On the democratic side, despite his deficit, sanders has close the polling gap with clinton. They are in a statistical tie nationally. Clinton beat donald trump and ted cruz, but she loses to john kasich. Sanders, like clinton, beats trump and ted cruz in a hypothetical contest, but unlike. Linton, he beats john kasich and yet, both sanders and kasich are getting pressured to leave the race. White isnt that breaking through . This is going to be a dream for you, im going to speak as little as possible because my voice is gone. But i will say, electability is an argument that does not resonate much with voters. They all say they will elect a nominee, but what they care more about is can people get things done, what are their ideologies, their passions about issues they clear about . Not about the abstract question about who will win in the fall. Where the nominee is is likely to be electable. Questiondoes beg the of why clinton is doing worse than sanders. I also wonder white kasich is
They are in a statistical tie nationally. In general election matchups clinton beat donald trump and , ted cruz, but she loses to john kasich 47 to 43 . Sanders, like clinton, beats trump and ted cruz in a hypothetical contest, but unlike clinton, he beats john kasich. 46 to 44 . And yet, both sanders and kasich are getting pressured to leave the race. Sanders and hasek and kasich often out. Why isnt that argument breaking through . John this is going to be a dream for you, im going to speak as little as possible because my voice is gone. But i will say, electability is an argument that does not resonate much with voters. They all say they will elect a nominee, but what they care more about is can people get things done, what are their ideologies, their passions about issues they care about . Not the app stack the abstract question of who will win in the fall. Where the nominee is is likely to be electable. Mark it does beg the question of why clinton is doing worse than sanders. I als
Session. Year to date, the s p is hanging onto gains as it solidifies its recovery up 1. 5 . Nasdaq remains the laggard this year, declining nearly 3 . It has been a vshaped market this year. The s p 500 in the first six by 10. 5 . He year fell we talked about how rare it is, but then the balance has been a rapid and large as well, 13 as we have seen the recovery now in the past several weeks. On the downside, i was at the s p 500 and analyzed. The company that contributed to the most to clients, we are not quite there yet. I can tell you, coming from apple and amazon, we are contributing the most to the decline in the first few weeks of the year and those are the stocks that of also contributed the most to the recovery as we have come out of it since february 11. These are the bestperforming groups year to date. The Interest Rate sensitive groups have been doing better at as rates have been going down and more defensive groups have been doing better this year. The two groups that are
Month and the quarter, lets head over to the markets desk where Bloombergs Julie Hyman is there. Julie it has been an eventful quarter, the shaped quarter with stocks falling initially through midfebruary and then rebounding sharply through now. At the moment, the s p and the to little change, the dow the down side, yeartodate, as we now the s p and dow have solidified their gains of the s p getting a little closer to 1 gain, the nasdaq remains the lag guardian the year even as large cap tech has been part of the rebound story thus far. Look at the monthly performance, this looks at the monthly performance of the s p 500. Were looking at the biggest monthly jump since october, but also the second largest month that we have seen going back to the end of 2011. This magnitude of an increase is relatively unusual. Now, that said, the increase that we have seen in stocks has been on relatively low volume and, of course, on very low volatility. We heard talk of that in the last hour. The yea
After these attacks, having been there. There had been a manhunt put out globally at this point for him. One brussels source now saying that they have apprehended the third suspect. Police have also confirmed that the two men on the left are the brothers khalid and ibrahim ael bakraoui. The man on the right, again, is alleged to have assisted the two suicide bombers. Police sources also told nbc that the man is a suspect in the paris attacks as well. As part of that manhunt, a police raid in brussels led to the discovery of a nail bomb and an Islamic State flag. Isis has claim the responsibility for the attacks that have killed at least 31 people. Lets take a quick check on the markets, debt yget you caug on how Global Markets have been reacting overnight. Dow looks like it would open 15 points higher. Nasdaq up about five points. The s p 500 up about two points. European equities thus far have been in the green. I get anxious that events like this have just become either so common pla