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Good morning, everybody. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Joe, nobody can put anything by you. Youre right, it is 2013. Our top story this morning, call it a breather or a break, but the winning streak has been snapped after an eightday run for the s p 500 giving background. Not much, but it is enough to stop the longest run in eight years. The s p 500 dropping about three points, but the index still remains a hair above 1500 and some people will tell you thats pretty important. The dow finishing lower after bouncing around the flat line all day. The dow standing at this point at 13,833. But the nasdaq showing some signs of life thanks to roadway bound in apple shares. The nasdaq closing at 3154. Apple shares up about 2 yesterday. Also yesterday on squawk, jpmorgan strategist tom lee made the case for the dow hitting 20,000 in the next couple of years. When we look at multiples, you have to keep in mind mid cycle s ps are at 13 been were at 1257. Triple yiel
Merge. Hacking america, a secret military unit is said to be behind a series of attacks, but our friend, china, denying the reports. And countering it was the victim of u. S. Hacking. And the bulls are back from a threeday weekend. Can the s p 500 post an eighth straight week of gains . Weve got four days to find out. Its tuesday, february 19th, 2013. Squawk box begins right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin who is back from vacation. Lets get started with the markets. As joe mentioned, the s p winning streak has been a strong one. In the meantime, the dow is coming off a second straight weekly loss. Although, really, if you looked at this last week, it was the ever so slightest of losses. U. S. Equity futures are indicated higher. Dow up by 21 points. S p is up by two points above value fair and the nasdaq is up about 3. In 20 minutes, well turn to predictions on where the markets go from here.
President is spending the night, preparing to take off for his five country tour of the asia pacific region. Hell take off from honolulu this morning en route to tokyo, which is the first stop on the trip. He had a busy day in honolulu yesterday. This was a working layover for the president. In addition to meeting with military leaders, getting a briefing from the pacific command, he also toured the u. S. S. Arizona memorial at pearl harbor, a solemn moment as he threw flowers into that sunk vessel, which, of course, entombs many of the sailors that were killed during that attack during world war ii. The president also went to a military ball where he took pictures and shook hands and hugged many military members that are stationed here in hawaii. There have been a few protesters that have camped out in front of the hotel where he is staying at here in honolulu. Also at the State Capitol in honolulu, but by and large this has been a pretty much on scheduled trip for the president. He d
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