Believe that. They did it again and theres no oops attached. The major indexes, all of them, closed higher today than ever before. Youve heard that a lot lately, but heres something you havent. The s p 500 is having its best start to a year since 1987. And not since 1964 has the s p 500 set six consecutive records to begin a year. Investor optimism is high. Here are the happy and not at all fake numbers for the day. The dow advanced 102 points to 25,385. Nasdaq added six. The s p 500 was up four. Now comes the moment of truth. Quarterly profit results. And as bob pisani reports, expectations a. Reporter its been an amazing start to the year. The s p is up six days in a row, about 3 , its best start since 1987. Earnin season is now upon us. Prices and evaluations are at record highs. Its fair to say expectations are also very high. This past quarter has been very unusual. Analysts have been even more optimistic than they usually are. They typically start optimistic and then lower earnin
Single one of its accounts was hacked the ceo of Palo Alto Networks will join us to talk about what can be done to stop these security breaches. Protecting our Financial System from hackers. Bank of americas chief operations and Technology Officer will also join us. Talk about what moves shes making to keep customer accounts safe in fact, kathy was just named the most powerful woman in banking for that reason. Shell join us coming up here. Looking forward to that but first, puerto rico bonds plunging after President Trump plenged to wipe out the islands debt following the devastation kautzed by Hurricane Maria we have to look at their whole debt structure you know they owe a lot of money to your friends on wall street and were going to have to wipe that out thats going to have to be you can say goodbye to that i dont know if its Goldman Sachs, but whoever it is, you can wave goodbye to that. That was last night then this morning, his budget chief mick mul vany tried to walk back some o
Vermont is talking about the reaction of students to author Charles Murray appearing on campus. Professor stan Charles Murray were physically attacked after the attack bitterly attacked after the speech. Physically attacked after the speech. Prof. Stanger what happened to me . The story has been retold many times. Invited Charles Murray, rather controversial figure, libertarian scholar, to campus. He wasause they knew controversial, they invited me to ask three or four questions. This was back in march . Prof. Stanger the event was on march 2 and there was a runup to the event were tensions rose and rose that it was ripped whipped into a frenzy. Some students organized a shutdown of the speech that was successful. We went to a whipped remote loco simulcast the event. That is where you got the incident where i was injured outside the lecture hall. Middle bury college is where . Prof. Stanger middle bury college is in the Green Mountains of vermont, the champlain valley. In some sense, y
Got to get back in time here is what else is happening at this hour, its a good time to buy a house, if you can find one for sale. Mortgage rates hitting the lowest level since november. The 30year fix now 3. 95 , but housing inventory, the number of homes for sale, remains very low in some cities. The home of the little blue box is giving investors a gift. Tiffany boosting its Quarterly Dividend by 11 and more departures at ford. This time its Global Product Development chief is leaving. Becky, thank you very much. Folks, stop me if you heard this one before its another recordsetting day for your investments. Were in the middle of a sixday win streak propelling yet you heard scott and melissa say i but ill say it again the s p 500 and nasdaq hitting new highs. The dow not far behind. Check this out, the nasdaq is now up 16 of 19 trading days so far this month. That is putting it on pace to have the most up days versus down days of any month since all the way back in september of 1996.
Theres jobs, there are thorny National Security issue, including north korea and chinas interests in the south chosen sea and lately areas of conflict between the worlds two largest economy and two biggest partners seem to have eclipsed the areas of cooperation. President trump has referred to china as the biggest trade cheater in the world. Hes accused beijing of killing american jobs. The white house called out china for manipulating its currency and had threatened tariffs. Later this week, President Trump and chinese president xi jinping will lead what some are calling President Trumps most important meeting get with a world leader. Tonight the white house outlined what will be on the meetings agenda. President trump meeting with his tiny counterpart at his mara lago resort thursday. They will be accompanied by their wives with the most urgent topic, diffuseing tensions with north korea. Senior white house Officials Say the clock has run out and all options for the u. S. Are on the