Is Alan Knuckman of trading advantage, one of our traders who noted it would be a big year for stocks. Alan, what was behind the big move . It was just a great year. For those that didnt fight the market i made a contrarian call last december when everybody was really negative just from the fact that everybody was overloaded in one direction. The market obviously goes the other way a lot of times and it was a great big year for a lot of bull participants. You also made some calls on individual stocks, starting with facebook. This was a stock that was basically left for dead. People were not loving this stock but you liked it. I really liked it from a riskreward standpoint. Thats how you have to look at the market. You have to look at itif you buy it what are you risking it to and what is the upside potential of that play . So facebook had been cut in half so there was limited risk on the downside. It wasnt going to go out of business in my estimation. We saw a big resurgence and also s
How did this happen . And going gaga, one of the most creative and controversial women in music. And lady gaga is live in studio. And shes got something you will only see right here on today, friday, march 21st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on a friday morning. Nice to have you along. Matts got the morning off. Were waking up. Its nightfall off the coast of australia. And how frustrating, another day turning up nothing. Especially for 239 families waiting for something. And its once again our top story. This ongoing search for possible debris from flight 370. It has been 14 days since that plane disappeared. Still, no solid answers, just questions. Nbcs tom costello has this mornings newest developments. Tom, good morning. Good morning, savannah. Search teams have been looking in this area, and so far, nothing. Even as they go deep into the indian ocean, theyve
Row. Gold edged up 3 dollars and oil fell a dime. Jp morgan has a tenative agreement to pay 4. 5 billion dolalrs to settle claims with investors who lost money on Mortgage Backed securities in the housing crisis. On capitol hill this week. Budget talks continue and janet yellen could be approved to become the next fed chair by the Senate Banking committee. This market continues to show strength. Larry shover of sfg alternatives join us on this monday morning. Good morning to you larry. Good morning. Its a yellen kind of a week but its also another week that we could see another record run. It could be. Last week was six weeks in a row of the market being up. A lot of people blaming it on the fact that yellen is somehowbut nothings really changed except they just reiterated the zero Interest Rate policy and how thats gonna be extended for a long period of time. Thats going to help underpin risk settlement. And yet crude has been on a losing streak. The biggest one weve seen in a long ti
Crime cause we changed the definition. That didnt happen and thats whatstroubling. We shouldnt ve anything to hide. If theresomething to hide, its a fullblown scanda reporter earlier this month used stricter criteria and tment compared those numbers to last years which didt have the stricter criteria, revealing a dramaticdrop. Youre right. We probably t is ales to oranges. It is. And its not a true or fair comparison. Rorter the department did t tell the public until after wetarted asking questions. In hindsight, we wouldnt make that comparison. Believe me. It wasnt messaged properl in our part, and i take responsibilityor that. We could havdone a better job externally to the public andhe media. Thats what were trying to fix. Reporr we wanted to know the department used the sam criteria this year as it did last year to classy gang cases. Would gangrelated mders actually be down . Im not reall sure becau it is somewhat subjective. I uld imagine, i would tend to think the number of eight
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