s. leslie, we're about calls the golden age of content. 71 percent of holiday shoppers are planning to give video games and subscriptions to services like netflix or hulu. but santa's sleigh will be loaded with what. let's ask radios, top tech talk or dave greg line, who's been bringing us into tomorrow on hundreds of stations for 25 years. dave supply chain, snap foods have interrupted, day to day life in dozens of ways. what sorts of tech gifts are stalled and then short supply the worst? well, there are a few of course that are stalled and that's kind of the nature of the tech industry . we talk about chip shortages and all that. but remember, i've always said things like, just because it has a piece of fruit on, it doesn't make it a good tech product. you know, it may or may not be that case. oddly enough, we've talked on our show a lot about how cars these days are considered tech products. they've probably been most impacted by the shortage. i interviewed the president and ceo afford a few years back. remember asking him if he considers ford to be a car company that makes tech, or now

another honoree leslie cepeda, a u. s. army veteran who after her service was a coach for developmentally disabled adults. once homeless, she was. seemed help through the homeless veterans recovery program in menlo park. helping her story will inspire others. i hope that they will go ahead and reach out to the facility itself and get the help they need all of them. also mindful when a veteran serves their families serves while he was in boot camp. that is when september 11th occurred. this blue star moms son served in the u. s. marines in iraq. some people who saw her mother she had disliked the military before but has a new perspective and appreciation. after he went into battle. we have our freedoms. there are places that you can't do a lot that we can do. people don't appreciate it. and i so appreciate in san jose. i'm azenith smith ktvu, fox two news. more california stimulus checks are expected to go out tomorrow, the state's franchise tax board will send some 748,000 checks to individuals who earn $75,000 or less las

. >> look forward to a lot of 13-s this week. leslieing some new consumer data today looking ahead to the holiday shopping season courtney reagan has numbers. good morning >> good morning, carl. yeah the first really big forecast for the thanksgiving week shopping stretch which is right around the corner. mastercard spending expects retail sales in store and online will grow 10% over last year, 12.2% compared to thanksgiving week 2019. mastercard senior adviser tells me this forecast does take into account inflation and inventory shortages due to the supply chain congestion black friday sales, just that day isolated, looking to increase upwards of 20% over last year. shoppers are expected to return to stores to snap up doorbusters, reverting to black friday from thanksgiving again this year with many stores choosing to stay closed on thanksgiving so what's old is new again many retailers closing on thanksgiving so that the pandemic accelerated when no vaccines were yet available and, of course, that's not the case anymore. stores are st

another honoree leslie cepeda, a u. s.service was a coach for developmentally disabled adults. once homeless, she received help through the homeless veterans recovery program in menlo park, helping her story will inspire others. i hope that they will go ahead and reach out to the facility itself and get the help they need, all of them. also mindful when a veteran serves their families serves. while he was in boot camp. that is when september 11th occurred. this blue star moms son served in the u. s. marines in iraq. some people lose their mother should dislike the military before but has a after he went into battle. we have our freedoms. there are places that you can't do a lot that we can do. people don't appreciate it. and i so appreciated in san jose. i'm azenith smith ktvu, fox two news. olympic champion gymnast sunni lee says she was the victim of a racist attack, lee told the entertainment website pop sugar. she and her friends were waiting for a ride share in los angeles when a group of people started shouting racis

another honoree leslie cepeda, a u. s army veteran who after her service was a coach for developmentally disabled adults. once homeless, she received help through the homeless veterans recovery program in menlo park. helping her story will inspire others. i hope that they will go ahead and reach out to the facility itself and get the help they need all of them. also mindful when a veteran serves their families serves while he was in boot cam. that is when september 11th occurred. this blue star moms son served in the u. s. marines in iraq something blue star mother she had disliked the military before but has a new perspective and appreciation. after he went into battle. we have our freedoms. there are places that you can't do a lot that we can do. people don't appreciate it. and i so appreciate in san jose. i'm azenith smith ktvu, fox two news. events honoring veterans were held across the bay area today like this one in the south bay. this is what it looked like at today's veterans day parade in san jose, one of the big

>> leslie, the indexes are holding up okay. the s&p is probably better than it has a right to given what's going on below the surface a lot softer footing below the surface. you see a majority of stocks lower. market is actually still in this kind of sideways cooling off regrouping period. i think we've been in for about a week and a half, 4,700 is the record closing high. been kind of sticky around this 4,700 mark it's an options expiration week. could be one reason why the index level is kind of hovering around that level. take a look at the sort of once hot and some still hot groups of the market been talking a lot about how we've had these rolling waves of enthuse zum that go through these different busy groups where people feel like there's a very high story to substance radio. fintech, you talk about visa paypal also down today but a lot of the newer fintech stocks have done really nothing since the early part of this year the evs are the only group of these four still really riding high, although even today having a little bit

which shanley had served as editor -- as for the similarity between the leslie and london news illustration, in the 1850s and 1860's, it was common for artists to produce more than one version of a sketch to accommodate two different clients, especially if separated by notion. finally, illustrate, did not have sketches that were the basis for other publications or engraving. it's full page depiction from august 15th of the insurgents burning the orphan asylum, has inaccurate got accra viable buildings looming in the back, but could be mistaken for parisian seen during the 1848 revolution, but for the one vineyard of racial violence tucked into its right hand corner. keeping with the french weekly of other images of the american civil war, the illustrations often involve a mash-up of european iconography and vivid imagination. during these riots, frank leslie's illustrated newspaper assured its readers in its august 1st issue, we have had no less than seven artists on the spot, transferring with graphic skill the chief of events. our sketches are all real, not your imaginary offers with obscure backgrounds which wil

but that night, instead of grabbing her stuff from toolan 's apartment when she got their, beth stayed. and leslie beth later told her that things went from bad to terrible. >> he got very violent with her that night. he sexually assaulted her. and i think that beth was probably, sort of in a state of -- it's a confusing thing when it is somebody that you are supposedly close to. who violates you. my guess is that she was probably just in the state of shock. and why she didn't leave that next day, i'm not exactly sure. >> reporter: by friday, october 22nd, two days after the dinner with her brother, beth decided to leave new york. friends and family say it was clear that she intended to call it quits with toolan, and she had even left her weather a message, saying she was coming to spend the night. but by now, something else was becoming clear. tom toolan was not going to let death go. >> he wouldn't leave her. and he followed her and said, they got to the metropolitan, and she said, i was standing there, in front of this painting, this dark painting, saying that this painting reminds me of tom to

leslie: this man was a witness to the kidnapping. he said the -- a friend ss and the woman jumped in the driver seat. pittsburgh police say he left the engine running. >> he tried to get back in, but he couldn't. she sped off fast. leslie: the abandoned vehicle was found on army street two hours later. by midnight the suspect was arrested on harbor street. >> i told my wife, we go anywhere, ring the kids. just take her out of the vehicle. leslie: concord police responded to a stolen vehicle on ygnacio valley road with a four-month-old inside. within 30 minutes the car was found, and the infant was not injured. no arrests so far in the case. earlier this week a dad to stop for a coffee on his way to school with his eight-year-old >> and the time it took to park, i heard the glass smash. leslie: his laptop and passport were taken. his daughter was ok. >> it is clear there is something going on. it is important for me to say this was something new to me. there was a lot of people around. leslie: police always warned of leaving packages or phones inside vehicles

s&p 500 came up just shy of a record close yesterday. the dow and the russell seeing the most pressure. >> and i'm leslie picker in for sara eisen let's look at what's driving the action today retail earnings remain in focus with strong results today from lowe's, target, and tjx. though target pulling back today on margin concerns oil prices falling to a six-week low amid oversupply fears. and president biden calls on the ftc to look into so-called

leslie picker is following the money. hey, picker. >> hey, frank. it's a short seller's time to shine. too bad there are so few of them left in the market, short interest for a typical s&p start and it is at a new record low hovering around levels not seen since the dotcom bubble era. that means hedge fund's ability to capitalize on the nasdaq sell-off has been minimized at least recently the industry's returns, hedge funds lifted exposure to high multiple growth stocks to a new record high. of course, many of those are still on profitable names and facing the sell-off this week. it's a missed opportunity for hedge funds which they're experiencing unprecedented underperformance relative to the s&p this year and the shorts shakeout does have a main culprit according to goldman sachs. it's retail investors. their firm says their basket trades in correlation to the rise in retail trading activity. in other words, when retail is more active as they've been in recent week, that jumps causing rosses, but not all trays have failed the last two names have traded lower over the last week although beyond meat is up today and bill ackman betting a six-bet, and he is said to have

but here's a shareholder with a s substantial amount of stock and not sure on the size of the stake but indicated that they plan to vote against this deal guys >> leslie, thank you as we head towards the close a look at what's coming up in the second hour of "closing bell." jeremy siegel will weigh in on the sell-off a reaction to fed chair powell's testimony and the taper timeline earnings from salesforce, box, hp and allbirds and then speak with the ceo of authentic brands all of that to come in the second how sur 069 show. but now we are in the "closing bell" market zone. mike santoli here to break down the crucial moments and today we have scott renz as wells fargo with us, as well mike, broader markets back down to more than 600-point decline on the dow is this all down to powell or are we still remnants of the new variant, european inflation, too? >> i think the everything. i think there's psychologically traders in an unsettled market not sure if we hit a near term low, we worry about the growth threat from covid and not an opportunity to become dovish that's in the mix. >> quite the opposite. >> no, exactly the expectation to try to find more

leslie just stressed the big getting bigger. apple is worth noting yet again i think because it is now up 24.1% for the year you can see the s&p is of this year it had been a significant laggard, making up for it in these last few weeks let's call it as we head towards the end of the year. the 2.7 trillion dollar market value. that's going to do it for us on "squawk on the street. "techcheck" starts now ♪ ♪ >> good monday morning, welcome to "techcheck. i'm carl quintanilla with jon fortt. deirdre is off today fed chair powell is tapped for second term. what that means for big tech and growth names as they lead the nasdaq higher this morning >>> then we'll break down how rates relate to a few high-flying pandemic stocks that have come down to earth.

down about 37 nasdaq up about 16 and s&p 500 off about three points shares of rental car company avis more than doubled yesterday. take a look at what happened here lesliexplain what seemed like a crazy move >> that's a big task aside from game stop and amc, few stocks really reached that meme star document enter avis that stock more than doubling on better than expected on hints it could add electric vehicles to its fleet. leading to severe pain for those who were betting their shares would fall with 21% of the float yesterday. the sharp move caused mark-to-market short seller losses of year $3 million yesterday alone. cheering the move. avis avis budget was actively gained. one hedge fund in particular srs investment made a whoping $5.5 billion on paper thanks to ownership of about 30 million shares of avis a position they've held for about a decade not something you see everyday >> are we convinced this is going to hold. is this the next one or not really >> i don't think so. it is already down in pre-market today. i was looking at the reddit chat boards it doesn't appear to have the same excitement. with the hold, diamond hand, you didn't see as muc