. >> "closing bell" is next. see you same time tomorrow. >>> and we welcome you to "closing bell." i'm bill griffeth here at new york stock exchange. maria will be along in a few minutes. the markets giving washington the benefit of the doubt so far today. we've had no real progress to speak of on the fiscal cliff. the president did speak publicly about it today. but we haven't exactly taken any step backwards either on wall street as far as the major averages go. we have had more special dividends declared, which we'll get to. first, get you caught up on the markets. kind of a meandering day. a few economic bits of data out today. other than that, not a lot going on as far as economic data go. we're all just waiting to see that white puff of smoke come out of washington and nothing yet so far. the dow virtually unchanged right now at 12,966. the nasdaq is down seven points right now. we'll talk with seema mody about that. and the s&p 500 index at this hour is down 1.80 in change at 1407. in today's "closing bell" exchange, we go over what is going on as we head toward the end of t

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tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 [ bells tolling ] >>> one bell rang this morning for each of the victims of the we just saw five of the children who lost their lives in the shooting one week ago. we want to show you a picture now from the oval office this morning that we just got. president obama pausing during a meeting at 9:30 a.m. for a moment of silence for the victims of the shooting. it was appropriate that it was raining when it marked the moment that 26 lives were taken at that school. it sadly was that kind of day, bleak. what happened seven days ago has produced heartbreak beyond measure for the victims' families. the world shifted forever last friday and it will never be the same. you can feel the sorrow, you can feel the anguish in newtown, and you can also feel the strength. you can feel an incredible love and strength in this town. it's never been needed more than now. there have been two or more funerals every day this week. funerals for six of the children killed that were held at st. rose of lema catholic church. there will be another funeral there tomorrow. monsignor weiss con

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(silence) (bell ringing) >> that completes the moment of silence. they began tolling more bells just to mark this horrible, horrible tragedy that happened last friday. life is trying to get back to normal but it is far from. >> they are still doing funerals. there have been several each day this week. the city continues to rio. they are still in shock. >> they are continuing to ring the bells even though there was already a moment of silence. now looking at this moving shot of the flag and some of the people lined up on the streets. >> you may notice throughout the day during the date of your on-line a number of web sites will be featuring a green ribbon. that is the symbol that they have selected as a sign of solidary. there is a fund that doesn't set up for the community, a lot of burials still need to be done here. a lot of people still trying to deal with what has happened. >> as we look at these live shots, let's just say on this a little bit longer. (silence) (bell ringing) >> benjamin wheeler age 6 allison why it aged 6 -- wyatt (amazing grac

i know. [ bells tolling ] >>> there's the bells that tolled this morning at approximately the time of the shootings as they occurred one week ago today. the national rifle association gave its first statement today since the day that changed everything here in newtown, connecticut, and perhaps around the country, one of the worst mass shootings in the history of the country. on tuesday, they said they were prepared to offer, and i quote, meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again. unquote. the 4 million members strong nra is one of the most powerful and hard line organizations in america. when they say that things like meaningful contributions, people take notice. today, the nra's executive vice president wayne lapierre took to the podium and said this. >> the budgets, and you know this, our local police departments are strained, and the resources are severely limited. but their dedication and courage is second to none, and they can be deployed right now. i call on congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police offic

in bell town.s. that has a nice ring to it, don't you think? i think it z i really think it does. all pun intended. >> reporter: that's just fine with bob bell who runs the north pole express. >> it's something that just goes with christmas. it goes with the holidays. i don't know what i would do without them. >> reporter: and keeping those bells ringing for generations to come. suzanne candiotti, east hampton, connecticut. >>> and cnn newsroom continues for deb who

we continue "countdown to the closing bell" with ashley webster. let's go to nicole petallides at the floor of the new york stock exchange. shares of rim, research in motion. rim it is for real. shares of research in motion. research in motion has been beaten down the past couple of sessions. concerns of a new structure put in effect, and what they were going to do is use a tear factor, those tiers, is unclears unclear how they were going to break down. it contributes to the research in motion revenue. for two days we saw the selling from the blackberry maker, and now it is bouncing back and a nice performance. talking to the analyst talking positively saying it has been beaten down. the blackberry 10, january 30. put it on your calendar. ashley: people looking for that. doing better. thank you. the u.s. struggles to think about the fiscal cliff, is it time to invest your money abroad, overseas? while europe has many problems of its own is an understatement, joining us now, investment chief economic strategist, fox business exclusive. thank you ver

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a pretty good move going into the closing bell.hat seems to be happening is a whole reconfiguration of the market. if you look at the dow or the nasdaq or the big index, there's not a lot of movement that individual stocks are moving rapidly. particularly with dividend stocks, apple, big changes are happening but changes in portfolios are going on. speak it has been a tough day for apple. david: volume is very heavy. across-the-board selloff of the stock. nicole: a couple things going on. down 20% below that level, it is not a good sign overall for the broader market to see if selloff the highs we hit in september, plus the fact the ipad will face intense competition with the market share. liz: it was at this time they did really well, but completely tanking today. it is the guidance.

closing bell ringing, he breaks the news. 27 minutes before the closing bell rings.e into pan dorer, single -- panpandora, single ticker similr "p," and did you know half the stock is held short. a loot of people betting it goes done. potential catalysts. are you listening? you can't afford to miss it. ♪ >> it's been a seesaw day in wall street as investors are hyperfocused on washington and the negotiations the dow up 10, nasdaq and s&p slightly lower. shares of liberty media, though, tumbling on news that netflix had a multiyear catalog deal with disney. the concern is that the partnership negative impacts liberty media's cable channel, stars. netflix will be the subscription television service for live, action, and animated films. u.s. banks posted the best quarterly performance in six years. the fdic report banks posted a combined profit of more than $37.5 billion in the third quarter. that's a 6.6% increase from the same time last year. the number of banks on the agency's problem list also fell by 38 institutions down to $694. now we continue our countdown to th

"closing bell" is next. >>> hi, everybody. good afternoon. welcome to the "closing bell." i'm maria bartiromo at the new york stock exchange. the house of representatives voting right now. they have a number of measures to vote on before speaker boehner's plan "b," but we'll continue to monitor capitol hill for any developments. meanwhi meanwhile, i'm here with scott wapner. the market modestly higher despite uncertainty over a fiscal cliff deal. new information coming up in moments. >> good to see you again. scott wapner in today for bill griffiths. less than one hour to go in this trading day. the dow is positive now, just off the highs of the day. good for 39 points. nasdaq's higher, s&p is higher as well at this point. all eyes certainly on the nation's capital though today, maria, and here at the stock exchange. >> absolutely. first, here is what we know. global exchange officials right now are discussing how to respond to an $8.25 billion deal announced today between the new york storage and intercontinental exchange. there's been informal discussions with the stock

>> let's talk about that in our closing bell exchange. carol roth, the author of "entrepreneurial equation" is with us. from chicago, keith springer from springer financial adviser and john carpina is on the floor with us, and rick santelli, of course, is in chicago as well. carol, you've been skeptical about this market, but you, if i read you correctly, any rally that's going on right now, you might want to fade. you're not too convinced at the long-term outlook right now, am i right? >> i think what we're going to get. we're going to get a deal, but the deal isn't going to solve our problems, and so in the short term everyone is going to be very, very excited about this. we have a deal. uncertainty is off the table. we're printing money. i think that's going to be very good in the short term. my problem in the longer term is the long-term drag from all of these companies not investing today. they are doing share buybacks, they are doing special divide s dividends. >> right. >> they are not investing in their companies, so in the short

this is "countdown to the closing bell". charlie gasparino always getting to the heart of the matter. he broke the story first, had this to be for anybody else, the intercontinental exchange, only 12 years old, 200-year-old for $802 billion in cash and stock at here is the reaction. the stock jumping 33%. people wanted a deal for this company. it has been years they have been trying to squeeze out a merger. inter-continental the exchange up 1/2%, the nasdaq interestingly enough up 2-2/3% and they're the losers because they wanted to buy and icy. cme group down 2.5%. the deal works out to $33 a share, a dirty% premium. you have them all electronic exchange just 12 years old based in atlanta with the size and scale of commodity futures like brent crude oil plus interest rate derivatives is huge and you combine it with the parent of the oldest exchange in the u.s. 200 years of independence. charlie gasparino taking us through the day. when you got the first call yesterday and broke the story, what did you hear? charlie: the jou

sixteen minutes before the closing bell rings.e of that tragedy at the elementary school in connecticut, shares of gunmakers are toxic leak. major selling pressure. right now no one wants to touch these names. the mass murders of 20 children on friday and six adults smith and wesson was up more than 170%. right now falling by multiple percentage points. debbie is day of trading ever for smith and wesson. shares of ruger down about seven and a half%, of the close of the session. we decided to put calls out to some of the top funds who have the two major gun companies and their holdings, but they're not talking. however, a short time ago, vanguard who has been lessened as one of its holdings put out a statement saying, social concerns will not affect gunmaker holdings. that is from vanguard. should you have gunstocks in your portfolio, bill gunderson, gunderson capital management founder and president was here with us back in january, almost one year ago. you are really liking these names. where are you now on that? >> you know, i h

jingle all the way ♪ jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rocks that's all i have got. >> have you ever bill o'reilly on factor news. >> i am a factor fan. >> comedian. >> he is funny sometimes not intentionally. >> he is edgy. i do like him though. >> anything you want to say to bill right now? >> merry christmas. ♪ jingle bells. >> bill: and merry christmas to you. joining us now from new york is watters. all right. i have got a couple of questions about that. >> okay. >> bill: the girls said jesus was born in bethlehem, pennsylvania. must have been putting you on, right? >> i think she might have been putting me on but she was a factor fan so you never know with these people. >> bill: i think she was giving you a little jazz there. >> i hope she was giving me jazz. >> the best line of all is that jesus had people skills. [ laughter ] >> yeah. i like the three wise men were bringing jesus a lamb. why we need a lamb? >> bill: somebody had to have dinner. so maybe they did. >> do you know, watters, here is my question to you because one of the people said that the three wise men, there

[bell tolling] >> bells rang out across connecticut at 6:30 a.m. our time. the names of the those -- the name ofs of those killed -- the names of those killed, bells tolled to remember them. bells tolled at washington massacre. before the ringing of various faiths gathered to speak about run violence. >> there was also an online online moment of silence for the shooting victims. a green ribbon was posted. companies taking part included aol, huffington post and adobe. >>> a san jose elementary school went under lockdown briefly while police searched for a reported gunman. police told people on rocky mountain drive to shelter in place at that school. earlier, officers got a call from a resident that two people jumped over a fence on monrovia drive and retrieved a handgun from a yard. the two left the car and were later found. that lockdown was lifted at 9:45. >>> a threat forced hoover elementary in oakland to hockdown. police say someone called in a threat to the school. the school went into lockdown mode until investigators determined the call was got credib

two and a half hours left before the bell rings. this is the chart that shows what happened today. i mean, it's like we dropped breadcrumbs as we went along the path today. this is when harry reid and john boehner were all saying doesn't look good, doesn't look good. neither side is coming together with talks at all. we were down 94 points at that time. now we've come back because word comes that john boehner is headed to the white house to meet with the president at 5:00 eastern time. now, through all of this, and we've pointed this out before, the fear indicator, the volatility indicator at the cb o'has yet to real signal a yellow flag, any kind of warning sign. you get there when you get to 20. we haven't been to 20 since july. also, very interesting. the research team at cnbc put together these two fiscal cliff portfolios, one risk on that should do well if we don't go over the cliff. one risk off that should do well if we do go over the fiscal cliff, and just on monday the avoid the cliff portfolio started to go positive since

why else would the bell be ringing? and he leapt up, he dart canned outside, and he looked north, and he saw a huge mass of blackness to the north and heard the dairy farmer running by saying the reservoir's given way. and skinner ran down the street e and workers were already beginning to pour out of the mill. once the mill wuss evacuated and the last one to leave the bill was the orphan who had rung the bell, he ran back up to his house, flew through that first floor of the house shouted to his family, get out the back, get out the back, grab the baby, run, and they all ran to the railroad and as soon as they turned around, he said the water had swept in. and to him it was like standing on the deck of a ship in the middle of a violent storm. >> thank you, sarah. >> thank you. >> and now on c-span2 we bring you booktv. on this holiday weekend, we've expended our -- extended our booktv programming until wednesday, december 26th at 8 a.m. eastern. on sunday at 2 p.m. eastern in light of congress discussing the so-of call

we find out now in our "closing bell" exchange. luds let's go to minority leader pelosi. >> there's still time for us to come to an agreement, and i hope that that time will be well used. in the last 24 hours the question that i get from my could you cause and from some of you is what is the speaker trying to prove by going to his -- what we call plan "b" befuddled? is he trying to prove by bringing the two bills to the floor tomorrow that the republicans are here to protect the wealthiest people in our country at the expense of the middle class? if so, he will do that tomorrow. is he here to prove that he doesn't care about going over the cliff? if so, he will do that tomorrow unless he leaves from that debate and goes into the room to negotiate with the president. is he here to prove that he doesn't care about sgr, the rate that doctors are paid for medicare patients? if so, he will prove that tomorrow. it's really very interesting to see what his proposal does. it raises about up to $300 billion, nearly half a trillion less than

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now a moment of silence followed by the ring of the bells. a moment of silence, in tri to those who lost their livn last [ bells ringing ] week's mass shooting in connecticut. >>> you're watching a solemn scene on the steps of newtown, connecticut city hall where one week to the moment after a gunman killed 26 people in that town, first moment of silence and then the tolling of the bells for the 26 victims. >> it's just heartbreaking to hear those bells ring like that. again, it's almost been -- it actually has been a week since the gunman went on a rampage and there are going to be many tributes across the country including here in california. governor jerry brown is calling for a moment. silence at 9:30 this morning statewide. >> all right. >>> i realize after that it is very hard to get back into what's happening in day-to-day life. remember robert frost when his wife died, he said i know one thing about life, it goes on. and, you know, it will for us, as well. but things we're looking at this morning is a weather system coming in from the

"countdown to the closing bell" starts right now. stocks rose out of the gate perhaps in the thoughts washington is moving closer to a budget deal. this time yesterday, that is what we had for you. the gains have disappeared. we have been down more than 67 points. the nasdaq losing seven here. s&p 500 down seven, but now we're off of that level everybody was talking about the last two days. the market was near the highs in the middle of the day. they put the timeline together for you. the president got in front of the cameras saying he would reject the spending and tax plan put together by speaker of the house john boehner. and by 45 minutes ago. he said he senses a ball is in the president's court adding he hopes the president will get serious about a balanced approach. all kinds of volatility with investors hanging on every word out of washington. general motors, take a look, turning on the afterburners, shares jumping as you can see more than 6%. repurchasing 200 million shares. gm need a bailout once the financial crisis hit. off

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] [bell ringing] [moment of silence] [bell ringing] [moment of silence] [bell ringing] >> the bell that you're hearing right now, will ring 26 times and it's the bell in newtown, connecticut memorializing the 26 victims who died exactly one week ago and there was also a moment of silence there at the new york stock exchange and the nasdaq, all right. trading has now begun this friday morning. stock prices way, way down. let's check the big board, very, very early going in just a couple of minutes into the session and down 62 points and probably heading a lot lower than that. plan b, as we called it, is history. there is an increase, a very sharply increased chance of all of us going over that fiscal cliff come january the 1st. that would mean spending cuts and much higher taxes are on the way immediately down the road. nicole, i can see a sea of red, of red ink on the new york stock exchange. >> oh, yes. stuart: which are the big losers so far? >> you have caterpillar, bank of america, cisco systems and those are some of the biggest losers on the dow industrials. when we're seeing the d

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[ bell ] >> the fights are limited to three three-minute rounds. [ bell ] >> put your hands togetherdoubts about his conditioning. the bell rings for round two, and both fighters come out swinging. as the second round of fighting comes to an end, derek and his opponent don't seem to notice the bell. [ bell ] with one round left, derek's opponent appears to have a slight edge over him. [ bell ] this is the last round for derek to impress the judges. ♪ [ bell ] >> put your hands together for these two fighters. >> the final bell rings and the fighters return to their corners, waiting for the judges' decision. >> ladies and gentlemen, by way of split decision we have a winner. the number one contender in the light heavyweight division, give it up for angola's -- [ applause ] >> when they said the split decision, i knew he had it. i was like, oh, man, i knew he got it. they're going to give it to him because he's as home. >> it is now time for curtis merrells to step into the ring. the stakes are high, not only bragging rights but a title belt. both fighters start off slow in round one.

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his oversized salary in bell. that was his last job.ing job and even though he only held the position for a year, he says his pension should be based on that pay. hi chief randy adam, i'm kyung lah from cnn. we caught up with randy adams in simi valley. the people of bell say you milked them for a salary that was extraordinarily high and now you're trying to do the same thing with the state. >> well, i disagree, of course, with those types of characterizations, and when one day i'm able to tell my complete side of the story, i think you'll see that there is a completely different side to that story. unfortunately i can't really talk at length about it, but that's the situation. >> reporter: did you think you deserved to make double what -- >> i made all the comments i can make at this time. >> reporter: while adams would not elaborate on camera, i did manage to speak to his attorney by telephone. who says that adams is a good cop, a life-long public servant who does deserve to double his pension to half a million dollars a year for that