Always to end genocide. The horrors of auschwitz are incomprehensible and indescribable. The numbers are grim and even ghoul issue. Over ghoulish. Over one million people, men women and children, lost their lives at auschwitz. 90 were jews, hundreds of thousands were children and the largest of any of the death camps. Auschwitz was created as an internment camp. It was first created as an internment camp for polish dissidents for hundreds of thousands of poles who were not jewish but were murdered alongside the jews of auschwitz. In occupied poland, a nazi governor named hans frank proclaimed that poles will be foreverren sliefd by the third reich, but auschwitz went far beyond the poles because the German Authorities brought in people from throughout europe. Who were the people that came . They were teachers, they were politicians, they were professors, they were artists. They were even Catholic Priests. They were executed they were executed or barely survived. These are the authors o
Looking for record territory of their own. Shares of best buy set for a nice gain after earnings ahead of estimates. Well tell you why its still about the tablets. Strong demand for jeep brand helping sales at fiat chrysler. What to expect from ford and gm when they report later on this morning. You saw it happen here on squawk on the street during yesterdays session. The nasdaq hit 5000 for the first time in 15 years. The index finishing above that level. Now about 40 points away from its record close. Meantime, the dow and the s p each posting alltime closing highs, along with the russell. As you might expect jim, broad media all over it. The nasdaq 5000 logo, bleeding into the mast head over at usa today. Interesting, i think they dont have i think that most people would know Kim Kardashian far better than what stocks are doing on the nasdaq. Last time the man on the street new it was time to buy cmgi. They didnt know it was time to sell cmgi. Priceline did come public this day in 1
Nest executives. Plus, the perfect suit design for you. All that and more over the next hour. But first, headlines with cristina alesci. Nike posted its earnings after the close. The country the Company Firstquarter sales that dropped. They gained a percentage last quarter. Platforms allow dealers to get different prices on the same securities in a 40 trillion market, according to a person with direct knowledge. The sec wants to understand why brokers sometimes lock their rivals and clients from seeing some of their prices from municipal, corporate, and other bonds. Symantec has fired president and chief executive officer Steve Bennett and named board member Michael Brown to lead while the Company Seeks a replacement. Those are your top headlines. Thanks. Just about an hour ago, we got the results of the latest Bank Stress Test from the federal reserve. All but one of the 30 largest banks had enough capital to withstand a deep recession. The loner, the science bank bancorp. The science
Incomes below 250,000. A senate bill would likely contain an extension of expiring unemployment benefits. And the other big news of the morning, treasury secretary tim geithner unveiling a plan to buy time under the debt ceiling. In a letter to congress, geithner saying that treasury is going to begin taking steps this week to delay hitting the governments 16 16. 4 trillion Borrowing Limit. Treasury will take several measures to save that next year to keep the government from reaching the limit for about two months. But geithner warns it is harder to predict how long the delay will last because of all of this ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations making it harder to forecast what revenue and tax spending will be next year. The journal says right here the white house and congressional leaders have shown no signs of progress in the senate or elsewhere. And then, you know, i dont think weve run this bite enough. Tim geithner told Steve Liesman. I have it ready. That he is we should show it mu
Red across the board on some weak u. K. Cpi. Respectively sitting at or around new highs, the nikkei logging its best gain in two months. Apple puts ice new ipad retina on the market. And walmart steps up the competition. Another record close for the dow. The s p finishing just a fraction high of the alltime high. The nikkei closes at a high. And up say, jim, the dips are bought again and again and they are. A lot of times its just the intra day dip. Something might happen, a piece of data comes out and people say this is my chance. Theres a classic downgrade today of fedex. Fedex has been on fire. That deal with amazon and the post office, that is bad for fedex. Watch that stock. That will be the tell. It will go down a little and then buyers come in. Buyers cannot resist the transports. The downgrade of fedex to a market perform, they raise their price target from 136 to 117. They dont even mention the amazon ups deal. They say the value is outpacing demand i say thats convincing, i