Around 11 50, the gop released an fbi memo a lot of people are skeptical whether that would have any influence on the market. We moved down a few Percentage Points say its a small impact. In the midday yields started picking up around their highs, and weve been cascading lower ever since then. Lets put the vast majority of this clearly on yield concerns all 30 dow stocks have been moving to the downside, but weve seen some interesting moves of major stocks. For example, when was the last time you saw Goldman Sachs down 10 . Thats the biggest point decliner were seeing right now. But even some other big market leaders are down, notably. Boeing is behaving relatively well with the market down better than 2 . Boeing is only down 1. 7 still, its such a big stock, down six points. Thats 45 points in the dow. Then we have some earnings things coming out a little bit exxon was a bit of a disappointment on its earnings today. Thats down 6 even then, even with the lower priced stock, thats abou
The impact on the markets. Fed chair jay powell steeping out on cap hill. He signals the fed will keep raising rates. On that note lets go to senior economics reporter Steve Liesman for more highlights. Thanks very much. Yeah, fed chairman Jerome Powell in his first testimony before Congress Says that he doesnt believe this is going to happen, but one of the risks out there is an overheating of the economy. And he opened the door in a very subtle way to a possible fourth rate hike. Saying, you know what, the economy is strong. Weve had fiscal stimulus. His view on the economy strengthening as well. Heres what he said. Weve seen fiscal policy become more stimulative. So, i think each of us is going to be taking the developments between since the december meeting into account and writing down our new rate path as we go into the march meeting i wouldnt want to prejudge that. Heres what jpmorgan says about that economy todays comments appear to open the door for others on the committee to
Also indicted were three russian entities and separately an indictment followed an american who was allegedly involved in related credit card crime. The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein briefing reporters this afternoon laid out a case called the Internet Research agency employed hundreds of people to the budget to the tune of millions of dollars in a longrunning effort to influence u. S. Politics. Ultimately, in the 2016 president ial election to benefit now President Donald Trump heres how Rod Rosenstein described the elaborate effort by the Internet Research agency. The defendants allegedly use that infrastructure to establish hundreds of accounts on social media networks, such as facebook, instagram and twitter. Making it appear those accounts were controlled by persons located in the United States they used stolen or fictitious identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts and false identification documents now the, bill, what im told here is that ultimately the special counsels offi
9th, that crazy friday, our reporters are standing by breaking down the market since then Bertha Coombs and bob pisani i think the important thick is weve seen quite a recovery in the markets but not for everything let me show you a few charts jpmorgan, a big recovery remember what happened on february 1st it was like 117 then goes down to 104 on the 5thand its com back around 116 thats a roundtrip. Also boeing another big one, 357 on february 1st 317 on the 5th. Thats a 40 drop, back to where it is, roughly 356 or so. Theres a roundtrip some stuff hasnt recovered the consumer names havent recovered. Cocacola goes to 82 and its hovering around that exxon, the oil stocks have had a hard time. 89 down to 73. That hasnt recovered. Part is on the fact that oil didnt have a big bounce heres the important thing the s p on the whole has recovered a large part of its losses we lost almost 300 points from the high to the low on the s p and you can see all the numbers were looking at the importa
Up 14 on results this morning twitter a huge gainer this morning, well talk about its 8 pop. And then theres wynn, youve been hearing about that, a huge decline. Around noon eastern when news broke of Sexual Misconduct allegations against founder and Ceo Steve Wynn lets bring Contessa Brewer back in with some of the latest details on that. These allegations date back more than a decade and the wall street journal outlines a pattern of Sexual Misconduct by Ceo Steve Wynn the report details Sexual Assault bins manicurist who was later awards a 7. 5 million lawsuit and other forced sexual encounters with massage therapists and the like. Other sources tell cnbc that steve wynns behavior with employees was an open secret for decades in las vegas but they feared to speak out for fear of their jobs steve wynn said, the idea i assaulted any woman is preposterous then he goes on to blame his exwife, elaine wynn, for instigating the accusations. A statement from the company also blames her for t