Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the war between israel and hamas raged on today, with strikes on a United Nations school and a busy market in gaza. After more than three weeks of fighting, the Palestinian Death toll reached 1,359 and in israel, 56 soldiers have been killed, along with three civilians. Bodies were carried onebyone out of a crowded shopping area in the eastern gaza strip today. The israeli airstrike hit when people were taking advantage of a fourhour ceasefire, but it applied only to certain areas. Hamas also brok
Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the war between israel and hamas raged on today, with strikes on a United Nations school and a busy market in gaza. After more than three weeks of fighting, the Palestinian Death toll reached 1,359 and in israel, 56 soldiers have been killed, along with three civilians. Bodies were carried onebyone out of a crowded shopping area in the eastern gaza strip today. The israeli airstrike hit when people were taking advantage of a fourhour ceasefire, but it applied only to certain areas. Hamas also brok
Crisis and travel concerns. We begin with a market rally after and eightday losing streak. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. At the midpoint of the trading day, u. S. Stocks are rallying as we close out the trading week. U. S. Data is showing new Home Construction rose in september after slumping a month earlier. Consumer confidence also surprised wall street, rising this month to the highest level in seven years. Saying theyed in, will start purchasing assets in the next nine days. That said, the s p 500 is still down roughly 6 or says the highway saw september 18. An economist at lpl financials says the markets seem to have a. Y the dip mentality most of the traders get ready to hit the weekend. Will the gains last on monday, or are people stepping in because it looks like the market was oversold. We have also been watching treasuries how our bonds doing . Essentially, falling for a second day. The 10year yield up the most in one month. Look at what is happening, spiking through the 2
Todays top story, theres only one. The dow rallied more than 300 points in the last two sez sessions. The blue chip index is now within 89 points of its alltime record rose. Europe is seeing a lot of green in early action, as well, on thursday. February 28th, 2013, squawk box begins right now. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Our guest host this hour is sentinel president and ceo christian swake. Good morning. Thank you for being here and joining us. As you said, it is a good day to here be here. Weve been watching the u. S. Equity futures because of all the actions yesterday. This morning, you did see a few green arrows, but no massive move at this point. The magic number is 14,164. 53. That is the record closing high for the dow. It was reached back on october of 2007. The bulls a number of catalysts for mondays sharp sell down. Some are calling this the bernanke bounce. The stocks soared after the twoday testimony on ca
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