The union speech and the latest on jobs. Lets start there, because we just received the report. This is news. 275,000 jobs added to the economy in february. That is way down from the reading in january. The unemployment rate, that kicked up to 3. 9 , but that still is historically a low rate. Heres the Market Reaction to that. Stocks picked up when those numbers were release. They had been down, markets were down, dow up maybe 4, s p up 12, but the nasdaq 40 points ahead in the early going. The 10year yields, theyre coming down. Very close to the 10year, to 4 even. You now at 4. 07. Down just a fraction after those Inflation Numbers jobs numbers. The 2year, 4. 48 . Yields down across the board on those jobs numbers. Bitcoin, 67,000 and change as of now, 67,7. Gas up 1 cent, youve reached 3. 40 for regular. Diesel coming in at 4. 05. All right. Now, the state of the union. It was a Campaign Speech devoted to Bashing Trump and the republicans. We didnt hear much about his policies in a s
Stuart dont impress me much. That is are producers making a comment on the state of the union address. Good morning, 10 00 eastern, straight to the money, weve got a rally going, the dow is up 162 points, nasdaq 125 points, dow 30, right hand side of the screen. The 10 year treasury may be part of the deal, the 10 years down 4. 07 . We also got some tame jobless numbers which is encouraged the market. The price of oil 78 a barrel, bitcoin last time we checked was 677, now it is 68six. Thats the markets. Now it was a blatantly political state of the union message. The president bashed trump without ever mentioning his name, he bashed republicans and blamed them for his policy failures. It was a campaign speech, democrats were chanting four more years, not what a state of the union is supposed to be. He started late. s motorcade was held upon pennsylvania avenue by propalestinian demonstrators and he began with ukraine which that went on for ten minutes. He accused trump of, quote, bowin
Documents. And this isnt a gotcha show, but i want to ask you about youre currently 81 years old. Who told you that. All jokes aside this is real concern for american voters. How do you address that concern as you come up to the 2024 election . Well, a couple things. Number one hes about as old as i am and he cant remember his wifes name. That was President Biden last night on late night with seth myers. Today the president could face a sizable protest vote in michigans primary. Well go through that straight ahead. Meanwhile, the president is optimistic that a ceasefire in gaza could happen in a matter of days. Well bring you the very latest on the negotiations between israel and hamas. And that comes as congressional leaders are set to meet with biden today at the white house in hopes of hammering out a deal to avoid a government shutdown. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, february 27th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin
Hamas should be treated exactly the way isis was treated. They should be spit out from the community of nations. Dctv video shows hamas fighters waiting at the gate of this Quiet Community before ambushing a civilian car. Once inside, they would inflict unimaginable terror on the population of 1,000. Someone killed them. Six days in to the war, israel said to be dropping flyers in gaza urging palestinians to take cover in what could be a major ground war. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that every member of hamas is a deadman. The United States confirming now that 27 dead americans are the reality. We are all over it with the israeli ambassador to the United Nations on what is next in this war. What he makes of a palestinian day of protest called for tomorrow over this war. House Intelligence Committee chair mike turner on if the warnings were missed and Senate Minority whip john thune on the great 6 billion iran mystery money. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. Lets get to it
Are open. The numbers are on the bottom of your screen. A very good saturday morning. Here are the headlines that americans are waking up to this morning. Many of them talking about the economic and jobs situation in the country. The lead story in the Los Angeles Times the wall street journal this morning. The Orange County register this morning. Heres the front page of the Financial Times weekend paper. Finally to the front page of the Washington Post this morning. President obama spoke about the jobs situation and wage situation yesterday in remarks at the white house briefly before he introduced his new pick to head the pentagon. Heres a bit of what the president had to say at the beginning of that statement. Last month americas businesses created more than 300,000 jobs. This keeps a pace so tar this year so far this year that we have not seen since the 1990s. So far this year over the first 11 months of 2014 our economy has created 2. 65 million jobs. Thats more than in any entire