neil: all of those leaders that used to bemoan him and zing him. i love that. kevin corke at the white house. let s go to connell mcshane. i can t believe these numbers, connell. let s get into it. every day of the week, it s unbelievable. the president started it off with a speech before the opening bell. kevin just talked about it. didn t slow down the market rally. maybe helped it along a bit. there s other factors that we ll get into in a second. he talked about this idea of america being open for business. the companies being encouraged to invest here with fair trade deals. as we look at markets and they wrap it up for the week, it s record highs every day seems like. the dow with the 99th record since election day 2016. nasdaq and s&p also higher. in addition to the speech we talked about, earnings and economic data is driving it.
ed that the trade train is moving on without them. when he said he wanted out of tpp and he didn t negotiate better deal, nothing happened yet. he s saying i want back in in some way, shape or form. as far as america being open for business, foreign direct investment has been on a decline for 30 years. during the last year, if anything, it s flat. correct. that s right. that is a very important point. that this speech about america first, america first, america first, we re all waiting for, it turned out to be nothing. this is a reiterate of all sorts of things we all heard in speeches. there isn t a sickle piengle pi news in here. he finished the sentence by saying but not america alone. so what stood out to me was really the inherent lack of any particular substance in the speech. you spent a lot of time as you call it davos, that s what the locals say. we have heard from emmanuel