Youth, pay up, scratch, cross their palms and they will pull the lever for you. Cash and carry. Smart conservatives know this is no way to treat a potential voter. It was put this way in the new york post. Romney didnt say the election came out as it did because obamas team outplayed and outfoxed his. He should have because thats the truth. He said obama won the second term through essentially bribery. I have three rules for both parties as they converge to do their jobs. Respect the vote are. Respect each others offices and search hard for common ground. Thats what we should be doing and guiding our countrys conversation. Not trashing the people who voted against you but respecting the fact that they did for your own good. Washington bureau chief from mother jones and our political analyst. Lets take a look at some of this stuff from john mccain. Four years since john mccain lost his president ial bid, ten days since mitt romney lost but they are holding a grudge against the president
Lowest names you can think of. Which they did. He was a very honorable man, and he hated that his name was being used in a way that wasnt being honorable to he or his family. The United States government and all governments frown upon this because, okay, youre disturbing their ability to fight a war, youre also disturbing their commerce. And semmes countered with that. He said he was doing nothing that hadnt been done before, especially by the United States. During the war of 1812 and especially during the american revolution. We didnt have a fleet during the american revolution. And there were people, since the government could not bay pay these people, they made them, the if you will, privateer, private individuals who would go out and stop commerce or disrupt the british fleet. And thats exactly what they did. This weekend learn about the rich history and literary life of mobile, alabama. Saturday at noon eastern on cspan2 and sunday at two on cspan3. Coming up today at 12 15 easter
And it is 4 00 on wall street. Do you know where your money is . Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the closing bell. Im maria bartiromo. Market closes lower after the s p 500 closes at a fiveyear high on friday. Bit of a downer today. Take a look at how were finishing on wall street. Dow down about 51 points. Absence of buyers not necessarily selling going on today. S p 500 gave up about 4 points. Also off the worst levels of the afternoon. And the nasdaq composite down about three points. Really flat on the day for the s p and the nasdaq. The bulls took a back seat today with the s p retreating from the fiveyear high. So was it a slip blip in the rally . We bring in now jeff acorzanik, ron asana. Good to see you. Peter, let me kick this off with you. What did you see today in terms of flow . In flow . Yeah. Whered the money move . The money moved trying to find little spots and little dips. But there wasnt much money going into the market or out of the market. It was almost anticlimactic
That. President obama condemned the armys crackdown, canceled the bilateral u. S. Egyptian military exercise. Cheryl and Berkshire Hathaway has reported buying new stakes in dish network and sun corp. Energy. David shares of kohls got a boost today after reporting a rise in same store sales following down beat reports from walmart and macys. Cheryl and confidence among u. S. Home builders at its highest levels in nearly eight years, thats according to wells fargo can Builder Sentiment index. David the wall the wall stree reporting that the department of energy was attacked by computer hackers last month who gained personal information on thousands of current and former employees. We have earnings coming up, dell in just a moment. After the bell starts right now. Cheryl and lets get to todays action and whats behind the selloff. Weve god edward pavin, chief investment officer, and Mark Sebastian in the pits of the cme. Mark, lets start with you. You know, so much of what weve seen today
First, some names in this one, also if you flip it over to the ie oh, including occidental, apache. That went down just a percent. David and we have been talking about coal since the first debate, take a look at what has happened a couple of coal stocks, Peabody Energy rallied 30 since the first debate where mitt romney singled out coal as needing to be boosted in this country. Both of those coal stocks still going up. Liz highly anticipated earnings, we will wait and hear from the search giant yahoo, and getting texas instruments. As for yahoo, thisll be the first Earnings Report under the new ceo and the question becomes is her turnaround plan working . As they quickly punch it up, looking into the close down slightly about half a percent. David Commodities Futures Trading Commission set to vote on new rules protecting your investment. We can use that after mf global. Well be talking to bart chilton on the regulation of how this can impact your money. Liz but first, what drove the ma