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Consistently speaking throughout this nation, one of the fastest ways forward is in fact education. Your comment do you disagree with that . I totally agree with that the comment with senator cotton is a part of the challenge we had with upward mobility in our society that put the focus on education is the importance of understanding globalization and technology and the chasm that it creates for the workforce for those on one side are going to be impacted by the grow iing technology and gap bein...

to the region and quite frankly the whole world. >> the israeli leader also talked about the presidents visit to the saudi kingdom. giving him a message to pass on to the leaders he will be meeting there in his trip. >> mr. president, you will meet with the leaders of saudi arabia, qatar, kuwait and oman and iraq. i would like you to pass them all a message from us. our hands are outstretched for peace. >> with that talk more about this nbc news chief white house correspondent peter al...

Claims at a fiveweek high bon employee bonuses of 1,000 at some places. Now on to the next total in washington the shutdown as the deadline approaches well go live to d. C. For the state of play. And the apple conspiracy theorists were right the company does slow down your old iphones and consumers are upset. Details on that, coming up first up, though, as the tax reform bill awaits the president presiden president s signature, Many Companies announcing bonuses, pay hikes and Capital Spending sn...

Americans are open for business and we are competitive once again. Thats the president making his case for u. S. Economic growth at the World Economic forum. Good friday morning, welcome to squawk on the street. I am Carl Quintanilla and jim cramer and david faber well have more on trade, the dollar and International Cooperation and we still have earnings to get to starbucks and intel both moving in different directions. The ceo of starbucks is also coming up with us a the president just finishe...

Cheese burger in paradise heaven on earth ho hum another month, another new high for your money. The slow meltup marching on. The nasdaq looking at that hitting a new high. The oil and Energy Stocks all the Big Eight Oil names, exxons, chef rons are higher. On the other side of the trade, yeah some of the real estate stocks are lagging, but overrule a good day. What individual names are making investors money today . The casino stocks. Look at that. Las vegas sands are up big on some big numbers...

Policymakers meet to decide on interest rates. All of the major indexes rose 1 or more. The Dow Jones Industrial ave 177 points to 18,212. Nasdaq added 75. S p 500 was up 21. The rally may have been sparked in part by todays soft Economic Data which lowered the possibility of a rate hike next week. Today we learned consumers did not spend as much as they were expected to last month. Thats important because Consumer Spending makes up 70 of economic activity. Inflation was flat. The central bank w...

Policymakers meet to decide on interest rates. All of the major indexes rose 1 or more. The Dow Jones Industrial ave 177 points to 18,212. Nasdaq added 75. S p 500 was up 21. The rally may have been sparked in part by todays soft Economic Data which lowered the possibility of a rate hike next week. Today we learned consumers did not spend as much as they were expected to last month. Thats important because Consumer Spending makes up 70 of economic activity. Inflation was flat. The central bank w...

Policymakers meet to decide on interest rates. All of the major indexes rose 1 or more. The Dow Jones Industrial ave 177 points to 18,212. Nasdaq added 75. S p 500 was up 21. The rally may have been sparked in part by todays soft Economic Data which lowered the possibility of a rate hike next week. Today we learned consumers did not spend as much as they were expected to last month. Thats important because Consumer Spending makes up 70 of economic activity. Inflation was flat. The central bank w...

Markets and futures rising ahead of todays fed decision. Cpi just out. As we said, the biggest drop for Consumer Prices in six years. Fedex is out with disappointing earnings. The stock is losing ground in the premarket. More leaked sony emails as the new York Premiere of the interview is canceled. Theaters cancel runs altogether. And an exclusive interview with the chairman and ceo of General Electric, jeffrey immelt, as General Electric wraps up its investor meeting from yesterday. All right. ...

Moment in the European Central bank News Conference. Have a listen and watch. The News Conference was in frankfurt at 8 30 a. M. New york time. It was short after after he began speaking and he was interrupted boy the female protester who screamed and threw glitter on him. Screamed and threw glitter on him. It took a few seconds before security was able to subdue the glitterwielding disruptor. How does this even happen . Joining us now is Steve Leesman in germany. Welcome and good to have you. S...