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Today between the dow which is of 1 and the nasdaq which is up 2 . Thats the best since the election. The s p 500 has a considerable weighting of tech stocks. It has to do with the earnings that came out after the close yesterday and many individual companies are trading at records. Intel is at a 17 year high. Is up 13 articular after the company be earnings estimates by a wide margin. It just acquired its whole foods business as well as his webs services business. Microsoft is doing well in the...

At the bottom of the statement. New fed vice chair for supervision Randal Quarles casting his first vote. It is all about who donald trump taps to be the new fed chair. If it is going to be governor howell,ell jay get might have made for interesting conversations. The latest word from the white house is we will get that decision tomorrow afternoon. We should mention that even if janet yellen is not renamed renominated, she is gone but not forgotten. She has two more meetings to preside over, dec...

Good tuesday morning, welcome to squawk alley, im Carl Quintanilla with Kayla Tausche here at post 9 of the new york stock exchange. John fortts on assignment upstairs and is going to join us in just a moment big hour today on squawk alley, as we said, an exclusive with oracle ceo mark hurd. Well get his take on ge, amazon, and a lot more well talk with House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy later, that is a first on cnbc interview, and Roger Mcnamee sounding the alarm over facebook and google, ca...

When is this Committee Going to receive that and the urgency that we seem to have for secretary clinton given across the board to the other secretary. Secretary powell explained that he disregarded Diplomatic Security and uses personal mobile device in secured department spaces. When i asked why not, they gave me all kinds of nonsense about how they gave us signals. The same reason that they try to keep mobile phones. They never satisfied me or nsa cia didnt back off. We went about our business ...

In Guantanamo Bay, it is called guantanamo diary and after that panel and the final panel is on money and then we will talk to gilbert who wrote billion ball it is about College Sports and the funds they receive. Host Linda Hirshman, what is the relationship between Sandra Day Oconnor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg . Were they friends . Guest i would say they had an affectionate alliances. They were not bffs. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was really with friends with scalia. And Sandra Day Oconnor was really fri...

Self discipline. I think that is an interesting place for us to end. We are out of time. Thank our authors today. [applause] we will be adjourning to the bookstore sales tent and signing area booth number 153. Peter slevin will be there shortly and Linda Hirshman after that. Thank you and become a friend. [inaudible conversations] booktv live coverage of the tucson festival of books continues. We are cheer on the campus of the university of arizona, the gallagher theater, the campus is quite lar...

Terms of civil rights leaders recognize either a connection or are related to her, Pretty Amazing and thank you for your research on that. Those who have questions make your way to the microphone, we will cover two other areas and open up to your questions. I want to start with Linda Hirshman. Why do you think it is that Justice Ginsberg has been so coceo in forming friendships with people who are so ideologically different than she . People ask me that a lot. Who besides Justice Scalia do you h...

Kent for a first check of the weather. Weather. Kendra. Is more rain and the potential flooding in store for us. Or is it starting to clear out . 3 the heavy rain has died down across our area, but many locations in Western North carolina remain flooded or near flood stage. Flash flood warnings continue for buncombe, mcdowell, yancey and mitchell counties through late afternoon, while flood warnings continue for French Broad River in buncombe, henderson and transylvania counties. Expect slowly c...

But across this country you have been incubators of innovation, pioneers of fairness and opportunity. And you continue to do that. So take my hat off to you because you are doing so much and you have so many tools. I hope youll continue to use them. Because you know what . We do have a lot of Unfinished Business. We have made so much progress in areas of education. One statistic that people dont know is that the latino dropout rate over the last 10 years has declined 50 . Thats a remarkable stat...

From egypt would be there and what in my opinion is like the professor alexander mentioned the situation and sinai. We still find many support on what the Egyptian Government is doing to fight. If we look at the public statements made by the former government it would actually support the terrorist group and their turning the whole situation from one aspiration to the sectarian conflict and i think its by you and all that we need to explore the opportunity for more cooperation in fighting. My na...