Special guest, featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause theme song playing stephen whoo oh, jon, there you are what are we doing . Where am i . Happy thursday cheers and applause thank you very much piano riff audience chanting stephen hey how are ya . Good to see ya cheers and applause welcome welcome one and all to the late show im your host Stephen Colbert. Weve spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks, talking about trumps racist rhetoric. But theres one race trump dislikes more than all the others, and thats the race for the democratic nomination. laughter ill tell you all about it in tonights doin it donkey style. Raise the minimum wage cheers and applause stephen the next democratic debate is a month away, and only eight candidates have qualified so far. Everyone else is getting desperate to break through. For instance, colorado senator and man who got cut from the c
Points. That number is a little misleading, a third of the down ends are higher. United help down about 3. 5 . Thats heavy and is dragging the index down as well. United health bringing down the marks. Keep in mind for the best week so far for the year for the dow. Brian, thank you very much. Welcome, everybody. Im tyler mathisen. A florida man is in Police Custody for allegedly plotting to blow up several east coast target stores. Investigators believe he was attempting to target stock. A man arrested in korea, current will i the defacto head of samsung, accused of bribing the now impeached president. Rainsoaked california bracing for yet more wet weather. Forecasters say parts of los angeles could see the heaviest rainfall in six years. Michelle. Tyler, we begin in South Carolina, where President Trump is expected to speak at the boeing facility. Eamon javers is in washington. Give us a preview of what to expect. Reporter things, plaintiffing in the usa, job creation as well as perha
To see the American Economy under default and with all the consequent impacts on the Global Economy and on the american middle class. In order to do that and was enormously damaging to consumer confidence. We were downgraded famously and it is a testament to the American People and the American Economy and the American Business and some of the success we have had working with the congress that we have been able to rebound and the economy continues to grow and create jobs but that was a selfinflicted wound and we cant have that nonsense anymore. Ok for people to engage in that kind of nonsense i appreciate the question and i refer you to my comments back then. People voting the way obama did. What happened in 2011, republicans in Congress Demanded and said they would let america default if they did not get the items on their agenda. That was consequential and unprecedented and the result was bad for everyone. Two weeks ago, the committee for responsible federal budget, which includes de
The fed chair will be testifying before the Senate Budget committee this time, starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern time. She told the join the Economic Committee the economy still needs plenty of support and that the markets are not in bubble territory. Valuations are in house torq historically Interest Rates are historically low. That feeds into the valuation. Theres that linkage. There are pockets where we could see valuations in smaller cap stocks but overall, those broad metrics dont suggest that we are in obviously bubble territory. In reaction to her comments, the dow managed a triple digit gain, closing at 16,518. The s p 500 also picked up ground adding ten points. The nasdaq, though, dropped 13 points. The nasdaq looked worse earlier in the day, though. You did see much steeper declines. It was boosted into the decline of 13 points by the end of the day. The futures right now, youll see at this point dow futures are indicated higher about 13. 5 points, nasdaq up by 2, s p up by 1.
It for amazon. Its wednesday, january 30, 2013. And squawk box begins right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawsquawk box he cnbc. Today we have the four bs ben bernanke and the fomc holding their first meeting of 2013. Investors watching carefully for any change in strategy to boost the economy. Blackberry 10, research in motion is unveiling its latest and greatest device in hopes of saving the battered company. Boeing, the dow component releasing Quarterly Results around 7 30 a. M. Eastern time. We will have instant reaction and more on the dreamliner battery drama. And last but not least, the bulls going on another run. The dow jumping another 72 points to close just 46 points away from 14,000, just 210 points away from its alltime closing high. We have a big lineup covering the rally, the fed, and the economy this morning. Ed keon of Quantitative Management Associates and dan greenhouse of btig will be serving up the markets for us. Fed watchers will join us at 7 40 a. M