Look forward to the return and congratulations again. Welcome, everybody, to the closing bell. Im wilburt frost in for bill today. Markets stormed out of the gates this morning, but a dramatic reversal in the last hour. A big day for earnings. After the bell, facebook, microsoft, qualcomm, at t, and more reporting what you need to know ahead of the reports. Starting with the initial rebound and selloff and since then pull back we are uptown at the nasdaq, and bob pasani is at the new york stock exchange, bob, starting with you the important thing is what happened in the last hour because we have weakened now, everyone is talking about the feds statement about market based measures of inflation compensation increasing in recent months, but remain low. They added that phrase they are more hawkish on inflation, but its modest, and the s p, lets look at the s p it did not move at all for the first 15 minutes after the feds statements if you thought, they would have been moving more aggress
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Ahead of the. Connell the story has been there for years and the effect of the Federal Reserve easing money policy. You would think on the economy and the Federal Reserve is able to prop up and help our economy here over the last few years, some would argue our economy should have been strong or you wont get the argument that the stock market should have been stronger, no doubt the Federal Reserve has helped stockmarket. Submitted into evidence, the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet compared to the Dow Jones Industrial average and the two charts basically track each other. What does that mean, the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet is the fed pumping money into the economy, what has been known as quantitative easing, buy bonds, keep Interest Rates low, stocks have gone up. The theory here and the evidence and the chart is here to support it that the fed who you think would be there to support the economy and help the economy for years has been helping the stock market so what will happen to the
Of the last voice there, but it was an exchange between the two, senator Elizabeth Warren and tim sloan that was one of the more memorable moments. I think the reason that im the right person to run this company today, notwithstanding your criticism, is because i have been making change at this company for 30 years. Are you kidding you know, look, youve been there for 30 years and every one of my colleagues on both the republican side and the democratic side who have spoken so far have talked about a broken culture at wells fargo, have talked about the fact that the problem starts with leadership you made money personally off of it when you were asked about it, you did not tell the truth, and you tried to cover it up wells fargo is not going to change with you in charge. All right that was an exchange there between senator Elizabeth Warren, tim sloan the wells fargo ceo. We also have to have on cnbc today the companys largest shareholder, Warren Buffett. He said he still has faith in m
61 points. Whats happening across the pond in the european markets, and its a mostly lower day as you can see. The ftse bucking the trend up one third of one percent see where Interest Rates are heading today and theres 236 on the 10year and crude is holding there. The road map starts with the largest proxy fight ever Procter Gamble shareholders deciding whether nelson peltz should get a seat on the board plus, the e commerce play, walmart remodeling stores andaging digital experiences and betting online sales will grow by 40 honnywell, shares rising after they spin off the home and transportation units front and center, Procter Gambles annual meeting getting under way. Shareholders whether to give nelson peltz a seat on the board. He has been seeking changes and p g officials are opposing saying their Growth Strategy is on track of the lobbying on both sides has been intense sara eisen will have exclusive interviews with nelson peltz and Procter Gamble ceo, david taylor first, jim cra