Here. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Toppled at a Jewish Cemetery in missouri, and more than 50 Jewish Community Centers Nationwide received bomb threats. But today, the anne frank center, which fights discrimination, dismissed the president s statement as a bandaid on the cancer of antisemitism that has infected his own administration. White house Spokesman Sean Spicer i think that hopefully as time continues to go by, they recognize his commitment to civil rights, to voting rights, to equality for all americans. Reporter in january, jewish groups criticized the Trump Administration for not specifically mentioning juice over antisemitism in a statement on holocaust remembrance day, and they have raised concerns about xenophobic statements on breitbart, a publication once run by white house adviser steve bannon. Last week, an israeli reporter asked the president to respond. I wonder what do you say to nose those among the jewish communities in the state and in exprl ar
Check out the stock market in the early going. Right now, the dow futures are up by about 19 points above fair value. S p futures are up by 1. 5 and the nasdaq is up by 3. 5. If you were watching oil prices, youll see right now theyre down by half a percent. 104. 85 for the wti. The tenyear note at this point is yielding 2. 556 . Take a look at what the dollar is doing this morning. Youll see right now the dollar is up against the euro. Euro is at 1. 366. The dollar is down both against the pound and the yen. The yen is 101. 44. Gold prices look like they are up barely, 1,327. 80 an ounce. Among our market newsmakers, we have jim grant, jim paulson and andrew ill send it over to you. Thank you, becky. Our top corporate story this morning, jpmorgan chairman and Ceo Jamie Dimon announced late yesterday has been diagnosed with what hes calling curable throat cancer. Kayla tousche joins us now with more on the story. A lot of people on wall street and washington are talking about this situ
Cant comprehend it. Sometimes youre dazzled by all the ways that this market gives you to make money. Big money. Today was one of those days. Dow climbing 78 points. S p gaining 0. 4 . Let me tell you how that money was made and then more importantly, plain the take aways from each win. Because i need you to understand that the gains in this market have been extraordinary. Why is that . Simple. Its because managements will not let up about their stocks being too cheap. They hate it and they keep doing something about it. Meanwhile, other companies are now coming in to buy the stocks of still other companies that they think the stock market isnt paying enough for and are worth a great deal more to an acquirer. And still other companies have so much growth that their stocks cant seem to do anything but go higher. House of pleasure. Lets start with everyones what everyone is buzzing about. The 85 hostile bid for time warner launched today by murdochs company. We all know that the companie
Equity funds. Now we want to know, would you put your money to work in potrelated businesses . And youre going to love this story. We get the brutal truth from pepsi ceoindra nuie. This is the true story about how she told her mother about a huge promotion at pepsi. Listen. Let me explain something to you. You might be president of pepsi pepsico. When you enter this house youre the wife, daughter, daughterinlaw, youre all that. Nobody else can take that place. Leave that damn crown in the garage. Leave the damn crown out. It gets better. More brutal truth from pepsis ceo coming up later. Tyner is out but susan is at the big board. Absolutely, bill. So good to see you. The dow is 25 points from 17,000. Year to date the dow is swaggered really. Its up 2. 3 . The s p and nasdaq up almost 7 . Theres another big story. Tenyear note. Take a look at the yield which crests above 2. 60 earlier this morning which caused a little bit of a pull back in stocks early on. Now were at 2. 625 . Seema m
Our first reaction is to express grief and condolences to the families involved. I noticed when the market was down not that much at all. Amazing how a plane crash a zillion miles away creates a buying opportunity. It was inconsistent with how the market works. Its too rash and glib. I expected the market to be down sharply this very morning because last night president obama announced his tougher sanctions against russia for meddling in ukraine. The s p futures were down big this early morning. Ahead of the opening. That seemed reasonable because of the new level of uncertainty. Things were ratcheted up. When the averages initially failed to get hammered because there was so much positive news flow, i was surprised. Russia, not as important as china, obviously, can still impact the stock market for more than 24 hours as we see things play out. In other words, we whistled past a piece of negative geopolitical news as though it were totally isolated and didnt mean that at all. When we g