Boeing and a new millennial nightmare out in kra california but we begin first with todays markets and bob pisani is track ing that record breaking action at the New York Stock Exchange and nasdaq getting a lot of love today thats because of big five are leading the way. All five of the biggest stocks apple, microsoft, amazon, facebook, when they move, everything moves nasdaq 100 leaders this year, guess what the same companies apple, facebook, microsoft, alphabet and amazon. Five company, nearly 40 elsewhere, bank stocks, big story for the year higher yields, loan improvement. New highs for many including many of the regional banks not today, but in the few week, theyve been up there as well. I know the nasdaq composite gets a lot of love. The nyse composite, which is down here, a compilation of all the stocks that trade down here, also at an historic high today just pointing that out, brian. Back to you. So bob, i got a question for you here if you are talking about the nasdaq at 9,0
Testifiesller finally but his longawaited appearance falls somewhat short of democrat hopes. Shery we have breaking south korea gdp numbers for the Second Quarter. The preliminary numbers year on year are seeing growth of 2. 1 , which is better than the expected 1. 9 growth. It is also an acceleration from 1. 7 in the First Quarter. Quarter on quarter, those numbers also avoiding a technical recession after contracting 0. 4 in the First Quarter. We are now seeing quarter on quarter growth of 1. 1 , which is better than expected. It seems that we have seen more Government Spending and south korea. The contraction that we saw in deceleration in the First Quarter came from local governments not spending as much. Now we have Government Spending kicking and again. Also consumption being relatively resilient despite the fact we have been getting contracting freddie lacks exports contracting the last seven months. This has been a difficult environment for south korea. Investments have been fa
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im erica pitzi. Police in ferguson, missouri will be out on the streets early this morning, trying to maintain calm after a second tense night there. Officers arrested nearly two dozen people during protests marking one year since the death of Michael Brown. At least one officer was seen using pepper spray on the crowd. Earlier monday, protestors shut down interstate 70 during the afternoon rush hour. St. Louis county is now under a state of emergency. Andy is live on the ground there in ferguson. Good morning to you, andy. We know police made dozens of arrests overnight. What can you tell us . Calm now, erika, but it did get hot last night. Much as it did the night before, but not quite as bad as the nice before. It started with these protests, we had a line of police and riot gear on one side of a majoring street and protestors on the other side yelling back at them. At one point, police moved in around midnight to clear protestors a
One quarter of 1 . Lauren a stunning rally in oil prices shot up almost 6 yesterday in hopes of opec reduction cuts. Oil is coming up close to 40 a barrel. 39. 55 a pound. Nicole president of a mistake or the Supreme Court has to d. Woo lawmakers feared maybe just a waste of time . Nicole march madness is underway today. Who made the final cut for the tournament. Nicole 5 01 a. M. In new york. Thursday, march 17th. Happy st. Patricks day. Welcome to fbn am, the latest breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. Lauren we are in green. Candidates head into the west ahead of next tuesdays contest. The artist left primaries in arizona and caucuses of march 22nd. Democrats still caucuses in idaho. Donald trump will claim significant victories in tuesdays primaries. He was senator bradley talking about potentially running against front runner Hillary Clinton. We had fun little run in two months ago and i helped her a lot because her numbers came down very big after that, but that wa
FORT BLISS, Texas — Under the heat of the desert sun, a convoy of military vehicles roll down a dirt trail, kicking up dust and sand as they reach speeds