in the eighth, a couple of strikeouts, holland strikes out seven, allowing only two hits over 8 1/3 innings. albert pujols went 0 for 4 last night. rangers win 4-0 to even the series two games apiece. they play a big game five tonight in texas. to the nfl, the tim tebow era has begun. against the dolphins, didn t look pretty at first. broncos down 15 points with 2:52 left in the game. there s a red zone touchdown, avoids the sack. thomas with the touch john. broncos get seven after the extra point. then a successful onside kick a throw-back pass to tebow. how about that. but they need the two-point conversion to tie. tebow walks it in from five yards out. in overtime, denver kicker matt prader kicks the field goal to
furious as they ve been at any point many the last 16 years. and the president s under pressure to do something big. if i were the president i d call the congress back in and said you re not having a summer vacation. get back here. if he calls back konks that places the onus on congress to actually do something. the last thing this guy needs is more tactics and cleverness. what he needs is a heart and real action to put people back to work. while back on wall street it s anyone s guess how thins will turn out today. this market s got something for everyone. not in a good way. let s look at the numbering right now. the dow jones industrials off in a big way down 364 points. the s&p has slipped almost 36 points. we re looking at the nasdaq, plummeting here another 68 1/3 covering wall street and the white house right now mandy drury is at cnbc world headquarters and kristen welker at the white house. mandy, what specifically is moving the market as we speak.
high stakes poker game right now, bret. bret: you mentioned the president s tweet offensive. there was a little pushback in the twitter verse about that, wasn t there? when you count the number of twitter. he seems to have lost a few thousand of them, people complaining that their feed was clogged up. they say they re not about to stop using the social media. it was effective for the president in the 2008 campaign. they think in the long run it will be effective in a big debate like this. bret? bret: ed, thank you. stocks were again down today to close what was the worst week in a year. the dow dropped 97, the s&p 500 gave back 8 1/3, the nasdaq dropped 10. fuel to the fire in the debt ceiling debate. peter barnes breaks down the number. high gas prices and weak income gains for workers have the economy growing at its
office of budget responsibility told bbc though there is a chance it will fall in recession, he believes it will grow. china has overtaken japan as the second largest economy behind the u.s. japan s second quarter gross domestic product was .4 of a percentage point. the economy is on pace to grow 2-3% this year. china is growing at a 10% annual rate. china reduce the holding of the u.s. treasury debt by $24 billion in june. a drop in foreign demand would lead to higher interest rate at home. stocks were mixed today. dow dropped a point. s&p 500 gained a tenth of a point. nasdaq added 8 1/3. we told you friday that the white house ethics czar is leaving for a new position within the administration.
office of budget responsibility told bbc though there is a chance it will fall in recession, he believes it will grow. china has overtaken japan as the second largest economy behind the u.s. japan s second quarter gross domestic product was .4 of a percentage point. the economy is on pace to grow 2-3% this year. china is growing at a 10% annual rate. china reduce the holding of the u.s. treasury debt by $24 billion in june. a drop in foreign demand would lead to higher interest rate at home. stocks were mixed today. dow dropped a point. s&p 500 gained a tenth of a point. nasdaq added 8 1/3. we told you friday that the white house ethics czar is leaving for a new position within the administration.