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chief investment officer. great to have you. the existing home sales data yesterday it was decent, at best. you believe that housing will lead the next economic recovery. >> yes. i think it is the only thing leaving that right now. consumers being frugal with their spending giving all the uncertainty politically coming up this fall. the bright spot in the economy seems to be housing. lori: when you sake "bright spot", explain that. you mentioned all of those risks out there. give me a ...

indices clocking in six straight weeks of gains, the longest gain since january 2011. apple shares set to open at a record high fueled by buzz on the new iphone and mini ipad. lowes, meantime, with a disappointing quarter. is it the victim of home depots success? a multibillion dollar insurance deal, aetna buys coventry. we have the chairman of aetna on cnbc later in this hour. groupon fleeing the stock. fresh lows at the open. of course, we start off with the market slow and steady. d...

backs of the rigid idealogs on taxes, its already happening, but the groundwork isnt getting done. all of the work that has to be done in a staffing and member leg of and the jurisdiction in ways and means and all the other ones, this overlaps in so many areas and places, so what should get done, fine, youre not going to take the votes now but do the work now. >> im going to pressure you. you still avoid the contingency i laid out which was lets just say this group of leaders is not ab...

so coming up we have full team coverage of this rally, and what that action could mean for the markets and most importantly for your money as well. >> all right, here is where we stand at the moment. these are near final figures as they are putting the final trades to bed here. the dow up 154 points. we were lower on the opening this morning. after the word from the central banks it went up. the nasdaq turned negative going into the final hour and then popped on all of this. theup up 1...

>> i remember ipos like that. all right. there are a few trading floors left. computers have replaced the conventional pit mostly, but when trading begins tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. for facebook, and its going to happen at 11:00, which isnt when the market opens, about an hour and a half after the market opens, because computers arent like people. its going to take them longer to figure out the right price. there will be a frenzy of trading going on. the stock, $38 for a single share. pric...

it [applause] >> i am honored to have make and we decided. but maybe he says is my right hand. i apologize for sounding like that. its all my fault. i have to have a routine and i forgot hes a wonderful guy who actually wants to know how youre doing and he loves politics. so i wouldnt change it for the world. i should have factored that in. im sorry we started a few minutes late. i absolutely could not resist. michael sean is an extraordinary figure for public conversation. hes a progr...

mr. cornyn: mr. president, i know that senator durbin and senator ayotte and others will be coming to the floor, but let me get started. according to the united nations, more than 8,000 syrians have been murdered in attacks by the desperate regime of president bashar al assad of syria. we continue to receive press reports on a daily basis about assads forces summarily executing, imprisoning and torturing demonstrators who want not...

professor at harvard. thank you for being with us. lets dig into the book, and one of the points i want to highlight as we focus the on the tea party, its role in the 2012 campaign and the presidents own re-election effort. you write in the book that the tea party p in all of its manifestations has pulled want the republican party sharply toward the right and shifted the u.s. public at a critical juncture, blunting the reformist force of barack obamas historic presidency. >> yes. i thi...

interested people how to do these kind of things. we are told by the source that the man had acquired all material and was even going so far as to drill holes in a pipe bomb. he was going to use homemade ingredients in order to detonate this device and the device, had he put it together correctly, would, in fact, have worked. were being told that he planned to target service men, men -- service men and women returning from iraq. he also intended on targeting police stations or post off...

biggest corporations to pay their fair share. >> and all the talk this week was around the so-called buffett rule to raise the millionaire tax rate. but already today the white house calling that more of a guiding principle than a hard tax. regardless, the gop calls the whole thing class warfare. theyre making it clear no such bill has even a chance of passing a republican-controlled house. and however you look at it, were once again stuck with really a bogus debate. both parties tradi...