Components, which will drop the dow 53 points. The market opens well, im not going to say strong but flat to higher, despite all the talk of a government shut down. They will be playing the blame game today all day long. The shutdown deadline is midnight tonight. Investors dont appear to care. Dont forget this and dont ignore it. America is now the dominant energy power. We call the shots. Boston, three to one favorite to get amazon headquarters. We had to get the bookies somewhere, we did your . Varney company is about to begin. This is like getting doggy doodoo and putting a cherry on top and calling it a chocolate sundae. Stuart thats a revolting image, in my opinion. Nancy pelosi sounding off about the tax bill. The president just tweeted this. Here we go. Government funding bill passed last night in the house of representatives. Now democrats are needed if its just a pass in the senate. But they want illegal immigration and weak borders. Shut down coming, question mark . We need m
Top. But long before that vote occurred she, too, has been talking to her colleagues noting that freedom for american citizens means freedom to pursue your mission in life, your meaning in life through your work, and that discrimination in the workplace diminishes the individual but diminishes the full potential of our nation as well. So we are now all hoping that we will be able to have final votes on amendments and votes to close debate and to have a final vote sometime tomorrow. That work is not yet done. In the the path before us may still have unexpected challenges to be overcome but as we overcome them and approach that final vote it will be in large measure because of the terrific work of these two colleagues. Thank you, mr. President. The presiding officer the senior senator from delaware is recognized. Mr. Carper good afternoon, mr. President , my colleague from oregon. My wife ran into one of her colleagues the other day, ted kaufman. He was the interim senator, succeeded joe
Including due possibility, freeportmcmoran, dow chemicals and then the spider select materials sector, that down about 3 . Top holdings there, monsanto, dupont. David liz, lets take a look at that index you were talking about, the volatility index. When things go south, as they have, this usually goes up. This is not a stock, this is an index, but there are stocks that are linked to this if you think things are going to continue to go south. This was just down below 15 not long ago, it jumped about 13 today, its up to almost 19 right now. Again, when it got down below 15, people began to wonder, jeez, how low can this thing go . Apparently, it reached its limit at that point. Liz you could argue it was dupont and 3m with earnings reports that people didnt embrace, but todays selloff theoretically started in europe as worries mounted about spains ability to overcome its debt troubles. Again you see that the ftse 100 down about a percent, you saw the dax down 14 Percentage Points as well
Good morning. Todays top stories, a key debt auction in italy amid postelection uncertainty. In the u. S. Quarterly report due from retailers like target, dollar tree, and tjx. Plus, ben bernanke goes back to capitol hill. Yesterday the markets rallied on what the fed chairman had to say with support of easy Monetary Policy. Its wednesday, february 27, 2013. We have one day or two days left in the month. Squawk box begins right now. You called me a dove. Maybe in some respects i am. But on the other hand, my inflation record is the best of any Federal Reserve chairman in the postwar period or at least one of the best. About 2 average inflation. So we have worked on both sides of the mandate. And were trying to achieve a stronger economy for everybody. Good morning, everyone, welcome to squawk box on this next to the last day of february. It is not a leap year this year. You know that, joe. Friday is march 1. Im becky quick along with joe kerner and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Weve been watchin