campaign with david sanger of new york times and richard haass in the council on foreign relations. he basically laid out a conditional foreign policy. saying look, the era where we give aid to you all and you act as you see it is over. we will work with you but only so long as if you meet us halfway, whether it s protecting our diplomatic missions, the way you treat women, girls and minorities, your foreign policy against israel and terrorism. i think that s an important statement and i think it s one that people in both parties should be able to support. he wants to portray president obama has an outlier in american foreign policy. in fact, one of the foreign policy advisors made the point that president obama in his view had departed from 70 years of bipartisan agreement, an agreement in which you would sort of focus on your allies first and not on engaging your adversaries. what i think was missing from the speech was any direct engagement with the question of the
day on wall street. it is up two-thirds of a percent at 12652. volume picked up a bit. the nasdaq up on the session as well, technology one of the leadership groups, 33 points higher better than 1%. and the s&p up 10 points. if you thought it was a busy week this week, think again. investors will have a lot to chew on next week because of a flurry of data coming up. consumer confidence and the final reading on the first quarter gdp. add a try owe of bond auctions. so how should investors gear up for the week ahead? we bring in bill, andy goldberg, and brian shactman. what are you expecting for the year? lots of volatility, a tug of war, until the problems in the world with a lack of leadership and passion and commitment investors will be bouncing and reacting to all of the babble and the news. so lots of volatility? how do you want to protect your assets if in fact that plays out and we do have lots of volatility and uncertainty around politics? i think we have the only