Points so really is a nice showing. 28 of the 30 dow components in the green. We heard from House Speaker john boehner. The overall sentiment after he spoke is a few negative pieces of language in his speech that ultimately in the end he was trying to say theyre trying to work it out. Smooth it over, ultimately. They know a couple of trends we are seeing, technology, materiall, two areas coming under pressure recently starting to turn. Europe seeing improvement helping equities along as well. Lori not sure if you mentioned the fed. We were talking about it at the top. Talking about their expectations of ben bernanke. Nicole would even throw out the idea of stimulus . That helped things along pushing us along throughout this entire last six months. Lori absolutely. Thank you so much, Nicole Petallides on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Protests turn violent in lansing, michigan, as Union Protesters ripped down a tent belonging to righttowork supporters. Becoming the 24th right
The impact as the twoday meeting starts. Dagen michigans capital under siege. Protests over right to work. Connell should we call it an apple tax . On average, families are spending thousands of dollars a year on apple products. Dagen it is not a tax, it is a choice. Top of the hour, stocks now and every 15 minutes. Nicole all right, dagen and connell, take a look at the markets. The Dow Jones Industrials up triple digits. The dollar has been lower. They have talked about the gains that we have been seeing over in europe. The euro top 50. That is very interesting, as well. This is the environment. It bodes very well. Another winning day here on wall street. Drug stocks, bank stocks doing well. The vix, the fear index, is to the downside. Lets take a look at urban outfitters. Taking a look at their quarterly sales. They are looking better than expected. Under their umbrella is a name brand that a lot of the teenagers know very well. They had a good block friday. Urban outfitters is up o
The third in four years. Well have more details in squawk sports a little later this hour. But notre dame didnt show up at the beginning of this game. No. Alabama was the superior team. I didnt see a single inning. A single inning . You didnt make it to the ninth . Those rednecks spanked those catholic boys. Thats i watched the first half and then went to bed. I think a Rutgers Notre Dame game might have been better for the viewing audience. It was a bad, bad first half. The s. E. C. , you know, theyre looking for somebody to come in that can give them a decent game. Im telling you, they were the only team that showed up. Alabama, they deserved this national title. Yeah, but they got beat. Johnny manziel beat them. But they looked so good. Weve seen other teams, lsu has played them tough. Im telling you, alabama is lsu played them tough. People say notre dame didnt play anyone. Notre dame beat michigan, michigan state, stanford, oklahoma, usc. There were some squeakers in there, though
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