Not much conviction in the moves we are seeing so yesterday we moved higher, today we are selling off but the volume is certainly not that impressive. It just shows we are bouncing around, bouncing around, not too far off of the unchanged line. That means uncertainty in china playing middle of the road. The fear index is to the upside once again but you do see the dow down 71 points. Most of the names on the dow have down arrows and a lot of consumer type names like mcdonalds and cocacola also with down arrows, technologies trying to give it a go with headlines on blackberry spiking so we will follow that news and drug stocks, we will have some news today and amazon the new high. There is a lot going on but the big picture in front and center is what happens in washington and we are watching jpmorgan as well with jamie dimon over there. Connell adam president obama is meeting with wall street ceos sanders word he will meet in 5 hours with congressional leaders in an attempt to break th
Do you know when he first knew that there was a problem . Well, i think it became clear fairly early on, the first couple of days. And cheeky george. The future king of england was christened this morning in a small private ceremony attended by the royal family and the seven people william and kate chose as godparents, making his second ever public appearance. The newest prince showed off his chubby cheeks. Well have all the details with a live report from buckingham palace. And good day from washington. Im Kristen Welker in today for Andrea Mitchell. Keeping your job 101, dont vent about the people you work for to the entire world. Former National Security council staffer joseph obviously didnt get that message and his years of anonymous tweets about everyone from Hillary Clinton to Anthony Weiner are now a black eye for the obama white house. Joining me now for our daily fix, my colleague, nbcs peter alexander, whos live at the white house. Chris cillizza, msnbc contributor. And foun
Business here. President john killen says the company just had a strong sales year. It actually grew our Employment Base to about 50 people up from about 500. The sales jobs, accounting jobs, engineering jobs. So its a wide variety. It hasnt been just one area. Reporter killen says business this weekend sets the tone for the rest of the year and he likes what he sees. Win crafts a lot more optimistic about 2013. Reporter nationally, hiring showed steady growth in january. Its not an exciting report its a respectable report. Reporter economist Ellen Zentner of Nomura Securities says there was strength in construction, manufacturing, and retail hiring. The Labor Department also said the economy added 422,000 more jobs last year than first reported. That upped the average monthly job growth in 2012 from 153,000 to 181,000. But the economy is facing new head winds with the payroll tax rising again from 4. 2 to 6. 2 . How much impact do you think the payroll tax hike is going to have on gro
Do you know when he first knew that there was a problem . Well, i think it became clear fairly early on, the first couple of days. And cheeky george. The future king of england was christened this morning in a small private ceremony attended by the royal family and the seven people william and kate chose as godparents, making his second ever public appearance. The newest prince showed off his chubby cheeks. Well have all the details with a live report from buckingham palace. And good day from washington. Im Kristen Welker in today for Andrea Mitchell. Keeping your job 101, dont vent about the people you work for to the entire world. Former National Security council staffer joseph obviously didnt get that message and his years of anonymous tweets about everyone from Hillary Clinton to Anthony Weiner are now a black eye for the obama white house. Joining me now for our daily fix, my colleague, nbcs peter alexander, whos live at the white house. Chris cillizza, msnbc contributor. And foun
House. Embattled health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning, gone. This news just coming in to our own jim acosta. I want to go straight to the white house. Athena jones is there for us. Athena, what more can you tell us . People have been calling for her head. It seemed like she might have survived, but no. Thats right. Hi, erin. All along during the disastrous rollout of healthcare. Gov, secretary sebelius was under an enormous amount of pressure and the administration stood by her, repeatedly in briefs. You heard from White House Press secretary jay carney that the administration had faith in Kathleen Sebelius. The word here is she wanted to wait until they could announce these positive numbers. Youll remember a week ago the administration was able to say 7. 1 Million People ended up signing up for health insurance, despite that rocky start, that rocky rollout to healthcare. Gov. And even this morning, we heard from secretary sebelius on capitol hill saying t