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Recordhighs. Goldman, nike, cat, chevron, jp, having the most impact today. President trump came out, talked about that well have a tax plan in two or three weeks. That will be good to see. And heres what you have to say about President Trump. Hes lived up to everything he has said. I think theres been a major turn in that he could have gone after the chinese, but he didnt. So he sent a letter, and so then that gives, i would say, some respect for in terms of how hes dealt with his counterparts....

President trump already making comments over the last few weeks about toyota, motor taxes, things like that. Certainly commenting as well on japans currency. All of this impacting how we think about various aspects of the market. So this is an important meeting today. They will meet at the white house. Then head down to florida for a round of golf, maybe more than one. Still waiting on that. But they will head down to maralago where we understand Prime Minister abe will be staying at maralago as...

Jon fortt, sara ooist eisen and me at post 9. Joining us, recodes executive editor kara swisher. Kara, always good to talk to you. The dow is up and up across the board and the president meeting with canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Its not just that meeting. The president and trudeau will discuss launching a joint task force aimed at helping women in the workforce, talking about executives from general electric, accenture, gm, and a lot more. We know what an issue that has been over the ...

To get our attention. Joe, its up 43 in a year. Its been running almost every day since the election. So its not necessarily the best place for your money but it is one of the places for your money and it should be there. Well talked a couple of weeks ago heading into earnings about the importance for Financial Institutions to contribute once again. Understand the russell index, not the etf, iwm, russell index has signature cant ificant exp. Mid 20s. You are seeing the appreciation of financials...

Alexander acosta, the dean at the Florida International University Law school. He was also an assistant attorney general under george w. Bush. Well hear more about that, the president without naming his candidate earlier in a meeting with members of congress, said that he is a great man, hes excited about this pick. So well wait and see what happens there. But to give you a sense of just how quickly this press conference has been arranged, i want to talk to some of the press aides just after the...

With the president , at least recently. Uhhuh. He seemed to take a shot out of the blue at you a week or so ago. And then youve responded with a couple tweets in the last 24 hours. One that said, and im quoting, its time we accept pous for who he is, hes entertaining. Later you said its a waste of time to try and turn pinocchio into a real president. Whats going on . A couple of things. First, i deleted the first tweet because i thought the pinocchio tweet said it better. Loon, i tweeted more of...

Points. That number is a little misleading, a third of the down ends are higher. United help down about 3. 5 . Thats heavy and is dragging the index down as well. United health bringing down the marks. Keep in mind for the best week so far for the year for the dow. Brian, thank you very much. Welcome, everybody. Im tyler mathisen. A florida man is in Police Custody for allegedly plotting to blow up several east coast target stores. Investigators believe he was attempting to target stock. A man a...

President s policies have not happened yet. Doc, ill throw it to you. Is there what art cashin calls a celebratory overload in the market . There could be, judge. There is no doubt that weve come very far very quickly. However i think its got a lot more gas in the tank. I agree with professor shiller. He believes that we could have a substantial move higher from here. Crediting the president and saying in comments today that he saw upside, considerable upside from here. Maximum optimism. A numbe...

Meg is starting us off with the late sgles bristolmyers has been seen as vulnerable to potential activism of even takeover. You basically pinpoint the day this started if you look at it stock price over the last year. Look back to august. It had Clinical Trial results around august 5th that were very disappointing to the street on big lung cancer drug that investors saw as putting it as a slight disadvantage to competitor merck in the space. So carl icahn reportedly taking this stake, reported b...

The dow, 20,792. Our Leslie Picard starts us off with the comments that have wall street talking. What did jeffrey oven have to say . Two words to describe the markets. They are bad stuff. He was speaking at a reuters event on activism and says he is disinvesting and sitting on 3 billion in cash. Ubben is focused on the risk of inflation. Everything about trump i think is inflationary. Its the last thing anybody is worried about. Interest rates are going up. There is no talk of fighting the fed ...