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Weak so far. The dow and s p 500 even with those losses on wednesday are on pace for the best week in five nasdaq with the biggest week in seven weeks. In morngs ding dow futures up b5 points, s p up by 3, and the nasdaq up by 6 overnight in asia, the nikkei ended up just slightly. Up by 27 points. The hang seng by a half percentage point in europe this morning, with some of the early trading, it looks like the dax is up by 0. 3 the cac in france up bay half percentage point stocks are slightly ...

Below 100 billion from stress testing, so that makes some sense to me. Banks are not systemically important. Between 1 and 250 well do Something Else my strong preference will be that well continue to have meaningful stress testing for them because i think its a successful tool. Ing. Thank you senator warren. Thank you, mr. Chairman so i want to follow up on senator browns questions about full employment as you know Congress Gave the Federal Reserve a dual man date to pursue maximum employment a...

The taxes are a personal issue. What we know from the Senate Tax Bill that is being moved very quickly through the senate now is a bill that will actually according to the j. T. C. , joint tax commission, will raise taxes on 70 of the middle class if this bill becomes law. Thats 82 million households that will see a tax increase over the next decade. This bill its doubly worse to the middle class. Than the house bill was which is already a disaster. They are rushing this bad bill through purely ...

Never worked anywhere in the world, and its not going to work here. Their answer to everything is big government. Well, there are two different points of view here, and i have to tell you i used to be on their side when i was a young fellow, when i was raised in poverty and came up the hard way and learned a trade and became a journeyman metal lather, which was one of the most Skilled Trades at the time. I have to say that these haunting refrains were used by democrats back then too, but look at...

He tweeted let righteousness flow like an ever flowing stream. Congressman john conyers is the michigan democrat will decide within days whether he will resign a longer for congressman john conyers says the michigan democrat will decide within days whether he will resign. H isdded that conyers healt not the best right now. Party leaders, including nancy pelosi, have called on 80yearold conyers to step down. The eu says that british Prime Minister theresa may has until monday to present its final...

Quite a morning for news thank you, eamon javers, thank you, art cashin and mike santoli. Thats it for squawk alley. Fast money half time starts right now. All right. Well pick it up with our continuing breaking news on these developments welcome to half time. We begin as i said with the breaking news this hour. Your market picture, that sudden selloff on stocks that former National Security adviser Michael Flynn charged today with ply r lying to the fbi is prepared to testify against the presid...

Lying to the fbi about his contacts with the russian government. The president s comments have turned the focus back to the Ongoing Investigation just hours after what most agree is the first big legislative achievement of his presidency. His fellow republicans in the senate have pushed through a sweeping tax bill, which promises a sharp cut in corporate taxation, plus cuts for many including some the richest people in america. Laura bicker reports from washington. Finally donald trump is on cou...

Our forecast. A lot of people woke up to rain drops on their windows. We did get a rain storm, a very slight one last night. We are seeing snow in the lake tahoe area, a few inches expected for high elevations across some of the resorts. They are happy about that. The storm was expected to stay closer to the oregon border but overnight it did drop down into the San Francisco area bringing barely much measurable rain but just enough to wet the roads a little bit. So we can see that at the golden ...

The executive director of the arms control with north korea making headlines again this week. How concerned are you . Im increasingly concerned about the situation. What we just saw was a test of a more powerful missile. North koreans have achieved what President Trump said they could not achieve. They have a powerful liquid mobile icbm that can hit any target in the United States. They have also conducted a nuclear test explosion, the largest was back in september. Far moreons which is powerful...

Concern you . Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independent callers, 202 7488002. A number of you are weighing in on our Facebook Page. Thank you for being with us. We want to talk about the tax debate in the house and the senate and what it means for the nations debt which doubled andr president barack obama it is expected to double again over the next eight years. The debt is 20 trillion and growing. Hope republish the i hope Republican Congressman and jim says crickets when ob...