November home sales struggle as supply stalls
CNBC Television· 2025-12-19 15:41
Well, Rick, existing home sales in November rose 0.5% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.13% million units. That is right along expectations. Sales down 1% from November of last year.Now, this count is based on closing. So, contracts likely signed in September and October when mortgage rates initially came down a little bit but then stayed in a very tight range. The headline on this report is supply.It is coming down again. We've reported on more sellers delisting their homes. There were 1.43% 43 ...
Consumer sentiment revised lower to 52.9 in December
CNBC Television· 2025-12-19 15:34
All right, first though, let's get some breaking economic data that's just crossing. Rick Santelli has it for us. Rick.>> Yes, David, indeed. These are the December final reads on University of Michigan sentiment and the inflation metrics embedded in this report. So, the midmon read gets tossed. 53.3% was the midmon read on the headline.It now moves lower to 52.9%. That'll be the weakest since it was 51 in November. And I'd like to point out that if you look at the absolute low, it is 50 from June of 22.We' ...
Michelle Obama reveals one thing that gives her hope
MSNBC· 2025-12-19 15:31
There is so much hope in your in in your overall story, but for a lot of people in the country today, hope is hard to have or to hold on to. And I'm thinking people in your hometown of Chicago right here in Los Angeles who live live with the fear that they or someone they know or or care about >> have been or will be snatched up off the streets by by federal agents. >> And who would have thought that just two years ago.Who who would have thought that that would be the country that we're in. >> But given eve ...
LIVE: Trump makes an announcement on lowering drug prices | NBC News
NBC News· 2025-12-19 15:31
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Michelle Obama on why she doesn't shy away from DEI
MSNBC· 2025-12-19 15:30
At a time when everyone, every institution seems to be running away from the D, the E and the I, >> you are running unafraid, headlong into it. Why. >> Because I can.Um uh I I've I've earned the leverage. I've earned the you know I am in control of my life. And that is, you know, when I talk to young women of all races, you know, sometimes you can't push against something because you don't have the leverage.You know, what do I tell people. Well, how do I wear my hair. You better wear the hair that'll keep y ...
Trump reclassifies marijuana — here's what it means for the cannabis industry
CNBC Television· 2025-12-19 15:30
Trump just made the biggest federal cannabis move in over 50 years, and Wall Street is already reacting. I'm Bernie Gomez at CNBC headquarters, and President Trump has officially signed an executive order reclassifying cannabis, moving it out of schedule one, the same category as heroin, and into schedule 3. That change eases restrictions on research, banking, and taxes, and could reshape the entire cannabis industry.Now, Trump says the move is about patients, including veterans, seniors, and people with ch ...
Cramer’s Stop Trading: Boeing
CNBC Television· 2025-12-19 15:24
Time for Jim and stop trading. >> One quiet winter clawing itself back after a quarter that people felt wasn't good yet I thought was good because of the cash flow is Boeing. Uh today JP Morgan raised his price target 240 to 245.Watch this company because as Kelly Ortberg is also David knows is a diff cut of a different cloth. He's a nononsense guy which is what's needed. care is obviously safety first, but this company is coming back and it's going to be a huge stock for 2026.I I wish we could get Hart in ...
Joe on the week in the Trump WH: He's not owning the libs, he's owning himself
MSNBC· 2025-12-19 15:22
I just want to let's let's just talk though. We're here on Friday and and and let's recap this week. It really really goes to what the real problem right now inside the Trump administration is.They have known, people inside the White House have known since those massive landslide victories uh that Democrats won in Virginia and surprisingly won in New Jersey. uh the victories they continue to win. They've understood that affordability is a key issue.They send the president out last week. He calls it a hoax. ...
MS NOW Highlights - Dec. 18
MSNBC· 2025-12-19 15:21
The suspect was found dead inside of a New Hampshire storage facility earlier tonight with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Just moments ago, officials said that they believe this person was also responsible for the murder of an MIT professor two days after that brown shooting. Take a listen.Federal agents breached a storage locker in Salem, New Hampshire, in search of Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national. We believed shot and killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor in Brookline, Ma ...
Why Great Products Matter
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-12-19 15:21
I personally love that bipolarity. You probably also have a MacBook Pro in front of you and you have absolutely no clue of the power the machine actually has and could be used for. Aspiration is one, but it's good to have great product even though you don't use it at its full extent.I don't see any negative to that. Anyone should go and get the greatest cashmere out there if they fancy Kashmir. They probably don't need it to stay warm. ...