i take on usain bolt and i did not do all that bad. to "market makers." i'm stephanie ruhle. erik schatzker is off today. bill cullen is joining me today. -- bill cullen is joining me today. >> i wanted to be similar to santa claus. >> we are breaking news on the housing market. olivia sterns is in the newsroom with headlines. >> the numbers look like u.s. november home sales fell by -- economist we surveyed were looking for new home sales to rise by about 4 -- .4%. this is a big disappointment. third-quarter gdp showing 5% growth in the american economy. add to that the disappointing herbal goods orders and -- durable goods orders. u.s. consumer spending rose by 6/10 of 1%. incomes rose by 4/10 of 1%. those numbers were in line with estimates. the takeaway is that new home sales in a month over month basis for the month of november fell point -- fell to 1.4%. >> i do not think we will see too much of a market hiccup. thank you for giving us the latest. we have hit a new milestone on the dow, 18,000. it is up a little less than half of 1% after the gdp report earlier this mor

that was a usain bolt olympic sprint down the street. >> please tell me they caught the guy. >> theyatch this guy. no real information what he was charged with. the cop got his man. if you look at the gps information, you'll notice they weren't going very fast. >> if you've been chased down on foot by a cop, hands up, i'm done. >> you've been chased down on foot by a cop while you are in a car? you're a bad criminal. >> word is on the street criminals have left this town. >> the behind the couch fox rescue. >> still to come, they are mangheir waye? >>> earlier this week i brought you a video of the space net moab, utah. that's not all you can do with the space net. this video put together by negative four productions. >> how do you get there? >> slack line out to the space net or you can harness on and shimmy out there. you know they didn't just string this up for one afternoon. they are going to enjoy this as long as they can. >> it still blows my mind that humans have this courage and so much fearlessness. we are awesome. >> they should start selling tickets to this thing. how fun

the usain korans have signaled they are ready to release up to 225 prisoners they have taken. the ukrainian security services estimate 630 prisoners are being hold. prisoner swaps. also stopping the fight withdrawing heavy weapons. this is causing the flying. the cease-fire was signed on september a. for many months after that, over 1,000 people have died since that cease-fire was signed. in the past two weeks there has been what is called a silent regime. things have seemed to be more quiet. there is an unsteady truce with sporadic firing from either side. but it seems to have been holding. it is a little better environment. finally, what they are eventually going to have to tackle are bigger issues. essentially they accuse kiev of cutting off financing. and the status. there are two regions which are the separatist bastions, they want their own status. the problem is the pro-russian separatists held their own elections in november. kisner ev then said basically everything is off. >> the christmas latos on the champs-elysees is one of the best displace in france, if not the w

stephanie ruhle takes on the fastest man in the world, usain bolt.ask prime minister samaras a second chance to rally among lawmakers in the choice of president. thatnap general election could see the end of austerity and up party take power. it is triggering volatility in the market. the benchmark stock down over 12%. investors are weighing the risk of the greek austerity and getting voted out of the government. elliott gotkine in athens for round one. good morning. have you booked your ticket for round three? >> not yet, mark. ism suggesting that samaras man electedget his for president. he still needs to hundred votes out of the 300 lawmakers in parliament. he only got 160. he only requires 180 out of 300 votes and he has a fighting chance of getting his man ushered into the presidential palace. not for lack of trying, he went tonational television and lawmakers the prospect of broadening his coalition if they president.s man as he offered to bring back general elections from mid-2016 if they vote for his candidate. there have been allegations tha

we have been speaking to u sane olt about his claim -- usain bolt about his claim of being the world'sr one athlete. ♪ >> 52 minutes past the hour. welcome back. we're on television, the radio, streaming on your tablets, fiend bloomberg.com. bloomberg has been speaking to he world's fastest man as he launched a d a new watch. stephanie talked to him about the fact that he is the greatest living athlete. >> i wouldn't say i'm greater than those guys. they have done so much for their sport around the me to do the same for my sport and when i retire, i want to be in the class with these guys. >> why not go out on top and say you have done it. as you said, you are legend. why duoing go back and run the risk that you may lose your autograph? >> i think i have one more in me. rio is the one. ecause of -- lose your groove. >> set the bar higher. need to do three. >> not four? >> just three. i wanted three. >> how much do you run? >> i don't know the distance i run a day. but i train like six hours a day. >> if you were working out six hours a day. what do you think of these athletes and the p

they have usain bolt at couple of footballers.nds -- if, 30 you go people the big boys, nike and adidas, that continue to sponsor in hopes their profits come back. puma is not there yet. i asked the guys if they preferred puma or gucci? guys, you are a gucci loafers kind of guy. francine on the spot. andou did a package on nike puma to figure out how german kits responded. they were talking about cleats. -- how german kits respond -- kids responded. >> back to business. >> i have cleats that allows me to run into the camera. it is a little advantage. you call cleats spikes? that's what iots, would call them. very straightforward. not that straightforward piece of equipment. hans nichols, good to get the fashion advice for he is a known manner >> thank you. a company approached in the middle east to see if they managed to sell puma. , there he is.k man of the hour. mark carney talking about a stress test. maybe just rented through. we will have a more. >> and you risk in the past 18 months -- and the risk in the past 18 months. if

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i will also be sharing with you theitdown interview with world's fastest man, you same bolt -- usainng race. i held my own. that is important. it is 56 past three hour. that means bloomberg is on the markets. julie hyman has more. i hope you were betting on me bolt it comes to usian versus stephanie ruhle. there is running. i do not think there is any contest. if you are looking at stocks, we see a mixed picture going forward. potentially the doubt is at yet gain, butiple digit stocks are coming off their biggest three-day rally since 2011 and posting record highs. these strategist at him km holdings, and since we are getting near the end of the year -- let's look at 2015 in what you are looking at in terms of options. >> sure, a good thing to look at this time of year. of focus is on the unwind volatility. what is notable, i think, is in october, we saw barely significant volatility events. this was the same time that the quantitative easing program to round down and we had and other significant high magnitude volatility, the highest since january 2013. that really has been embedded

groups, professional groupings, groups of banks, all can have an influence if they right things with usain or talk about what it is that needs to bereduced and that can reduced without creating greater instability.cial >> with that we'll have to end. stane join me in thanking fisher and john. [applause] >> more now from the "wall street journal" c.e.o. council meeting. coming up, we'll hear from national security advisor susan rice. she spoke about turkey's role had the fight against isis. >> thank you for joining us. let's start with the fight isis,t islamic state, isil. the president when he announced few monthsy action a ago said the goal was to degrade isil.stroy can you give us an update on how that's going. how much has it's been degraded when can we expect to it be destroyed? >> well, it has been degraded. i think the president has been clear and we've all been clear from the outset that this is not that's going to be won overnight. it a long-term endeavor. multifaceted endeavor. one.t just a military but it is also about preventing the flow of foreign fighters. it's about degrading