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For the Dow Jones Industrial average, up nearly 156 points. It finished at 18,288. The nasdaq closed 44 points higher. It was 5,008. The s p 500 also at a new alltime closing high up 12 points to finish the day at 2,117. Berttha coombs joins us with what drove the index to this level. Hi, bertha. Its been an amazing ride tyler. 15 years ago, you had stocks that traded on the nasdaq with valuations that were sometimes 100 times or more what their earnings were, if they had profits at all. Very di...

Symbolically significant number 5,000. It was a record day, by the way, for the Dow Jones Industrial average, up nearly 156 points. It finished at 18,288. The nasdaq closed 44 points higher. It was 5,008. The s p 500 also at a new alltime closing high up 12 points to finish the day at 2,117. Berttha coombs joins us with what drove the index to this level. Hi, bertha. Its been an amazing ride tyler. 15 years ago, you had stocks that traded on the nasdaq with valuations that were sometimes 100 tim...

For the Dow Jones Industrial average, up nearly 156 points. It finished at 18,288. The nasdaq closed 44 points higher. It was 5,008. The s p 500 also at a new alltime closing high up 12 points to finish the day at 2,117. Berttha coombs joins us with what drove the index to this level. Hi, bertha. Its been an amazing ride tyler. 15 years ago, you had stocks that traded on the nasdaq with valuations that were sometimes 100 times or more what their earnings were, if they had profits at all. Very di...

But first lets get you up to speed on other stories. Joe was talking about apple. It has been a rough ten weeks for the most valuable u. S. Company. Shares tumbling more than 6 yesterday shedding 35 billion of market value. Among the reasons cited by analysts, a forecast by an Influential Research firm suggesting that the iphone and ipad maker is continuing to give up ground it rival the android gadgets. There were also unconfirmed reports that at least one major stock Clearing House was raising...

This Digital Commerce company are up about 4 at the moment to 25. 69. An upgrade from wells fargo to outperform from market perform. Those are some good individual stock stories, but earlier Liberty Interactive did reach an alltime high. So what exactly is going on in washington right now, and will the market optimism last . Weve got peter barnes stationed at the white house, rich edson, hes planted at capitol hill, nicole is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, sandra smith at the cme g...

A precursor for the rest of the year. Heres the thing. A lot of people will look at us being down. Compare to it 2008 remember 2007 we also were lower on the s p 500 for the first day of the year. But through october of that year it looked great. Its what happened next that raised some eyebrows. We talk about the historical precedence but its just one day. Were not panicking yet. Maybe the dip buyers are still on vacation. For all of 2013 and 2012 the s p 500 was never under water. In other word...

I know it is equal pay day and not obamacare day, but i do want to point out that the Affordable Care act guarantees Preventative Care like mammograms and contraception care and end the days when you could be charged more just for being a woman when it comes to your Health Insurance. [applause] thats true for everybody. Thats just one more place where things were not fair. We will talk about dry cleaners next. [laughter] [applause] i dont know why it costs more for michelles dress down my shirt....

Are arriving in athens showing cautious optimism about the health of the economy. These things are looking better. I shared optimism of the greek government, which is that they would like to access the program. Whether its possible, i think its too early to say. As you know, the program runs right up until the end of this year and will decide later on this year what the future will be. And a grilling on capitol hill, questions on how Safety Standards were allowed to slip as gm recalled another 1...

When the talks began. Israel is refusing to release a group of palestinian prisoners as long as palestine pursues statehood. If israel they want continuation of the talks, we say one single thing. Release the prisoners. If israelis want serious talks we have time between today and the 29th of april. Israel should as i say release the prisoners, and second important issue, freeze all of the settlement activities. April 29th was when the u. S. Hoped to reach a peace deal. And now that deadline app...

It doesnt have to be this way. But it will be this way if russia continues down this provocative path. In my conversation yesterday with foreign minister lavrov, we agreed to meet soon in europe. Next week. With ukraine, and our european partners, to discuss deescalation deescalation, demobilization, inclusivity, support for elections, and constitutional reform. And it is not in our judgment a small matter that russia has agreed to sit in this fourparty status with ukraine at the table in an eff...