And Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side Natalie Morales and al roker at his weather post. Well check in with you in a few minutes. We have former Vice President dick chaney here this morning. Hes in our green room. If you look at him now and think about how he looked the last time he was on the show, it tells the story. He was here about three years ago and i said dont take this the wrong way but you look a lot better than you did then. He had major Health Problems and discusses at lot of those and how severe they were in this new book. He received a new heart. He is very open about how close he came to death. Well talk to him in a few minutes. Well get to that later on. Lets get to todays top story and al, its the hurricane called raymond. Nobody loves raymond in this case. Especially our friends down in mexico. This is the first major hurricane in the pacific. We
Closed only slightly higher. Blueprint budget battle. House republicans and Senate Democrats both reveal budget plans for the nation this week. Macys, martha and mediation. A new york judge is ordering macys, jc penney and Marth Stewart living ominmedia into mediation over marthas merchandise. By april 8th. When the trial resumes. Mark sebastian of option pit mentoring joins us on this monday morning for a look at the market. Good morning to you. Good morning angela. What is the stock market telling us about the economy, mark . I think we saw on friday what the stock market is telling us. Its expecting good numbers. That 236 number seems like a huge surprise but the s p only rallied about 7 handles on that. And that shows you that the market was actually expecting good numbers. So, Going Forward were gonna need good numers out of Economic Data in order to continue this rally. Theres a line going around called gloom, boom, and doom. What do you think about that . Its basically saying we
Long this weekend. No. You want to rein in your horns . If i want to buy something, ill buy protection and in the puts and vix but i wont go long. Are you going to be buying what hes selling, Matt Cheslock . If you want me to. No way im throwing in the towel now. The market has gone away from me. Im going on the same premise as ben. Volatility has been awesome as far as trading goes. A 170point reversal. Dow down 116 on the open and then even more than that. Wonderful trading down here but maybe a sign of a little bit of a top. You feel we are getting a distribution top here. Not accumulating. No way im going home long. The sky isnt falling from sequestration so thats a good thing, too. Were focused on hoops right now. Got a little playoff game. Good to see you guys. Have a good weekend. Pleasure. 15 seconds left. The dow up 25 points, a volatile week comes to the end. What will the month of march bring . Well resume that again on monday. Have a good weekend. If i dont see you later, m