Fears. And companies from roku to Western Digital have been tempering expectations thats hurt sentiment a bit. Gold is at a record high nasdaq set for another record close, comfortably now up a full 1 . Continuing that breathtaking rally, coming up on todays show, the bet on pets. The ceo of the company that makes medicine for pets and l e livestock. And more earnings rolling in today after the bell, including uber, dropbox and t mobile also a first on cnbc interview with mike seifeieve seavert eamon javers has the latest on the stimulus stand offin washington, and phil lebeau is watching the airlines. Start us off with the broader market, mike. Today is a good example of how we are now in a market moment where the threshold for rallies on news is much lower than the threshold for a sell out. Nertsd, the market takes most good news and kind of shrugs off the less good news we got the better than expected but still kind of ugly jobless claims number. That palmback went away. We were fla
Representative Marjorie Taylor greene and the thirdranking house republican, liz cheney, who voted to impeach former president trump. Stand by for new information on that. And the republican infighting continues. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is trying to stay focused on covid relief. The president meeting with fellow democrats today, urging them to go big and stick together as they move ahead on his nearly 2 trillion package without at least for now republican support. In just a moment ill talk with senator Bernie Sanders. Hes the new chairman of the Senate Budget committee. He was in that meeting with the president earlier today. But first lets go up to capitol hill. Our Congressional Correspondent ryan nobles is joining us. Ryan, were standing by to learn the outcome of this really critical meeting of House Republicans. What are you learning so far . Reporter well, wolf, the one thing we know for sure is that that meeting is still ongoing. More than two hours it has been as re
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Bloomberg surveillance. We welcome all of you. Markets on the move. Price upcoming yields down. With that away important claims number. Jonathan just a sense of risk aversion. Everything you expect playing out. Ive said it before, i will say it again. For most people come of the gdp numbers are for the economic historians. The payroll claims, the jobless claims are for the traders. Intothe high data folds the ugly gdp report. What do you see within your reading of the linkage of the American Economy into your bond market . Lisa that is what i am struggling with right now. I was looking at the yields, the rate that these companies are charged to borrow money. The yield is almost near a record low at about 0. 5 away. What is the message from that . Economically, how do you connect that to anything going on with the jobless claims, other than just what the fed is doing to stimulate growth . Tom jon ferro, answer the question. How can you have a default dynamic that we have right now . We
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