Agriculture industry and rural economy. Well bring you his speech that will begin in just moments. We have full coverage and analysis from our panel this whole hour. Dan henninger. Liz peek from fiscal times. Gop strategist, ned ryun, town halls guy benson. David we used all our brown any points to get a guests like that. Dow is showing just shy of a record but longer term moves are looking good. Nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. It is sad, nicole, so go january pose the year of first five days are not bad, right. We had one record after another. Only the Dow Jones Industrial average pulled back ever so slightly at 14 points. Dow, nasdaq, s p, russell, transportation average hit record highs today. As you noted so goes january. Dow and s p up 2 . Nasdaq is up 3. 7 right now. Great start for a few days in. Of course dow 25,000 was a lot of fun. Optimism from the tax overhaul. You can see technology, a group that did so well in 2017 continues to flourish here. In
Report about matters relating to mr. Trump, his associates or russias attempt to meddle in the election . Melissa more on what yates knew about former National Security adviser Michael Flynn and any connections to Russian Election interference. What warnings she gave to the trump administration, who leaked it all to the media . Were going to take you to that throughout the hour. The other big story in washington, the Senate Taking up the Health Care Reform bill, louisiana senator john kennedy, if theres truth to any that they may tear up the house bill and start from scratch . Senator kennedy also in the yates hearing right now, were going to talk to him about that. David and we are going to be monitoring the hearing throughout the hour, bringing you highlights from it. When events warrant. Back to the markets, lori rothman on the floor of the stock exchange. Quickly, lori . Reporter lot of action, let me begin in the tv industry, local tv station owner sinclair buying tribune, total s
That could top a trillion dollars. Susan rice, breaking her silence. How she is responding to accusations she was spying on the Trump Transition Team and leaking information from surveilance. Vice president pence leading from the House Freedom caucus, late last night, with Speaker Paul Ryan today. Our own Charlie Gasparino is saying he is trying to broker a deal. Very latest on all this coming up. Dow ending in the green with two days of losses. On floor of new york stock exchange, who were biggest winners today . Reporter start with cat at tha caterpillar. Closing with 2 gain. Adding to Goldman Sachs conviction list. That certainly helps. Look at apple here. 144 and 12 cents a share. It closes safely above that level. Youre looking at a 14th record close this year for shares of apple. That is up 24 First Quarter alone, number one stock performer on dow johnson industrial average. This one is really on fire. Helping overall gains which we saw mostly by the way in last hour of trading.
That is insane. Back to the selloff. Stocks tumbling into the close. All but two of the dow 30 into the read. Worst performers, home depot, microsoft, cocacola. Not the same story for energy. We have you covered on both fronts. With phil flynn price futures group. We will tell you close off worst levels of session, but were still down 182 points on the dow. Dow and s p are down four out of last five trading sessions. Nasdaq composite index for its part was down as well. Looks like a fiveweek, biggest drop in five weeks for the nasdaq. I believe for s p as well. There are the stats. Volume was 12 below average one month. Yesterdays rally, volume even weaker. Cant look for call on conviction. Tone was set first thing this morning with the Consumer Price index. Coming out showing fastest monthly increase in three years. Inflation perhaps. That is supportive of case of fed Interest Rate hike. That followed by a parade of fed speak today, with most fed officials voting and nonvoting essenti
We have new shocking details on the size and the scope of the lists that were used by the irs to go after conservative groups. Wait until you see who else was targeted. Melissa back to the markets, the dow hitting 18,000 today, but not enough momentum to finish there. Phil flynn, Price Futures Group is a fox business contributor. He is watching action on oil and gold from the cme. Lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lori, we couldnt hang on to it. What was driving it and why couldnt we hold it . Reporter health care was the drag. Crude oil settled above 50 bucks a barrel today. As far as the dow hitting 18,000 but paring those gains, s p 500 closing still at the best level since last summer basically. Energy, telecom, industrials are among the best performing industries but health care sold off, especially late in the session. That started by valeant once again, the usual suspect. Valeant touching a new low today basically slashing guidance. New yorkbased investor