Blown through nasdaq 7,000, were talking about s p 3,000 by the end of the year. Look how much we already moved we got a lot of milestones falling by the wayside lets get to bob pisani with some of the latest on todays action bob . This is quite an unusual week not just in the intensity and how much the s p is up, but the fact that everything seems to be working. Let me show you the winners this week and just the dow so, whatwere the two biggest losers of 2017 it was ge and ibm. Whats the two biggest movers up this week . Ge and ibm okay often get a little reversion to the mean, but two of the biggest movers in the dow last year was boeing and ibm so they had absolutely outstanding years and they, too, are up big. You get my point everything seems to be working this week. Its a little eery. Look at the major sectors today. S p up over 2 for the week. Small caps are pretty well, too. Growth is up, and value is up at the same time. Doing well thats kind of odd and even all the cyclical n
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This is the cbs evening news captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Reporting tonight from the white house. Been treated worse or more unfairly. It has been another day of momentous events, and jeff pegues has the latest. Reporter the Tipping Point came yesterday when it was revealed that former f. B. I. Director james comey had taken notes about his february meeting with President Trump. The meeting took place a day after National Security adviser Michael Flynn was fired for lying to the Vice President about his contacts with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. In his memo, comey wrote that President Trump said, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. He is a good guy. That raised the specter of obstruction of justice. And today Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein decided that the Justice Department could no longer run the investigation. He authorized a special counsel to ensure a full and thorough investigation
Reports about alleged ties with russia. The House Oversight committee asked the fbi to produce all of the notes of former director comeys conversations with the president. Jason chaffetz chairs that committee and joins us from utah. Mr. Chairman, how does the appointment of a special prosecutor change your plans to investigate this . Look, the house has its own equities and we will continue to pursue our own investigation and still plan to have a hearing with director comey as early as next week. I do applaud, and i do think that the department of justice, if they saw fit to appoint this special counsel, director mueller, impeccable credentials. Well enjoy a great deal of comfort on both sides of the aisle. People will have real trust in him. He served in the Obama Administration, the bush administration, but amazing credentials. Hell do a great job. Do you expect to have the fired fbi director james comey sitting in the witness chair on wednesday . Weve had a little bit of trouble con
Forecast, good sunday morning, chelsea, what a difference a day makes. That is so true, we are going to see plenty of sunshine. Yesterday was not most beautiful start to the day but that will be changing, for today. Things are looking much better for us. We will see temperatures very, very comfortable, they are going to be making it in the upper 70s and lower 80s out there, lets go to the mountains now temperature around 62 degrees in philadelphia. It is a cooler start. Chillier. Might need a light jacket heading out to take dog for a walk or morning jog. 59 degrees in wilmington. Fiftyseven in millville. We are in the 60s down the shore in wildwood. 64 degrees. Right around 57 in Atlantic City. We have 59 degrees in trenton. In stone harbor 64. Cape may right around 57. And 63 degrees currently in ocean city. We are cooler compared to just 24 hours ago and this shows thaw on the maps and 7 degrees cooler in philadelphia. Eleven in wilmington. Right around 11 in millville. Full 14 degr