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it was another record setting day for the s&p 500 and nasdaq. today, something new happened, the dow jones set an all time high too. sewell tell you in a minute about the specific stock that drove today s record run broadly speaki speaking, investors were cheered by two things, including the federal reserve s decision to keep rates unchanged. something we ll talk about a little later in the program. the dow jones industrial average advanced 97 points to that record 21711. the nasdaq added 10. it was enough for a new high. the stock that fueled the dow s gains was boeing. shares flew higher recording its largest percentage gain since 2008. the reason, strong quarterly results. a close to perfect report. it s profit beat expectations and the company lifted its forecast for the year sales fell, but investors didn t care. boeing churned out a lot of cash and returned billions back to shareholders boeing today surpassed goldman sachs to be the priciest stock in the dow the ....
living good morning, welcome to squawk alley. mike santelli is here with me, jon fortt s at ces. kayla will join us in a moment. here, brooklyn dwyer and wells fargo investment institute s head of global asset allocation strategy, tracy mcmillan. good morning to all of you. before we get started, in about ten minutes, a first on cnbc interview with intel s brian krzanich live from ces. you do not want to miss that. first up, our top story, donald trump expected to meet with some top intelligence officials at trump tower today in a little less than 90 minutes. it comes after a series of tweets from the president-elect targeting yet another automaker. our john harwood is live outside trump tower with that. good morning, john. reporter: carl, fascinating mix of issues that president-elect donald trump has put on the table or has on the table today. first of all, you mentioned that tweet which came last night against toyota, suggesting that there s no way they sho ....
one of the biggest pop stars in the world takes her entire catalog from spotify leaving her fans wondering if they will ever, ever get back together. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. taylor swift in one corner, spotify in another. two of your favorite things. i know. will they be able to shake it off? i can keep going. if she s successful and holds her ground here, i think a lot of other people will join her. it all comes down to the money artists are making. a lot of them feel like they re losing out with spotify. we ll get to that in a bit. let s start off with our top story. it is election day. the control of both the house and the senate hangs in the balance. national correspondent peter alexander is on capitol hill this morning. peter, good morning to you. reporter: matt, good morning to you. like the capitol dome itself, yo ....
delay on taking any action on immigration reform. let s go to the white house and luke russert. what have you learned about this? reporter: a white house official told us the reason the president is delaying this decision is due to midterm politics. the reality is the president has had to weigh in the midst of the political season and because of the republican s extreme politicalization of this issue the president believes it would be harmful to the policy itself and the long-term prospects of comprehensive immigration reform to announce administrative action before the elections. it s rare you have the president, much less any politician, admit that their action is a direct it is directly being changed because of elections. but in this case, the white house is up front. i spoke to one aide and i said the words red state democrat, is that what this is about? they sort of acknowledge yes. this is about those races in louisiana. it s about those races in north carol ....