dig right into the market reaction. We're joined now by Meera Pandit, global market strategist with JP Morgan Asset Management. Um, so the markets, you know, digesting the consumer sentiment number somewhat in stride, kind of more of the same uh that we've seen for much of this year.Um, from a sentiment standpoint, we've gotten some pretty decent AI indicators over the last few days with the Micron earnings. Uh there's news that OpenAI could be raising at a significantly high valuation of $830 billion. At l ...

20 years into our marriage, my wife Andrea and I sat across each other on our anniversary. We should have been celebrating. We were asking the one question that no couple really wants to say out loud.Do we want another 20 years just like the last. See, back then we thought there were only two options. In fact, that moment could have been the end of a marriage, but it wasn't.It was the beginning of something new, something I didn't quite have the words for at the time. Because like everybody else, we thought ...

It devolves sports into the halves and the have nots. So those universities with big alumni backing and business collectives can afford to to load up their uh different programs like Texas Tech did this year, but um no one really knows. But I believe that the school with the most NIL money in the country is Ohio State or the Ohio State.And Ohio State, oddly enough, it's favored to win the national championship. So what you're going to see ultimately is a evolution where the top four conferences will play at ...

A 30 minute line just to get into the web 3 section at a regular crypto conference. This would be a meme. But this is a traditional finance event where people talk about gold, oil, factories, and stocks.Just a couple of years ago, crypto here was a small corner. This year, you can literally see the interest growing in real time, a separate pavilion, and the feeling that the future is standing in line. Welcome.We're here at Abu Dhabi Finance Week around all the finance bros and we're going to be asking the b ...

And now, let's bring in an attorney who represents Epstein survivors, Spencer Kovven. Spencer, thanks so much for taking the time. The DOJ has had weeks to comply with this law and to release files.Are you surprised they've waited until deadline day. >> No, not surprised at all. As we've heard from your other um panelists, you know, this is hundreds and thousands of documents that they're having to go through.And I have to point out, you know, one of the things that the victims are concerned about are obvio ...

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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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

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