meantime nordstrom leading s&p 500, encouraging sales numbers. investor love it.ht now stuart getting filled in what is coming up at the very top of the hour. here is what we have. you've got stocks at record highs, hitting levels not seen this century. it's a big deal, folks! cheer up. it is friday as well. that will be a smile as well. look at this, mainstream media analysis, so-called trump scandals in the all headlines. trump bashing in, hillary bashing out. we're calling this is the new donald trump. trump positive individualing campaign back to the economy, staying on message. first rich lowery from the last hour on the clinton foundation. take a listen. >> the mingling of private interests with the public business and the tranche of emails we saw this week in any other campaign environment would be the dominant political story. stuart: right. >> and they're very suggestive that doug brand, representative of the clinton donors basically, having access to hillary clinton's top aides and her aides being extremely responsive to what he wanted. now we didn't see

stocksee best performing in the s&p 500 or nordstrom. out with earnings that beat estimates.eeing strong sales in its rack division. in video out with numbers -- i vidia out with numbers as again. kohl's caught in the object from nordstrom. is we hadoning today this retail sales report that came in worse than estimated at a time where department stores are working well. check out this g #btv 2719. jcpenney in white. nordstrom in aqua. kohls in red. all of them gaining in the latter part of the week. this flies in the face of what we heard overall in the retail sales number, but many of these companies are doing various cost controls. a few are seeing outright increases in sales. what they are doing in inventory management or, in the case of macy's, closing stores. prices been watching oil on this report and speculation -- i guess we are skipping oil for the moment. so here is wynn resorts. it is falling after it was not awarded as many tables in macau as the company requested. they will get 150 gaming tables for the new resort there. the company requested 400 tables. so worse

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s&p down as well. the nasdaq extending yesterday's record to almost 5233. a standout performer was nordstrom'sreported better-than-expected numbers, defying the trend from retailers. got that weak retail sales report, but some retailers doing well. one economic data point, rig , it has been up seven weeks in a row. the red line is total rig counts. you can see it coming there in may. the white are chart is the weekly change. 2014, 2015, a relentless grind lower, but that has turned high. as we have had this come back this year, we have seen rig counts pick back up and a selloff. is what it's supposed to happen. the fracking industry is supposed to be able to respond much faster to the rise in oil price. joe: "what'd you miss?" the brexit vote and nomination increasedtrump has and interest in who is losing out in the economy. while much of the world got wealthier, the middle class in the developed world has stagnated. thank you very much for joining us. as you state in the beginning of your book, you are 31 years old. not many people write memoirs at 31, but you did. what made you write this bo

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s&p tooif yesterday. certainly that better profit surprise out of kohl's and the stocks are continuing to gain in morning. nordstromshe bell strength into the report and a pop after as well. better results fueling nordstroms. j krrkcpenney going to be the o watch. it reports later. also get the gort report on monthly retail sales. dollar is a bit weaker against the euro. the pound weakening below the 1.30 level and the dollar dronger against the japanese yen. a 1 3% higher in the japanese stock market. quickly also part of the story is price of oil. surged yesterday and has flipped positive again in the early action. wti crude. 43.59. up a quarter of a%. brent international benchmark just went over $49 a barrel. a lot of talk of an upcoming meeting. informal meeting between opec and non-opec. either way, we are seeing a higher price of oil. >> thank you for that. let's switch focus in sports news today. mega deal in cleveland. lebron james is resigning with the cavaliers. a deal worth $100 million. good for him. all right. to the olympics. if you went to sleep early last night, you missed some great moments in rio.

as she is moving into the 30's, you will see more of those changes. i think macy's, nordstrom'sut what to make their offerings more attractive. >> what do you think is the answer to that question? be a, it always has to when a customer walks into the store, she has to be inspired, motivated, excited about what she sees. have beene stores trying to get their sales bigger, so much promotion, that stores do not look exciting. there is lack of new and innovative product. the presentation is not inspiring. this is a business of theater. if you do not conduct a good theater or entertain the customer when she walks in, she will have an interest. then she goes to the internet. the other factor is the internet, if you're going to use a cell phone, they do a lot of socking before they buy, they do not go into stores. you have to have the internet in your business, but you still have to have the store do over 90% of the business. they have to be exciting. >> talking about stores, how do you feel about macy's closing 100 stores? is that enough? do you think the incoming ceo can bring enough

above their 200 day moving average, only 6.5 percent of the stocks on the s&p 500 have hit their new 52-week highs. scarlet: nordstrom's numbers have just crossed. let's start with adjusted earnings per share, $.67 was higher than the anticipated seven cents. you'retop line, if looking at the revenue reported, $3.65 billion a bit shy of what analysts were looking for. nordstrom getting it done on the bottom line but not for the top line. sales in terms of comparable sales, that's where the company missed. revenue, that's for the company missed but in terms of comparable sales, total company comps, that was down 1.2%. comparable sales beat, but the actual revenue line missed. joe: stocks surging over 10%. comps, the full price out let down 2%. the estimate was down for 5.8%. nordstromlso, affirming net and comparable sales. it's not downgrading its outlook either, which is a relief to investors given what we saw last quarter with the retailers reporting. joe: seem similar to macy's. so much pessimism had been built up. all you need to do is have less bad and reaffirm the status quo. scarlet: nordstrom iraq, comparable s

s&p. but the best performing stock right now is nordstrom.his after the company's earnings beat wall street estimates. thanks to a smaller than expected decline in same-store sales continuing a pattern, bill. >> yeah. yesterday we talked about the possible resurgence of retail. is that story line holding today? courtney reagan wraps it up and steve liesman with the new data of this morning. let's start with courtney. >> jcpenney is getting there and still a long way to go. the retailer posting a loss and both smaller than expected and a fraction of last year's loss. sales a little light and comparable sales still positive. remember, it's rebuilding back those big plunges we saw under the former ceo's failed transformation and then the reversal and reiterating full-year guidance. they like the strength driven by regular priced selling at jcpenney. margins, though, only improving 10 basis points. updates to the center core where the accessories are sold and home of the appliance rollout strong points and each expected to further take hold in th

nordstrom's after the close and tomorrow we'll get the retail sales numbers that everyone is watching closely. if let's check out u.s. stock markets covering near highs the dow futures up 44 stures at 34 and nasdaq up 12. >> this initial presidential race is having a trickle-down effect on other big contest in november like in hampshire senate race. incumbent republican is having a hard time in her bid for re-election and a lot of people are blaming donald trump. "fox news" rick leventhal has the details. [applause] 's finger puppet in such a kelly ayotte a kelly ayotte hosts a forum on veterans health issues part of busy schedule as she fights for her political future and one of the tightest races in the nation against democratic governor maggie hassan. >> i want to bring the kind of work ethic and pragmatism and commitment to problem solving behalf in the state. >> i wake up every single day with a sense of purpose to work as hard as i can on behalf of the people of new hampshire. there are always challenges thrown at you but it's worth it. >> onward to victory in november. >> three months before the election polls show the election is in dead heat. new hampshire typicall

s&p 500 up 10. nasdaq up 23. thanks to energy. thanks to retail. and a number of other factors. investors set for another read on retail. nordstr nordstrom's moment. instant analysis coming up. >>> first joining us for the hour is stephanie link, also with us for more on the markets is brian kelly. >> other sectors in other favor. that's the most important thing in the third quarter. excellent earnings results propelled earnings not just better by notably better. we have new highs in thisvidia. a leader for a long time. amazon, google both classes. even an old tech name of ibm at a 52-week high. there's the number one headline. tech leadership in the third quarter. secondly, seeing other more cyclical sectors of leadership. industrial stocks have started hitting new highs and we see united technologies, illinois toolworks, dover, eaton. these are big, classic, global, industrial names. also hitting new highs, as well. we're finally seeing some sector leadership, as well, right now. so, retail today exerted itself a bit and not been a big leadership overall here. energy in the last week or so as we have seen oil stabilize around 42, they ha

s&p 500, kind of sideways action. even though we didn't have that record close on thursday. of 1%.f .10 -- point one some of the best-performing stocks that we are watching include nordstrom. reporting earnings that beat estimates and saw strong sales at its rack division. that is after a u.s. justice department report said the government would be receptive to seen -- hearing cigna and anthem arguments over a settlement. waken videos rising in the about gaming devices. switching to quantities we want to take a look at what is going on there. we see crude oil prices on the rise up better than 2% and $44 a barrel. saudi arabia has put out there that there might be negotiations on stabilizing oil prices. we did see a little bit of a dip at 1 p.m. monday recount number came out and showed a seventh straight week of increase in rates. oil bounced back up from that little bit of a drop. first word on the news and we get more with mark crumpton in the newsroom. mark: hillary clinton is widening her lead in three battleground states. the new poll from the wall finds secretary clinton with a bigger lead in colorado, virginia, and north carolina while maintaining heard vantage in fl

expected to be up 50 points, take a look, nasdaq s&p higher, s&p, in record territory, watching swlu of corporate earnings including macy's kohl's nordstromout earnings we're going to be down 3 1/2% year he over year will be 5th quarter earnings down year over year basically in earning recession, you think that would show up in the stock market, but it is not showing up in the stock market because of where interest rates are where market thinks interest rates are going obviously lower that is what is going on earnings recession i just want american corporations ceos returning cash, right now, at a time when the cost of capital as it is lowest it has been 55 years, so we got to think they don't think great opportunity to invest, so rt give money back to the shareholders. maria: he fundamentals not great earnings down, yet there are very fie alternatives for money because rates are so cheap. >> so viewers buy high district off dividend yield. >> what happens when rates good up you get flexibility on the stocks because as rates are going up, that means that there is more opportunity out there, for investments, so those -- those markets shoul

s&p 500 companies reporting. we'll hear from coach, disney and solar city on tuesday. on wednesday, michael kors and shake shack. nordstrom on thursday. rounding out friday, we'll hear from j.c. penney. >>> gawker news. they're engaged in preliminary talks with hulk hogan to reach a settlement. concerns of $140 million court judgment over invasion of privacy that led gawker to file for bankruptcy protection. similar talks have taken place throughout the legal process. no agreement was reached. this coming a week ahead that will see -- deal now could allow hogan to cash out without waiting for the bankruptcy proceedings and to some extent, you might imagine who peter teal, the goal was to bankrupt the company and put it into this position. he may have already succeeded. if you remember, very interestingly on this show, nick denton, we asked him if he talked to peter teal. he wouldn't answer the question. he said i might have. >> he said if i had i wouldn't tell you. >> twice. >> that goes a little bit to this. >> all right. there's a developing story out of pakistan this morning. a massive bomb went off on the ground of a

s&p both hitting record highs intraday. getting a boost from positive retail earnings this morning and then after the bell tonight, we are going to get a read on high end when nordstromeports, as well. >>> energy also a big part of the story powering higher today.

nordstrom reporting after the bell jcp reporting before the bell. macy's be on the top and bottom line. we are about two minutes into the session, of about 131% of the s in the credit market it's all about issue. boom inve corporate bonds. on the rise of the last few years. the next guest sees the higher leverage in sliding corporate margins. swell joins us now. great to have you with us. yesterday, rbf goes to market. $2.65 billion. what is that tell you about the demand out there for this? guy. sorry to be the bond on people are usually estimates. to borrow a phrase from a couple of great singers, feeling a little bubble lucius. i wouldn't quite call it a bubble. if you think about your question, you have a bank in the loss absorbing securities of massive size and tons of demand for it at a time of the u.k. has exited the european union. the prospects of recession are extremely high. what does that tell you? look at the currency. the markets are telling you there is a great concern to be a recession in the next year or so in the u.k. and within the gilt market. the same time those are happening people want more and more yield. we feel this rush in d