now continue with liz claman.m just looking at the nasdaq quickly down 16 points, they went on a shopping spree $9 billion in a couple of deals, getting the mining company a thumbs down. nicole petallides on the new york stock exchange. >> this state big deal on wall street. a $9 billion deal, no joke. see how the stock is doing down 16% they said they would be buying. up 88%, but it is not unusual to see the acquired to the downside and being acquired with arrows. obviously this is a very big deal talking about oil exploration and stocks. if you're a frequent shareholder, or little disappointed, but in the end they plan for a winning deal. liz: there is something called @he death crawl. we will get more with that in a bit. more than 200 companies have increased their dividends in this frantic move to move up their payout dates ahead of the fiscal cliff. taxes may go up on dividends but given the prospect of higher taxes, will dividends actually be dead on arrival in 2013? and what is the next big thing? the senio

i am cheryl casone and ford liz claman. the "countdown to the closing bell" begins right now. traders want to square their books heading into the weekend. the dow is the best performer right now. jpmorgan of nearly 2% right now. bank of america gaining another 1.5%. shares of 90% this year. basic materials among the worst. alcoa up by more than 1%. payroll coming in well above expectations. 146,000 jobs added in the month of november. sandy did not have that much of an impact on the numbers. unemployment fell to the lowest level in nearly three years to 7.7%. more people stopped looking for work, all together. consumer sentiment, not as strong heading into the holidays. preliminary index actually fell in december. economists had to look for a slight increase. investors continue to get out of apple. the tech giant having its worst week since they of 2010. apple is in they are barking territory. shortly after the iphone5 came out, part of it in the near profit. let's get to the floor show. bobby, i want to start with this jobs number today. the labor department says no affect on

i am liz claman. it is the last hour of trading. this is countdown to the closing bell.tocks are up for the first time in three days. investors warming up for the idea of a budget deal. john boehner keeping the dialogue open with president obama. we rub our fingers together and look at where we stand. dow jones industrials off the highs of the session. it has been up more than 90. boehner and obama are speaking. check out the financials. they say that you cannot really have a rally without the financials. check out bank of america flirting with $11 a share. first time they have seen that in 18 months. citigroup also chugging higher. apple, though, let's take a. look, interesting day here once again. it is moving higher on better than expected iphone5 numbers in china. 2 million sold there. morgan stanley pounding the table. ipad and iphone demand remains robust. you need to own apple into the early part of 2013. earlier this morning, first, on the flip side, you have citigroup saying they are downgrading apple. my phone suppliers have cut back on some orders. attention,

liz: i am liz claman. it is last hour of trading. count down to the closing bell, stocks are a no man's land grinding their way higher, not much convention. the green now weighs the red. as far as large concerned given the situation in washington a little bit of optimism over taking the picture. let's look at the dow 30, intel at the top. paul otellini said the new intel chief would most likely come from inside the company. intel up nearly 2%. that has always been the way at intel. they promote from within so clearly investors like that. cisco another decent name up 1%. no real news other than bargain hunting. we have amex and united health as the weak links. central-bank president mario draghi put it damper on what could have been a strong rally saying weakness in the euro zone is expected to continue for a while. it has been going on for quite some time. don't know why that is a surprise to the market. that means for the next couple years would central-bank is also cutting their 2013 forecasts for the region. the wild swings in app

we continue our "countdown to the closing bell" with liz claman.e fiscal cliff talk is everywhere, always good to be hearing about lately, but is there really something else that can be bubbling under the surface that could send the market into a tailspin that we should be talking about now? join me in a fox business exclusive, 2003 nobel laureate in economics and nyse will institute director. he has a whole institute for volatility. spotting risk. we thought let's bring you in and talk about noo the fiscal cliff of the three hidden risks people should be talking about but aren't. how did you identify them? >> there are lots of things people worry about, but which of the really big ones and what kind of a timefram time frame ae talking about? decade?out next week or next we talk about the big risk to have to look further in the future. liz: the next year or so? 20 years, 50 years perhaps. number three. you say it's all the unfunded pension liability risk globally, how is that a hidden risks? >> there are pension funds like social security which are

good afternoon, i am liz claman on this friday. thank you for joining me. the logjam in washington dc. the perception is one step closer to tottering over the fiscal cliff after john boehner failed to rally his troops. canceling the vote on plan b last night, and harry reid making a speech. let's take a look at where we stand with the dow jones industrial down 138 points. we have been down more than 189 points earlier. don't even imagine last night when neil cavuto is like looking at futures, which was plummeting. if it is not as bad as it could've been. but the market is terrible. as we look at what we call the hot button here. we have bank of america and caterpillar. all of that pales in comparison with research in motion. the stock getting taken out to the woodshed. the services business is about 30% of revenue. to be pretty clear about this, research in motion change the pricing model for 2013, and the impression is it the thumbs down. totally different story for investors. the software maker jumping about 4.5% here. better than expected third-quarter n

liz: i am liz claman anddis the last hour of trading, if you don't own it you don't have coins made of it, it is affecting a bunch of different equities. the phrase faction fastening, smart money iivestors looking at too. it is the ultimate play, and the opposite today. and the 1700's on the floor. it is down $26 a unit. one school of thought, that is when the biggest trades were happening. the other uncertainty on a debt deal, questions about central banks and whether they did a coordinated thing but no information on that but there is talk of the. we will talk with nymex traders -- we will get to the bottom of it in a moment. there was an avalanche of selling in the entire metals complex. take a look at silver getting taken to the woodshed, down 3% giving gold -- nothing compared to the casino mentality in silver and platinum under pressure off by 2% but copper if we flip it over, copper bucking the down trend, it was up a few cents earlier, this is very much related to a healthy auto industry. copper gets its ph.d. in economics and if the economy is moving one way or another like ch

i am liz claman. this last hour of trading. this is "countdown to the closing bell."he santa claus rally, little bit early? the blue chip is up five days in a row. where is the money? on your screen. the repeat of yesterday with intel yet again the leader and then microsoft the fourth best performer on the dow jones industrial. these are the two biggest percentage gainers right now. it may have in your portfolio. lafayette wal-mart as well. the latte liger on the dow jones industrial. so what has the bulls in such a festive mood? maybe this progress or the appearance of some moves the fiscal cliff negotiations. what you see is what house speaker john boehner said he is hopeful a deal will be reached, but also added the g.o.p. wants the white house to provide details on spending cuts. but in the white house wants the same thing from the g.o.p. but either way that is good enough for the market. we took off and we stayed to the upside. so far neither side has been specific on spending cuts so coming up in just one hour o ony 4:00 p.m. eastern, former treasury secretary p

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i will be joining liz claman. nike as well reporting after the bell. lots to report on.i have been buying so much like the stuff. but ram -- rim is like a nail biter. ashley: it is getting [talking over each other] tracy: crazy. more crazy stuff on the fiscal cliff. the office of senate majority leader harry reid says the senate will simply not act on john boehner's plan b. it will go before the house today and gerri willis has all latest. liz: who surprised he said this? is it is a plan to raise taxes on everybody and $1 million or more and not everybody -- john boehner, keep people away from these tax hikes, when the broader economy is so weak. that is what is happening this week. we will go right up to the deadline. i spoke to somebody familiar with a lot of the players, they told me there is not enough pressure to get anything done yet. can you believe that? ashley: there truly is. [talking over each other] ashley: once they started talking about going beyond the december 31st deadline it will not be we falloff of the cliff at midnight on the 30 -- you start realizin

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tracy: okay, liz claman is here. she's going to take us through the last hour of trading.afford to miss this. the dow jones down 135.3 countdown to tran-sixes max. to

hour when liz claman interviews solar city chairman elon musk and lyndon rive. >>> mortgage rates fellek dropping to near record lows. according to freddie mac, average rate on a 30-year mortgage, 3.32%. that's the latest from the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. lori: house speaker john boehner today trying to shift the fiscal cliff debate back to, spending. here is what he said earlier today. >> here we are, at the 11th hour and the president still isn't serious about dealing with this issue right here. it's this issue, spending! now you go back, i want to talk about polling, most americans would agree that spending is a much bigger problem than raising taxes. they want us to deal with this, in a responsible way. lori: just shortly after that fox news's ed henry trying to get a comment from the president on the fiscal cliff negotiations about the issue that john boehner just raced about spending cuts or lack thereof. listen to this. >> how are you doing, sir? >> what do you say, i'd? >> great. how do you feel about a deal? optimistic? >> still work in progress.

shibani joshi taking liz claman spot for the day. let's go to nicole petallides. early this morning. at the new york stock exchange. we have seen upside down this today, but look at what happened to oil. the huge jump in oil, up

don't miss "countdown to the closing bell" with liz claman.lenty of evidence now showing that it impacts decision-making. lori: it is great to see ceos and companies rewarding shareholders and shown their grateful to that. citigroup cutting 11,000 jobs. trying to slim down with more cuts on the way. >> 23 minutes past the hour, hello, this is your fox news minute. witnesses telling reuters gas bombs are being thrown at demonstrators outside the presidential palace. president mohamed morsi is back after running from hundreds of thousands of protesters swarming outside yesterday. demonstrators furious over the power grab in his rush for a new constitution. the israeli prime minister is saying the jewish state remains committed to negotiation settlement with palestinians as israel plans to build a settlement in the western banks. the remarks, have a sit down with a german chancellor angela merkel. 230 people have died following a massive typhoonn hundreds more are missing. the typhoon slammed in with wind gusts reaching 93 miles per ho hour, trop

i am liz claman. 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

should point out that the guy that owns the i.c.e., i believe he has a good relationship with liz clamane takes a much more backseat approach on a lot of stuff. so we will see exactly how this is ruled out. this is a takeover whether you like it or not. the iconic york stock exchange. it won't be running the show. the deutsche bank is going to takeover the new york stock exchange, but nyse management was going to deal with this stuff. gerri: quickly i would like to ask you. every journalist in new york knows duncan. it seems that his oneness combined company is not so hot. >> half-and-half. duncan has been there for a while. what better way to do the exit of the transformational deal and make sure that there is a lot of money. not a bad way to leave. given the way that some people with wall street. he's not an old guy, he's about 55 years old. he is a very ambitious guy in a good way. and i think you would like to run something. you know, maybe he can -- maybe he can go back. i don't know. but this is the guy we're going to be talking about for a while in terms of jurors someplace else.

i am liz claman. "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

lori rothman here sitting in for liz claman.e are going to start with breaking news from washington, d.c. leaders from both sides trying to reach a deal. reach edson with the very latest. rich: $800 billion in revenue increases through a tax overhaul. republicans are still opposed to any tax rate increases in this plan. in a show bipartisanship, republicans say they have co-opt these details from a plant bernsen bowls offered last year. in this letter to the president, republican leaders right this is by no means an adequate long-term solution. it will require fundamental entitlement reform. indeed, though both plant is the exact type of imperfect, but fair one without hurting our economy and creating jobs. today, the white house has demanded an offer from republicans. they now have one. back to you. llri: rich edson, and he thinks. the market is taking a breather today. dupont and 3m are the biggest draggers on the dow. early stocks rising out of the gate out of some good news out of china over the night. hitting a seven month

i am liz claman it is the last hour of trading. "countdown to the closing bell" begins right now. the stocks are falling for the first time in seven days after the house speaker said it is all coming down to spending cuts. with just 18 days left for congress to make a deal, investors are taking speaker boehner's words to heart. dow jones industrials off of the session down 82-point but you can see the bull's have the edge early on. blue chips posting modest gains around 11:30 a.m. eastern the speaker got up front of the cameras and suddenly vanished, the rest was history. one name defined the laws of gravity. solar city, soaring up 1.5% today. this after a price cut and a one-day delay. they completed the ipo selling more than 11 million shares at $8 a pop. half of the expected range. we have both the chairman and ceo, actually cousins, coming up in the next hour. what they have to say. they did not put it off, you can see the big move. zero plate to quality, the gold brick falling off of mount everest. the market is not looking good either. traders. okay. we could really pinpoint

claman@foxbusiness.com connecticut. the president will be speaking in 15 minutes about this. of course this happened earlier today. it is just a tragic and disgusting situation. there is absolutely no other way to describe it. one gunman dead. inside the school, the sandy hook school. as soon as the president comes what we will be taking him live. for more on this, our sister network is covering right now. stating at the moment, we will have this. we will cover this in the last hour of trading. a business network, but we cannot ignore the fact that this is a very difficult state for everybody who feels sympathy for these tiny children who were murdered. eighteen of them. twenty-six other people. this is the worst mass murder we have ever seen. if you want full coverage of the story our sister network will have it. again, hearing from the president in about 14 minutes. we will take that live. not to the markets. of course, we know this is a difficult transition. please work with us. we will continue forth until the president takes the airways, but we have to focus on apple. wh

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i'm liz claman. is the last hour of trading. nice move as we head into "countdown to the closing bell." the speakers plant be. along with president obama inching towards higher income threshold for tax cut expiration's the market is charging ahead, but in the last hour senator reid said the proposal from boehner will not pass the senate. the market is surging once again a high of the session up 117 points for the dow, right now better by 97. this is the breadth of the market, overwhelmingly positive meaning the advance is outpacing the decline. the dow jones industrial, as you can see, nice move. twenty-seven down 30 components are up. united technologies and in tela the best performerr. general electric, one of the few weak links in the chain. you, the investor, continuing to pile into what? well, the financials, especially the big money-center banks like banc of america north of $11 per share. at 1116, the stock is nearly doubled. and you can see, up just 1 penny. at $39 in assistance -- $0.16 that is a big resurgence. wells f

i'm liz claman. teenine is nine hours in one minute until midnight into we sail over the fiscal cliff. the last hour of trading, last session of the year. one hour left to trade. president obama says this afternoon the progress is being made, but there is still plenty of work to be done but the stocks right now. very close to session highs, up 137 points. the nasdaq better by 58. the s&p 500 up one and a half points to low 20 points. not bad at all. the market started ticking off a little after noon when investors get worried that the president was going to speak at 130. in a tape that is pretty soon to begin, very few volumes speculated, it will to push the market higher. here you go. the dow had its intraday high of 30 minutes before the president spoke. right now of 131 points. the market moving mostly to the upside. the blue chips, hewlett-packard up above four 1/4%. $14.26 per share, but down about 45% for the year. economy names like caterpillar in the green, up three in the third. a similar st

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liz claman on the story. ashley: from chicken to pork. time for stocks now.o every 15 minutes we head to the floor of the new york stock exchange, and nicole petallides. the market is literally at a stand till over this fiscal cliff. >> i knew you knew where we were going every 15 minutes, ashley. we have to check in on the markets. you're seeing the dow who haver around the unchanged line, down three points now. tech-heavy nasdaq the worst of the bunch down one half of 1%. app, i'm also watching whether or not the dow will have winning week. we had three straight weeks in a row of gains. if we close right here right now we're all right. 13,155 where we close last week. we'll see whether we make it four weeks in a row. we got in economic news, consumers prices. those edged lower for the first time in six months among others. let's get to apple because apple has been under pressure. ubs cut the price on apple, their price target, to be more specific by 10% to under $700. here is a loss of 3.7% by apple. the concerns are china hitting hurdles and potential sale

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