Building with a handgun, according to fox news he cally. Knowing that there are over 4,000 staffers and interns at risk here on thec house side o the capital and are and recalling the horrible Gabby Giffords strategy and the loss of zimmerman, i would ask that members refrain from making statements that could even possible approximately be misconstrued by the public as an invitation to do anything like that. Its obvious that representative lomas meant no such thing and i think it behooves all of us to be careful about the way we phrase things because there are people out there ready and able to misconstrue things. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back. Gentleman yields back and the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. Collins. Thank you, mr. Chair, appreciate it. Here we go again. I told the story last time. I wish i could sit here and say what was not plausible then has gotten a little more plausible . It seems not to have gotten any more plausible. We still continue and
I am alix steel. Have you done the bucket challenge . I have not. I would not mind donating money. I do not see myself doing the bucket challenge. I challenge you. You are like the seventh person and i am still not going to do it. Going to existing home sales for the month of july. Scarlet fu in the newsroom with headlines. For the month of july economist looking for a drop. Instead what we got was an unexpected increase month over month. Existing sales rose 2. 4 from a month ago. In terms of an actual number, 5. 1 5 million, higher than what economists had been looking for. I was told 5. 1 five millions the highest level since october. Some good news on the housing front. We know the Federal Reserve had been siding housing and weakness, but concern is the slowdown as you look at the rotter economy. Another index is the leading index of Economic Indicators higher than anticipated as well. Again of. 9 . A gain of. 9 . Falling more than anticipated to below 300,000, a sevenyear low and e
Capped a strong week within striking distance of alltime record closing high. Blue chip index up to 18,127. The nasdaq gained 34 points rising for 5 Straight Days to get third highest close ever at 5026. And s p 500 up nearly 19 to 2108. In a week of big triple digit swings dont fight the fed. Stocks got lot of help after the fed wednesday dropped the word patient from its Interest Rate prognosis but basically said it will be patient about raising them. The dow rose 2 for the week. The nasdaq outpacing the others with a 3 rise and the s p. So its steepest weekly advance. But focus squarely this week on nasdaq that closed above 5,000 for the second time this year and on a few occasions this week the index was up when the dow and the s p were down. So why the recent strength in the index . Bertha coombs has our repo. Reporter the nasdaq is now within reach of new alltime high. And this time around says j. P. Morgans kate moore, the tech heavy index is driven by profits more than hype. We
The collapse paving the way for shells buyout ofb g group. This is a huge one. Around 70 billion. Coming up well look at which companies in the energy patch could be the next takeover target. Also here come the earnings. Alcoa ready to kick off the parade. Ceo Klaus Kleinfeld will be here exclusively just moments after the aluminum giants results are released. Thats coming up just after the ringing of the closing bell. And Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of multiple charges in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing. He could now face the Death Penalty. Well have the latest coming up. By the way, i should point out, as soon as any members of the jury maybe some of the attorneys come out before the press, we will be going there live to boston with all of that. So well keep you up to date on this story as well. Pardon the interruption as we do so. The dow is up 11 points. 17,886 is the level. Look at that russell rebounding nicely from its weak session yesterday. It dragged all the in
Moment in the European Central bank News Conference. Have a listen and watch. The News Conference was in frankfurt at 8 30 a. M. New york time. It was short after after he began speaking and he was interrupted boy the female protester who screamed and threw glitter on him. Screamed and threw glitter on him. It took a few seconds before security was able to subdue the glitterwielding disruptor. How does this even happen . Joining us now is Steve Leesman in germany. Welcome and good to have you. Steve and annette, both of you have been in these press conferences before. What is security like . Does it make sense to you that someone like this could break in and breakthrough this way . Its going to be seen as a clear lapse of security protocol. What we heard is we started off reading the statement we have gotten the last couple of hours we watched the video. The statement from these, the initial findings suggests the activist registereda aids journalist and does not represent like all visi