CNBC Business News Update - Market Midday: Stocks Higher, Stellantis Disappointing Q3 Sales, Buy Holiday Plane Tickets Now 10/2/24

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

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I'm Jessica Edinger, CNBC, Wall Street, all in the green this afternoon for the major averages. The Dow is up 85 points, being led higher by shares of Salesforce, which are up more than 2.5%. The S&P 500 index up 5 points. The Nasdaq is up 34 points this afternoon. I think we're still in the midst of a very tricky period because we've got the election in less than 35 days. And now we've got two things that investors don't know how to discount. One is the mounting tensions in the Middle East and then a port strike that is potentially going to cripple the economy. And so I think that if we get a dip and a big dip, I think you still want to buy that dip because the setup into your end has a lot of tailwinds. Funstrat's Tom Lee on CNBC. Private companies

added more new jobs last month than expected at 143,000, according to payroll company ADP. The big September employment report, that comes out Friday morning from the Labor Department. Tesla shares were slipping after it said it delivered fewer new vehicles in the third quarter than expected. Day two of the port workers strike that has shut down 36 ports from Maine to Texas is 45,000 longshoremen walk picket lines. They say their key issue is automation that threatens their jobs. The biggest part of the negotiations that is not spoken about very much is that they want to stop technology from coming and replacing their jobs while they're asking for 77 percent. You can't have it both ways. South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott on CNBC. At Boeing, 33,000 machinists have been on strike for two and a

half weeks now. Boeing has cut off health care benefits. New CEO, new plans for Nike, which withdrew its outlook for the full year as a new boss comes in. The CEO who left, John Donahoe, shifted the company to selling everything online, ditching long relationships with major sporting goods chains. The amount of destruction that was done by one person, by Donahoe, is extraordinary. And we may have seen the peak for e-commerce when it comes to things over $100. The dismissal that they had for Foot Locker and for Dick's,

so stupid, so arrogant. There wasn't anything that this company did right during this period. You can spend more than $100 for a pair of sneakers. You can try them on. Exactly. CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer with CNBC's Carl Quintanilla. Time to book your Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's flights to get the lowest airfares.

The best time to book those tickets is October. That is when, according to Hopper data, prices will be at their most affordable. CNBC's Ana Teresa Solas says the travel industry has already set a special sale day of its own in December for good prices, but those airfares may not be as low as they are now. If you do miss by any chance this opportunity window of October, you do have like this quote unquote last resort date, and that's December 9 or Travel Tuesday. That's when essentially most of the travel industry goes on sale. And it's kind of the same gist as Black Friday, Cyber Monday.

There's a lot more on holiday travel spending at CNBC.com. Tonight's Powerball jackpot, more than a quarter billion dollars at $275 million. Jessica Ettinger, CNBC. My dream entrepreneur, somebody who started with nothing and built an empire. It's the American dream. Shark Tank, tonight starting 7 Eastern, CNBC.