was coming. the company says it stands by he every plank of wood. rare to see a news report send a stock down. $2 gas is down. the national average is $2.44 a gallon. prices have been climbing for five weeks. the average is above $2 a gallon in all 50 states. prices will climb through march. we could see the return of $2 by early fall. israel prime minister is hours away from the speech before congress. will he reveal secret details with the e are no longer silent. today we have a voice. i m less concerned, frankly, with prime minister netenyahu s
today. they are trickling in. ford was lower, fiat was lower. it missed expectations, but the good thing is that nonetheless, sales still overcame things like snowstorms freezing temperatures and it was jeep s best february ever. i m going to leave you on this note. gasoline prices you asked about them yesterday and they have been creeping up still. crude has found a slightly firmer footing. the average is $2.44 for regular. a month ago it was $2.06, but it s still better than $. 37b9 45 we were paying a year ago. back over to you. always a pleasure thank you. we ll be keeping an eye on the oeppen ing bell. the last time benjamin netanyahu addressed congress it was 2011, but the tension between the two countries and the stakes weren t quite as high. in the next half hour, i will be joined by senator bob menendez
are well established and are making money. back then they didn t make money. $2 gas is gone at least for now. the national average for a gallon of regular is $2.44 today. prices have been climbing for five weeks now pushing the average above $2 a gallon in all 50 states now. experts tell us that will continue through march. a stunning 25% plunge for the company lumber liquidator shares. a report by anderson cooper on 60 minutes reported laminate flooring contains high levels of formaldehyde which can cause cancer. the company says it stands by every plank of wood and laminate that it sells but that stock just creamed, you guys. alisyn very rare to see one news report take a stock down like that. this morning you have california saying it is investigating and said that it has found high levels of formaldehyde in lumber liquidator s lumber as well. wow, the power of
beijing. thank you, david. 39 minutes after the hour. officials say if it s true, it has never happened before. a u.s. citizen reportedly carrying out a suicide bombing in syria. it happened last sunday. members of an al qaeda-backed terror group say the man wearing the bomb was an american. but u.s. officials tell cnn, so far, they cannot confirm his identity. u.s. intelligence officials say they are aware of more than 70 americans who have traveled to syria to fight for rebel groups against the assad regime. all right, let s get an early start on your money today. here s a look at what markets are doing around the world. futures up slightly here in the u.s. after sort of a blah day for stocks yesterday. treasuries, on the other hand, very big day yesterday. yields on the ten-year note hit 2.44%. look at that. that s the lowest since june last year. people tend to buy treasuries when they re worried about the economy, and there might be reason to worry. the government set to r
let s get an early start on your money. a look at markets around the world. futures slightly higher after sort of a blah day for stocks yesterday. treasuries, on the other hand, treasury bonds had a very big day yesterday. look at this. yields on the ten-year note hit 2.44% wednesday, the lowest since june 2013. people tend to buy treasuries when they re worried about the economy. there might be a reason to worry. the government s set to revise its gdp number later this morning. john, economists expect it to show the economy contracted last quarter by about 0.5%. the economy actually shrinking. the first contraction since the first quarter of 2011. don t freak out! most economists think first quarter s a fluke tied mainly to the bad weather, but be prepared for an interesting number later today on the economy. i think markets and people in the markets and economists are prepared for as well, they think it s going to be a pretty bad number. i m surprised by two things here. one, tha