Share. And we have got a very big lineup today. Special guests straight ahead, including cnbc boss, former fed chair and nba superstar and also now behind a Venture Capital firm. Car me lo anthony. Thats a nice mix of piece you wont see. All three on together would be a great conversation. I think so. Im definitely going to ask car me lo anthony about the flatt flattening curve. Digital athlete. Watching the markets. Heres the markets as we have it right now. The dow up 43 points. Some buying midday when word got out about a new survey in scotland that showed maybe a majority would vote against independence so our markets picked up some pace there. Dow was up 60plus at the peak. Now up 43. Nasdaq trading higher up 23. And the s p 500 index after the 13point drubing yesterday, up at 1993. Talk about this in the closing bell exchange. Quincy crosby is back with us. Jack barugian. David seaburg and my buddy Gordon Charlotte there on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Gordon, starti
Is sustainable enough yet. Thats really been the talk anyway. Yes, we know at some point the tapering will begin. But will the economy be Strong Enough to actually allow for that september beginning . Were going to get more on this marketmoving news later in the program. Ben bernanke will be speaking live, about an hour from right now. Hell be taking questions, as well, including when the tapering might begin. Something, of course, of keen interest to investors, it seems. You will see it here live when that begins after 4 00. Also, the Eliot Spitzer saga continues, believe it or not. Before you discount what his role would be as new york citys comptroller, it is becoming clearer now that the power of that office could be much more vast than anybody ever thought. Including the power to subpoena. Is that why he wants the job . The banks certainly want to know what the answer is to that question, and well be looking into that coming up in todays program. You can look at what he did as the
third of one percent to the major averages today. for the week, also three of the major averages did lose ground slightly. a couple of top stories. we saw priceline sign open table where you get irreservation $2.6 billion beale in cash. we saw intel hitting a ten-year high. and we saw gm doing more recalls, four more recalls of 600,000 vehicles. now we re up to over 14 million vehicles this year, neil. so that s not good news. but we have plenty of winners. so that s what we saw here on wall street. and hey, happy father s day to you and all the dads and grand dads out there. thank you very much, nicole. back to oil. andy lippo has some ideas. he follows it very closely. i think in the near term we could see $110 pretty easily just on the violence as it encroaches and nears baghdad but the bigger issue for the oil market is if we see a supply disruption out of the southeast and exports into the persian gulf are affected, and in that
the high prices while they have them? because they re getting richer as this ensues. well, they re certainly quite happy and that s why you saw opec roll over their quotas. so don t expect the saudis to make any moves, unless they actually see oil come off the market from iraq. and if the iraqi oil was lost, the next thing you ll see is calls for a strategic petroleum relief, not only in the u.s., but in europe and asia. well we ll watch closely. andy, very good seeing you. thank you. thank you. we see all this fighting going on in iraq today and remember all of this fighting in iraq years ago. we ll talk with an iraq war veteran, what he s watching, what he s seeing. and what he s wondering. was it all worth it? car insurance. yeah. everybody knows that. did you know there is an oldest trick in the book? what? trick number one. look-est over there. ha ha.
we re glad he s home. and i think that we ought to let military justice system investigate our list, and so i haven t had any problem with this whole situation. what i ve had a problem with is the people they traded him for. right. that is ridiculous. all right we re going to go to the press conference. i want to continue with senator mccain right afterwards. can everyone hear me now? okay good afternoon everyone, i m the command spokesman for u.s. army south. the mission lead headquarters presents reintegration phase three press conference. today we are going to address your questions, on the reintegration of sergeant bowe bergdahl, who is now here at ft. sam houston. our panel today includes the reintegration mission commander and commander of u.s. army south, major general joseph p. desalvo. also colonel bradley poppins, a survival resistance escape. psychologist from the joint recovery agency and from brook army medical center, dr. colonel ronald wolf. as a remind