CNBC Business News Update - Market Midday: Stocks Mixed, S&P 500 Index Hits New All Time High, Job Openings Tank 1/7/26

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

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I'm Jessica Eddinger, CNBC. Wall Street mixed this afternoon. The Dow and the red down 97 points, United Health shares, leading it lower. They're down 3% this afternoon. The S&P 500 index in the green building on the record high. It opened with this morning up 16 points. The NASDAQ up 156 points. shares of NVIDIA are up about 1.5% this afternoon. Venezuela will ship sanctioned oil to the U.S. indefinitely, sources are telling CNBC. This, as the U.S. may have seized a full oil tanker linked to Venezuela that was reflagged for Russia as it tried to escape a blockade in the Atlantic. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, taking to social media for a post there. He says the United States continues to enforce the blockade against all dark fleet vessels illegally transporting Venezuelan oil to finance illicit activity. stealing from the Venezuelan people, as there are multiple media reports now, unconfirmed by the White House, that the United States has seized an additional oil tanker

in the North Atlantic. That oil tanker was apparently reflagged as a Russian vessel. CNBC's Aiman Javers in Washington. More data suggesting the U.S. job markets getting weaker. The Joltz report on job opportunity and labor turnover for November found a big drop in job openings. Job openings, expecting the number around 7.6 million. Buckle up. 7,146,000. A huge miss. That would be the smallest jobs openings since the end of 2020. CNBC's Rick Santelli. Fewer jobs than expected were created in the U.S. in December in the new numbers from payroll firm ADP at 41,000. The government's December employment report will be out this Friday morning. Basically, every sector that lost jobs in November lost fewer jobs in December. So that's kind of good news.

That's ADP economist Neela Richardson on CNBC. The strongest hiring in December was in health care and hospitality. Alaska Airlines will buy more than 100 new Boeing jets. It's the airline's biggest order ever. Meantime, the pilot who safely landed his Alaska Airlines jet, with a hole blown out the side, says Boeing unfairly blamed him, leading passengers to sue him. And now Captain Brandon Fisher is suing Boeing. He was hailed as a hero.

The NTSB investigation found that a manufacturing problem led to that door plug blowout. The FAA even fined Boeing more than $3 million over safety violations after the door plug incident. Jessica Ettinger, CNBC. ambitiously.