s&p 500. the nasdaq closed at a new high thursday and climbed again in early trading on friday. stocks were mixed at the end of the day. nordstrom may have found a way to alleviate the pressure that many retailers are feeling these days, by going private the heirs to the department store chain are looking into buying shares of the company that they don't already own. if the company is private, there would be less of a need to try and show profits on a weekly or quarterly basis. >>> apple has a new product to compete with google home, the home pod, apple's first new product since the apple watch. >> just like we did with portable music, we want to reinvent home music. >> it will retail for $349 and it's a combination of a speaker and microphone, which responds to royvoice requests home pod is expected to launch later this year. >>> estate sales westbound an adventure for buyers and for the home buyer, they can be time-consuming, awkward, unusual. people are traipsing their home, touching things and looking to pay next to nothing for your home possessions everything but the house may have a solution. andy neilson is the company's