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i'm greg stevens, and i helped create fidelity's options platform. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. >>> the dow down .6 of a percent. we're nearing the end of the year and it's the time for merriment and eggnog and also looking for things that have done well, things that have not. to your point china shenzhen smaller of the two has done better than the shanghai which is the benchmark. i learned something new today. is down. china looking decent. do you think china will have a better year next year than this year. it hasn't had a terrible year but a disappointment. >> it has bean disappointment. indeed, remember this time last year we came out with 2013 predictions and you came out with the nikkei call. it's been a grand success. i said that finally after a number of years that china has not made any headway at least in terms of the benchmark that maybe this is the year when we'll see a gain. down 3% year-to-date. a massive rally in the last two weeks of the year

i'm greg stevens, and i helped create fidelity's options platform.one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. >>> welcome back. shares of herbalife have been halted. do you have the news? >> yes. halted right now. news is pending. we'll bring it to you as soon as we have it. you can see from the chart, it was a good day for herbalife, up more than 3%. we'll watch that closely. meantime, want to give you some other big drivers today of this market, which is up pretty big. some drivers on the dow. exxonmobil moving higher after research note from goldman sachs saying there's an inflexion point in terms reduction and capital intensity in the so-called consumer majors and exxon is going to benefit from that. goldman upgrading to buy from neutral, price target $109. ibm having the single biggest impact on the market today. single best day for ibm since january. expedia seeing a big spike today. colony capital tom baric calling it undervalued compared to peers. he likes the ability t

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i'm greg stevens, and i helped create fidelity's options platform.on serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. >>> u.p.s. and fedex facing angry customers after failing to deliver packages for christmas. they cited bad weather and unforeseen demands. it does bring us to the squawk on the tweet. whom should they have asked for help? ron writes, santa claus, his on-time record is pretty good. jason says u.p.s. and fedex should have asked the amazon drone, aka, "fred the flying robotic express delivery." i've seen fedex ask the usps to help deliver, but is that quicker? probably not. it brings us out of rockville, maryland, with a truck that tipped over, with mail flying around. not the thing you want to see. although if the christmas cards aren't there, you probably mailed them too late. >> that's a tough one to blame on the mail truck. >> christmas doesn't actually come as a surprise in the calendar. it is possibly if you do your stuff early enough to avoid all of the delays. it's not a surprise that ch

i'm greg stevens, and i helped create fidelity's options platform. investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. >>> in its eighth robotics acquisition in six months, tech giant google acquiring boston dynamics. the company's resume includes designing research robots like this. this is called the big dog for the pentagon. brings us to the squawk on the tweet. what could google be up to? mike writes, building football players that won't be concussed or a defense for my lovable cowboys. oracle rights, breeding robot dogs to fetch and destroy amazon drones. robotic pony express. interesting that a lot of these technologies may converge in a few years. >> and we will have an unemployment problem. that's how they're stacking shelves in warehouses. >> you cannot tlool video enough. i'm not sure how google's trading but the competitors in the space not doing too badly in terms of social. twitter did have a $60 print today. we talked with the analyst who downgraded it to neutral at suntrust. not much effect. >> the multip

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i'm greg stevens, and i helped create fidelity's options platform.reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. >>> workers in about 100 cities are set to walk off the job today in what could be one of the biggest efforts yet to push for higher pay at minimum wage jobs. nbc's katie kerr is live in brooklyn with more on that. katie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, simon. they're hoping it will be thousands of people across the country doing this walkout. they'll be here in brooklyn around 111:30 this morning. hoping to get $15 an our up from $27 $7.25. it's estimated most of these workers are over the age of 28 and most of them are women. a lot of them say they work two jobs, they can't afford the basic necessities, they can't afford to feed their families. many of them say they can't get full time work in a lot of these places because they're capped out at $35 an hour. there were a lot of protest bes this earlier this summer. it seemed like yesterday they got a big boost from president obam

i'm greg stevens, and i helped create fidelity's options platform.ative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. >>> welcome back, everybody, we are awaiting that employment report for november. we've been watching to see what happens. expectations are at least from the market that you will see about 180,000 jobs created. unemployment rate is expected to drop to 7.2%. we've been watching the futures and they have been stronger throughout the morning. you can see the dow futures up by about 66 points. that's just off the highs of the morning. but still, looking very strong. >> people have been telling us all week, the market wants good news, but that's not what we've been seeing. >> we want good news. >> we want jobs. >> the market reaction, what is the knee jerk reaction of the market. >> i don't like those guys anymore. the main line, the drug, the qe drug. >> if we look at the ten-year, you've got to figure the bond market has figured out, we're getting to the point where we see a taper. 2.88

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greg hicks who is the second in command at the time under ambassador stevens who of course was tragically killed, when gregory hicks heard susan rice, this was his response. >> when ambassador stevens talked to you perhaps minutes before he died, as a dying declaration, what precisely did he say to you? >> he said, greg, we're under attack. >> would a highly decorated career diplomat have told you or washington had there been a demonstration outside his facility that day? >> yes, sir, he would have. >> did he mention one word about a protest or a demonstration? >> no, sir, he did not. >> so fast forward, mr. hicks, to the sunday talk shows and ambassador susan rice. she blamed this attack on a video. in fact, she did it five different times. what was your reaction to that? >> i was stunned. my jaw dropped and i was embarrassed. >> gregory hicks took over for chris after he was killed. a man who was on the ground, not an anonymous source. >> i want to read you a couple of lines from this piece. surveillance appears to have been underway 12 hours before the assault started. then it goes on

stevens. good evening, everyone. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's news home quarters. i'm jamie colby. >> i'm greg gutfeld. that making -- i'm gregg jarrett the new findings completely contradicting the assessments of some of our most senior lawmakers, including the chairman of the permanent select committee on intelligence, congressman mike rogers, who had this to say about who was behind the assault. listen. >> it is accurate that of the group that is being targeted by the bureau at this point, there is strong al-qaeda ties. >> chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us live on the phone. you have been reporting on this story since the day after the attack. what's your assessment of the "new york times" claim here? >> thank you. congressman mike rogers, as head of the house intelligence committee, has regular classified briefings and more significantly, he also has access to the raw intelligence data so that he can make his own assessments. one day after the attack, he told fox news on the record that there was no link to this anti-islam video, that the assault was a premeditat