You go out no, i dont. Various market milestones today. The nasdaq crossing 7,000 for the first time and the dow closing in on 25k for the first time although were well off the highs right now. Tax reform hopes, and a series of deals this morning seem to be helping sentiment today. This is the first time ever, by the way, that the dow has gained 5,000 points in a single year. We began the year in president 19,000 range and now were well into 24k. Its just crazy theres no other word for it nothing like bitcoin, though, by comparison, it seems tame. We have people who are going to tell you where to make more money in the sfarkt cotock markg up in a few minutes. Is utilities are the biggest loser today. We have a debate on whether the bitcoin boom could help drive utilities higher talk about some of the power usage. Thats a hot topic. Recode calls him one of tvs most important executives. What espn had john skippers resignation announced today means for that sports giant and for disney ov
Creditors what he called terrorism. Meantime, greek banks remain closed today. The atms are running out of money. The ecb is holding a Conference Call today tole try and decide how long to keep a life live at the banks. Meantime Germanys Angela Merkel will meet with Frances Francois hollande today. And theres a meeting of creditors today. We were talking before the show it just is confounding to me just watching it happen. It almost looks like you get so defiant at some point, youd almost rather inflict your own demise, than have it inflicted by somebody else. And i think thats part of what happened here. Merkel saying by the way, she thinking the greek Prime Minister basically drug his people into a wall. If youre a creditor if youre a socialist and smart money like thought that would never happen. Once it happened i guess all bets are off. You cant assume that theyre going to have some sort of all attitude about in the middle east, about democracy, no longer do i think we can expect
Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. With me at post 9, our own sara eisen. Jon fortt is at the mobile World Congress in barcelona. A lot more from jon in just a moment. It is a busy morning here in the markets, especially in washington. The president wrapping up a meeting with the National Governors association this hour, holding a roundtable with Health Insurance ceos. Our eamon javers is at the white house with all the latest. Hey, eamon. Reporter yeah, good morning, carl. That meeting with the Health Insurance ceos is going to right now behind closed doors here at the white house. We expect to see some tape of that and well bring you any comments that the president does make. But this morning we saw the president in a separate meeting, meeting with the nations governors, talking a little bit about where health care is going and the efforts of the Republican Party to repeal and replace obamacare. The president striking a little bit of a glum note here this morning, a slight
President. Its a big week for your monday very clearly and then, theres the oscars. Hollywood tried so hard for a politically correct beat up on trump festival, but everyone is talking about the embarrassing chaos that ended the night. I just wonder if the rich trump haters in hollywood will give back the tax cut that President Trump will give them . [laughter] dream on, varney. Varney company is about to begin. Theres a mistake. Moonlight you guys won best picture. This is not a joke. This is not a joke, im afraid they read the wrong thing. This is not a joke, moonlight has won best picture. Moonlight best picture. Stuart almost laughable id say. Thats the moment that everybody is talking about as last night oscars, la la land was read and they were handed the wrong envelope. Liz i almost thought that was the selection for the new dnc chair. Hey, they made a mistake. I thought jimmy kimmel was outstanding, funny, what are you going to do. Ashley we understand the investigations are un
Doctors on the scam. Well, while i was, quote, dealing with medical being in the hospital and from a hospital to a nursing home, and here they thought they were going to go ahead and own my house. Thats part of the game. Its a lot of, quote, investors. They pay certain groups. They use a lot of youngsters as well to basically intimidate people to move out of the neighborhood. They sell their house cheap, because theyre getting harassed. I was called up in utah by my name ra and said, do you have your camera on . I said, no, my cameras . No. They broke into my house. So you dont know who youre living next door to. I dealt with one individual across the street. I guess his specialty is, quote, insurance, you know, as one would say. V. A. Related. Yes, v. A. Related. Hes the one that told me to go ahead since i was in the navy, and a vet, go ahead and apply. So the corruption runs deep, as one would say. I think the v. A. Hospital, when i came to the v. A. Hospital here, it wasnt so bad.