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Want and fix obamacare and move onto tax cuts. Its a contentious legislative schedule, but it has begun. Second headline, you might not like the president s style, but you like his handling of the economy, surprise, surprise. Its up sharply in a month. Who knew. Republicans must unite to get it done. Democrats have to be careful about blocking trumps popular economic policies. And for investors, the trump rally is still on hold. Politics and money, thats what we do. Varney company is about to be...

Declines. Thats the first backtoback losses youve seen for the dow and s p 500 since late january. Futured are muted this morning. Dow up by 2 points. Nasdaq up by less than a point. A lot of things happening, were waiting on adp numbers this morning. That may give us insight on what to expect friday from the jobs market. That can het let us figure out the Federal Reserve will do. In asia, the nikkei down by a half percent. The hang seng up, and in europe, a similar story to what were seeing her...

Saying he would say long. Were bedding on a stronger economy mere. Okay . Thats the bet. Were betting on strength one way or another here the strength around the world. The day you had the three houses won, that was the day that was not going to be another regulation. People say people are holding back because of uncertainty. Thats bull i havent been negative about the stock markets. I was a bit nervous about potential earlier this year about trade friction with china, but i think they have gone...

Roadmap, eight years since the haines bottom. And aig ceo is out, what is next for the giant insurer . Ceos headed back to the white house. We dig into the return on a west wing meeting. The s p and dow looking to snap three session losing streaks which hasnt happened since january. We got that pull back in energy yesterday resulting in those losses. And as we said its been eight years since the stock market had bottomed. That of course was when mark haines made a very big call right here on thi...

Power lunch, im shaken, not stirred. Slightly higher on this eighth anniversary of the bull market, but right now, the dow you cannot get really a smaller gain than that, ladies and gentlemen, s p and nasdaq with modest gains as well. Very close eye, of course, on oil at this hour. Crude hitting new lows for the year. Explore why, adding to yesterdays big losses, wti is blow 49. We are all over it. The guy leading the charge on it, my friend and fellow victor last night in the acc tournament, vi...

Reporter republicans have been name checking companies and ceos pointing to them as nonpartisan evidence that the Affordable Care act didnt work but today i asked speaker ryan exactly what was in the bill and what he can do to incentivize companies to participate in the new plan and how they can make money from participation. He said he actually cant do much but hss secretary tom price can. Tom price for legal reasons cant tell you what hes thinking about doing. Theres laws that prevent that. We...

The 8th and gained momentum. Its been ignored, passed over by the antitrump media. But, its happening now. Other head liens out this morning the negotiator in chief steps into the obamacare debate and will take conservative critics out for bowling and pizza. Talking about President Trump, hes got a lot more leverage than bowling and pizza. Gas average 2. 30 nationwide, watch for it to come down very soon. The price of crude oil is tumbling. Gas will follow. Despite it all, the dow is holding up....

Higher. Plus, were going to have more opposition it appears to the border tax. The ceo of jc penney says it makes profitability virtually impossible. The Corporate Tax myth, a new report showing many of the american Largest American Companies pay no taxes at all. Within that headline number of course the better than expected jobs report shows private sector payrolls up by 227, construction up 58,000, thats the most in nearly a decade. Average Hourly Earnings up, numbers coming ahead of next week...

Join us to explain a little bit later. Thats some real money. Yeah. Lets start with the jobs report and the latest out of washington. Another busy day there. Steve lease man is there at cnbc headquarters and eamon javers is at the white house. The president s team taking strong for the 235,000 jobs added in february even though it came just a month into the trump presidency. Reporter i think it was a perfect number. Right exactly where it needed to be. Our jobs plan and our Jobs Creation and bri...

But gold is on its worst losing streak in two years and well tell you why there could be even more pain in store. The action begins right now. Lets get to it. While everyone was focused on oil and rates, quiet thely tech stocks are breaking out. The tech stocks are surging to the highest level drichbl by he facebook, amazon and others. Lets get in the money. It is a tough one. At this point, those four names you just mentioned, throw apple in there with 730 billion market cap. You have 2. 5 tril...