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You can see oil prices pulling back about 27 cents, still just about 89 for wti crude. We will have a live report from our nbc colleagues on the ground in the middle east coming up in the next half hour. Lets talk about some of the main market events of the morning. Actually today fed chairman Ben Bernankes speech at the economics sclub of new york is coming up at 12 15 eastern time. Traders will be listening no any comments on the Central Banks operation twist program and discussions about changing how the fed communicates about Interest Rates. Operation twist expires next month. And there is...

It is the duty of our government to do things for people that they cannot do themselves. The rich can do for themselves. The poor people cannot. Ill hang up and listen. Host lets go to curtis dubay. Guest we keep hearing about infrastructure investment. But the way we do that is federal gaps. The 65 cents of every dollar raised for the federal gas tax actually goes to roads and bridges and highways. The rest of it goes to things that are not supposed to be funded by the attacks. Sustainability projects, bike paths, roadside museums. I would much rather see us spending all of the money on infra...

Much as people had expect it. Demand obviously easing. Economic data, 8 30 a. M. , retail sales, initial jobless claims and import price index. Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index 10 00, business inventories, 2 00, and the budget. Earnings before the bell, power weeral and at 2 30 p. M. Will hear president obama deliver remarks on potentially increasing over time. Over tominimum wage overtime pay. He certainly has a mission right now. And the little bit of electioneering moving to the first tuesday in november of this Midterm Election you. Let me get through the data check here and we look at sto...

Sales rose during the month of february. Is a weathert story. I know youre sick of talking about it. Jpmorgan chase estimated that in january we spent 24 billion dollars extra just staying warm on gas, electricity, money that did not go to dining out and two dresses and things like that. Were going to look to date to things like building materials. Do we buy more snow shovels, snowblowers and salt . It might give us a rough indication of whether we kept spending, but clicking the mouse at home instead. You mentioned the cars. They stole sold more units, about dollar volumes, it includes servic...

And Standard Poors highest ever, 1744, up 11 points on the Standard Poors. Another record day for the s p. Broader averages posting the best weekly gains since july. Bob pisani, what a week on the heels of a government shutdown. New highs and good volume the last several days. Today was an expiration day, maria. New highs with expanded volume. Thats a great confirmation for the strength of the market. New highs not just on the s p 500. Take a look. Several major indices. Dow transport, historic high. Russell 2000, historic high. S p 400 midcap, historic highs. Every time something falls down, ...