It is an exclusive you wont see anywhere but on cnbc. As you were saying a positive month but ending with losses with the dow and s p 500 down for the third time in four days now. The nasdaq down for a fourth straight session. It is currently off by over 1 . The major averages up however, for the month of april. Having their biggest drops today, though since april 17th which is approximately two weeks ago. Check out oil, though having its best monthly gain in six years. Crude is up more than 24 over that period. Bertha coombs is at the nasdaq jackie deangeles at s p. Bob, is there something more to this . I think the problem is we have continuing concerns about the inability to get earnings up significantly. Were flat but not moving up very much. I think we would have ended april last week because youre right, we havent had any energy at all this week. Look at the s p 500. Were to the downside and moving sideways and were at the lows for the week. Really were having a lousy week overal
Americans dont like that fight. Regardless of whether they agree or not. You got that. You got a government thats earned distrust of the American People, and thats what the pop pewist uprising is about. People are fearful of the government. The most damaging thing taken place in the last year is not the fight over the budget, but the nsa controversy, the irs controversy, all that, which is not only been dismissed by the government, but defended by the president saying that, well, thats just them. I didnt do that. Nebraskas been punished for these things, and people are beginning to become afraid of the very government, and thats the danger to the democratic system. Anyone else with a quick comment . I think also the kind of spending that happened with the stimulus and how its very apparent that a lot of federal funding goes towards politically connected groups of people just as well as certain law changes like delaying the employer mandate, but keeping the individual mandate on the boo