provide the star link internet service to the area the administer communication announce agreement on x he said starlink satellite units can only be operated in israel with the approval of the israeli ministry of communications including the gaza strip. the service has been a lifeline for soldiers and civilians in ukraine and become more important to u.s. national security as well. back to you. liz: it is huge as a massive constellation of satellites a biggest ever that enables people to communicate, no doubt elon is a business genius we will be watching if he can reverse the bad press that he's gotten lately by retreating what many say are anti-semitic issues.

thank you very much we want to let people know that we have a relative of one of the hostages coming up later in the show we will ask him what he thinks about elon musk strip there. we have a mixed picture, the nasdaq is only one up on friday, the nasdaq was only one down. this is a seven-point game but the dog on 68, s&p don seven and russell lower by four points. right away we need to show you the three names best expressed the stock story of the hour that is retail is on fire to aaa, amazon, affirm and adobe hitting one year highs in the case of amazon and adobe those are one and a half year peaks pumping higher on the story unfolding over the past five days since thanksgiving day, here's where adobe comes in you say it's not a shopping site this is a software company but one of the companies aggregating all the numbers as they come in.

online retail names have the tightest grip on shoppers wallets, black friday sales spikes evident half% to $9.8 billion on friday and cyber monday we will know after midnight we are in the middle of it. it could be a record breaker, don't take our word for it let's take it to vegas and this fear where shopify the company that enables merchants of all sizes to conduct business is actually live streaming right now every transaction on the gigantic orb, some of that is right there happening this is video from shopify coming up shopify ceo will reveal the list of the items selling millions per minute. i'm not even going to give you a hint because the shopify people are giving us the latest at shifting every hour. let's listen to what's crushing as we kick off the final hour of trade domino's has been at the top very strong name jumping about 5% of the moment on a

price target to $430 is at 3388 and change. intel was at the top of the dow jones industrial still up two thirds of 8% and microsoft hitting another record high stands at $378.93. were also heading into a crucial week wednesday we get the second read on third-quarter gdp. and thursday the all important feds inflation indicator core pce with all of that spread out before us let's get right to the floor show joining me kate more fanatic strategy for the blackrock allocation fund you the perfect person to have here, you look at 30000 feet and pick up the themes. if were just talking about the data that were getting today about the last five days of shopping what themes are beginning to emerge when it comes to investing.

>> the consumer is in good shape this is a theme we've been holding onto for the second half of this year. i think all of the retail data that we've gone from the online and in-person retailers has been constructive, as you said we have more data and more to parse through but consumer discretionary is one of the highest in the fun and we held overweight twit for most of this year. liz: was it that way for over the five days. >> it was that way before the five days, there is great companies in the consumer discretionary it is not just the story of amazon although we love that as well. what we see is this a consumer incomes are growing, inflation was strong but at the same time we were also growing in all segments of consumer were spending that's a great sign for the economy and third-quarter the second revision to third-quarter gdp, we expect that to be very strong. liz: i find it interesting, as things trickle in and i can't wait to talk to harley from shopify and up to a minute assessment but aside from

consumer discretionary is not just amazon is a luxury names whether tapestry or carrying or some of the higher income quality names, where else do you see an opportunity. one of the most popular gifts purchased over the past couple of days was the smart phone. were not to get into apple, samsung whatever was smart phones were big gifts, the air pods are big gifts and air pods or headphones that brings me to the magnificent seven they have had such strong and robust movement since the beginning of the year. is it still an area of fanatic focus for you. >> i have so much to say about the magnificent seven. the seven companies are not just strong from a story perspective but a fundamental perspective. what are the things that was less recognized by investors that many of the companies that hard work at this time last year end the beginning of 2023 where they cut cost and they focus on

businesses and parts of the businesses that were likely to degenerate significant revenue growth. in addition to being strong story areas like a.i. will. i see a lot of breath and technology and its underrecognized in the market and for example if you think about the s&p 500 software category, once you take out microsoft which obviously drove a significant amount of return the average of return for the other 17 names in that group is 37% this year is more than double for the index so software not just the hardware in terms of sales has been a big driver of technology this year. liz: i find it so interesting when you in on apple is one of the favorites in anything with the apple stamped on it and certainly everybody is thrilled with that gift but they have had some issues and as we continue to look at some of those it's basically overdependence on

china as a manufacturer, that is a big of a stigma for them and tim cook has been clear he is meeting with the chinese, he still there although their expanding into india, i know you don't do individual names, it makes me wonder if there's other opportunities that might be fresher especially apple is 28 may be a little rich off its most recent 13 as he did not add to his position on apple. >> here's what i will say there are so many opportunities across technology you mention india a moment ago i'm headed there on saturday to do a research trip meeting with companies because we see a tremendous amount of opportunity in 2024 and beyond but you also mentioned diversifying supply chain and this is one of the best stories over the next couple of years you will see a significant amount of investment in near shoring, reassuring and companies that facilitate that

whether that is industrial automation or infrastructure and logistics companies. i actually see a shift in supply chains as a very powerful thing. liz: in the end there is an immediate theme the vix the volatility indexes lowest since 2020 and that indicates that people are maybe too complacent. the market has gone up. a few really scary days in between a 2023 but look at this at 12.72 a low 13. >> is a low volatility. i absolutely feel that, taken advantage of that in terms of the options and sell volatility and really structure interesting trades when were at these levels. what i will say sentiment has changed so much in the past month but were not at max

bullishness yet i think there's more room to add to equity risk over the coming weeks and if we get good confirmation on the econ data and more confirmation the policy is on hold or pause for the entire cycle in good inflation and labor market data i think that will go a long way for people taking equity risks. >> translation policy means the fed not hiking rates they will pause and at some point cut. great to see you, good luck in india. safe journey. with less than nine hours before cyber monday 2023 goes in the books at least on the east coast here's an eye watering projection last-minute cyber monday shoppers could spend $4 billion between 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. tonight, 4 billion, the man with his finger on the pulse of shoppers and mobile point sales device around the world has a unique cyber monday global insight tool, shopify president harley finkelstein is up next it will tell us what item is selling millions by the minute. the vectors retail etf ticker rt

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liz: a nice graphic, very nice graphic animated, e-commerce platform shopify hitting a 52 week high at $73.50. shopify is a company that helps businesses of all sizes huge and little when starting out sell their items online.

it's on track for the highest close since march of 2022 after it posted a personal black friday record of $4.1 billion in global sales. he continued to make progress this is shopify real-time black friday cyber monday sales tracker at 1.98 billion and zipping through this is like the debt clock were looking at the live global map in a zen on the shopping regions of activity, shopify bf cm tallies dollars sales per minute and for shopify clients parses outspending by gift category along the bottom of the screen that is where shopify harley finkelstein comes in. welcome it's almost as you're having fun following the transactions as your customers are watching sales poor in. what a crazy day. >> it's incredible. i think black friday set the stage for what would be an amazing black friday with the

weekend. we saw sales on black friday hit 4.122 billion% increase from last year but more importantly, let's look at what happened right now in real time anybody can see this, shopify.com/bcm, 1.9 million sales per minute, 15000 orders per minute and we've seen over 50 million shoppers shop on the shopify store, it's really amazing to watch look like super bowl around here. liz: that is per minute. >> per minute, $1.9 million a minute. liz: that is insane. that's the beginning of what you can see but you can also see products, correct. >> yes you can see trending products, trending verticals or product areas you can see something really nice i love this look at the fireworks the purple fireworks that's an entrepreneurial brand-new

business getting their first sale is not just big brands doing well people are getting their first sales as well. liz: now we take it full-screen that's really interesting almost like when robinhood had the confetti explode when you made your first stock trade. >> it's creating brand-new entrepreneurs. with a entrepreneurship company we live for that. liz: so do we at fox business i absolutely love it. i want to flag everybody we're going to ask carly in a minute the hottest items that are coming out will give you the prices and everything but before you do that we have to show the sphere. to me this is incredible you are putting the website the be fcm black friday cyber monday site all over the sphere in las vegas, this is inspiring. >> it felt like an opportunity to big to pass, this is truly what you see in las vegas sphere we've had it up since friday,

global entrepreneurship, commerce happened in real time. we wanted to use the sphere this fear because it's an incredible thing it's amazing but also we want people to see the extent of global commerce happening. we powered with 10% of e-commerce in the u.s. were all over the world was alone were 10% millions of businesses using shopify. you hear doom and gloom around the macroeconomy. what we see stores and businesses on shopify are doing really well and we want to demonstrate and show the optimism that is happening because it's remarkable. liz: it truly is i find it really remarkable that this buy now pay later trend has come into its own house and it. let's talk about what you're seeing, we had the ceo sebastian on friday and he was responding to projections that are out there about how holiday shopping will soar 3% year-over-year

globally to $957 billion and i asked is that onpoint or low and here's what he said and i'll let you answer. >> i'm usually not into horse scopes and predicting the future here but 150 million consumers globally and more than 30 million in the u.s. and 500,000 retailers i'm seeing a weakening consumer spending and i'm not entirely sure that the prediction you'll be able to reach. liz: that was wednesday maybe he was under promising and over delivering or helping. what you seen with clarinet and affirmed the buy now pay later sites. >> i think the retailers and the brands that are most successful today and most successful in the future will have a deep understanding of what the consumer wants. i've been on your show for many

years, we talk about omni-channel or online versus off-line i don't think that's the right conversation. the real conversation is retailers need to sell at every single surface and even deal with every payment option that the consumer may want. if they are consumer and if you're scenting beauty or kylie cosmetics which are shopify stores your consumer maybe younger which means buy now pay later option may be very important but if you're selling something like pizza ovens with digital higher-priced items perhaps it's not necessary because the demographic is older demographic. the key is not just have one payment option or one channel, sell everywhere and offer every option that's what shopify is getting to the millions of businesses that uses. liz: i'm going to throw out three were more feel free, go for it what are the hottest selling in the past hour or two. >> this is happening in real time i'm going to give you a few, jones road miracle bomb makeup is trendy.

figs makes the most hospital scrubs katerina one pocket scrub top is trendy pat mcgrath lipstick is trending right now drive cosmetics, the always penn cookware is a top trading product back again and the last one beach weaver which is a curling iron which is doing great i'm going to give you one final antidote we love small businesses. one of my favorite brands did $1 million on black friday that is up to enter 25% from last year and a new business that has been around that hit a million dollars on friday and amazing workboots, not just one category or vertical consumers are voting with their wallets to vote from incredible businesses. liz: the always pan is $99 and

cups and 11 colors, the curling iron if you buy it on beach waiver it is $49. i'm in the market for steel toed boots. i'm going on there right now read it is amazing. >> good to see you you guys are doing great stuff. thank you very much, keeping with this theme for locker not coming along with the party lid is stumbling down the final stretch according to one investment bank why is city leaving the cheering section on footlocker and green change the stock. we'll tell you ahead and sneaker a hot gift item. sneaker on your screen everybody up except one holding. we are coming right back. ♪ ♪ explore endless design possibilities. to find your personal style. endless hardie® siding colors.

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liz: a fox a little bit of selling at that moment the dow off the session, the dow 100 points lower by 43 and s&p down 43 points ludlow a loss of 13, the nasdaq has built since the top of the hour it is up 18 points, let's get to the footlocker story, footlocker getting kicked while it is down the stock is down 1% you can see from the intraday looks well off the lows of the session, citigroup cut the rating from neutral to an outright sell. adding misery to the session on what's going on year-over-year the stock is down 40%, citi

research is worried that high inventory levels will force the retailer to run more promotion, that is english or fancy language for discount they don't like discount especially before the holiday it did maintain the 18-dollar price target and that's not a compliment either, footlocker is above that $23.5 footlocker having quarterly results on wednesday this could turn around who knows cell tower crown castle towering above all of the s&p 500 stocks, shares are up 3.7% after activist investor elia investment and up the pressure on crown castle by building a stake by $2 billion in demanding more from executive and board leadership changes, it was three years ago that the activist investor suggested in overhaul of the fiber cable business in response the company made changes to the board and implemented a policy barring nominations of nonemployees over

72 years old to the board, that was not enough for elliott management stock down 26% year-over-year compared to the s&p which gained 13% over the same time period. teva looking healthy after raise from neutral to a buy siding a strong pipeline and upcoming results for clinical trials. it's up 3% at the moment and the bank raised its price target on the israeli pharmaceutical company from $11 to $13 per share there is room to go before you see the pharmaceuticals at $9.85. ge healthcare shares are bedridden pretty much the whole session after ubs cut from neutral to sell the investment bank expects a weak quarter as the company experiences a slowdown in orders the medical tech company announced its jumping into the a.i. game by offering all in one a.i. platform to aid clinician and

breast cancer detection, the shares down $2.49 to $71.22. a dramatic scene out of israel this weekend and more are about to happen as we speak as israeli civilian hostages kidnapped by hamas are reunited with their families, look at the hug. the brother of one hostage still in captivity joins us live, what he heard if anything about the status of his family member still trapped by the gaza terrorist and what he makes with elon musk meeting with hostage relatives and touring kfar aza kibbutz were more than a thousand people were murdered. 3m and intel, "the claman countdown" is coming right back. stay with us.ea ♪ lth plan, a digital money coach in the chase mobile® app. use it to set and track your goals, big and small...

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breaking news according to the israeli defense forces, 11 is really hostages have been released from gaza in the last 40 minutes are now en route to israel. the free hamas captives and some on the screen include three with french citizenship into german citizenship and six from argentina, no americans at this hour while the qatari foreign affairs says 30 palestinian minors and three women have been released from israeli prisons, this comes as part of a deal struck a couple of hours ago with israel and hamas to extend the four-day cease-fire another 48 hours after the original truce expired today, here are the numbers so far, hamas has freed 69 hostages exclusively women and children in exchange for israel's release of 183 palestinian prisoners, it's

estimated that hamas holds 175 hostages in gaza and it's just hitting the wires that the white house is saying at this hour as best they know the majority they still hold our mail. 22-year-old israeli is one of them he was kidnapped by hamas at the music festival on octobep attack slaughtering more than 1200 civilians. his brother eli joins me now live from israel. first of all i cannot imagine how agonizing this is for you. i'm sure mixed emotions there are people that are getting to reunite and yet you still wait, tell me what you know about your brother, have you seen any proof of life or heard anything? >> only proof of life that we have right now for my brother is from the same data october 7, 52

days ago when we got to videos that hamas posted on telegram and there we saw him alive with one of his best friends but that is it, nothing. liz: may i ask, you saw the video, have you been able to hear from the israelis who have been able to speak with the freed hostages if they saw him in with him at any point in the tunnels where the terrorists are holding them. >> right now we don't know any new information and i'm sure when they free the captives any relevant news we will be the first to know about it but right

now you can only imagine what's going on down there. liz: there is a cease-fire that was extended two more days, does that give you hope, certainly again mixed emotions because there are those that say the longer the truths is extended that enables the terrorist to resupply the weaponry. i'm sure you're just thinking about getting your brother back would you like to see more extensions of the cease-fire. >> of course if it'll bring my brother back sooner than i want the cease-fire to be longer. i also understand that's where the mixed feelings are coming from that my brother is a healthy young man will probably be released from the last hostages. that really gives me goosebumps just to think what's going on

all the time he will probably be there weeks. i'm full of joy. the dynamics started and there's a foundation to make deals with hamas, isis which are the double on earth. but right now only trying to think about what's going on with my brother and i know i have to wait so much longer for his return. liz: i think it is very important to point out, some people don't quite understand this that these are hostages, these are civilians they were at parties, they were in their homes, they were asleep, they

were stolen from their homes, where is the trades are coming from palestinians who have been arrested and imprisoned because they have been charged or convicted with crimes. it is pretty much 341 at this point, what goes on through your mind for everyone israeli three palestinians are being released. >> as you said my brother the only crime he committed was having fun, celebrating at a piece festival. today he was supposed to fly to thailand for his big trip with his friends and instead he's been kept in the dark room, i don't own what condition, i'm just trying to think what he's thinking of what's going on through his mind.

with all due respect to the palestinians i really don't care what the deal is. i just want my brother back. liz: right now billionaire tesla ceo on spacex and starling elon musk is in israel. he has been touring with benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister. he's been making dramatic comments saying things like those intent on murder must be neutralized. some people are saying this is great, we want the wealthiest man of the world and one of the greatest scientists and engineers of all time in israel see in the atrocities he was apparently shown the video that is a people being decapitated, babies being stuck ovens and burn, women raped, that's important because he's a controversial figure any

retweeted anti-semitic things, now he's in israel and this is the path to learning and understanding, doesn't mean anything that elon musk is in israel right now and watching these videos and trying to understand what is going on. >> of course, is one of the most smartest men alive right now and what are the biggest influencers that is so very important for him to visit here and i think all of us the free world must demand such knowledge, trying to understand what is really going on right here as you said before the palestinians prisoners that have been released have been

suspected as criminals. there is no symmetry here if we try to look for it and again, i'm sure that elon musk is also meeting with families and family members that their loved ones may be murdered and kidnapped as my brother and that's so important for us to have him. >> i hope people that have had trouble with critical thinking and understanding that one innocent hostage for somebody who was convicted of a crime does not equal fairness, regardless we are with you and we want your brother back. thank you we hope to speak under better conditions and terms.

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♪. liz: okay, i know a lot of you right now one eye on us, one eye on the web searching for cyber monday deals but there is word on the street there could be quite a deal on paramount global. charlie gasparino. >> i'm not holding my breath on this for the reasons i'm going to lay out. listen i've been speaking to media executives all day, top executives. i've been speaking to lawyers that do m&a, do these type of media deals. i don't think there is a deal in the works but clearly shari redstone who owns paramount as part of national amusements, that is the big holding company of the, of a merged cbs and viacom which became paramount plus the studio, clearly she is looking to sell it. how do i know this? because everybody, this is like the worst-kept secret in hollywood and new york and banking circles.

the question you have to find someone to buy it and this is the hurdle. look at the sort of natural buyers? david zaslav at warner brothers do it now? probably not. he has a lot of debt on his books. if david will do a transformational deal, may be with comcast. can comcast even buy paramount. zaslav market cap is 25 billion, check me on that. paramount's market cap is 9 billion. could paramount -- liz: like it is a mountain, because you're saying french pronunciation? >> i'm being french? that is a weird one for me. in any event would regulators -- liz: market cap, 26 billion. >> get screwed up on the mounts would the justice department, crazy lina khan at the ftc and the justice department antitrust

division hate wall street. all the democrats on wall street and hollywood they're going nuts how anti-business the biden administration is, especially lina khan and all of them. they can't be what they bought into. would they even allow comcast to buy para? no. who is the likely -- liz: apple? >> they won't like it. >> cough it up here. killing me. >> the name that is bouncing around, by the way i have to give kudos to pick, john kelly the head of puck is a friend of mine. they actually do run a good site but puck ran a story. i think dylan buyers really good on media, this dude, it is larry ellison's son, david ellison of sky dance media. you don't believe it? liz: it is not that. his daughter has a movie company too. they're in the media industry. >> i'm saying. that's the name because it is private. you could take it private.

liz: what about montel? >> i'm telling you -- montel williams? liz: that is name floated. always somebody -- >> montel williams? no. liz: all right. >> the talk show dude? liz: good-bye. >> come on. david ellison, david ellison, just so you know has top gun. he is a real player. he and his old man, obviously the old man has got the money, right? nine billion? how much is larry ellison worth, 40 billion something like that. liz: oh, yeah. >> they could do the deal. liz: sorry. >> what's the matter? liz: you know i just think that paramount and what it has has a value. >> the studio. what else? nickelodeon? liz: well, mtv. >> mtv is ugats. what else do they have? i'm not going to translate it. not going to translate it directly. they have the studio. they have the film library.

liz: comedy central? >> nah. liz: what do you mean, nah? >> people -- liz: these are quality names. >> cord-cutting. they have the studio, paramount, the studio, mount. they have the library. they have nickelodeon. they have some value there. liz: we have ed sidel standing by right now. >> the stats, that's what you're buying, all right? liz: charlie, thank you. >> maybe mr. ellison would buy it. liz: maybe a deal soon brewing. charlie gasparino. deutsche bank is coming out with a bold prediction for the s&p 500. strategists expect the benchmark to hit 5100 by the end of 2024. would be a gain of 12% from current levels. our "countdown closer" says don't wait around. he is bullish on the markets but what form? ed sidel has the idea. you can't be bullish on all of it. where? >> you know what actually right

now believe it or not i like bonds, i like commodities. those companies, those value companies, strong balance streets, that invest in commodities and honestly i really like health care because of our aging population. so those are the picks going into next year. i'm very cautiously bullish. that's for sure. liz: let's tackle at least commodities right now. crude oil has gotten hammered quarter to date. >> yes. liz: on the converse side, we've got gold looking very good. it is $2035 per troy ounce. it had a very strong year. >> that's right. liz: tell me, are you thinking soft commodities? are you thinking industrial? >> industrials. even if we look at something as simple as orange juice. it has outperformed the s&p. so when we're looking at commodities all the way across the board, when people go to the grocery store things are still very, very expensive even though inflation is coming down. so those companies that participate in commodities that have strong balance sheets, i

think that's the place to be right now. liz: and really quickly, when in 2024 do you think interest rates would start coming back down and people can really pile in? >> you know what? i think towards the end of second quarter, probably we'll start seeing it may, if not a little bit sooner depending on the economy. liz: ed, thank you. hope you had a good holiday. appreciate you coming in sharing your perspective. we have pared most of the losses on the dow. still down 46 points. tomorrow don't miss it former federal reserve bank of st. louis ceo james bullard joins us live. [closing bell rings] we're weeks away from the final fed meeting of the year. stocks down across the board. ♪ larry: hello, folks, welcome to "kudlow," i'm larry kudlow. an agreement has been reached to extend the israel-hamas truce for another two days.