Row today. Something the s p has not done since january. We got earnings from home depot, walmart, qe accelerator, oil settling back below 60, but ten year close to the highs of the year. Housing starts are a nice up side surprise. Walmart missing expectations. Depot beat and raises guidance. One Speciality Retail down dramatically, urban out fitters coming in below us. Thats the major Culprit Online business expenses. Despite carl icahn wishes, the dream of an Apple Television is reportedly dead. U. S. Comps below consensus. Ceo says they need to get better consistently running great stores. Home depot beat expectations. Citing a more normal spring across much of the country and continued recovery of the u. S. Housing market. Depot raising their fullyear guidance to stronger than expected start to the year. They are saying. With starts surprising today, people are saying maybe it was weather after all. I have to tell you i think there is a shift going on in the country. I had athena o
Know, hes weighed in on anything that finally were going to get some clarification. The big mover today is delivering alpha. It is. It is. A lot of people promise to seek alpha. Very few deliver. This is the humphrey hawkins, maybe his last one, among the House Financial Services committee on Monetary Policy begins at 10 00 eastern. But his prepared remarks will be made in time for us to look at them at 8 30 eastern and investors obviously are going to be hanging on every word, if he adds and if, if he takes out an adjective, you never know about the future of the feds bond buying program, which we tried to say that we were going to good news as good news and im not convinced were there yet. Every time you think something im not there yet either. It is still the addicts are still it is the accommodative punch bowl that i do think the biggest shock may be out of the system. Cant confuse people again that fed tapering may be coming. May be the biggest shock. This ridiculous argument abou
Answers. We begin today in washington, where there has been little sign, are you hearing me, little sign that lawmakers are willing to break the decades long pattern of doing nothing when it comes to gun control. Even the least controversial ideas might not be able to get through congress including at least one that has the support of the public, the president and the nra. If that were true, well, then, you would think it would get through, which makes me think its not. I have a great team. Starting with nbcs kacie hunt, on the hill. Lets start with a bill that seems to have the best chance of going somewhere, the one thats supposed to fix nics. Can this bill pass . It has overwhelming support, bipartisan cosponsors, mitch mcconnell, chris murphy, all on this bill. And it was something that had been kind of sitting on the sidelines, frankly, while they added support to it. It came up in the wake of the sunderland springs shooting. Then we saw the tragic shooting in parkland. That becam
suberis is one of the biggest hedge fund clients. is any bank, goldman stanley, bank america, talking about stopping doing business with suberis? because their owner basically owns half of the gun manufacturers out there. right, through remington arm, which is dangerously close to bankruptcy, so the deal hasn t worked out. to answer your question, no, not that i m aware of. nobody s picking on blackhawk or larry fink. if you re going to come out and call for csr, corporate social responsibility, in a letter and you re going to use that on exxon mobil, if you care about this issue, then perhaps they re going to have to do something. by the way, you can strip out certain stocks from index funds. they ll charge you a little extra fee, as i m sure you know. but you can do it. i don t think we re calling larry fink out. i think we re encouraging him. first step s a great one. we can t wait for step two. thank you so much. coming up, president trump announces a visit to go see prototyp
we have got flash flooding for the rest of us up until 2 a.m. at the earliest on wednesday. we may extend that as i think we will have more rain to go. check this out. satellite radar composit, we will have refy rain heavy rain with showers around and it s going to be a wet day. we will talk about how long this will stick around in just a moment. you know i ve been driving and. i hands wet on the wheel, kim brown. we have a thing called radar rust what do you got. reporter: i like poke mow city. this morning justin, we have a lot of incidents of instans of wet roadways that has caused problems ms we are in the process of cleaning up an earlier accident. but look live at the beltway, 695 at wilkins, traffic is moving well. northbound 895 at pote street an earlier crash has been cleared but now the right lane continues to be blocked because of a disabled vehicle left over from the crash. you could see minor delays there as you come past 295 heading up towards the ritchi