Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt. Julia boorstin joins us for the hour at post 9 sara eisen is off. A lot to watch today the dow breaking through 24,000, now up, intraday record and strong day for the nasdaq, too getting news john mccain is on board regarding the Senate Tax Bill of course, it is the last trading day of the month joining us, dan morgan, senior Portfolio Manager. Before that, elon with more on mccain senator john mccain is a yes on the tax reform bill he had been one of the key undecided votes on the republican tax plan, but he said in a Statement Today that though this is not perfect legislation, he does believe that it will grow the economy and add more money to the pockets of middle class families this is key for republicans. They also got a boost when Lisa Murkowski of alaska said she would support the bill, as well, so the only two vocal holdouts appear to be senator ron johnson and senator susan collins, so it look
Over the five years of women programs we have learned without question that it matters. It matters that their voices are truly heard. It matters they are a critical mass, not a token few. Conversations over the past year leave no doubt progress is connected. They can fund raise and provide models of leadership. And women ceos need women lawmakers who can champion the kinds of lawmakers and to grow the numbers in Business Leadership we need more Women Entrepreneurs like those generous to participate in our women rule week. Likewise womens advancements in sports have been a pipeline to women serving in public office. Today well hear from all of those women about what it will need to keep making progress. With Sexual Harassment dominating the conversation coast to coast well delve into that topic too as well. Its hard not to. We have learned what happens to women in hollywood is connected to women in the media and on wall street. The conditions that enable Sexual Harassment is bigger than
And now heres cohen on growth and influence of Silicon Valley. Hello. Were going to get started here tonight my name is seth im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start, these are held three times semester six times year if you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over there put your name and email and only send news about our six events a year. We have pretty good ones, we had it earlier this year john last semester. These three we have some great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights forum is being filmed by cspan so the question part of the tore rum, if you would go to one of the microphones and a also hopefully state your name and your question another reason we ask you to sate your name is because we then do a writeup of all of the forum afterwards, which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event. On our website, which is come forum. Edu and the last announcement is tha
Semester, these three duke with some great stuff planned for next semester already. Also to nights for him being filled by cspan, so during the question part of the forum, if you would go up to one of the microphones and also hopefully state your name and your question, another reason why we ask you to stitching is because we didnt do a write up of all of the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our website which is comp forum. Edu, and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius, which is another group at mit. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three. It is a different story than we initially thought would be here because jeff, he called me up a little past by because his daughter was puking, and as a aa father of two young kids myself i said please stay home. And so fortunately christina couch who writes a lot about technology and works with the forum is a bright journalist in her own right has agr
Investors closely watching the d. C. Tea leaves for signs of a shutdown. Apple does appear to be poised to repatriate billions in overseas cash and flepledges to create 20,000 over the next five years and over a new campus. Morgan stanley beats the Investment Bank reporting growth across the board first up stocks are coming off best day since november. The dow closing above 26 k for first time the s p and nasdaq seeing fresh record closes. The tech sector led the way posting its best oneday performance. Got to go back to october, jim, for tech having a better day than wednesday. There were two tech rallies yesterday. There was one stimulated by asnl its a european company, they make gigantic, the size of city buses, capital equipment, machinery and they say listen, the demand for semiconductors is off the chart. That then triggered a big rally in the Texas Instruments of the world. Micron and the second rally was kind of confused it started with apple saying these things but apple had