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Prove it. Got an insanely addictive gain for econ nerds everywhere. Power lunch starts right now. Welcome to power lunch. Econ nerd Brian Sullivan with three hours left in the trading session. Stocks, as you can see, at session lows, mildly in the green. But if this recent trend continues, it may not be for long. Trying to lead the dow higher at this hour, you got merck and other names out there. As you can see, the dow is up just 19 points. Goldman sachs doing okay. And were pleased to have see...

Twomonth mark in 2016, the major averages are all down 4 or more. Along the way there have been big ups, bigger downs, and dizzying swings. So two months down, almost. Ten to go. And while no one knows whats next for the market for sure, we can be pretty sure that four of the themes that set the tone in the first two months of bring 16 will persist for the rest of the year. First, oil prices. Stocks and oil. Oil and stocks. Theyve been linked for the most part virtually every day this year. Unti...

Twomonth mark in 2016, the major averages are all down 4 or more. Along the way there have been big ups, bigger downs, and dizzying swings. So two months down, almost. Ten to go. And while no one knows whats next for the market for sure, we can be pretty sure that four of the themes that set the tone in the first two months of bring 16 will persist for the rest of the year. First, oil prices. Stocks and oil. Oil and stocks. Theyve been linked for the most part virtually every day this year. Unti...

Twomonth mark in 2016, the major averages are all down 4 or more. Along the way there have been big ups, bigger downs, and dizzying swings. So two months down, almost. Ten to go. And while no one knows whats next for the market for sure, we can be pretty sure that four of the themes that set the tone in the first two months of bring 16 will persist for the rest of the year. First, oil prices. Stocks and oil. Oil and stocks. Theyve been linked for the most part virtually every day this year. Unti...

Delegates needed to win. Ted cruz 13 states and marco rubio has 87 delegates. A verymp i know it was tough night for marco rubio. He works hard. He spent a lot of money. He is a lightweight. Herline meanwhile in victory speech, clinton took what sounded like a shot at rumptrump. Mrs. Clinton it is clear the havesin this election never been higher, and the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side has never been lower. Trying to divide america between us and them is wrong. And were not going to l...

Anything that wasnt nailed down, because the europe kwan Central Banks are getting more aggressive in trying to stimulate their flagging economy. The result . Ill tell you. They were picked off picked off. Dow opening strong, but then nosedived as much as 179 points earlier this afternoon before rebounding hallelujah s p 500 actually closed up. Nasdaq climbed 0. 26 . J they say why do you keep doing the show day after day, month after month, year after year . I tell them i do it, because i like ...

Ten points. The nasdaq off by 22. Crude oil prices were up sharply overnight, topping 40 a barrel. First time weve seen that in quite a while. That came after the announcement yesterday of a surprise job in u. S. Inventories. However, wti has turned around since then. Looks like we flipped that contract, too. If you were looking at 40 overnight, were now looking at the may contract. Thats a decline of 7 cents to 37. 69. It will be interesting to see how this new contract plays out. We did see a ...

The japan nikkei was up by another 3. 7 . You see the hang seng and shanghai was up as well. The dax is up by 2 and a quarter . Also check out crude prices which managed to end down by only about 1 yesterday. Up 1. 5 today. Couple big earnings stories this morning. Ibm repeated First Quarter earnings thanks to a double digit increase in arrive from its Cloud Service. Overall arrive falling to a say that again. Falling to a 14 year low. Absolute arrive numbers were what . A 14 year low. Yes, sir....

Low. This morning the Labor Department says 232,000 jobs were added in february, more than what was expected. That along with 4. 9 puts the labor market at a letter considered to be full employment. But there was one big disappointment, wage growth fell, its first monthly decline in a year. Reporter health care provider, retailers and restaurants run a ro bust hiring surge in february. Leading economists say the strong market meaning a recession is on the horizon. There is a discheck between rec...

Pat for a second straight meeting. As Steve Liesman reports, a new survey of the top economists, strategists and Money Managers say the next rate hike may not be too far off. The cnbc fed survey shows that the policy announcement is expected tomorrow but wall street still expects the Federal Reserve to act this year in terms of raising rates. Lets look at the data. 95 of our respondents say the fed will stand pat in march and not hike. But 12 think there will be a hike before june and 71 think t...