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we read the tea leaves on the data that s driving down the market this morning. cbs and time warner are on the move both after reporting earnings. we re going to dig into those quarters. we ll also talk to cbs s chief executive. tim cook calling the u.s. government dysfunctional on mad money with jim. we ll hear from the apple ceo and dig in on what last night s primary results may mean. stocks are poised to open lower a day after falling to their lowest levels in three weeks amid concerns about slowing economic growth. speaking of the economy, data from adp shows the private sector added 156,000 jobs in april, that is below consensus and marks the smallest increase in three years. 156, we were looking for 196. and everybody wants to know, jim, what this might mean for friday. yeah. i think that we re back into a mode which says this roving bull market that we ve had in cyclicals maybe give that a break. go back into the clorox market. remember, it is just bull, ....
this morning, president obama nominated former defense department official ashton carter to be his fourth defense secretary. he would replace chuck hagel. mr. carter has served in a number of roles within the department as defense secretary from 2011 to 2013. watch the president s announcement of his nomination at cspan.org. the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history. this weekend we visit waco, texas. as we began to receive the vinyl to be saved, we began turning over the b sides of the 45s that we received. first off, gospel music was not widely heard in the white community. what it was, it was only the hits, if that. the b or flip side would be heard less. what we discovered quickly was how many of the b side songs were directly related to the civil rights movement. since there s few databases and none of them are complete on gospel music, didn t know that. we didn t know the shee ....
there still some lingering distrust left over from the housing crisis that hasn t been fully dealt with yet so i think that is what everybody is concerned about along with the somewhat anemic economic growth that people are concerned that this housing recovery is not for real or it s not as good as it appears to be. so we look at home prices had a very big jump in many areas in and home prices in 2013 but we are starting to see those numbers come down in many markets across the country. foreclosures which we track are down to nearly prerecession levels. actually we came out with the april numbers yesterday. there were 115,000 properties with foreclosure filings in the month of april. that s down from a peak of over 367,000 in march of 2010 and we are almost back before the recession we were seeing about 85,000 foreclosure filings a month so we are getting closer to that level. that negative piece is largely gone from the market. housing prices are going up but there is ....
half a million dollars from a russian oligarch. much more on that in just about 30 seconds. but first we want to catch you up on tonight s primary races across the country. if you ve been watching, you know we ve been keeping a close eye on that west virginia republican senate primary. president trump weighed in on that contest, urging voters to choose anybody but don blankenship. it appears they have done just that. nbc news has called this race for patrick morrisey tonight in west virginia. blankenship, the coal baron ex-con came in third. we have complete results from steve kornacki at the big board coming up a bit later on in our broadcast. back to our lead story. more on this bombshell news that the company michael cohen used to pay $130,000 to a porn star also received massive sums of money from an investment firm with ties to a russian oligarch, who was in turn close to vladimir putin. a document first released tonight by stormy daniels attorney, michael avena ....
(Reuters) - PE firm Carlyle has hired advisers to explore a sale of Cogentrix that could value the North Carolina-based power producer at as much as $3 billion to $4 billion, the Financial Times reported, citing three people briefed on the matter. . ....