lou: ashley webster thank you. from paris, wild tal we'll talk you to later in the broadcast. >> thank you. lou: here to discuss implications of the election, populist movement and trum agenda gayle trotter, ed rollins. gayle, she was trounced, marine la pen. and a 39-year-old who spent two years as a minnister of the economy for the hollande government, the most unpopular president approval ratings in single digits, for crying out loud. he just pulled off a miracle. if he can trounce marine la pen. who in the world could have imagined 5 years forward she'll prevail. >> right, i'm sure we'll see wall-to-wall mainstream media coverage of how la pen hit the ultimate glass ceiling, you may remember mainstream media reported that when hillary clinton lost to donald trump. that it must have been mes mess. >> now could someone with so much political experience as marine la pence been trounced by eye n a new person to politics. lou: width? >> what he did was amazing. creating a party, come up center, from just a year and

cheryl: ashley webster life in paris. following of course the events there. ashley. reporter: good morning, cheryl. yes come in the end it wasn't even a contest you can do is close to 66% of french voters picking emanuel macron over 34% for marine le pen it an even bigger gap than predicted by the polls. last night we witnessed a lot of celebration in central palace in the area around the louvre where macron decided to hold his party and address the people they are. they were waving their french flags, popping champagne commencing in the marseilles. it should be pointed out this is a very divisive and at times very ugly campaign and there are still many people who do not like mr. macron. you could say those people who voted for doing so more to block marine sub five. this is something macron nose and address in his speech after the tories. >> i know there are those in our country when that to carry out extreme votes and i respect them. i also know the anger, the concerned come into doubt that many of you have also expressed. and it is my responsibility to hear them.

ashley webster live in france with details. ashley: we are about three hours north of paris, lauren. this is marine la pen country. this is where she began her political career. let me tell you, she's going to need all the support she can get because the latest poll show that macron has the lead of 62% for 38%, in fact, he's expanded that lead since that very contentious live debate. today the candidates macron is in the south of france meanwhile we have marine la pen talking with police trade unions, so this is their last day of campaigning, they have until midnight tonight and then that is it. this is an area that became quite synonomus. people shouting by and shouting viva la pen. no doubt this is her town. now we are seeing more migrants come back into the area and certainly the migration issue very important key issue in this race. interestingly, though, guys, there's an estimate now that perhaps 25% of the french voting public will abstain from voting, it could be the lowest of turnout since 1969 for presidential election.

ashley webster he is live in paris. check in with ashley on that.e will take everything we need to know. the weekend with warren. there is more count him straight ahead. -- there is more count down straight ahead. we're back with breaking news in these elections are going to be closely watched in paris over the weekend. they've have the protest already. ashley webster is standing by. all weekend long. that protest this morning was actually buy student university. students a headed here. it's upset actually that they don't like either candidate. they do not like emmanuel macron or marine le pen. eventually they used tear gas to and that. the end of the campaign strengthens the advantage of macron. it's already in this french papers. talk about the polls. has been is 25 percent of voters could vote for neither candidate. the vote in france which means that they go and the boat. news doesn't travel fast. we have special french election coverage. the latest results. as we do bring liz back in from omaha i'm happy that she's included me in her program to

we have ashley webster live in paris with the details. ash? >> reporter: yeah, charles, the macron camp saying authentic documents were stolen and mixed in with fake documents to mislead the people. as you just said, that was tweeted out by the macron campaign, saying it was a coordinated hack attack, a massive hack attack as they put it. unclear whether this is related to another claim from macron that there are russian links to a smear campaign online that suggests he has a secret bank account in the caribbean. not sure whether this latest revelation is part of that but whatever, is it hurting him in the polls? apparently not. macron has the lead of 62% to 38% for le pen. the latest poll we've seen. the campaign for the presidential selection now over. it ended at midnight local time. that was 14 minutes ago. the campaign is over, it was very heated. bruising, bloody, but the french voters go to the polls on sunday, and you know what, charles, a growing number of people don't like either candidate. we took to the streets and asked that quest

charles: ashley webster, thank you very much. want to bring in the panel. rb london is back with us along with katie freits. ashley made the point of indifference between both candidates. there is extreme amount of passion behind le pen. her rallies are very trumpesque. huge gargantuan crowds waving flags. macron was candidate they pulled out of a hat after their favorite candidate was out because of bribe by. >> seems like major 2016 unexpected upsets are turning into the norm. there are a lot of similarities going on between hillary and trump. in the final debates, hillary couldn't get any knockout wins on trump. there are the huge rallies trump had. there is general indifference with a lot of voters, we don't like hillary or trump. but on top the bigger issue france is having, the last three months in a row have seen terror attacks. three months in a row out of the year so far had terror attacks. that is huge. they need to address that. that might be the sticking point, she is saying hey, you will not do anything about. this clearly your policies are not

let me go to ashley webster where i'm sure traders are also wondering why the red on the screen for severalays in a row. ashley: yeah, we are stuck, liz, utilities somewhat of a safe play, not exactly very sexy, is it? but the economic data has been pretty strong, look at this utility names here as you can see across the board, all showing nice albeit modest gains. we have seen decent economic, the consumer sentiment numbers were impressive, retail sales showing for a brighter economy, jobless claims hitting a 30-year low, all of the numbers very impressive but the traders hearsay, not a whole lot of anything to move the markets, i think what we are seeing is we are just circling the airport waiting for washington to get its act together and get going tax reform and all of the things that will get the economy going and instead we are talking about the russians and mr. comey. liz: ashley, thank you very much. speaking of which with the closing bell ringing in 59 minutes, president trump coming upswinging this morning at former fbi director james comey and the man at the center of it all, rus

you should hear ashley webster, who joins us from paris. ashley, is the pressure on?well, for your accent? >> neil: that's fine. >> that was dreadful, neil. anyway, listen, this is an interesting situation for the french political scene. as we know, the two candidates, macron and marine le pen, the right candidate, whoever wins will mark a new era in french politics. the socialists and the republicans are not even in the running. what is really interesting and perhaps very french, a growing number of voters here don't like either of the candidates who they will vote for sunday. as many as 25% of the electorate could vote blank or white, like a protest. that means the voter turnout could be low, which could help marine le pen. neil, we've seen protests already over the two candidates without the result even being known. so that could be considered very french. we've had a banner unfurled on the eiffel to you they are morning that was against marine le pen. as a result, 12 people were arrested. so now we know the question how many people does it take to hang a banner on

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bell point chief strategists david nelson and ashley webster. i want to start with the trade deal because this is a big deal. mr. nilsson, beginning with you, we haven't been able to sell beef for years in china. they are now also i should point out are going to be able to sell cooked chicken, a little bit of exchange and the other biggie is it's going open up the banking industry on both sides in china and here and we will be able to export to china liquid natural gas. what do you see from -- by the way, i should point out this is coming from a administration that doesn't seem to like china, why all this now? >> you're right. there is some good news like this and it's not that small because the american beef going to china, that's a 2 and a half billion dollar industry, certainly good news for energy sector. trish: natural gas. >> i'm sorry, natural gas and opens up markets for the united states and paying dividends later when we are trying to negotiate serious issues like north korea. trish: it makes me wonder, ashley, if this is tied to the c

cheryl: ashley webster live from paris. continuing coverage. ashley, thank you so. busy day for the house. it wasn't just health care. after they pass the health care vote, they voted 419-1, targeting use of slave labor and required trump administration to report to congress 90 days, whether north korea should be reinstated to the government's state sponsor of terror list. that seems like a no-brainer. cheryl: exactly. making his way home. president trump about to leave the white house for the big apple. so why is the president coming back to new york for the first time since taking office? we'll tell it you coming up next. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more a month. call today. comcast business. built for business. ♪ predictable. the comfort in knowing where thin

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ashley: invest in ashley webster's bank account. that would be one of them. thank you very much, gentlemen. don't forget apple releases earnings tomorrow. "after the bell" will bring you all the numbers you need to know with special analysis and coverage. that is tomorrow on "after the bell." melissa: president trump reaching out to silicon valley creating a new council to establish better digital services for the federal government. oh, boy. the trump administration plans to invite tech leaders to the white house next month to help generate ideas. steve, you know, it is always interesting to see who shows up. i mean you have a company like facebook that was paying people today, you could take paid leave to go and protest and go to the pro-immigrant protests but at the same time cheryl samberg herself showed up at trump to youer to see donald trump. granted it wasn't the ceo but still, who do you think shows up to this thing? >> politics can make strange bedfellows. by the way i don't think he would win popularity contests, president trump in silicon valley b

i am ashley webster in for liz claman. let's start the countdown. after weeks of ignoring every sign of trouble. they are suddenly selling off amid evidence. a damaging allegation that could derail the white house's policy agenda. you can see the losses piling up. down as much as 354 points. still on track for the worst day since the election. it's down 327 as we say the s&p down. down two and a quarter percent. the fear gauge which have been hovering at the lowest levels in a century so much for that. now 1420 about 300% today. maybe some of that is washed away. the sector which is being one of the top performers since donald trump was elected to date one today one of the biggest losers. the largest like on the tao. jp morgan up nearly 400 percent. think of bank of america down about 50. one of the few bright spots today is target among all of this. target up one and a third%. they are beating earnings expectations into raising the profit forecast for the year a bright spot today. let's take a life look at airport -- air force one. at the coast gua

the latest with ashley webster who has been in the thick of those riots. hley: hey, trish, last night, of course, we had the smiles and the cheering and waving of the flags and here we are less than 24 hours later and the disillusion is apparent particularly on the far left and also the far right. many challenges facing mr. macron. this is a very deeply divided country. let's not forget he had zero representation in the french national assembly, he's going to start putting a government together. not an easy task. meanwhile as you say, we were in the middle of one of those protests today, several hours ago. it was those workers, trade unions, the young socialist party, those folks out there today, they do not like emmanuel macron because frankly he wants to reform the very tight french labor laws that make it difficult for french companies to hire and fire and reduce hours and reduce wages, all of the things that others will tell you, including macron that hurts this economy with the unemployment rate still running around 10% in france, among the youth of th

liz: up next we take to you france where the country decides its next president our own ashley webster in paris with more. you had to leave the heart of france's refugee crisis because of rioting? reporter: that's not the case. jungle is long gone. but the refugees are starting to come back. but the refugee story continues to be one in france. border and immigration control. but i have got to tell you with literally 45 minute in this campaign, mr. macron has a strong lead in the opinion polls. 62-38. french voters, as many as 25% of them say they don't like either candidate, so they are not going to vote for those candidates. some students had a protest basically against both candidates. riot police used tear gas and cut that protest off pretty quickly. but we are hearing more and more that more people will come to the public squares to protest either winner. so that is the state of play here in france right now. liz: we heard from your team you left because of rioting. reporter: no, i don't know where that came from. liz: make sure to tune in sunday for lou dobbs special coverage of t

ashley webster live in paris for us to tell us how it's going to have. eporter: hi there, laura. yes, i'm just about a block away from the louvre where emmanuel macron is having his party tonight. literally thousands of people swarming into the area, waving their flags, their french flags, very, very happy. the margin of victory, we knew he was the clear favorite going in, macron, but he wins 65-35, not even close. and, of course, the people as i say here very happy. but you're absolutely right, laura, a very bitter, very angry and downright ugly, you could say, campaign between these two, and it does expose some of the divisions within the country. of course, marine le pen was anti-immigration, close the borders, get out of the eurozone, dump the cure row and so an -- euro and so on, whereas macron very pro-free trade, and i would imagine people in brussels and berlin happy tonight mr. macron has won. we did see protests throughout this week leading up to the election, but the protests have been really by people who don't like either candidate, either mr

ashley webster, that stock is down 7% ahead of that. ed down among misery of all other retail stores, liz, but maybe nordstrom is the best of the bunch to resist the retail ice age. they're opening more discount stores that are doing well but margins are lower on discount stores. pricier nordstrom department stores, they are struggling. we're expecting revenue up about 3% year-over-year, coming in 3.8 billion. earnings per share up 2% year-over-year. nordstrom, if they can't make it no one will make it. that is the general consensus, liz. liz: thank you very much. we'll have that as soon as david and melissa get those numbers. >>> high knit worth clients, the wealthy, they are just like us, they demand stocks to be put in their portfolios but sometimes those stocks may not be the right fit for the portfolios. ceo of private wealth services rob bartonstein gets calls from high net worth clients, right? they have always wish-lists. what are they saying to you? >> hi, liz, good to be with you. clients are talking about the relatively low ot

ashley webster live in london with the details. good to see you, ashley. paris, sorry. reporter: i'm actually in paris. lauren: i know you are. i'm thinking buckingham palace right now. reporter: that's okay. my old home. listen, now, i've had no croissant. one cup of coffee. that's a sacrifice and making. if you thought hillary clinton donald trump but the pace, what we saw was down right dirty politics will feature a debate between marine le pen the far right candidate and sub centrist liberal, listen to these comments. le pen colin macron +-plus-sign eric and commerce marketing banker okaloosa that islam is innocent and i'm butchering friends in favor of big economic interests. macron coming ripe@le pen he did use a naturalistic and hate filled liar who will bring civil war to france pdas the high the high priest as feared. that gives you an idea what this two and a half hour fast as light. although mr. macron says he wasn't insulting anyone. take a listen. >> so this is basically your bottom line. i'm not insulting you, le pen. you have been insulting me. if anyone

the election commanding worldwide attention, at least so much so, fox business's ashley webster in parisis is the sentiment on the ground about this debate? it started to get feisty. we were listening in on the commercial break. reporter: it has been very entertaining. it is two hours, 20 minutes long. it is about 20 million viewers watching it right now, very first question to both candidates i thought was a softball. are you kidding me? boy the gloves were dropped. they went for each other's throat right at the beginning. emanuel macron, 39-year-old investment banker calling marine le pen who wants to take france out of the world and curley up into it is own little ball where france should be a member of the world and you out there extolling virtues of france. marine le pen saying macron, he is just an investment banker, elitist who has no idea, he is very naive. he is very i am ma she says. great stuff. by the way the papers today, as you can imagine, it says. [speaking french] challenges of an historic debate. this today in france,. [speaking french] debate are to the ages. what is i

ashley webster saw this first-hand himself. ashley what are you hearing?ing, neil, if marine le pen won in france with the president heading there next week, the whole background and feel would be different. donald trump as president, is populist, nationalist choice. we saw it with "brexit" as well. we've not seen it on the continent of europe. there has been a pushback, a waning of that populist, nationalist feeling. i don't think it is dead by any means. a lot of people i spoke with in france were still very disillusioned with the elitists and certainly brussels. i don't think it has gone away, but for now, with the german election in weekend, regional election, angela merkel's party doing very well in a part of the country that it hasn't done that well. so definitely, i think has been a bit of a sea change if you like with regards to pop youism in europe but i don't think it has gone away. neil: what do you think of this meeting with emanuel macron, the french president, with his german counterpart angela merkel, that they're more on the same page than

first to our very own ashley webster for the latest on the terror investigation. fill us in. >> reporter: lots going on. address the leak of intelligence or evidence or whatever you want to call it that's created a big stink between the united kingdom and the u.s. british prime minister theresa may taking the opportunity to give donald trump an earful saying, look, we share information, but not for public dissemination, there were media in the uk getting names, the name of the manchester bomber, pictures of the scene, they were getting this from the united states, and the british inlligence services very upset indeed. donald trump, agreeing with the primminister saying he is deeply concerned and in part saying this, he says i am asking the department of justice and other relevant agencies to launch a complete review of this matter, and if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted to the very fullest extent of the law. should be noted that the sharing of information has been suspended, trish, but only on this particular case. not a blanket shutdown of sharing o

ashley webster is there. to the nymex where oil trades with elliot warren. first, can't seem to hoed the 2400 level but we hit it twice. ashley: i know. what we call a classic example of a resistance level. there is no reason to go through the next leg, up to 2460, and then beyond but it is very -- we bounced off twice as you said. we're stuck at 2398. as regards what the traders are saying down here, a lot of interesting comments. no resistance. quiet, nothing moving, light volume. these are comments. someone said if you can find an intelligent answer for why the market is doing what it is doing you have struck gold. that basically says it all. waiting for good or bad economic news. you know what, the corporate earnings situation i think is solid right now. the economy is showing signs heading in the right direction. maybe not at pace we would like it. overall the market is waiting to see what happens next. the financials, liz, are leading the s&p, because the chances of a fed rate hike next month stands around83%. liz: they have jumped. ashley: higher inte

i need to get to ashley webster. you heard about the goldman sachs stake in s.n.a.p. what else? evious record close was 2399. we can hang in there last three minutes or so, the 17th record close of the year. three point or thereabouts above that. nasdaq looks like it will have its 32nd record close of the year t needs to finish above 6129. i don't want to jinx it, but it is looking good. amazon, netflix all intraday highs. google and alibaba will be the two that will finish at a record high level. liz, oil certainly pushing the income markets higher today. all in all, not bad. liz: yeah, this is interesting. the vix was green earlier. now it is in the red and we're watching this because this is wall street's fear index, the volatility index. you can see it is slightly lower. but still, it is trading at levels not seen in a decade. earlier last week it was trading at a 24-year low. is this calm, cool as cue you cumber feeling before a storm with a snap-back that might hurt right ahead? let's ask ameriprise financial chief strategist david joy. we know it is coming. they always com

i'm ashley webster in for deirdre bolton. many stocks hitting all-time highs. did you make money? alphabet hitting an all-time high coming ever closer to that $1,000 level. a level amazon stock passed for the first time today. up, up, and away. maybe markets start listening to political analyst charles who says he doesn't trusting the latest story accusing president trump's son-in-law of collusion with russia. >> i don't trust the story. the russians are leaking it, clearly, on a tranquil they know we're going to pick up. the russians are masters of disinformation. they already had washington with its knickers in a twist. we had the adversaries for generations, henry had it with the russians and the chinese. hillary had a back channel to establish the open with the iranians. this happens all the time. i don't quite understand where is the crime, other than it's another piece that has russia in the headline, trump people in the headline, and supposed to be scandalous. show me. ashley: agrees, telling fox today this is a continuation of factless-base reporting. >> we know there have

our very own ashley webster is in paris. good place to be. pretty good assignment. interesting there, ashley. [laughter] >> reporter: yes, it is. you know what's interesting, maybe the two most -- well, i don't want to say hated, but not particularly respected candidates. there is a growing sense, trish, that a larger number of people here in france don't particularly care for each candidate. they certainly don't like francois francois hollande who's the president right now, but they're not keen on marine le pen or emmanuel macron. macron heeds handily in the latest -- leads handily in the latest polls, but when we've been speaking to people on the street, they say, nah, don't really like either of them. take a listen to this. >> i think i'm part of the group that neither like macron or le pen. >> you have to choose between the bad and the baddest. >> no, i don't, i don't vote. i don't vote. it's my, it's -- [inaudible] >> both of them during the debate, they were very bad. one was -- well, both of them were quite aggressive, and i didn't feel very -- [inaudible] >>

our guy, sir ashley webster is all over it from the floor of the new york stock exchange. good to see you on ashley. reporter: not bad. we had a huge selloff last wednesday where the bottom fell off down 400 points. since that time the market gradually worked its way up. some of the dow winners, cisco doing well. boeing getting a nice contract out of that deal with saudi arabia, up 1 1/2%. 3m, visa, unitedhealth group all up about one or more percent. so they were the top winners on the dow today. i wanted to point out netflix for you. if you want to get into your time machine, go back to 15 years today to buy netflix. when it ipod, it went public on this day 15 years ago, at $15 a share. not bad, it has grown 12,871% not a gadd deal at all. we need toç get into the time machine to buy apple as well. look at news out of amazon today. amazon saying that dish, the dish network will now be available on amazon fire tv. so, there you go. dish moving up higher, marginally so. amazon always moving higher, ever closer to the 1,000-dollar mark. guys, back to you. >> thank you, ashl

fox business' ashley webster with the latest in paris. [laughter] >> reporter: bonjour! is the last day of campaigning, neil. as you say, it's been a very, very nasty campaign. but today is the last day because of french rules, election rules. they're not allowed to campaign the day before the actual vote is cast. the voters, according to the opinion polls, show a 52% -- 62, i should say, percent in favor of macron, 38% for le pen. so, clearly, he is the favorite. but you know what? there's a lot of comparison still being made between marine le pen and donald trump. they are both extremely nationalistic, both calling for a control of immigration, both very anti-establishment. however, let's be honest, marine le pen has been around politics for some 30 years, hardly, you know, you could argue she is establishment. but no doubt the feelings in this country that propelled marine le pen to this position are the very same ones that got donald trump where he was, appealing to those low-paid workers living out in the rural areas outside of the elite cities that feel that they'v

want to go back to ashley webster. how is it going, ashley? ashley: so far so good.the bastille, charles. we can see the banner behind me, it says we have begun five years of fights. at the bottom it says, we represent ourselves. so, that pretty much says it all. emanuel macron hasn't taken office. won't until next sunday. these are workers, trade unions, saying they are not interested in his policies. he wants to reform labor laws. just a few minutes ago we saw riot police coming under attack from people throwing rocks. other than that, we saw a, explosion about half an hour ago now, with some smoke going off. other than that, the police are trying to remain, out of the way, but at some point they can't do this all day. so continue to follow it, charles. but the message is simple. we don't like macron. we don't like his policies. we're not going to put up with it. of course, labor laws, you know, charles, and joked are incredibly hard. it is very difficult to hire and fire people in france. they have a set number of hours per week they work. that is that. anyone who

ashley webster on the floor of the new york stock exchange. ashley what is fueling stocks today? ashley: melissa, on a day where stocks haven't moved that much, all analysts say it was moving in a tight range. that is pretty much what it has done all day. look at s&p, the dow, we gained 43 points, not bad. s&p 500 trying to break you there the 2400 resistance level. touched it a couple of times today but bounced back. we kept an eye on that. the banks have been leading the way today. back on the dow, goldman and jpmorgan basically accounting for almost 65% of what the dow did today. so banks rallying. chances of a fed rate hike next month, currently fed funds future rate, 83% chance. higher interest rates means better profits for banks. so the banks today, which have been beaten down just a little recently. gaining background today. other interesting story yet again, battling the u.s. government. u.s. justice department filing a lawsuit again today claiming automaker was cheating on some of its software for diesel engine cars, specifically the jeep grand cherokee and ram pickup t

ashley webster with details from the new york stock exchange. ashley, this could change fortunes of some companies. ashley: certainly could, david. massive attack in europe and asia. 12 countries at last count. you mentioned individual companies. fedex certainly one of those affecting. they say their windows-based system has been interfered with. they're not say you how widespread the problem is whether it is impacting deliveries. they say they will deal with it as quickly as possible. microsoft has responded customers who are running their free anti-virus software have their windows updates enabled are completely protected. apparently not everyone had that. they are working with those companies who are still dealing with this malware situation. wells fargo, you remember the whole story about the bogus bank accounts and credit card accounts, some 2 million accounts? now we're hearing from lawyers who representing those claims in a national class-action lawsuit, that the two million could in fact be closer to 3 1/2 million. wells fargo moving lowe

let's bring in ashley webster. lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. ey, you and i were just saying this. the markets are just saying whatever. >> comey firing, markets don't care. this whole russia thing, markets don't care. what they care about is these issues pushing the growth of pro business agenda to the back burner. however, even that has a matter because they've gone through pretty good earnings season. growth to 6% or the best in six years, for sure. all of that is very positive. now that the he didn't season has gone away, i think the focus has come back a little bit more on washington and the longer it gets, we continue to have these headlines being generated that have nothing to do with tax reform, health care reform, and infrastructure and all the rest of it. that's when the market will start to pay more attention. cheryl: you know, it's interesting, lori, because you wonder what that breaking point is going to be and what that number is going to be. because, again, if you look at the sectors that have done well. whether it's health care, w

good afternoon, everyone, i'm ashley webster in today for david asman. melissa: good to see you.'m melissa francis. this is "after the bell." we have you covered on all the big market movers but first here is what else we have for you this hour. president trump is confident a vote on the new health care bill will happen within days.

first to ashley webster on the floor of the new york stock exchange where the tech titans are just unbelievable. it is going through the roof! look at even though amazon ended down, my god, 957 a share? ashley: they hit highs every session it appears. record highs, david, intraday highs at least. as you say, apple, amazon, alphabet/google same story with netflix. these are the drivers. this is pushing nasdaq to record high or record closing i should say. 32nd record close for the year becoming ho-hum. s&p finishing in record territory by three points but a record nevertheless. all very impressive. apple, amazon, google, netflix, yeah, alibaba that is a new high getting lion's share of the new money. i want to talk about the cybersecurity stocks. we've been following these all day in the wake of the big cyberattack around the world. not surprisingly these stocks have been moving higher. check out fireeye up 7 1/2%. proofpoint. cyren, 2.30 stock, nevertheless getting new business because of the hacks. homebuilders moving higher. the latest national association of homebuilders sentiment out. that

ashley webster on the floor of the new york stock exchange, watching a sector get hit especially hard today. ashley? ashley: melissa, the retail ice age we talk about it all the time, the big retail stores struggling against the online juggernaut that is amazon. check out macy's, down 17% on news same-store sales for macy's down 5.2% year-over-year. so on and so on. sears off 9 1/2%. jcpenney down seven. kohl's down nearly eight percent. the question are we at a tipping point on retail? i was reading stats, twice, one in 10 people work in retail in the united states. but since october of last year, 89,000 americans have already been laid off. this is a struggling sector as we go online to do our buying. want you to look at cybersecurity as well. if we can very quickly. this is another sector you think today after president trump signed an executive order to strengthen cybersecurity at the fedel level, not doing anything for this sector either. symantec giving disappointing guidance in its earnings, down 5%. that dragging the rest dune, fireeye, mime cast, cyber arc, moving lower. disa

i'm ashley webster in for deirdre bolton. many stocks hitting all-time highs. did you make money? all-time high coming ever closer to that $1,000 level. a level amazon stock passed for the first time today. up, up, and away.

the backdrop, a lot of tension at the g7, ashley webster, the real truth is finding out the presidented states is an acquired taste. he doesn't seem to care but the snickering yesterday when talking about nato members playing -- paying their dues, he didn't seem to trifle with that he laid it out. >> i thought he would comment on my background. neil: i can't even begin with the great places you on. ashley: i love watching donald trump going into the lions den, all the euro leaders standing in line like guilty little schoolchildren as he read them the riot act why aren't they paying their bills. that was excellent and they want to snigger because they realized he is right and a nervously sniggered. as to the climate control, climate control, that is funny. as for climate change, watching blake's report, the g7 put out a declaration against terrorism and extremism, why haven't they done that years ago, are they worrying what is going on? why do we now get a declaration on this? it is a little after-the-fact. >> one thing i am wondering about residual damage, karl rove was questioning my

ashley webster, in france now with the latest. we have "daily mail" columnist katie hopkins. both by the way are in paris. ashley to you first. i caught your earlier. ashley: yeah. neil: you talked about the fear, i only say the fear among protesters, hey this guy is like, you know a cost-cutting republican and he won't be good for us? ashe ark he is. he is a miserable millionaire. former investment banker who's proposing they cut government jobs by 120,000. that they cut government spending by 65 billion. and that has had many people here in france saying, say what? what are you going to do? that does sound like an extremely conservative republican. he also, god forbid, wants to reform french labor laws as we know very difficult for a french company to hire and fire people. also very strict regulations on the number of hours that can be worked in a day. you start messing with that, you will get protests in the streets. yes, he won the election, neil, but he is not a friend of let's say the trade unions and those on the left. neil: you know, always a risk too, i think, katie,

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[laughter] >> joining us now ashley webster, liz macdonald, scott shellady and jeff sica.eeing these positive signs. scott shellady, are you with me, the good things going on beneath the political headlines? >> i agree with you 100% and we're seeing a little bit of inflation in there. cpi wasn't as good as i'd like it to have been, but overall, green shoots of activity. the only thing that concerns me still is that bond market telling me we still have enough to worry about, 10-year 2.34. maybe we need to see more and then the bond market will catch up. right now, yeah, i'm glad to see the green shoots. ashley: it's holding the pieces in place, what the economic data is tell us, what we need to happen is washington d.c. get on with the business of getting that economic agenda in place, tax cuts, health reform and so on. then we're off to the races. stuart: not doing too badly. liz: and the level of job se seekers, the full-time job is coming up and the spending coming up. stuart: is that a positive. liz: a positive. stuart: plus the percentage of people collecting unemploym

ashley webster, liz peak, james freeman, scott shellady. i want to start with the green shoots.iz, green shoots, are you buying into this? >> i am. it's not just the u.s., which i think is encredibly encouraging, we're seeing some momentum, finally, into europe. a lot of money has gone out the last several weeks into the european stocks and also china, china had a little bit of a flutter here recently, a little bit of a downdraft, but basically china is doing better than we thought a year ago. let's face it, that's important to our corporations and earnings. >> scott, in this earnings season so far, companies with more than half of their sales outside of america, grew by 21%, and it's not a bad deal. >> no, you know what? i think that's the best way you could say it, green shoots. it's got to pull through and the gdp is starting to rally. yes, i've been skeptical and i usually am, but we're seeing little signs pointing in the right direction. you know what? i would like to see a lot more than that. let's have that flow through to gdp and maybe i'll click my heels for that. charl

ashley webster, mike murphy, scott shellady, still in london, i know not why. mike, first to you.hter] let me get to that. are we in for a summer rally? >> i think we could be. there are a lot of things lining up and we talked about it up until this point of the year, earnings have to support this market and you look, the market, there's a big bid underneath the market. there are buyers that want to buy this market on any sort of pullback like we had a few weeks ago. buyers are going to win this out and i think the market has another 5 to 10% move to the upside. stuart: did you say 5 to 10%? >> i'm sticking with this story. stuart: this year or this summer? >> this year. it could come sooner if we get tax cuts. stuart: i'm trying to do the math. 10% rally would put us at 23,000. scott shellady over in london, again, i not know why. you don't have to explain yourself, you've got to tell us whether you've got a rally started or not? >> we need to see one of the three things that donald trump was elected to do happen. that's it for me. i agree earnings supporting market where it's at

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let's get the full list, ashley webster top right. and elizabeth macdonald. and charles payne.eff sica and aforementioned shellady there. scott, i'll start with you, i think the market slapped the president on the wrist and said let's get on with things and get moving here. my question is, scott, is the worst over? >> well, obviously the market is getting used to buy the dips, but i've t a news flash for evybodthere. from the 2100 high to thlow on wednesday, it was around a 500 point swing, okay? which is roughly 2 1/2%. if you can't handle a 2 1/2% move in the stock market, you should probably take your money out and put it in a rusty coffee can and bury it in the back yard and watch it agree that way. stuart: you're feeling cool on the market. jeff sica is a contrarian. is the worst of the selling over? >> investors are salivating over the tax cuts. as long as trump is in office this story is going to continue to go on and on and on, and continue to be a headline risk to the market. stuart: wait a minute, you think that the hope for tax cuts is still with us and still keeping

[laughter] ashley webster, liz macdonald. >> back from france. [laughter] stuart: and scott martin. it doesn't seem as if the markets care that much, scott. i don't think investors believe comey is going to interfere with the trump growth agenda. what say you? >> not at all, sir. comey's been a dead man walking for months now. this was just a matter that it happened, and i think the markets believe what trump's doing. actually making these moves is better late than say never and, therefore, the markets are taking it in stride. stuart: hold on a second. liz is with us, and you say there is maybe an important development which gives real legs this story. >> yeah. even though the trump viewer is going to have heart failure over this, bank records trying to prove that russian people, russians involved in the government invested in the trump empire. so they're digging deep. these are powerful players on senate intelligence including marco rubio. stuart: we don't know those bank records exist. the house intelligence committee, or the senate intelligence committee is simply asking for them

joining us now, ashley webster, jeff sica, steve cortez and scott shellady.guys, the market a record territory. steve, does anything stop the market from here? >> the only thing that would stop is the market is capitol hill. if they don't get moving when the president returns from the trip. we need to see progress on the health bill and the tax bill. if we see major stumbles, we could see market tremors as well. charles: we've got the cbo score. i didn't hear much at all. there were no g.o.p. pompons, no sense that the needle moved, no sense of mission accomplished. did that help or hurt? >> you know, i think it helped. i do. but you're right, there's not much celebration on capitol hill. i've said this for a long time. trump is as much-- not so much as republican and democrat as it's the country against washington and i hate to admit this, but a lot of republicans on the hill i think are very interested in preserving the washington establishment status quo. i don't think they're going to be able to. i think that trump wins in the end, but it's a real fight.

ashley: hello, everyone, ashley webster. yes, and we will explain where he is a little later this hour. as the trump sets to roll out infrastructure plan that could bring one of the top manufacturers is cutting jobs. mark fields, ceo of ford cutting costs by laying off 10% of the global workforce. the numbers don't lie, ford shares down 35% since fields took over nearly three years ago and has lost market cap to gm and tesla. meantime on capitol hill, the transportation secretary will begin to outline the president's proposed 1 trillion-dollar infrastructure plan but what gets built first and when. it took six months since stunning election defeat for hillary clinton to jump back in the political gain, she's launching a new pac. we will talk about that. new york state considering a law to allow police to use a so-called textilizer and check texts at the scene and we will be talking to the ceo. mike huckabee speaks about nasty jokes said to his daughter's expense on saturday night live. jam-packed our two of varney&company an

ashley webster is with me, mike murphy and shah gilani as well.e, first of all, there is no impact from this terror attack, one way or the other there's no impact. >> to the markets, no. unfortunately, a horrible situation for the people involved and all of us with young children out there. my kids were just at an ariana grande concert this past summer in new york and hits home for anybody with children, but that's the world we live in now. as far as the markets go, no impact at all. stuart: now, shah gilani, there would be an impact on our financial markets if a terror attack had a direct impact on the economy, am i right in saying that? >> it certainly would. it's a concern for all investors, it's bare barrick and demonic and unfortunately the scourge on entire world. i don't think it's a bad thing. if markets were to react to each one of the awful events and go down, it would encourage this type of behavior. i'm glad the markets take this with a grain of salt. stuart: the truth is it does not affect money. morale, diplomacy, law enforcement, th

stuart: that's a shame because our own ashley webster when he was a nipper, a young lad. ashley: a young cub reporter. stuart: young cub reporter, his first interview with governor tommy thompson. ashley: i moved to green bay and he was cutting a ribbon at a new factory. my very first interview in green bay, he was very nice to me. stuart: although the governor can't hear us, thank you indeed, governor thompson, i'm glad you agree with me on tort reform and you can come back to the show anytime. lets me move on to another flying nightmare. a jetblue flight from new york to san francisco, forced to make an emergency landing after a laptop battery caught fire mid flight. we've got full details on that coming up next. what a story. i count on my dell small business advisor for tech advice. with one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. ♪ ♪ thithis is the new new york.e? think again. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new universi