The highlights of an exceptional week of racing, this week, included the first round of the Sporting Press Irish Oaks, the final of the Champion 550, semifinals.
bullish for political scandal, irs, nsa, benghazi, doj, scandals beat bonds. all those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. [ music playing ] . that s closing the books on 2013. lots of money made in stocks. elsewhere, not so much. seema mody joins us with all the details. good evening, larry, we are halfway through 2013. boy, did that go fast. the dow jones industrials up nearly 14% year-to-date. s&p 500 up 12.6%. take a look at the nasdaq, a major comeback after the performance in tech the composite up 12.7% in 2013. here s the real story t. yield on the ten-year treasury note, which for a while was hanging on below 2%, just hit its highest level in almost two years. the reason, ben bernanke talking about scaling back on qe. in response the dollar index shot up now about 5% this year, gold and other commodities which typically have an inverse relationship with the u.s. dollar fell sharply. actually, gold just had its worst quarter