out with a bang as we prepare to ring in the new year in times square. the marketst posting big gains for 2023. the dow up 14%. the nasdaq surging more than 40% and the s&p 500 up more than 24%. but will it continue in 2024? our market experts will weigh-in. with stocks soaring despite high interest rates to bring down inflation, what impact will that have on the 2024 presidential race? we ll ask presidential candidate ron desantis. he s here. a busy your world starts right now. edward: welcome. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is your world. first to madison alworth with a banner year for stocks. madison? the last trading day of 2023 has come to a close. the end of the year saw a strong rally. major indices were up business. s&p finishing up 24%. the dow joins up 13% and the nasdaq also seeing those big gains up over 43%. a huge success there. the nasdaq soaring thanks to artificial intelligence. that boom really had an impact on that sector. big tech sto
angeles. i m trace gallagher in for bret baier. the crisis at the southern border spreading beyond major cities. we will look at how businesses are contacted by the record surge, plus, whatever happened to the russian military contractor the wagner group? and bret baier explains what additional infrastructure the u.s. may need to meet the biden administration s electric vehicle goals. but, first breaking tonight, president joe biden prepares to win over voters after what many say was a tough year. the president is on a family vacation in the caribbean amid the expanding conflict in the middle east, the war in ukraine and as the prices at the border as well as to record numbers these challenge also remain flash points in 2024. as a new fox poll shows how voters think this year has gone. just 24% think 2023 was a good year. while that number has steadily risen since 2020, it is still 13 percentage points lower than it was in 2019. lucas tomlinson is traveling with the preside
about this agreement. but his primary audience is actually going to be that undecided swing voter in the middle, and really try to sell it to that voter. right, and chris hayes, this is a strange thing for biden. is that the fundamentals of the economy are good, and yet people feel bad. and so he s constantly in this position of trying to sell reality to people who are sort of defying reality with their sort of feel, their sort of feelings about things. to lawrence s point, i was a little surprised, precisely for the reason you enunciated. okay, we nade it. like not a speech giving occasion, but i think what it s going to be, to your point, it s going to be about the biden economy. i do think, look, inflation has been bad for lots of people. it has eaten into real gains. people also had a higher level of personal disposable income and that s come down as the sort of recovery has happened, as that money has sort of been spent down. there s a lot of reasons people do feel u
weekend at camp david amid the numbers. and we have chad on capitol hill and we saw you in the video chasing house speaker mccarthy. they re aimed to get bill texted today, and mccarthy says it will not be a long, thousand page bill. they re close, but they re not there yet. i think we re all tired, that doesn t mean that we re willing to take something that s not acceptable. nothing is done. all the interplay at the table makes even a short list more complex. fox was told permitting reform for energy projects is out, but mccarthy contends that s not finalized. conservatives will need major buy-ins on spending to get their vote. it s believed that liberals and conservatives will vote no. if it s going to be a $4 trillion raise we re going to need to see something on the other side of the ledger. we agreed to $1.5 for the things that we had on the ledger if. they re going to more than double that, my goodness, doesn t it seem reasonable to see where else you can make u
crisis at the border. they are on pace for more than 300,000 migrant encounters in just the month of december. about that, welcome back. i m john roberts. welcome back to you. jacqui: good to be with you for a second hour. sandra smith has the day off. i m jacqui heinrich. president biden spoke with his mexican counterpart as it threatens hundreds in millions facility, biden administration is choosing not to send migrants to ice detention centers that are sitting completely empty. what is the reason for that. jacqui: complete coverage now, texas lieutenant governor dan patrick responds, but first, william in the los angeles newsroom. why aren t the ice facilities being used? jacqui, the president has said he does not want to use them. otherwise, does it make sense to be releasing thousands of migrants a day with a slip of paper, while thousands of detention beds taxpayers paid for daily go empty. take the center in california. 2000 beds, fully staffed, and operational t