retail guru and former gap, ann taylor and j.crew ceo mickey drexler opens the shopping bag post-cyber monday to talk about why investors need to dig deep to find the real success stories and which spocks -- stocks control that success story. and number three, an excruciatingly worrisome development out of the middle east. three of the baby hostages yet to be leased have been passed off to a splinter terror group in gaza is, and no sign yet of american hostages either. gop presidential candidate chris christie joins us live on what must be done starting now to end the hostage crisis as talks are swirling about a possible second extension of the gaza ceasefire if. all right. back on wall street, the bulls are decidedly in control of oil and bitcoin. take a look at crude oil, up 2% ahead of thursday's opec meeting, and bitcoin holding above $38,000. we're at $38,144. as a federal judge blocked binance founder and ceo from leaving the country after the crypto exchange founder and uae resident pled guilty to violating anti-money laundering laws. with so much to cover, let's get right to th

we talk to retail guru mickey dr drexler in the next hour.back. - so, the question is... - cyber attack! as cyber criminals expand their toolkit, we must expand as well. we need to rethink... next level moments, need the next level network. [speaker continues in the background] the network with 24/7 built-in security. chip? at&t business. ♪ upbeat music ♪ ♪ upbeat music ♪ ♪ upbeat music ♪ ♪ upbeat music ♪ ♪ upbeat music ♪ ♪ upbeat music ♪ >>> good morning, is wall street set up for a santa clause rally, we're going to read the charts and find out if there is room to run as we head into the final month of 2023. >>> testing open ai's valuation, how much has the past week's leadership chaos cost the company and its backers. >>> plus, black friday is in the books. small business saturday is behind us, and today is cyber monday. we're going to take an outlook at this year's holiday shopping season and the state of the consumer with mickey drexler. that's straight ahead. the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, and welcom

it was like the mickey drexler -- remember gap would go up every year?his thing reminds me of, all right, get away from the beaten path get away from the magnificent seven. you're beginning to find stories that are monster good. williams sonoma reports this quarter. they don't even care about the same store sales they're just talking about profitability. david, next thing you know, you got a stock that 's up ten. we are making money in stocks that we haven't looked at in ages >> all right, so, williams sonoma has not been an underperformer macy's and gap, you know, nobody -- by the way, the market caps of these things are tiny. gap was waonce a giant we really did care honestly, who cares -- >> you want to go back to the ten-year plus 7 show >> who cares about gap why do you care? >> people can make money they can go to the store, go to old navy, see the fresh look, see the -- check the comp store sales numbers and on a percentage basis, this is every bit as good as what you get from nvidia in the last month >> you're absolutely right there you go i want

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