kayla tausche and jon fortt and kara swisher from re-code out west, and, a t lott lot the talk to youding high, and the highest performing stockton dow and now, while the nasdaq is being led month today by apple. and what a story with the tech. and kara, what do you think it is through the summer enterprise driven or consumer driven? what are your thought sms >> well, i don't know. carl, i have no idea what the stokck market doing and why it does it. but in this case the tech did better in sectors even after issues with wall street of the earnings of a number of the tech giants. they beat up on them too much after the earnings came out, and now now it is a return. apple is a good example, and it was badly hit because of to last earnings announcements, and people are reconsidering it and another thing is that warren buffett bought into apple, and that is always a sign that like people overreacted, and he is a savvy investor and people thought twice about it and apple is a leader in that way, and many of them, they follow. facebook is doing great. i think they turned in a terrific quart

. >> and kara swisher executive editor after re/code.> and we want to the look at the market indices trading down on the quarter and a half, and the dow doing the best of the about 46 points better, and the nasdaq is the worst down half a percent and the s&p 500 in the middle at 2043. at one point the nasdaq re-entered correction territory touching a two-month low, and acquisitions of blizzard with the company giving upbeat guidance of the strong sales of the latest "call of duty i "game. carl? >> when we come back, the battle over to the competency of sumner redstone at trial today, and going back to the courthouse with what to expect. and a reading on the jobs and as you know, 1160,000, and ed l lazear is going to break that down, and also, we will talk to the new trump finance guru. [ beep ] but you'll be glad to see it here. fidelity -- where smarter investors will always be. if only the signs were as obvious when you trade. fidelity's active trader pro can help you find smarter entry and exit points and can help protect your potenti

thank you, and you bring the fire, kara swisher. you for joining us. >>> as we are watching the apple shares slip, the markets have been deteriorating as well, and apple is taking 20 points off of the dow, and now it is 50 points into the retail which is a big drag across the booard for s&p and we saw claims disappointing for another week, and something to watch there, and nasdaq is fearing the worst largely because of apple down close to 1%. there is more trouble of retail with shares of khol's slipping after earnings and revenue missed the estimates. the company called it challenging slowdown, and now, one more look at apple hitting the $90 or below the $90 mark for the first time in little less than two years, and the lowest intraday for apple since the summer of 2014, and google or alphabet's cap becoming the largest company in the world, and carl, again, it happened earlier in the year, but it happened again. >> and so we are waiting for comments from speaker ryan after his meeting with donald trump, and we will take you there

tremendous force for good, said by michael moore, and one of the most interesting parts of last night, kara swisherrst ever "break the image" award is kim kardashian who breaks the internet on more than one occasion. >> we won't forget that image. and now, they are going to be repositioning with netflix, and narcos and the lines are getting blurry all of the time. >> yes, and the consistent problem is to get paid. netflix is playing month to month, and youtube is doing that with red, and so that sis a tred we will see. >> it is gaining the reputation of second life for content that appeared in the theaters and them on television. so now, a second life. >> and now, talking about mashables, that is making it big in videos. we will be joined by the ceo of mashable mashables after the break. . >> i'm sharon epperson and this is the cnbc update at this hour. north korea is naming a career diplomat as the foreign minis r minister. he represented the north korea talks in the nuclear program. and some analysts say that his appointment could be a bid to improve ties with the outside world. >>> and army serg

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. >> yes, and for the second time in a couple of weeks, and kara swisher echoing what others have said about this being a pause moment in the tech innovation, and we will see what that brings. over to scott wapner and the half. xxx. >>> all right. guys, thank you for and welcome to the halftime report, i'm scott wapner. we begin with the break news at this hour, and the president is expected to speak about the economy, and we will take you live to the brady briefing room when that event happens in a moments, and market s as are mo on the news of the jobs report. 160,000 jobs added which is a disap poi disappointment even as some of the internal reads were not so bad. john harwood live in washington as we are walking up to the president's comments to i da, and john, what do we expect the president's message to be? >> well, in part, the private sector job growth continuing, even though it was disappointing, and the unemployment rate stayed flat, but he has some regulatory steps to announce in terms of going after money laundering and tax evasion, and remember that the trez is sure ri dep