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Cnbc. Im wilfred frost. And im susan lee in for sara eisen. A new month, new quarter. Thats right, lets have a look at what markets are doing on this the first day of the Second Quarter of 2017. Of course, it comes off a day of slight declines on friday. About 0. 3 for the dow, a little less than that for the s p and nasdaq. And they are called higher, about 28 points for the dow. Dollar points for the s p, nasdaq got about 9 points high. The dow rising 4. 6 . The s p 5. 5. The nasdaq placing its best performance since 2013 up nearly 10 . The Small Cap Index slightly underperforming. But the rally slowed. The s p finished flat. The dow lost nearly 1 . And the nasdaq gained about 1. A5 . Id say given all the focus weve had during the month of march, susan, from some of those pullbacks and declines when you have a look at that snapshot, you have to frame it as one of resilienc ....
Slowed. Nat dak off by 1. 5 . Last week, a pretty good week for the markets, dow was up by 66 points for the week. Nasdaq was up by 1. 4 . If you look overnight in asia, nikkei, 0. 4 . And kospi up 0. 34 . Markets in Mainland China were closed. The european equities, the dax is off. Off by 0. 4 . Market is flat in france and london as well. A couple other big stories were watching today. Weve got a lot. On the economic calendar, the ism. Auto sales. Tomorrow, factory orders and the paychecks Small Business jobs index comes out. Wednesday, the adp employment record, ism Services Reports and fed minutes. Thursday, weekly jobless claims, friday, wholesale trade numbers and march jobs report. There are a few names of earnings this week, monsanto, walgreens, boots alliance, young china, beth, bath and beyond and constellati ....
Cyberattacks . The numbers are on the screen. Also send us a tweet or go to facebook. You can also email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute about whether or not the u. S. Should engage in a offensive cyberattacks. The five by five writer from rollcall joins us. Tim starks, what do we mean when we say going on the offense when it comes to Cyber Security and cyberattacks . Guest its a very good question. The line between offense and defense insider security is very narrow. Obviously, defending her networks makes it harder for people to intrude on them, but there are people who say part of the defense is offense. You know, you need to make it if someone attacks her networks, you can attack them back. It is a deterrent, if you will. There is no question the u. S. Has conducted cyber offense, you know, they would say in the name of cyber defense. You look at the attack on north korea probably as an example of that. After the s ....