up astoundingly since that time take a look at the nasdac we're up over 400% and by the way we stillstrong u.s. economy , expanding 3.5% from the june to september period less than the second quarter, yes but still better than economists forecast and really puts the u.s. economy on track for the best year of growth since 2005 that's 13 years consumer spending, a bright spot very important as well, as it powers two-thirds of the u.s. economy americans are spending at the fastest rate in nearly four years, thanks to lower taxes, and of course that great jobs market the best in close to 50 years, government spending including defense also powering economic growth as well but the main drag, housing. that's a big concern falling in the quarter, because of higher interest rates, and tax code ranges, how is it important to the u.s. as it accounts for nearly a fifth of the u.s. economy charles? charles: so that exactly is going on here susan will join us along with fox news contributor jonas fox ferris and melissa what's going on because every day was halloween this october at least for inve

the nasdac bearing the brunt of today's sell-off, leaving it more than 10% below its august peak placing it in correction territory, a considerable considerable powerful sell-off today. the white house released this statement tonight. it reads in part: as we have said before, the fundamentals and future of the u.s. economy remain incredibly strong. we remain focused on the long term outlook of the economy and confident in our path of continued growth. still ahead here tonight, the energy and enthusiasm in the republican base unfold in the midwest. look at this. thousands and thousands of people have already gathered in wisconsin, just before president trump even arrived in the state and we're now less than a half an hour away. here is a live look at where the president will be making his 13th stop this month. this is as always, an amazing crowd. we'll be right back with much more, stay with us. hey guys. today we're here to talk about trucks. i love trucks. what the heck is that?! whoa! what truck brand comes from the family of the most dependable, longest-lasting full-size pickups on th

the nasdac ending down 4% the s&p 500 ending down 3%. these are big intraday moves. the dow's worst performers tell a story nike, microsoft, boeing, this is how broad the sell-off was. nike's consumer, microsoft technology, boeing and industrial stock you can see sell-offs in all major indexes. meanwhile, tech stocks as you said earlier, liz, leading this sell-off, amazon down 10% now in bear market territory, netflix down 8% google down 5% the fang stocks have been de- fanged today. we found major sell-off in technology stocks, they were the ones that have been leading this market higher, we now see that they are vulnerable as well. end of the story here, liz i'll just wrap. the worst start to a quarter, since 2008, everybody just a little bit is nervous we'll have to wait and see what comes tomorrow. liz? >> liz: thank you so much gerri now for his take let's bring in trend macro chief investment officer don lufkin. your take on the market action today? >> oh, it's pretty miserable, but momma said there would be days like this, there would be days like this momma s

throughout the day but in the end the dow finished down about 56 points, closing at 26, 460, the nasdac up a little and s&p also finish ing down by about 4 points it was one of those sessions where we saw the big cap tech stocks to come back after a number of days of selling most of the big tech stocks are gaining today including microsoft and apple who both gained more than 1% and the airlines took a bit of a hit today after american said higher fuel costs were going to really eat away at their profit and that brought down the rest of the spectrum and also mention talking of fuel a boost for u.s. corn farmers, and the trump adminitration allowing the year- long sale of gasoline that contains higher concentrations of ethanol, good news for u.s. corn farmers who produce that product especially as they're hurting right now after the trade fight with china. liz? >> liz: great to see you ashley. now, on to the mid-terms, less than a month away, a new poll showing president's approval ratings speaking after the justice kavanaugh confirmation fight. that poll is from cnn and it even has one i

>> girl i saw it, you just did that but yes, we had the dow, the s&p, the nasdac all closing much higher today, above 2% a lot of it does have to do with investors getting in last week was quite rough we saw a lot of red on the screen this time you have earnings that came out much stronger than anticipated, you had jpmorgan, they made a lot of money off investment banking, you had goldman sachs putting up their earnings and even netflix after the bell today when it closed netflix put out their earnings, the expectation was so high and so good with that company that you saw the stock climb about 14% higher so you've got the positives right now, earnings season, you have a lot of analysts expecting earnings to average at least 19% higher for this quarter but there are some concerns. the looming concerns are trade tensions and the tariffs costing companies money, and the fact that the federal reserve could be raising or will be raising interest rates which makes debt more expensive for you and i and corporations, so that's the market part. the economy part though, still shows so much streng