the company saying it intends to list its shares on the nyse under shak. asked danny meyer back in june when we were celebrating the tenth apers havery of shake shack about the success of that shane and whether he would take it public or spin it off. >> i think our feeling about that is just one burger at a time. we never open a shake shack without bringing in experienced managers from one of our other shake shacks and that's what's our pace. >> nonetheless it was a question that was on analysts mind as well as his mind just a few short months later we're getting that s1 and we could see that ipo early next year. meanwhile, on demand sales of sony's "the interview" nearly five times that of the physical box office over the holiday weekend. what does this mean for the future of film releases? joining us is contributor jason lynch and editor of box office guru.com gentlemen thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> gatesh, start with you at post nine, when you think ate the comparison of what it did in the box office, albeit limited box office release, to w

adam: lauren simonetti at nyse.d to be the most wonderful time of year for retailers. now that it is over time to see how the retailers did like macy's and jcpenney. they lured people in to discounts with headphones and winter apparel. was it big enough to retailers to cash in looking into 2015 what kind of trend can we expect. we have broken asossi. and jeff flock who is in chicago. let's talk brick and mortar. were they packed, was it crazy or light in your impression? >> i also came from state street today which was also busy as well. we got numbers from mastercard today. national retail federation said 4.1% which would have made it a big year. mastercard said 5 pine 5% on their numbers they released today. anecdotally at least it seems like it was a pretty good year. adam: for people in chicago it is just not christmas without marshall fields. marshall fields right? i don't want to -- macy's. >> sign is still on the building. adam: let's bring in brian here. brick-and-mortar. they're not out of business. they ar

art cashin celebrating his 50th anniversary as a member of the nyse. he became a member december 30 1964 as one of the youngest men to hold his seat. here is a look at art over the years. >> you basically spent your life here. how long you been on the floor? >> i came down here in swaddling clothes. >> arthur d. cashin. december 30 1964. >> the man you probably want to hear from the most is standing downstairs, art cashin director of floor operations with ubs financial services. happy friday. >> happy friday i think. >> great to have you here today. i suspect you don't want to admit how many of these kinds of days you have seen. give us your perspective right now. >> i have seen a great many things. some very pleasant some terrific rallies in stories. >> this is a civilization-changing event. certainly, you don't want to have terrorists appear victoriously. >> people are beginning to get pour despondent. >> it's a stampede to safety. >> too early for the all-clear signal. often the second mouse gets the cheese. >> we had kind of a bipolar five days. >>

jon fortt is here on the floor of the nyse with more on that. to take a piece of them. >> uber might have had a controversial november in the press, but there doesn't seem to have been much controversy among investors. the ceo saying the company raised $1.2 billion. to put that in perspective, like gopro's i'm poe and planned secondary together that amount. it's not technically over. he could raise even more. the money is targeted to ooeb uber's expansion into asia which might be urgent since telco giant softbank put in for a riley. the company is six times bigger than a year ago and grew faster this year than last, though it's not clear whether he's raising revenue. some concern in recent weeks over reports that an uber executive talked about an idea of digging up dirt on a journalist and they have been less than careful with potentially sensitive customer records. the blog post says it the company will mature as it grows and be a better corporate citizen. let's lock in the vote. 59% said no, they would not buy uber shares and 41% said they wou

first let's check in with sue at the nyse. >> we start with a scary sign at least for some. trim tabs reporting inflows into exchange traded funds hit levels not seen since november of 2007. stocks dropped like a rock from that date losing almost half of the value before bottoming out in march of 2009. let's bring in bob pisani on that note. those are interesting statistics. you could argue that is a bullish case and people are putting more money to work in etfs or look at the volatility in the market and say perhaps it is topping out in bearish side. >> november was a really big month. the s&p was up 2.5%. when you get months like that it happens. secondly, we are seeing huge inflows of the u.s. equities. the whole world wants to get into the united states. europe is weaker, china is weaker. money is flowing here naturally. the etf business is on fire. we arech approaching $2 trillion in assets. everybody wants the indexes, cheaper, easier to trade. >> is it also perhaps because it is getting harder to find individual stocks? that are not fairly valued or overvalued? >> sto

to sue at the nyse. >>> and stocks are on a tear this hour despite fears about russia and its collapse in currency. come on in, bob pisani. you and i both said it the same time a couple of seconds ago this is one of the weirdest days that i can remember in a long time. >> screwy is the way i would describe it. volatility has been amazing today. the market can't describe what it wants to do. it is volatile. we have the oil up and down. it doesn't know where it is going. we have uncertainty with russia. we have a meeting. traditionally the markets are up the day before an announcement. we have a quadruple exploreration. let me show you what is going on here. oil. there is the big story. oil goes up $2 throughout the day and then suddenly it goes up $2. now it is about even. let me show you gold. gold starts around 7:00. it just falls apart, goes down 35, a two-day chart that you are looking at. it can't decide. germany at the open thisern moing goes down 1% and then all the way back, ends up 2.5%. that is a little strange. tyler had it right with dow going down 100 points and then moves

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there's america online, celebrating on the nyse. there's the nasdaq. we'll check your numbers in just a minute. >> and a live look outside right now on your friday morning. this a live picture of downtown san jose. the day getting ready to break. it is of course a friday and it is december the 5th. you are watching "today in the bay." >> announcer: from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> good morning. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia-cannon. today president obama will announce his choice to replace chuck hagel as the next secretary of defense. he is expected to nominate ashton carter in about 30 minutes. trac tracie potts joins us from capitol hill. he's an unknown name, though not unknown to the administration. >> he was the number two at the pentagon until last year when he was passed over for the top job by chuck hagel. he is initially an academic but also has a long history at the pentagon managing defense cuts. he's an expert in weapons. he came in as a missile defense analyst so he knows a lot about weapons. he

every year the nyse is going to be closed off.are working to improve the business are the conclusion in the article is untrue and in conflict with our recent statements about integrating and investing in the nyse. when the deal with ice was announced two years ago, i said that this is now a very small part of ice's business the ncse floor operations maybe 6% 7% of overall revenues. a lot of the business is futures business. if that business the business of selling stocks and being in the business of buying and selling stocks didn't improve in a few years, it was quite possible the business could be spun off. these guys have made it clear, they want to grow earnings. but not in 2015. they are making very serious investments in the place and trying to turn things around. i think a sale is possible down the road but not in 2015. guys back to you. >> the gift that keeps on giving. bob, thank you very much. let's get over to the nasdaq and they can in with morgan brennan as to what's moving over there. >> hey, simon. taking a look at t

climbed with a huge surge and posting the second best we can to years let's go to the floor of the nyse-listed nicole petallides. >> we saw the market's gain after more than is 700 days packing on points for the run with a heavy volume because there is the triple witching with options expiration. so that helps bolster e lead the way. but on the downside like nike and finish line were weaker. it is the busiest travel time of the year 17 days and today, friday, is the busiest of the year may be two and a half million and that is the average. also small caps had a great week so for those that have been beaten down have a great weekend from the the new york stock exchange. charles: a huge we can here to help us sort out back with us again, the beta fund the. portfolio manager looking good. and back with us again. and figuring all this out that we have not done this gave a long time. >> those are amazing. >> my husband's holiday parties. >> o my god. you are the talk of the town. this is one of the best three day rallies. coming to grips with the fact that what we talked about in the show we though

nicole petallides at the nyse. talk about the five stocks that really did the heavy lifting.ringing the dow above 18,000. >> taking a look at some of these names, including visa, goldman sachs. this is 3m. now a mixed bag right now. 3m and united health have since pulled bag tracy: seven of the worst stocks on the 7:00 fiber-optic hundred what is going on? >> thanks to senior editor charlie brady there is talk about reimbursements plans going forward. that could be some greatest performing group. some people may be taking profits. david: by the way, we want to look at rates which are up about 5% today. there is a little move, a little move whether the rates will go up regardless of what the fed decides to do. [closing bell ringing] meanwhile only the nasdaq is in the red today. all the other indices are in the green. we're hearing a big cheer, folks, for the dow 18,000. all the indices are in high territory. the question whether they have popped off. whether this is now if we have to look at correction. we have it all covered. "after the bell" starts right now. david: get rig

climbed with a huge surge and posting the second best we can to years let's go to the floor of the nyse-listedlides. >> we saw the market's gain after more than is 700 days packing on points for the run with a heavy volume because there is the triple witching with options expiration.

. >> horton works was on the nyse and new relic. let me give you numbers. 47% for new relic, horton works, 64%, huge pops for both of them. back to you. >> all i know is we saw confetti so that's got to be a good sign. >> they both made a lot of money. thanks so much. >> just a couple of hours, congressional lawmakers will announce they've agreed to fund an early warning system for california. the system has been in the works for nearly a decade. we're talking about an early earthquake warning system. it's already being used by bart to warn trains to slow down before earthquakes hit. but bart is one of the only few companies who receives alert from a prototype. bart got an alert 8 seconds before the quake hit in august. >> extra police officers are patrolling a southern california neighborhood hit hard by a mudslide last week. they are looking for people trying to break into the destroyed home. a woman returned to her home over the weekend to find somebody had reportedly broken in and taken her jewelry. that home was red tagged, mea

. >> dow industrials will start this morning at a new record as we get things under way on the nyse. now over to the nasdaq as they get under way. >> the confetti not falling in the bay area but it will be in the new year, not only a little over a week ago. it is tuesday, december 23rd. you are watching "today in the bay". >> a very good tuesday morning to you. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm vicky nguyen, laura garcia-cannon has the day off. the internet in north korea is back on today after a mysterious outage. some are asking whether the united states was behind all of this. tracie potts joins us live from washington, d.c. the white house is not confirming or denying anything right now. >> and neither is the state department. it's very possible that this was just a big router problem. internet, which is always sketchy in north korea, was down for more than nine hours monday. was it the u.s. making good on a promise to deal with whoever hacked sony pictures? the state department won't say. >> as we implement our responses, some will be seen, some may not be seen. >> the u.s. believes nor

we have both the nyse there and over on the nasdaq as well, as business gets under way. >> good luck. a lot of changes on the market this morning. >> and a good monday morning to you. thank you for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. before you head out the door, we do have a microclimate weather alert to tell you about. another storm hitting the bay area, across the entire bay area. >> from the bay bridge down to san jose, your drive to work this morning is going to be slick. mike will join us with a look at the conditions and christina is going to let us know where the rain will fall the hardest in just a few minutes. >> but right now we do have an update to breaking news this morning. it appears that officers are beefing up their presence in downtown sydney where a gunman has taken an unknown number of people hostage. >> stephanie chuang joins us. this area is of great concern, the u.s. consulate is just a block away. >> the u.s. consulate was evacuated right away. this is comparable to new york city's time square. in sydney it is 1:30 in the morning. this be

there's your nyse. then over on the nasdaq, the opening bell as well. >> doesn't know what to do with that fed decision impending. a live look outside, monday december the 8th, as we get ready to kick start your work week here, you are watching "today in the bay." >> i'm sam brock, good morning. >> and i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia-cannon. >> and the duke and duchess are in new york. it's their first trip to new york city. we get all the details of their whirl wind visit. brian, good morning. >> reporter: am i the only one that thinks that the washington is getting sort of the consolation prize, but not a bad one? they'll be here meeting in a short time with president obama and vice president biden? but the prince is also going to the world bank, addressing a subject he feels very passionately, about the trade of illegal animal parts. he hopes these people will not only be a receptive audience but that they are people with power who can do something to take care of this global problem. from washi

revived the 1905 song and sort of become the anthem of the nyse. here is art cashin to lead in the annual singing of "wait till the sun shines, nelly". ♪ wait till the sun shines, nelly ♪ ♪ ♪ we will be happy, nelly ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> art cashin who just celebrated 50 years of singing, 50th anniversary as a member. we celebrated that yesterday. they changed the style? >> they were singing that when i first became a member 50 years ago. and it even preceded that. they started to do it in an that form. >> when it became sentimental did that reflect the more difficult times of the 1930s? because that song was out of fashion when it began being popular again. >> it was the hope that the clouds would roll by. seats on the stock exchange traded at $17,000. they had an insurance policy that paid you 20,000. so you could buy a seat and die and make $3,000. >> in the 1920s the seats were going for multiple times that. >> hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> we got over that and are looking forward to better times, as well. art cashin, thank you

there's the nyse. blue nile, the online jewelry store on the nasdaq. >> and a live look outside right now of a somewhat foreboding sky there. this of course monday, december the 1st, and we are starting a new month, a new week after the holidays. you are watching "today in the bay." >> from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> a very good monday morning to you. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> as the indefinite suspension of former baltimore ravens running back ray rice is lifted, his wife is now speaking out. in a "today" show exclusive, janay talks about the night her then fiancee punched her unconscious and about the nfl commissioner's actions that followed. kris sanchez is live with a preview for us. >> reporter: i think it's interesting to know on the "today" show that janay rice says she saw the video of her husband dragging her out of that elevator, she will never watch the video inside the elevator, the one that shows her husband punching her, nothing her out cold. desp

market guests are not so sure that the nyse is where the united states should be putting money. where you should have the best potential for your portfolio now. things do change. >> with a mega rally goglets dip into the utility sector. they pay good dividends. up 3% in the last month. outperforming the s&p 500 and the dow, even with today included. as investors look for the flight to safety. and it's hitting its 16th record high this year. doing even better, american electric power aep, up more than 4% over the same time period, but doing extraordinarily well at a 52-week high. what's the secret to their success? in a fox business exclusive nick akin, president and ceo out there in the buckeye state. we're watching a fascinating move in energy. yeah, he's smiling now. all excited. let's get right to the issue. would you have ever thought that oil would have dropped this much when you were looking at the start of the year at what your business plan is? and how is it positively affecting aep's business now? >> yeah, absolutely. you know, keep in mind, our industry uses less than

liz: great to see all of you at the nyse, the cme and the nymex.'s get to japanese auto parts maker takata, it is still resisting a national recall of its airbags. but some very large automakers, both foreign and u.s., are taking matters into their own hands, and you know what? they're saying, forget it. they're pulling vehicles with takata airbags off the market. by the way, that's a lot of vehicles. ford and chrysler are the latest to expand recalls, they join toyota, bmw and honda. adam shapiro is our car guy. he's on this story. takata, i wouldn't say they have the a monopoly, but, boy, do they own the market. >> but how much longer? you've got honda saying they're going to get parts to replace, they increased their recall, it's almost the entire fleet in the united states. they are going to go to a company called autolive, alv, it trades on the new york stock exchange. it was up today because they're going to replace in all 50 states in any honda that is in the years where these bags may have been put in a vehicle, they're going to fix them, a

there's the nyse. on the nasdaq as well, there's the opening bell. >>> a live look outside. overlooking south bay, san jose this morning. you made it halfway through your workweek, wednesday december 17th. this is "today in the bay." >> announcer: from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> very good morning to you. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. we begin right now with breaking news. an american imprisoned in cuba for the last five years is now on his way back to the u.s. alan gross, you see him here, a contractor who was jailed in cuba on espionage charges. in exchange for gross' return, three cubans, jailed in the u.s., will be released. president obama expected to talk about that exchange coming up in a few hours. >>> pakistan mourning the deaths of 142 people, most children, killed when taliban gunmen stormed an army public school. the "today in the bay's" tracie potts joins us from washington, d.c. with more on how the u.s. is responding. good morning. >> the u.s. is going to help them track them down but we don't specifically what that means. the whi

bob pisani joins me on the floor of the nyse for perspective. >> 321,000 everybody went whoa. you could hear the air out of the room. >> upward revisions. >> and wage growth on top of that. let's look at what is moving the market today. might be surprised because my guess was industrials would lead the way, not quite here. it is actually financials as well as materials and health care modestly on the upside here. i want to point out we have a lot of new highs in financials today, regional banks are strong right across the board here. a lot might say why are regionals and banks leading the way here. i think a lot of people are betting consumer is looking a little better and with a little more money potentially good signs for the banks. these are new highs on regionals. even money center banks and big financials so all at least 52-week highs. not surprising i think we are seeing weakness in interest rate. not much. 1% down in utilities. telecom, if this was a year ago you would see a lot more panic. i think it is a sign the market is maturing a little bit. i want to point out an

. >> a lot of liquidity this morning as we check the nyse and offer on the nasdaq as well, we're keeping our eye on apple and taser coming up. >> this is a live picture of the bay bridge. today is tuesday, december 2nd, and you are watching "today in the bay." >> announcer: "today in the bay" begins with a microclimate weather alert. >> good morning. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm some brock. our live radar right now is all lit up, a spectrum of colors. can you see green, yellow, even orange indicating heavy, heavy rain pounding the entire bay region right now. >> let's take a live look outside, morning drive through san rafael and across the golden gate bridge on the right, very slick, take it slow, especially with parts of san francisco already seeing heavy flooding right now. huge puddles of sanding water to drive through in van ness. we'll check in with stephanie in about 15 minutes. >> and we'd like to bring in bob redell, who is in woodside where a large tree has gone down. though it's probably the best care scenario, we understand. >> reporter: well, in the sense that no one got

have to believe that the jeep sales are helping this listing, and since it listed on the knew city -- nysemping 46%. when you and your team start to look at this, do you think about the history of detroit and the auto industry and the fact that for a while there chrysler was owned by the germans, daimler benz bought it -- >> yeah, i was here. liz: who would have thought the italians would do better as far as a business was concerned? but they have. how much latitude are you given by the italians at fiat to do what you really wanted to do? >> honestly, we've -- all the design work that we do, we show that to our bosses through here, and they support, so far they've been very proactive and very supportive of the most radical design that we put out. we'll put out a range kind of from mild to wild, and the italian leadership here has been more -- liz: they like the wild. >> -- the wilder stuff. [laughter] liz: mild to wild. >> it has longer legs, as we say. but still throughout the lifetime of that vehicle, it'll still look fresh and new. liz: well, tell the team they're doing a great job, and

over to bob pisani at the nyse. coming back a little towards the close of trade. bob? >> a crummy day. not a horrible day. show you the market, an idea what's going on, mandy. advance decline line 3-1 declining to advancing. should be declining to declining. not the other. not a great day but really bad ones this week. worse than that. borrowing from the heavy side, heading towards 2.5 billion shares. 3 billion in a single day. . 30 new los is a lot. the most important thing to show you. over 20 today, very unusual. the cash index, current price, is higher than futures contracts out in december, january and february. that usually doesn't really happen that much. now, that's an indication traderses are in short-term panic for the next few weeks. why is this happening? fell you what i think is going on. most traders have gains for the year. most figures, only 12 trading days left. i may not make money going into the 12 trading days, but a chance i could lose a lot of money. that means panic. that means traders going out saying, oh, my heavens. i have to buy protection no

this is new relic opening the nyse this morning after its ipo, two ipos last night, new relic and we also had one in santa clara, as well. the dow is down 200 points again today. we've been ping-ponging back and forth. >>> air space around london closed temporarily today after a computer failure at one of britain's two air traffic control centers. heathrow officials said there was a power outage at the center in england. the shutdown comes at a busy time, at the beginning of the weekend. five airports were affected. the problem was resolved in about an hour, but flights continue to experience delays all over europe. >>> passengers onboard a united airlines flight from san francisco had an unfortunate welcome to australia today. they were forced to wait on the tarmac for eight hours. that flight was diverted because they could not land in their scheduled destination city, sydney, because of debris on the runway. passengers were kept from leaving the plane, but as food ran out and toilet paper, they were allowed to exit on to the tarmac but go no farther than that. customs and immigr

nicole petallides at nyse watching all ups and downs of the market, mostly up although there was a slight pullback after initial enthusiasm. what was that about? >> we saw the markets jump that is the cue we should take. dow fin i canning up nearly 300 points. not too far off the highs of the day. they left in the considerable time language. they can be patient normalizing monetary policy. all 10 sectors higher today. [closing bell ringing] liz: energy really gyrated. really fascinating day. one of the biggest rally days post-federal reserve meeting. david: look at pyramid. we focus on the dow jones industrial average. but that pyramid gets bigger as you go down the indices. nasdaq did better than both. big winner, small and mid-sized caps loving what happened today. both the prize of oil. we can't forget what drove markets up in the beginning, oil begins to find a ground. might be temporary. at least for today it found a floor in which it built a little bit even though after-hours it's trading is mixed. but a very busy day in the markets. huge day in the markets. we have a lot to talk ab

let's get down to bob pisani in the nyse. earlier there was what you call an interesting push and pull between the economies getting better. how is the market feeling now? >> it is trying to split the difference. i have been saying all day if this were a year ago that would have been down 200, maybe 300 points. the market is taking it in stride. i thought industrials would be the leaders today. it hasn't worked out that way. a lot of people are surprised financials are leading. we have new highs on all big financial names. regional names like pnc, five or six other regional banks on highs on that nice gains as well as super regionals like wells fargo and money center banks all at new highs minus declines in interest rate but not much. at least the equities part of the market taking the concern about potential higher rates very much in stride. we are at the door of 18,000. the real moves have been off of the october 15 bottom when we bottomed on that day. look at the sectors that have moved. we have strength in health care sto

bringing it all together with the likelihood of russian defaults, very important, and our traders at the nyse with andy brenner making sure that you guys are all ahead of the game. >>> a technical glitch is being blamed for a massive outage at one of the world's busiest airports. flights to and from london's heathrow airport were halted for more than an hour today. people thought it was going to be much worse than that. a major air traffic control center in southern england suffered a, quote, technical problem, so flights at london's gatwick airport were also delayed, not just heathrow. the outage is still having a ripple effect around the world. heathrow flights go to 180 destinations in 90 different countries, so expect delays if you're going or if you know somebody who's going. >>> closing bell is 51 minutes away. apple's big year, the stock up 40% this year, and investors seem to be just backing off of hitting tim cook below the belt for now. but with the critical holiday shopping season in full swing and no apple watch under anyone's christmas tree and accusations of apple stores hoardin

simon is at the nyse. >> as soon as the president speaks we'll take everybody live to the white house but first let's get to the breaking news regarding the hacking attack on sony. julia is live in l.a. we also have aman. what do we know now from the fbi. >> what we know now is the fbi is attributing this attack to the north korean government and what the fbi said in a statement is we can conclude that the north korean government is responsible for these actions. the fbi also putting out some of the details of why they know that but they say they're not going to put out all of the details for fear of betraying u.s. intelligence secrets here as they reveal exactly what they know about north korean computers and capabilities. another interesting nuisance in this fbi statement is the praise here that the fbi has for sony in particular in the way it's handled this. take a look at the statement. they say sony reported this incident within hours which is what the fbi hopes all companies will do when facing a cyberattack. sony's quick reporting facilitated the investigators ability to do the

simon is at the nyse. >> as soon as the president speaks we'll take everybody live to the white housest let's get to the breaking news regarding the hacking attack on so

just a few trading days left in this year, is the santa claus rally here to stay in let's head to the nyset kenny pulcari. what do you have for us, gifts or coal? >> no, no. just gifts. no coal. it clearly is, you know, the santa claus rally clearly has to fruition and really come to fulfill the every year, you know, the event that happens every december where investors and traders expect it to happen and again it happened once again. right? we saw that kind of market pullback earlier in the month and then, boom, the minute that the central bank says they're here to stay we find a floor and the market rallies into the end of the year an i suspect it continues to do this churn right up here testing 2,100 on the s&p. i think selling pressure next week into the very last days of trading and nothing to deliver nicole. >> because everyone expects it, like a self fulfilling prophesy. and then what happens? cinderella turns into a pumpkin come 2015, boom, all these fantastic gains and these multi-record highs day in day snout. >> no. >> it can't go on forever. >> it can't. as we did into the end

bob pisani live in the nyse and cnbc michelle caruso-cabrera covering russia here at hq. let's start with the market whip saw. how much of this is being driven by moves in oil and the ruble? >> it is russia and oil and it has been a very strange day. volatility has been enormous. first and foremost oil which can't decide what direction it wants to go in. we will see if that happens. we have a quadruple witching exploration. down two and up two it doesn't know what direction it wants to go here and i think that is what is moving the markets overall, what is happening in oil today. energy stocks are holding up very well. we have a number of names like denbury, apache, deep water drillers like dominion offshore doing well. diamond offshore and nabors. some of the financials have had pressure. citi group was down earlier in the day and that put pressure on the s&p 500. guys, back to you. >> thank you very much. let's get to jackie deangelis. a big part of the story -- going together like peanut butter and chocolate. >> not just yet for a bottom is what they are saying down he

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an analyst at deutsche bank joins us now from the nyse. we appreciate you coming on today. you are not an oil strategist. you are a debt and high yield strategist. give us your thesis in layman's terms about how oil may impact the credit markets. >> certainly. good to see you, brian. the way we look at this issue is energy sector, of course, the single largest sector in the u.s. high yield market measure the market value in terms of 15% right now. it's the second largest sector in the u.s. it is clearly an important part. as you mentioned when we see commodity going down and energy equities by more than 25% at this point in time our high yield bonds are now trading at around 760 basis points in the energy sector. that's about a 300-basis point premium to the rest of the market. i think the data points are telling us this is an important story. >> tie it together. is the oil and debt story just an oil and debt story in the energy space or does it have the possibility to infect other parts of the credit market? >> the answer is we are going to find it out relatively soon. we

high, rob hackle, you're at the nyse.raday records, is this time to whip out the confetti, or do you look at this and say, wait a minute, we got really close this time, we didn't touch it, time to take more profit? >> >> well, liz, thanks for having me on. is it confetti or pom-poms, i think now looks like a pretty good time to continue to stay into the market. the dow is only up about 8%, the s&p's up about 12%, it's really not that overbought, and i think it's still going to go a little bit higher. liz: kevin craneny, you're looking down at the cme, first this morning 8:30 a.m. eastern, 7:30 chicago time, you saw that major jobs number, a build of 300 plus, 321,000 jobs plus an upward revision for october which was very good news. how did the traders respond? >> bullish jobs number and, certainly, we saw bond prices start to come off, so yields started to increase. and i think it's an overall bullish tone. when you look at the equity side, a lot of the funds are trailing some of the benchmarks, so you'll continue to see

it certainly is leaving the nyse. mary thompson is here with me.nergy stocks but seems to be more to it than that. >> talked to a couple of traders and they said actually it was technically driven. you have the s&p falling below support here at 20.72. and then you add in energy stocks and sector weak throughout the day and then tech took another leg down, as well. so all of that combining for this 100 plus selloff we are seeing in the dow right now. >> everybody expected the dow to go through the 18,000 mark last year. there was disappointment that it wasn't able to do that. >> coming in we had weak data overseas from china, japan, germany. art cashin i was speaking to him earlier there is a historical negative bias to this week. december is a fairly strong month. once you get around the levels there is a little resistance you run up. people are looking ahead to retail reports out, as well. there are a couple of other data points that maybe investors feel they need to see before they push markets higher. >> thank you so much. >> thank you very much

let's head back to nicole petallides on floor of the nyse.ive us some details. >> when you take a basket overall of social media stocks, they clearly outpaced the s&p 500 to the downside. so for example, the s&p was down more than half a percent, but look twitter was down 6 1/2%, linkedin down 4%, facebook down 3.3%. the best group overall has been somewhat weak. some are speculating and also great points made by our senior editor charlie brady who talks about the fact you might see some selling underway as some fund managers are doing some window-dressing. they don't necessarily want to hold on to some big losers. yelp is down 20%. yandex and sina down. pandora has been down this year. there may be some window-dressing and tax-loss selling may be underway. it is december as we start to wrap up 2014. you did see this group significantly lower and more of a selloff for most of the group than the rest of the market. thank you. liz: thank you, nicole. david: more people are shopping from their couch than the from the mall. long weekend store sal

down here at the big board, aol celebrating five years of trading on the nyse.n the balcony. on the nasdaq sbac communications. >> sbac, they are annuity streams. the shorts have been all over those. you see them. they are those crazy christmas trees that are like phony, you know, like on the garden state? you ever take the garden state? you see the towers that look like trees? those are money trees. those are called dollar trees. >> we'll get to that in a minute. we are not ready. >> it was a segue. >> it was very well done. >> at the open, would you expect some of the high yielding discretionary consumer names to take a hit? >> yeah. >> do not take this personally, but if pepsico goes up big today, i have not figured out this market. if dr. pepper goes up, if j&j goes up, i've got to rethink my game. they should stay here. i like every one of those. no one should take it personally. >> some of these companies, let's talk about northrop grumman. it had 300 million shares five years ago. this is a buyback. these guys buyback stock like there's no tomorrow. it's

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i think it was the nyse. begin all the news, i have to ask is starz for sale?e company up for sale. we've never run an auction. one of the key rationales for spinning starz out from liberty was to make it more flexible in making strategic alliances with companies to hold our business. those conversations go on all the time. >> were they misinterpreted? it's not as though we hear these things out of the blue. i heard them, as well. were they misinterpreted or looking for a strategic opportunity that actually includes getting bought something you are doing? >> i said from the beginning selling your company is not a strategy. at the same time we have an obligation people want to talk to us about buying the company, that is a very different statement than we are selling the company. we are very secure in the strategy we have of transforming from an all-movie based service to movie and originals. it's a strategy that's working. we are adding subscribers. our distributors like it. got a lot of programs people are talking about. we have an international opportunity to

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the nyse and nasdaq will close at 1:00 p.m.rly christmas present to comedy fans, deciding it's going to release its controversial film "the interview" tomorrow in more than 200 theaters. sony pictures chairman saying in a statement, quote, we've never given up on releasing "the interview," and we're excited. our movie will be in aurm in of theaters on christmas day. the decision coming amid spotty internet service in north korea. the country accused by u.s. officials offi hacking sony pictures. george, nice to have you here. >> great to be here. >> quite some time ago when i did a piece on chinese cyber espionage, i talked to a number of your colleagues. back then it seemed almost tame compared to what we've seen here. what have we learned as a result of this hack of sony? >> well, it's something we've seen and predicted for some time. if you think about the security landscape, we really move from network exploration to data exfiltration, the taking of data, to now data destruction. we've seen this in past in limited cases, par

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that big dip in the dow yesterday, jim, best nyse volume of the month so far. >> very interesting becausehat nasdaq turnaround which you mentioned was really rooted in a couple of the highest growth stocks. it's funny. tesla is a leader in that group. when oil came back, tesla moved up, which then triggered a lot of buying in some of these stocks that i regard as being cult stocks. i want to see which one continues. the nasdaq rally, which was going right into the bell, or the dow selloff, which made a nice recovery but got hit. i'm looking at a couple stocks. i want to contrast these domestic versus international. international is quite weak, but the domestic companies just start flying around noon every day. they just start flying. >> hard to ignore. apple in the context of the nasdaq, which did end the day in the green after a rough week or two. >> i want to know more about the ibm, the ios operating system. that combination, i think, could help both companies. it's important to watch. >> let's get the opening bell here and a look at the s&p at the top of your screen. at the big board

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shares set to trade on the nyse today. >> the oil shock keeping markets on edge now. the price of crude is 54.48, down 2.5%. let's discuss the fallout with kevin buck, managing direct of research at clearview energy partners. this is a quick rebound or here for years, kevin. >> years? joe, are you driving more? >> seeing if you have been dead wrong on the way down from 90 and whether you're clinging to your mistake or whether -- >> yeah, so without oec demand -- >> have you been caught at 6 5? >> everyone calls the bottom the whole way down and claim they were right the whole way up. >> what about you? >> we have a $75 average for next year, slowing u.s. production, balancing the market, bringing us up from the lows right now. >> are we going to stay here or go up? yes, i drive a car. is that implying that we're going back to 90? >> no. the problem is that demand does not rebound like it used to. we're not a country or even as an economy, the oecd, as a drgrp of countries is not driving more in response to prices. it takes a long time to get that demand response. with