This guy as uncle carl. I made that up. I made that up. Melissa media. Were always to blame. Make it like brand x at cnbc. Melissa im not familiar with that company. Go ahead, lee. Here is what i think investors have to remember. Whatever carl icahn is doing the same thing he did as corporate raider before he became shareholder activist. He is going in there to push around ceos to do things for shortterm profit. That doesnt help investors long term. Also media gives perception whatever uncle carl is doing we should doing that with our retirement funds. I wish you would stop saying media. Melissa go ahead, charlie. I want credit for that. I should have trademarked that. I should have trademarked comrade bill de blasio. What is good about this, i came up with that one too. What i think is fascinating about carl icahn on this, he does do a Public Service. He tells us, now i dont know whether, you know all the sort of shenanigans Marc Andreessen doing, buy a company, selling subsidiary of
Dagen we put you in like a camo jacket. The market slight losses here, we are also getting news on that settlement with the Justice Department, Nicole Petallides has you covered at the new york stock exchange. Lauren the dow down to the downside. The nasdaq and the s p squeezing out some gains although very minimal. Talking fractional news for the nasdaq and the s p with the up arrows up nearly two points as the s p is up. 34. A third of a point. Very small moves despite the fact everybody still continues to believe you will not see any tapering from the fed anytime soon. Some of the steel stocks doing very good, hitting new highs. Watching blackberry hit new lows. It has been a mixed bag for the dow jones industrials. Those will be some names to watch. The trend has been great. Back to you. Dagen thank you, nicole. Connell we saw that news scrolling at the bottom. The settlement you will hear more about throughout the day. Healthcare. Gov backup, the extended maintenance over the week
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We want to start with kron4 Jackie Sissel who is live at the scene. Bart workers are out on the tracks. Here is video some earlier were you saw bart Police Officers with the Alameda County Sheriffs Department out here on the tracks. The accident occurred around 11 30 p. M. Right before the services were due to stop. This is monday person, a male victim was on the tracks, he was struck and killed. At that point all service stopped in the area. I can tell you that bart Police Officers were out here for about six hours collecting evidence. In fact that waited to make one last walk along the tracks to collect any missed evidence. The coroner stated that at this time they had no identification on the victim in fact to theyre not even sure why he was on the tracks and the first place. For now the tracks are shut down and this train that hit to the victim was mold and and this trend is now headed toward the hayward station or towards the fremont station. I can tell you that these tracks are s
Showing claims fell. It is pretty good. Getting better. But the Employment Situation remains pretty insistent. Pemco continuing to see huge outflows. Founder bill gross says a bond war is at hand and his firm will be the winner. He lays out the battle strategy exclusively. Lays it out as war strategy. Plus Richard Fisher is with us. He says it is time to taper. But he has been saying this for a while. He is not a Voting Member but he will tell you what he expects his colleagues to do beginning next month. He is a september taperer. It is amazing. And it shows you the debate going on within the Federal Reserve right now. Absolutely. Lets approach this final hour. Near the highs of the day here, not so far from it. Up about 40 points. 15,511. Nasdaq also positive here with the gains doubledigit, up 18. 5 points. 1. 5 of 1 . S p 500 showing a begin here of bet are than will points, bill. Down s p about an hour and a half away from snapping a threeday losing streak. What was the turn aroun