Of the longerrun normal Unemployment Rate had increased somewhat and that the fed might need to red the federal funds rate more quickly than currently anticipated to limit the degree of undershooting and stem a potential buildup of inflationary pressures. Ashley here with reaction now our own laurie at the New York Stock Exchange and our ever Popular University peter. Lets go to laurie on the floor today, we have been up 42 points. A blah day again. Does this have any impact. Bare in mind this was three weeks ago and things changed. Things do change although at first glance, ash, see any surprises, pretty much what we expect given the last meeting that we see three Interest Rate hikes. The Dow Jones Industrial continuing toward 20,000, if you will, in post election rally. Up 43 points. Thats what we were ahead of the release of the minutes. I checked some of the other things, oil is one and three quarters. The big picture, theme, we have not seen a whole lot of movement in a lot of the
Republicans getting a pep talk of their own from Vice President lent mike pence. Blake burman live on capitol hill to tell us how the Health Care Battle will play out. President elect trump was busy too, announcing some of his staff, including nominee to head the Securities Exchange commission. Making cars in mexico and what to expect at the Consumer Electronics show. We are less than an hour to the closing bell. Im lori rothman. Yes, youre stuck with me because liz claman is on her way to ces. Lets start the countdown. Lori breaking news. Lets start here. Stocks flirting with session highs, bringing the dreams of dow 20,000 back to life. Stocks accelerating gains following release of the fed minutes just over an hour or so ago. S p 500, well it, the broad market average hovering around the most recent record close of 20271 points. We have to be exact. That hit december 13th. It was a year to remember for the big automakers. New car sales, good news here today, on track for an alltime