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Welcome back to "early start" everyone. it is "money time" which means christine romans is here. >> breaking news. it is friday. it is friday. as your grandfather might have said the dow is spitting range of 16,000. its friday. the rally doesnt show any signs of slowing down. another record on the dow yesterday. nasdaq is 1% away from 4,000 and dow up 21% so far this year and the nasdaq up 32% and s&p 500 up 26%. one of the drivers yesterday was janet yellens soothing comments there would be dan...

The dow lost 32 points. the s&p 500 down 4. and the nasdaq up just under 1 point. usairways and american airlines are set to merge. this after reaching a settlement with the justice department to give up landing and takeoff slots at key airports. small business sent the dow down in october as owners concerned about the government shutdown pulled back on hiring plans. and gold at a one-month low among fears the fed may curb its stimulus program. gold down nearly $10. thats it from cnbc, first in ...

Placative. >> the work begins and twitter has to prove to investors their money was well spent. im alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. twitter had a great day but it wasnt the case for the markets in the u.s. in general. all three major indices fell on thursday and investors are worried the fed could rein in its stimulus program sooner than expected. the dow lost 1% by the close. its biggest drop in a month and nasdaq fell 2% and the s&p 500 lost 1.3% and its largest daily decline sin...

Califano when franklin roosevelt was there he has heavyweights around him to run his domestic programs. you do not see this with president obama. who is his domestic counselor? can anybody name it? >> i can. >> who? >> her name is cecelia munoz. her forte is immigration. but i dont see her anywhere. >> im sure shes a wonderful human being. shes not a heavyweight in american political terms. where is tom daschell when they need him to run this? >> give me a couple other examples other than the he...

A record this month alone. investors were spurred on yesterday by speculation the fed will keep the economic stimulus program in place. an announcement about that will come out this afternoon. singer chris brown has checked into a malibu rehab facility to deal with anger issues. it comes a day after he was released from a washington, d.c. jail on assault charges. brown could face serious jail time if officials determine the d.c. arrest violates his probation. delta airlines pilot in custody ...

Continue the stimulus program, saying the u.s. economy is expanding at a moderate pace. one interesting tidbit here included in this decision, the fed claims the budget battles in washington are, quote, restraining growth. of course, the battles win continue for at least the next couple months, because lawmakers set a new deadline after ending the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling until after the new year. the dow pretty flat, down just about 77 points, as were a little above an h...

>> very interesting. we will see what comes out of this meeting. >> wall street is reacting to the feds stimulus program, comes amid uncertainty of the health of the economy, after it took an estimated $25 billion hit as a result of yes, the government shutdown. right now the dow which started the day at a record high is down 89 points. it was down about 30 points before that fed decision. the s&p 500 which also started at a record high is now down 12 points and nasdaq down 28. any minute now pr...

There are new since the government shutdown not only cutback economic growth in october but depressed job creation in september as well. the labor department reported today that 148,000 jobs were created last month. significantly lower than expected prompting one canadian economist to write u.s. labor market has lost what little momentum it had. with rising political uncertainty ahead of the shutdown, likely one cause. u.s. markets up with speculation the weeks job numbers will encourage the f...

Created there. rate even at 7.2%. look within retail jobs, 20,800 thats still historically high. jobs created there. some were in auto dealers, showing signs of confidence 138,000 job revisions wasnt as again in september in the good as everybody expected. economy. some of those were in garden it was weaker but not centers and home improvement necessarily far off from what type stores again, showing some weve been seeing the past year. robust activity in the housing youre still seeing this slow ...

Maternity and newborn care. that has to be included in your policy. you could be -- >> what if you are 7 a years old? >> doesnt matter. if doesnt matter if you are 75 years old. you have to have pediatric care in your policy as well. >> bill: lori doesnt have that then blue cross cant ensure. >> not ala cart you have to hit the 10 point. >> a lot of insurance companies like blue cross, blue shield who doesnt want any part of this so they are dumping everybody. >> second parts comes from reynolds...