He was sixtyseven years old. Sandra wright he was born a genius and he was born with that charisma and he was also born with that tortured soul and where that comes from, i dont know. [ music ] bill hey, good morning, everybody. What do you say . Here we are on this wednesday, march 13th. Great to see you today. It is the full court press. We are coming to you life from our nations capitol. A lot going on here. A lot going on rome, too, where we are still waiting for a little white smoke to appear from the cis. Ine chapel as prop that the cardinals have selected the 266th or elected, i guess, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic church. Meanwhile, here in our nations capitol, president obama trips up to capitol hill. He meets with Senate Republicans he will meet with House Republicans which will be a total waste of time because we know the house replubicans are going to automatically endorse the paul ryan budget which was revealed yesterday. This years paul ryan budget exact copy of th
Brought home more nominations than anyone else. Mandy . Who do you think is going to win best picture . I think its argo. I do think it will be. Im with brandwatch on that. So pathetic, ive barely seen any of the movies up for an oscar so i cant even comment. Very quickly, lets take a look at whats happening with the market. We were down for a couple of days on the back of the fed minutes that really spooked the market, but the dow is coming back to the tune of 96 points. The s p back above 1500 and the nasdaq up by 0. 7 of 1 . Well count you all the way down to the end of the closing day on closing bell. Meantime, thanks so much for watching street signs, everybody. Keep safe, keep warm. Hopefully well see you the same time on monday. Closing bell is coming up next. Hi, everybody. The rally rolls on. Welcome to the closing bell. Im Maria Bartiromo at the new york stock exchange. We are ending the week with a boom. Im tempted to say that the correction has officially been cancelled, bu
17. 4 . That is just. 1 a behind first place. That top spot goes to president barack obama the s p 500 saw a 17. 5 annualized total return during the president s first term in office. Okay. Just for kicks. Here is how the three major indices fared under the president so far. We take a look. It has been a very decent rally since his first inauguration. S p up nearly 70 . The dow, 77 . And take a look at the nasdaq, more than doubling at 108 . Hopefully that is reflected in your 401 k s and pensions and 529s. David you have to think of the bottom of the market. The dow was 6,000 in march of 2009. The dow was at 6,000. It started over 14,000 just a year before he was in office. So again, when you start real low you can build real high. Liz dont count out American Business coming back. David of course not. Markets here at home are closed for president s day but we are open for business because there is always a way to make money. We have a top manager who is warning of a pullback and says
Leading economist will weigh in as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying he will bring security back to his country. And vowing this morning to fight hamas as long as it will take. Some Israeli Forces have begun to pull back from gaza, after finishing their mission of destroying the terror tunnels below the border. Now israel is weighing its next move, despite the redeployment. There are reports of new violence this morning. A gaza Health Official saying that a strike near a United Nations school has killed at least ten people. Is there any end game to this conflict . Ambassador dennis ross is with me, a Fox News Foreign Affairs analyst and counselor at the Washington Institute for near east policy. Good morning, sir. Good to have you on the program. Thanks for joining us. Nice to be with you. Thank you. So its the toughest question, of course. But what is your take on this . Why couldnt secretary kerry help broker some kind of a peac
And now irma is taking dead aim at florida. Patti irma is once again a category four storm with 131mile per hour winds, torrential rains have lifethreatening storms. More than 6 million floridians in the coastal area in the forecast is growing further. Is not only a dangerous storm. Weve already seen this time its taken months already. It will take more if we are not prepared. Please take it seriously. Patti now for the latest on the storm, adam klotz at the fox news extreme weather center. What is the latest . Reporter we are continuing to track this very large storm, beginning to get closer and closer to the florida keys. Three hours from landfall, but the outer band really beginning to lift up on the keys and portions of south florida. The miami area has a couple of these bands packing some very powerful winds as well. Youll start to see the storm surge on the eastern side of the state. The southeastern side of the state became the pilot. This is the wind, the motion of the rain is