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Reassure markets that he has control over what he can control. he would be radiating confidence about the long term prospects of the economy. can the president do that much? >> it's interesting. when the economy is as strong as ours is, the only thing that can mess it up is a policy blunder. terrific. the fed, that's policy. going into the 116th congress, not knowing whether or not the democrats want to roll back regulations, that could potentially be a policy blunder. question of whether or not the trade war is a policy blunder. forget about the tweets. some of those things raise concern and ...

This is definitely being driven by it -- the nature of the way that things are today. computerized trading, speed of light trading, you get that kind of volatility. i would watch the percentages. if you have gone to sleep new year's eve last year just woke up, like rip van winkle, we are down 8.5-9%. i think that is really what people are going to look at with their 401(k)s. how did we do for the year? i think that is why we still have a good chance that you see good consumer confidence moving forward. >> trish: yeah, that's the question, charles. they are not going to like it when they see th...

>> the dow making a rebound surging 1000 points at wednesday's close, you can call the christmas eve crash. could this roller coaster wave the result of computerized trading, 85% of the market coming here to break down his tips is cpa and financial analyst dan gilden. explain what computerized trading is. >> you have computer algorithms which are set so they are predetermined marks for buying and selling so what happens is when the market or certain stocks a point in time, bank, the trading starts and what happens, what you saw yesterday in terms of this rush of buyers into the market is becau...

And you see the reaction in the market. boy, this is something we really need to give some thought to, stuarts as you say, three words put together, explosions, white house, obama, and computer programs acting on their own based on those three words. stunning. >> the damage from this computerized trading were no humans involved can be much more significant than any damage in the old days when you had face-to-face trading and rumor got around. martha: yeah. >> you could handle that pretty quickly. the damage was limited. today it is virtually unlimited as we've seen in the past. martha: what is...

Again within minutes. very dramatic whiplash kind of move. shows you in the age of computerized trading how wall street can react to a tweet that is read around the web. >> boy, oh, boy, alison, such a look at how in the digital age everything moves so quickly. you have to be right about your information. thank you for telling us that. appreciate it. back to boston now, where a short time ago doctors upgraded the surviving suspect's condition from serious to fair. now, it is not easy for the suspect to communicate. he has a wound to his neck, somewhat unclear why, but certainly speaking is v...