this story has made international headlines melanie alnwick is following the latest live from our newsroom good morning. good morning tony and allison reverend sharpton now is heading to central florida he will hold a rally for justice, at a community baptist church in sanford, the naacp is getting involved want to see if sanford police department has a history of looking over these sorts of things the case is blowing up as you said all over the country, 28-year-old george zimmerman spent several minutes on the phone with 911 operators while he followed 17-year-old martin on february 26th the washington post now reports that the fbi is listening to those audio tapes trying to enhance the audio they want to see whether he used a racial slur moments before the shooting yesterday in new york hundreds rallies in support of his family, they called it the million hoody march because the florida teen was wearing a hoody sweat shirt when shot, also in florida last night sanford c
seems that his rivals are the only ones actually moving. because rick santorum has the momentum of conservative voter wind at his back and newt gingrich has energy, as we heard from both candidates this week. we clearly were changing the national dialogue all week. if you ll notice, the president has now made three speeches and a press conference on energy. this is a grass roots campaign for president. who would have ever thought, in the age of media that we have in this country today, that ordinary folks from across this country can defy the odds day in, day out. now, wait. before you dismiss what you just heard as the latest batch of sound bites from guys who according to the recent polls are facing a long road to ever make it to the white house, consider this one day those words may reverberate throughout history. no, no. really. if i asked you to name some of history s greatest men, you might think of thomas jefferson who, with we hold these truths to be self evi
good morning. you re watching worldwide exchange with christine tan, beccy meehan. a look at u.s. futures and how we re poised for trade on wall street this morning. it does look like we re going to open higher. the dow would see a 21-point gain and the nasdaq higher by six is and the s&p 500 higher by two. this, of course, after stocks finished yesterday mixed after tuesday s big rally. we saw the dow closing at that high level since 2007, that was december 31st 2007. the nasdaq closing at its highest since november of 2000. the dow up for six consecutive days. we saw the leader in american express, ibm, boeing. they took us higher. i do want to note on the s&p 500 it was i.t. and financials that took us higher in that session. of course eight sectors, the worst there. mann time shares got a boost from the results of the fed s annual banking stress test which saw 15 of the u.s. largest lenders pass with flying colors. year to date the index is up about 8%. the nasdaq is al
good morning and welcome to the call. we are here 90 minutes into trading. the market moving higher as we speak. stocks are higher as fears about dubai start to ease. fears about concerns of the default are easing, plus, you ve got strong economic news on the housing front. what does it suggest and the economy and market. larry? vivendi agrees to sell a 20% stake in nbc universal to ge. $5.8 billion. we re going to have all the ramifications for everybody. president obama to make a major speech on afghanistan tonight. we take a look at defense stocks and which ones are worth buying. this is the call on cnbc. stocks moving higher as fears ease over the dubai debt delay. in addition, pending home sales in october came in at the highest level in three and a half years. although the manufacturing sector slowed. the s&p 500 is up 10 points. the dow trading to the upside as well. it s up more than 100 points. and the nasdaq is trading to the plus side. up better than 25 p