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Until the close, cnbc contributor stephanie link from tiaa a nuveen company. Welcome, stephanie thanks. Energy doesnt usually lead this market but is today on the oil bounce and questions about whether thats sustainable and given sort of the scale and increase in tensions whether the move is big enough to bring back the sector and commodity trade i dont know. I really dont because its been a tough industry for the whole year. For a whul of years now. So this is really more a supply issue concern. I think the Biggest Issue for oil are demand and the demand environment has been slowing and the revisions have been lower. So with that as a backdrop this might be just temporary. You would have thought oil would have been rallying much more than it did. I spoke as well about 20 minutes ago to one of the senior traders at one of the major investment banks and said was pleased to see the algos didnt disrupt the market when pompeo came out ....
we re expecting a trifecta of big technology earnings when the bell rings in an hour. ibm, intel, and yahoo! all report after the bell. that s still to come on the closing bell. first, let s take a look at where we stand with less than an hour to go in the trading day. the dow is higher 195 points. we ve been up 200 but still we ll take it. 13,116 in a very, very broad rally. the nasdaq is higher by more than 60 points. a gain of more than 2%. s&p 300 with a gain of 1.5%. 1391. holy canoli. shares helping to fuel this rally today after meredith whitney held that with an outperform. here s what she said a month ago right here on closing bell. citi hasn t been investable in 40 years. what would it take you to invest in citi? a new brand. apparently they are getting one. a new brain. here s more from citi with mary thompson. mary, they have a new brain? that s a great call. it makes me small every time i hear it. in a note to clients, she said that th ....
this morning early today, one year later, our latest poll numbers indicate the time may be over for president obama. taking flight. a massachusetts bank robber with a getaway. one of the university of chicago s greatest treasures one of the university of chicago s greatest treasures turns out to be a fake. captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello and good morning. i m kristen welker. today we begin with tough marks for a tough first year. as president obama approaches the anniversary of his inauguration, new polling shows slipping support for the commander in chief and the issues that dominate his agenda. from bitter partisan divisions to a still unfinished health care over haul. the american public is grading not only the nation s leadership but also the direction its headed in. nbc s political director and chief white house director chuck todd reports. reporter: on his first day in office, the president was full of optimism. on this day, we ga ....
this morning early today, one year later, our latest poll numbers indicate the time may be over for president obama. taking flight. a massachusetts bank robber with a getaway. one of the university of chicago s greatest treasures one of the university of chicago s greatest treasures turns out to be a fake. captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello and good morning. i m kristen welker. today we begin with tough marks for a tough first year. as president obama approaches the anniversary of his inauguration, new polling shows slipping support for the commander in chief and the issues that dominate his agenda. from bitter partisan divisions to a still unfinished health care over haul. the american public is grading not only the nation s leadership but also the direction its headed in. nbc s political director and chief white house director chuck todd reports. reporter: on his first day in office, the president was full of optimism. on this day, we ga ....