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Welcome to power lunch, im contessa brewer. Another strong day for stocks as all three indices look for a winding streak the dow is up about 143 points, a slight pullback from where we were a half hour ago both the s p and nasdaq are on pace in more than six years and both indices up 5 health care the best performing sector today johnson johnson, pfizer, eli lilly among the big gainers. A couple beatendown names moving higher, ge back above 15 a share despite being hit with a shareholder lawsuit and snap is now up 50 so far in february. Three hours left in what has been a huge week for stocks. Bertha coombs is at the New York Stock Exchange bertha it has been quite a big week. Its been two weeks since we had that downturn starts and after consuming a lot of rocky road ice cream, today it feels like vanilla. If you look at the major averages in terms of where they are from their highs back at the end of january, the nasdaq here within 3 of its all time high in january as weve seen a big
Move over hillary, harry and jill and all of you namby pamby pathetic losers that are crying in your double shot skin canny lattes. There was a time we united behind the flag and in celebration of the new. We did so in 2008 when obama was elected and we had high hopes of the United Country irrespective of the politic and it is time for the left to show the same dignity and class to the 45th president ex length. But no. This woke, the president himself, obama announces his intention to investigate whether russia interferred with the president ial election, assigning our intelligence agencies to conclude the task before he leaves office. Seriously . Why now, mr. President . You have been watching the release of information from wiki leaks for months. You have watched the release of Hillary Clintons email and in fact some were even sent to you. And watched the release of john podeftas email and the double talking Mainstream Media outed for providing questions to your hanpicked successor,