It really is just extraordinary. It is a special opportunity for the president. He is not going to change very many minds, there are not going to be any grand initiatives. It is to try to divine the contours of the next 10 months and the final chapters of his presidency. Is he facing a more challenging environment right now . It is a very challenging environment. Much more challenging than he faced last year and he didnt have a very good year last your. Fax can he get much a compass tear . I think this is a chance to reset his image after the setbacks he has had from the National Security leaks, the obamacare rollout. He can come out looking like a guy who has a plan to move the country forward. A lot of people are very frustrated right now. We have looked at the stock market that has soared more than 25 in 2013. We have seen the Unemployment Rate to a certain extent come down but there is frustration and fear that it is just people perhaps giving up and getting out of the workforce. W
Economy with a specific goal of achieving a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market in a context of price stability. Stocks didnt react much to his comments. Trading in a narrow range. But this is probably exactly what the chairman had been hoping for. He stressed volatility has come down in the markets as heny th the markets have gotten a better understanding of what it needs to do. The futures at this point are indicated up for the dow futures and s p futures. Dow futures up by 33 points. S p futures up by 1. 25 points. Nasdaq futures indicated down by half a point. Beyond bernanke, few other events of note. Weekly jobless claims, the philly fed survey and leading economic indicators. And we have Quarterly Results from Morgan Stanley, United Health, verizon and black rock among many others before the bell. It will be keeping us busy this morning. Beyond bernanke. In earnings news beyond bernanke. Were beyond the birthday. Yes, we are. I would have gone with 21, by
Appropriate. We will be on satellite radio and i am wearing a cheerleader outfits today. First to the markets. 67 point a gene on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Investors waiting for more direction in terms of how we handled this crisis in syria. Nicole petallides is at the Stock Exchange with what else we are looking at. Nicole we are watching a market that is the momentum after losing we were under pressure yesterday and but right now we are up 69 points, Dow Jones Industrials 14,903. We have had four street weeks of losses, we were hovering around the unchanged line yesterday and today pulling out some gains so that is good news. As far as what were seeing in sectors the drug index doing well, retail doing well, also we as seeing Banks Holding on nicely, commodities to the downside, gold is down 21. Oil which we ought watching so closely in relation to syria having the headline and 10755. Dagen thank you, on to the latest about syria. President obama speaking in a joint News Conf
Sotomayor and ginsburg should recuse themselves from cases involving him. But first the stage is set and the battle lines are drawn. Tonights critical debate, its frontrunner Bernie Sanders against everyone else, and this comes only days before the South Carolina primary on saturday and one week before super tuesday. Sanders is still fending off criticism over his remarks about former cuban leader Fidel Castros Literacy Program. After sanders defended himself at last nights town hall, Pete Buttigieg took the opportunity to pounce. You know what, teaching people to read and write is a good thing. The truth is the truth. And thats what happened in the first years of the castro regime. As a democrat, i dont want to be explaining why our nominee is encouraging people to look on the bright side of the castro regime when were going into the election of our lives. Our jessica dean is in charleston, South Carolina, which is the site of tonights democratic debate, and jessica, tell us what is o
Left sent insane demand toemptyn facilities, the same crazies who said Mike Huckabee tells us why he show by the needs them all. How can americans keep the faith without being able to go to church. Is that indeed possible . Raymond arroyo has been scrambled for this friday night edition. Plus weve got to her when the deals what he needs in order to save the jobs of tens of thousands of his employees. And its all on the docket with the shut down due to the pandemic. And laura has part three of his sit down with attorney general bill barr which has been absolutely outstanding. So first, more on the coronavirus and our response to it, lets bring in the man who does it all, foxs chief breaking his correspondent located safely on the west coast where its always sunny. Trace, whats up . Hows its going in california . Brian, breaking tonight, the people behind the university of washington ihme model, which is not always been correct, but cited numerous times by the Trump Administration, told