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Yarn about a letter hidden in plain sight that nevertheless cant be detected because people just arent looking for it in the right places. We see the same thing happens with this market pretty much every day now. Great bull stories passing unnoticed right in front of your eyes. Today was no different. Even as the dow dipped 16 points, s p declined 0. 16 , nasdaq actually closed up albeit fractionally. Let me give you some classic examples. When investors try to figure out why stocks should go up...

Potentially the joint News Conference later this afternoon. Our eamon javers watching all of that at the white house. Hey, eamon. Reporter hey. Good morning, carl. Its a germanthemed st. Patricks day here at the west wing of the white house. As you mentioned, we are expecting Angela Merkel here in just a few minutes time. About 11 20 is when we expect her arrival here at the west wing. You can see the doors ready for her. The media crews are out here ready to go. The honor guard has been up and ...

Not being led by the trump trades but led by things like technology, which quite frankly you could even look at some of these names as antitrump trades. These are the companies that require Foreign Workers in large numbers in order to fill engineering and programming jobs. These are companies that maybe didnt get off on the right foot are mr. Trump. The Leadership Teams at these firms were in fact opposed to him prior to the election. So these are leaders it shows what you can do with narratives...

Within his own party. Our Kayla Tausche on the hill with the very latest. Scott, not just some conservatives, it is the Single Largest Group of republican holdouts. They have been the opposition throughout this process and they have just arrived at the white house for a meeting with the president and the Vice President following a meeting with top staff yesterday. Chairman of ways and means, kevin brady, saying earlier this morning that theyre going to have to wait and see how that meeting turns...

The latest on all this. Reporter hey, carl. If a few hours ago, it was the calm before the storm, it now feels like the storm is approaching with members of the house scurrying back and forth, a flurry of activity as people are taking meetings and going back and forth from the floor as we build up to that vote this afternoon. Of course, this comes in the wake of what you mentioned, that ultimatum coming from the white house delivered by budget director mick mulvaney, although this morning on squ...

Doubt a very tense capitol hill, where Kayla Tausche is standing by ahead of the Health Care Vote. Kayla . Brian, House Republican leadership are rushing back and forth, scurrying about with a lot of prescheduled items on the calendar. But, just a few moments ago, the House Majority leader was shrined by reporters here in the hallway and asked three separate times if he was committed to bringing this Health Care Bill to the floor for a vote, regardless of whether it looked like there was enough ...

Comments, with Health Care Reform still on the table, a possible tax reform infrastructure deal coming this year is the best thing to do to keep calm and buy on. The process. It does seem that way. If you look back on friday, what do we see . The markets are actually higher on friday. We thought the bottom was coming out of the market w. One line, speaker ryan cures everything. To me, im actually shocked at this, the market is giving the leeway to the administration. Which means, once again, we ...

Nasdaq drawing our attention this hour. The index is up 9. 5 this year. Nasdaq 100 by the way on pace for its best quarter in years. Pete, the nasdaqs the only major average positive for march. And youve got the leadership coming from technology. You look at the fundamentals and facts of the earnings season, then you look at how everybody starts to read into, even this coming earnings season. We know april 13th, jpmorgan is going to kick it off. When we get to tech, how about the fact of what we...

Everybody was bushwhacked on this thing. There were targets as high as 90 a share. I was one of those watching the stock very, very closely. I love the Growth Strategy they have had out there. They got china up to five stores. If you look at the mens, theyre doing actually very well. This quarter was a good quarter. The problem, every part of the problem was the guidance. They knew some of the traffic numbers were down, they still had margins, but it was the guidance and a little going into the ...

Cnbc interview with wilbur ross. Nafta letter, of course, laying out where this Administration May be going. In the meantime, the high stakes ecommerce war between walmart and amazon is ugly. Recode with a new story about that this afternoon. The reporter behind that story joining us in just a few minutes. Its like an episode out of steven kings the stand. That stephen king . Yes, not the one from yesterday. Lets begin with the big interview on cnbc this morning. Jeff, our colleague from cnbc eu...