Debate on deck tonight. Europe with minor losses and claims were slightly elevated. Well get ism services in about an hour. Of course, were just a day from jobs friday. Energy pioneer Robert Mcclendon dies in a horrific car crash. This is a day after he had been indicted. Were going to go live to oklahoma. What jay my dimon told cnbc about the lie of hitz bank. Mitt romney is expected today to deliver a harsh set of words on donald trump, describing the frontrunner as a phony and a fraud. First up, though, futures are a little changed as stocks hover and jobless claims rising. Thats a bit higher ahead of the number tomorrow. Jpmorgans jamie dimon joined squawk box earlier this morning and had a pretty upbeat take on the economy. Take a listen. The average economy, more people are working, wages are going up. Theyre spending money, their Balance Sheets in better shape since its been recorded, the consumer. Theyre buying cars at alltime records. Home sales are going up, home formations a
Mcdonalds surging nearly 5 after ousting its ceo. Wlas what is the new plan for the fast food giant . This remains the big question. And one hour from now, some huge earnings hit the tape google, amazon advisoryvisa biogen to name a few. Well have the numbers and instant analysis as well. A ton coming up next hour. Were just ramping up on the whole earnings thing. Digesting names like ali alibaba. The dow is up about 148 points this hour. That outperformance from a couple of individual movers. Boeing again in two days the stock is up Something Like 10 . The s p, meanwhile, up about half a percent. The same thing goes for that nasdaq buffeted from outperformance by apple and underperformance by alibaba. Lindsay bell from s p capital iq and our own Rick Santelli. Heather, you first, why do you think the market is picking up as the day has progressed . I think some buyers may have emerged after a january selloff. The dow still down about 3 on the year the s p, about 2 . We are coming off
we re going to hear about this from joe scarborough, i suspect. morning joe starts right now. since this discussion is all about economics, governor romney, i promise this won t be about religion. sorry about that, rick. we re missing this so much. what we need to be focused on in this country today is whether or not we re going to have this policy or that policy. what we need to be focused on is how we get america working again. and we re sitting on this absolute treasure-trove of energy in this country. and i don t need nine nine nine, we don t need any plan to pass congress. we need to get a president of the united states that is committed to passing the types of regulations, pulling the regulations back, freeing this country to go develop the energy industry that we have in this country. i can promise you that we do that and we ll create an environment in this country where the manufacturing will come back to this country. we did it in texas. oh, we ll find out. i
from joe scarborough, i suspect. morning joe starts right now. since this discussion is all about economics, governor romney, i promise this won t be about religion. sorry about that, rick. we re missing this so much. what we need to be focused on in this country today is whether or not we re going to have this policy or that policy. what we need to be focused on is how we get america working again. and we re sitting on this absolute treasure-trove of energy in this country. and i don t need nine nine nine, we don t need any plan to pass congress. we need to get a president of the united states that is committed to passing the types of regulations, pulling the regulations back, freeing this country to go develop the energy industry that we have in this country. i can promise you that we do that and we ll create an environment in this country where the manufacturing will come back to this country. we did it in texas. oh, we ll find out. it s wednesday, october 12th.
this book is going to make a lot of people angry. there are going to be heads exploding all over washington. you know that? yeah. heads exploding all over washington. good morning, it s thursday, august 25th. with us on set, the president of action network and host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton. happy to have you on board. also with us, essy cup. nice to have you this morning. and from the huffington post, alex wagner, also very chipper this morning. down in washington, the huffington post, sam stein. how are you? good. jaime is going to appear on dateline. we are getting clips from his memoir. he s going to make people angry. he goes after colin power, condy rice and do we have the water boarding clip? he comes out and says i believe in what we did with water boarding. in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? yes. no regrets? no regrets. should we still be water boarding terror suspects? i would support using