eamon javers is on the case. what can you tell us, eamon? >> reporter: hi, tyler.hat we know of as of this evening, fbi officials carefully going through the e-mails now that they have a warrant in place to search them. they're using a software program that sorts out any e-mails that were previously turned over to the fbi as part of the investigation. and looking for anything that might not have been turned over. if they find any of that, they'll look through it and try to figure out whether or not there's any classified information in there, as part of this clinton probe. we're also learning a little bit of context here about fbi director, james comey's decision-making to release this information before the election. i'm told by a former fbi official that this is an extraordinary decision for comey to take, in particular because earlier this year, when the fbi and u.s. intelligence agencies were discussing whether or not to name russia as a state entity that was trying to mettle in u.s. elections, comey argued internally and privately, it should not be done public

hi, eamon. >> yeah, hi, sue.e have heard a lot, and i mean a lot, from the political pundits so far this year. >> maybe there's another group we should be paying attention to. forget the political pundits. what are the wall street analysts saying about next week's election? goldman sachs issued a report this morning, saying, they still expect hillary clinton to win on tuesday. bulls have tightened goldman's analysts throat but clinton appears to be win more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the white house. cohen and company make the same prediction. fbi case dominates national coverage, but the firewall holding with six days to go. those are the expectations baked into wall street ahead of election day. but think of this as being like the biggest earnings report of all-time. the election results will either hit or miss wall street's expectations. and we all know what happens when companies miss on wall street. >> i think the market is saying, with hillary clinton, we kind of know what we're getting. and

eamon, thank you eamon javers in d.c.h the election on the way and volatility so high, how should investors protect their portfolio? no matter who wins? mike is over at the smart board with the call to action, mike? >> so first things first. we don't have insurance on all the time on our investment portfolio. so you want to do something like this tactically. have we found an identifiable risk? i think we have. the election next tuesday, a lot of people talking about that as something they could be market moving. secondly, you can't sell your underlying stock revisions. there may be tax reasons for this or maybe you're not going to call your broker on monday and say, sell it all. and finally, when options prices are high, and they are high right now, we're going to have to find a trade to use and that's why we're going to use a put spread. so let's take a look here. this actually indicates how high options prices are. we can see that they're up 60%, actually, just since earlier in october. so taking a look here, what we're

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steve, walk us through what happened in the course of those 24 hours. >> eamon, i cannot make sense of it. i seen one or two elections in this time. before the market turned around to a positive move later on in the actual session. it was quite extraordinary. we had so many experts telling us how bad a trump market took the half glass full approach, caterpillar, which was up around about seven, u.s. steals was up double digits. look the real peace came from fought only the repeal of obamacare, actually, what they haven't gotten now is concerns the draconian hillary clinton presidency would slap heavy regulations on the health care stocks, so we could see big games. for instance, pfizer was up 7%. mylan was up and amgen. they are for gains at .3w5ir7b9d campbell's one dish recipes, designed around one pan and your schedule. made for real, real life. jack be nimble, jack be quick, jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting... ...and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. because all

thank you, eamon.s reporting from philadelphia. >>> coming up on the show, more on retail of course. an optimistic tone from retailers and analysts. will it hold throughout the season? plus, stocks are making all-time highs. the post-election rally rolls on. and then the founder of gilt group knows something about online retail. alexis maybank will join us to break down state of e-commerce and mobile commerce. don't go anywhere. >>> commodity prices moving watching oil in particular where there's some weakness. jackie deangelis has more at the nymex. >> crude oil prices seeing a little pressure, but holding over that critical $47 a barrel mark. of course it's going to be a muted session, lower volumes. we do close a little bit early today, but is this the calm before the storm? analysts are telling me definitely. next week's opec meeting back in focus, that's on wednesday in vienna. and symbolically if we do get a cut here, it's very important. because, remember, the saudis are in charge of opec. it sh

joining me now, the reporter who broke the story, eamon javers. what's at the core here and what you are hearing from your sources? >> i talked to the former fbi official who laid out the timeline and said there was a long conversation inside the obama administration on whether or not they were going to name russia publicly as behind these hacks. it's gotten so much attention this year. pros and cons on both sides of doing that. the former fbi official said comey ea comey's position closer and closer and later in the conversation said u.s. government should not do that and his position was that way because of concerns getting too close to the u.s. election and might impact the election. that's what the official told me, the official also saying that in his view, it wasn't necessarily that comey was making a partisan decision here. but just that comey has two different approaches to the story about the e-mails and the other story about the russians and the hacking. comey has become very personally attached to this e-mail story. that's the interpret

and we'll see later on tonight where we end up. >> eamon javers. let's get to scott wapner where trump's party will be held. >> they're expecting a big party at the hilton. doors expected to open in about one hour and a half. after 500 days of campaigning, it all comes down to this, with the trump campaign hopes will be a party on that stage behind me today. mr. trump voted himself this morning around 11:00 a.m. on new york city's upper east side, along with his wife, melania and daughter ivanka. she had get a good indication fairly early in the evening how the trend feels, based on the fact there be a number of key battleground states whose polls closed. 7:00 georgia, virginia, 7:30. north carolina, ohio and then 8:00 florida, pennsylvania and new hampshire. one of the big issues we have been discussing all day long is whether mr. trump will publicly accept the result of tonight's election if, in fact, it does not go the way he wants. remember, he said he was going to leave us in suspense at the last debate. he has made some comments today to say

steve, walk us through what happened in the course of those 24 hours. >> eamon, i cannot make sense of it. i seen one or two elections in before the market turned around to a positive move later on in the actual session. it was quite extraordinary. we had so many experts telling us how bad a trump market took the half glass full approach, caterpillar, which was up around about seven, u.s. steals was up double digits. look the real peace came from health care stocks, because fought only the repeal of obamacare, actually, what they haven't gotten now is concerns the draconian hillary clinton presidency would slap heavy regulations on the health care stocks, so we could see big games. for instance, pfizer was up 7%. mylan was up and amgen. >> i'd love that. >> we'll give a little sense of it. just ahead, will president-elect donald trump become a role model for our nation's children? odel for our nation's children? ok! impaciente! manolo! you're so cold, come in! what's wrong? take off your hat! no hey...it's, it's dry... your scalp? mine gets dry in the winter too. try head and shoulders

let's get to eamon javers live in washington with the latest. hey, eamon. >> good morning, carl.ith less than a week to go you get the sense this is a race that is tightening in its final days. take a look at this "the washington post"/abc poll that's out showing a dead heat here between hillary clinton and donald trump. this is conducted october 28th through the 31st. hillary clinton 46, donald trump 46, gary johnson at 3 and jill stein just at 2% there. so a dead heat according to that poll. but i want you guys to take a look at this note that goldman sachs put out last night because i think it's important to get a sense of what wall street's baseline expectation is. goldman sachs says, secretary clinton is still seen as twice as likely to win the white house next week as mr. trump. nbc's own battleground map shows hillary clinton with 274 electoral votes, that's more than is needed but is down from last month. they also show that donald trump has got a total of 180, that's up from 157 in mid october. so that gives you a sense that this is a tightening race. wall street's expec

poor eamon. >> you see coneheads? she's a diver.>> the campaign to fix the debt is founded by the authors of the simpson bowles plan releasing a statement on the national debt and call for action saying president trump will inherit enormous fiscal problems but few more challenging than the national debt. mr. trump will need to show real leadership quickly to climb out of one of the deepest fiscal holes in our history. joining us now former senator judd gregg and former governor ed rendell. they are cochairs on the campaign to fix the debt. before we get started, judd you agreed to come on. you know this is coming, right? >> no. what are you going to ask me? >> how many times did you tell me that the chances were zero that donald trump was going to be elected president? how many times were you absolutely -- so did you -- i think rendell probably could judge certain parts of the populous and i'm talking working class people. i think rendell as a democrat might have had a better idea than you about the subcurrent of the country, judd.

let's bring in eamon javers.on. >> when you look at the twosome, you look at paul ryan who's been one of the thought leaders in republican politics nationwide. now he's very much transcended by donald trump who will be the president of the united states. so the question for paul ryan, how much of his attention dovetails what donald trump wants to do. he has said quite a bit of it. there was a real reluctance on the part of paul ryan to even campaign with donald trump toward the end. now they're mending fences and patching things up and they look like they plan on having a work relationship. i would say trump's appearance before the cameras today probably helps ryan to for stall any efforts of having him removed as speaker of the house. he's doing ryan a solid in that sense. also interesting that we're getting this sort of moving target in terms of these meetings. we were told some of it would be off campus. then we saw that they met in the capitol building. you see them walking in through the carriage entrance un

>> that's a good one, eamon. thank you very much. eamon javers.e continue to await on news of donald trump's cabinet members. jared kushner has the president-elect's ear. steven bartoni joins us at post nine. >> thanks for having me. this is great. >> i can't get over eric schmidt's quote, jared kushner is the biggest surprise. best i can tell, he ran the campaign and essentially with no resources. >> i talked to eric schmidt, that turned the story. gop insiders, party insiders. when i talked to eric schmidt, such a democratic supporter, he built that machine for jared. built that machine for hillary to say these guys came in, made up the rules as they went along. it's like a small start-up disrupting a professional, richer, bigger company. such a tech story. >> what in kushner's background gave anybody a clue that he was capable of this? >> i think he has no background was his advantage. he said i don't know how i'm supposed to do this we're going to build it from scratch. no one has seen a candidate like donald trump with a message like he does.

eamon javers at trump tower with the latest.o hair comments from me, don't worry. >> yeah, no news here so far from donald trump on any new cabinet appointments today. we saw mr. trump leave the building and go down to the "new york times" offices and we have this sort of wild, new media moment where the "new york times" reporters and editors were live tweeting their meeting with donald trump even though it was behind closed doors, the rest of us couldn't see it. we did learn a couple of new things in the course of that meeting, one of which is that donald trump has been receiving a lot of phone calls from international leaders, but also from corporate leaders. we saw donald trump commenting he received a called from tim cook of apple and also from bill gates. at this point, he's back in the building. we've seen a lot of cummings and goings through the course of the day. vie president-elect mike pence still in the building. we saw rudy giuliani come and go earlier, but we don't expect donald trump to remain here all that much lo

let's get to cnbc eamon javers in washington. >> reporter: nbc news has confirmed that vice president elect mike pence is taking over the donald trump transition effort the presidency. that's job he takes from chris christie the new jersey governor. mike pence deep connections in washington, d.c., a veteran of capitol hill and somebody who has seen knowing his way around town. an asset that donald trump will desperately need in the coming days as he fills out his campaign team. the president-elect tweeting out earlier today decisions are soon to come on who will be running the trump administration. this is a sign that perhaps chris christie is being moved out of consideration for one of those top jobs. we'll have to wait and see. we're waiting on any sense who donald trump's chief of staff might be. who the secretary of state might be. secretary of treasury. secretary of defense. all those top jobs unfilled as of now. there's lists circulating, names being floated and trial balloons shot down here in washington. it's the parlor game we see every time we have a president-elect. for rig

eamon javers.cal strategist former dnc senior advisor steve mcmahon and former rubio advisor alex conan, good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> alex, let's start on the optics parading these candidates back and forth in front of that front door while tweeting about "snl" and "hamilton" as eamon mentions. what does that tell us about the tone he's trying to strike? >> i think if you look at all the people he's bringing in to meet with him over the weekend and today at trump tower, he's casting a very broad net. he said he wants to bring the best and the brightest into this new administration. and i think it's encouraging for conservatives like myself to see him reaching out to people like mitt romney who obviously was a big critic of his during the campaign. and now mike pence on "face the nation" yesterday said he's actively being considered for secretary of state. it's very encouraging for conservatives like myself to see people like that under consideration for these big posts. >> yeah, st

you got to admit, eamon.s ago, democrats, comey, great american, great american. >> reporter: no, the politics of comey have slipped entirely. >> now he's like to republicans he's like, there's a man with integrity. and the other side thinks he's, you know, i don't know. >> they can't have it both ways. >> reporter: we're always astonished to find out there's politics in washington, right? >> thank you, eamon. it's drawing reaction from both sides of the aisle. richard payner is an ethics lawyer. ethics lawyer. under president george w. bush and currently a law professor at the university of minnesota. and you have a problem with director comey doing this. i don't know what -- what would a normal person have done right before the election if he does know that there's some pertinent information in the anthony weiner laptop? >> well, the fbi should be investigating the thing that it's charged with investigating. and the anthony weiner investigation is about investigating anthony weiner's sexting with minors. th

eamon javers in washington. back to nashts which in the u.s.e lower in october as global bond yields rose. oil prices gained. british pound posted another sharp decline. that performance was largely mirrored by the hedge fund industry. cnbc has learned third point was down. it's up 6% this year. greenlight capital was up 1.2% in october and up about 6% for the year. p pershing swar down 3%. >>> goldman sachs agreed to shift its technical operation to nasdaq. nasdaq will receive an undisclosed fee. the deal will help the bank save money and comes amid an industry wide crackdown by regulators. >> another busy day on wall street. pair of economic reports along with federal reserve kick off a two day meeting. october ism manufacturing index and construction spending are out at 10:00 a.m. eastern. the fed begins a two day policy meeting. nothing expected today. the decision comes out with a statement tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern. as for earnings, pfizer, coach and kellogg reporting before the opening bell. after the close we'll here from gilead sci

eamon javers is in new york city. contessa brewer in arizona. jane wells in nevada. eamon javers, let's start with you and what hillary clinton and donald trump are doing now that decision day is finally here and they are voting. imagine this after thousands of miles both candidates for more than a year are going to end up here in manhattan about two miles apart. we have seen both hillary clinton and donald trump today out voting. hillary clinton we saw early this morning casting her ballot along side former presidents bill clinton. the clintons out early in the morning. we saw donald trump later in the day here in manhattan. he cast his ballot at ps 59. this is a very manhattan centric election day for us. there was a little bit of booing and disruption at the polling place this morning. there were a group of people there we are told cheering for him. a little bit of pro and conthere. we are here at the center where hillary clinton is going to be having her event later on this evening. we are told that hillary clinton is working on two versions of her speech for ton

eamon javers. dan clifton from research partners. it would appear we're seeing the winners and losers emerge today -- the expected winners and losers in a trump administration. what do you make of that in the stock market? >> i tell you, bill, it's been an incredible election season because there was a brexit premium in stocks where it looked like hillary was going to win, but you never saw that full acceleration of stocks that should have done well. last night that all ended, and today you're seeing what that is. you're seeing stocks that are biopharmaceutical for the republicans up big today, you're seeing energy, the banks. these are all things you would expect. in all election season it would be start and go, start and go, and now you're really starting to see it accelerate out. i would say from a broader macro perspective, the market was really worried about trade policy. donald trump can impose tariffs by executive order. there was some concern about that. that's sort of waning away and tax reform is taking over, and i think pe

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eamon javers has the latest. >> some tightening and widening in three traditionally red states.w nbc/"wall street journal"/marist polls. georgia, trump 45, clinton 44, johnson 8% in the state of georgia. in september donald trump was up two points in the state of georgia. so that is an area where you might see some tightening and maybe hillary clinton snatching that traditionally red state away from donald trump. in arizona however, trump 45, hillary clinton 40, johnson 9, stein 3% in arizona. trump was ahead by just two points in arizona back in september. so this looks like a bit of a widening in arizona. that's a state that democrats had hoped to capture. on tuesday hillary clinton campaigned in arizona, as recently as wednesday night, they've been spending a lot of resources there, the democrats have. this indicates, though, that that spread is widening a little bit. we'll have to see where things shake out on tuesday. finally, in texas, a monster margin here for donald trump, 49% to hillary clinton 40%, johnson at 6, stein at 2%. overall, melissa, analysts all sort of are c

did you get one, eamon? no?> i'm not on the early list. >> of course i got one. >> that was your byline. am i thinking? >> okay. let's bring eamon into the conversation formally. he's already been with us this morning. you have a lot more on what donald trump's white house win means. >> yeah. i want to give you a sense of what happened toward the end of the night last night for all those folks that weren't able to stay up until 2:00 in the morning. the chaotic scene at the ends of the night where you had this clinton rally where i was at the javits center in new york where they were expecting a big win. they were expecting the first female president, a whole lot of joy, and they got nothing but pain at the end of the night. you could feel the room sagging. by the time we got to 2:00 a.m., the democrats in that room hadn't had any good news in a couple of hours. john podesta came out on stage and told the crowd, you know what? let's sleep on this. let's put pause on this whole campaign. we'll talk about it in the

>> reporter: eamon, we are in charlotte, north carolina, trump took this state 51% to 47% what's interesting is that the people we have spoken to here. the reaction is mixed. others say this is what we expected to happen. others say they are not confident, because the ideas and i want to also bring attention to the race for governor here. >> that has been a hot local topic. right now, we are 49% and 49% locked in a dead heat with roy cooper and that's exactly what we are looking at now as people are talk. politics is on the mind in charlotte, north carolina. >> a win bracket. bring back in our panel. what i have been hearing, reading about consistently overnight is the fear that many of those people when it comes to immigration, foreign policy, to health care, how could donald trump now as the president-elect not only bridge the aisle across democrats and republicans and within the republican party. >> that's a great question. it's the unknown. points. it's really the unknown. >> how do you see this playing out for donald trump tomorrow morning, he wakes up president-elect. he starts to reac

that seems to be something that's in the cards here in washington. >> eamon, thank you. that is something that a lot of the financials have been trading on. mary jo is out. president-elect trump is free to get his own head. >> rudy giuliani popped into high head. >> dan gallagher is in private sector now, that's going to be a name on the short list. >>> let's get back to the markets here. our next guest says a sell-off in tech is creating a major buying opportunity. mohammed el-erian joins u now. great to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> does that mean that tech will do a catch-up to the overall markets? what happens with technology if you're saying buy the dips in relationship to the rest of the markets? >> so i agree with the discussion so far that the extent of the differentiation that we've seen is too large. yes, i can explain it in terms of the specific proposals that the president-elect has put forward, but not to that extent. so if you compare what's happened to banks on the one hand and what's happened to technology on the other, it's simply too far. ther

eamon javers, what is happening?etting news now from the trump organization about the role of donald trump's children. reuters reporting that planning for immediate transfer of management and business portfolio to donald trump is going on now which says the new structure will comply with all applicable rules and regulations. those trump children also got another new job today as they were officially named to the trump transition effort. they will be managing donald trump's business portfolio and have a role in overseeing his presidential transition at the same time. i don't think we have seen presidential children in quite this role in a long time if maybe ever. this is going to be an interesting dynamic to watch as the trump presidency unfolds. a couple of points of news here. he has given an interview to the wall street journal. take a look at bullet points he had to say on obama care, the aca. here is what trump said. he said he would like to keep the prohibition against denying coverage because of preexisting con

eamon javers first in d.c. with the details. eamon. >> yeah, hey, brian.t going to like this answer. but it's probably too early to say what specific lower taxes are coming here under a trump administration. but as you heard at the dinner last night, donald trump's broad thrust here is lower taxes overall for everybody. so what does that look like? well, break it down into two categories. one for businesses, one for individuals. for businesses, trump's plan that he advocated out on the campaign trail would lower the rate from 35% to 15%, would include repatriation of offshore revenue, which would involve a 10% tax on that revenue from companies coming back into the united states. that tax revenue could be spent on infrastructure spending and other things. also manufacturers under his plan could fully expense plant equipment so that might be a boon in the manufacturing sector. now in the individual side, the tax brackets would be cut from 7 to 3. the rates under trump's plan would be 12, 24 or 33%, depending on how much you earn. it would also eliminate the

eamon javers has a story on the government's efforts to combat cyber meddling in this election. steve, let's start with you. >> there has been a lot of october surprises but the jobs report wasn't one of them. 161,000 jobs created. not too much or too little to get sucked into the presidential debate. neither side appears to have tweeted. the estimate was for 173,000. august and september revised up. unemployment ticking down to 4.9%. a good number for average hourly wages up 0.4% comparing with 2.8% year over year. labor force participation down a tick. construction coming in strong with 11,000 but not manufacturing. i know you were going to talk about that manufacturing recession. leisure hospitality and government coming in. most economists said the jobs report was solid and the best measure that it has little impact. here is where the rate markets are, took the number in stride. the chance of a fed rate hike at 60%. if we had the chart it would show you it is 60%. the fed sees jobs growth as around 100,000. this is enough for the fed to hike in december. dennis lockhart call

eamon javers, help us out. he did make some appointments today, didn't he? >> he's down in sunny mar-a-l o mar-a-lago. we got a secretary education pick today. that's going to be betsy devos. she's a long-time charter school advocate, so that might give advantage to the public schoolteachers unions. and gov nikki haley, the governor the south carolina, and a long time foe during the campaign. she was brought around. she may serve as the ambassador if she's confirmed by the u.s. senate, which appears likely. you talk about the big three. i happen to have them written down so i don't have to remember them. there are still question marks about this trump administration, but we're starting to see faces fill out cluincluding jeff sesss as the pick for attorney general, you see betsy devos there, and general michael flynn for security adviser. we'll probably take a pause through the thanksgiving holiday. donald trump expected back in action next week, and there you see palm beach, florida. that is mar-a-lago there, that tower in the distance, and we've been seeing

eamon, francis, back to you nice. >> it makes our life easier when we don't have to wrap presents it it comes already wrapped. >>> one of the corner stones of the trump campaign was a vow to bring back jobs to america, now it's time to put his money where his mouth is. kevin tibbles talked to voters who voted for donald trump just because of his jobs promise. >> when carrier air conditioning told it's 1,400 employees it was shutting down. >> to move production from our facility in indianapolis to monterey, mexico. >> it became a focal point for donald trump in the election. >> we're bringing jobs back to our country. we are not going to let carrier leave. >> many at carrier are counting on him to keep his promise. >> put your money where your mouth is. >> across from the plant sully's bar and grill where workers after their shift say they have high expectations for the president elect. >> we want you to do what you said you're going to do. >> in a statement carrier says it's trying to ease the workers' transition, providing three years advanced notice of the move and by funding educa

hi, eamon. >> reporter: hi, scott.he day yesterday at trump tower watching the comings and goings there. the president-elect as you say is now at mar-a-lago in florida hunkered down for the thanksgiving holiday. but we learned that nikki haley will be the next pick to be u.n. ambassador. so that's an important announcement coming later today we expect. and also who else is in the mix? we see mitt romney as a possible selection here for secretary of state. those are two of the more moderate figures and importantly those are figures in the republican party who criticize donald trump during the campaign. and that seems to be of a piece with this shifting of positions we're seeing from donald trump post-election. look at some of the points he made in his interview which was wide ranging just yesterday. starting with the idea of backing off the idea of water boarding. he said he's now talked to general mattis about water boarding. he said he thinks "the new york times" will be happy with his stance on the first amendment. h

eamon javers at trump tower. more insight into what is going on with the transition team, tillman fertitta is with us on set. you're not on the transition team, are you? >> no. i should be. >> you should be serving meals at the very least. michael costas, you've been meeting with some of trump's closest associates, did that earlier today. what are you hearing from them and who specifically has trump's ear the most these days? >> the answer to the latter question, you see the son-in-law jared kushner very close to the president-elect, so is stephen bannon, former head of breitbart news. the populous whisper in trump's ear. and others, rudy giuliani, kellyanne conway, but it is a tight -- >> the usual suspects. >> usual suspects. >> is this smaller than a normal team? it seems like there is six or seven close associates and that's it. >> that is it. >> if you're not in, you're out. >> trump, because he's an outsider, and he had a campaign that was small in operation, he trusts very few people. and he's keeping that

eamon javers joining us for the aforementioned trump tower.it of a carnival fare here. a lot of tours, sightseers out. they're selling the make america great hats, the naked cowboy is here. i got a selfie with him. so there is a lot of fun being had here at ground level. the serious business is happening upstairs at trump tower. a lot of the top television executives, news anchors and reporters are upstairs meeting with donald trump now. we expect them to come out at any moment now. nobody would tell us anything, but i would imagine this being a group of reporters that some of that might leak when they do come down. so we'll try to get you a read on that. we're still waiting on any significant news in terms of new cabinet appointments today, kellyanne conway came through earlier this morning, talked to reporters. getting a sense we might expect something this afternoon, but as of now, no puffs of white smoke so to speak from the top of trump tower in terms of new cabinet poims today. >> we are look for that selfie and melissa is tweeting it ou

. >> eamon javes, thank you. we have don chu here and kate nasdaq there as well. >> what we're watching is what you mentioned a few moments ago, the fact that energy stocks are propelling what is happening in the trading action today because energy stocks and the s&p 500 are double the next best performing sector, up 2% so far in trading today. that is all on the heels of perhaps some optimism over opec's freeze deal, maybe that helps put oil prices a little higher. but that 4% gain for wti crude is helping big stocks like exxon mobil and chevron. exxon up by 1.33%. two of the biggest point contributors to the dow there. if you are looking for the action that could be hot, you want to check out history. because according to the data partners of kensho, during the week of thanksgiving, a lot of the retail focus companies are in the spotlight, if you will. according to them, since the year 2000, the s&p 500 is seasonally strong this week of thanksgiving, up by close to a percent and up 80% of the time, or 70% of th