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Txdot surging into the new year. the nasdaq jumping up. a pace not seen since the days of the dot com boom. investors in love with a few big names. five companies alone contributed more than two thirds of that nasdaq thousand point rise over the past eight months. tech was the best performing sector in 2017 and all of these statistics made people whisper that b word, bubble. but despite high valuations for tech companies there aren't signs of a bubble yet. the market's current rally is due to legitimately strong economic growth and big corporate profits which will only get a boost from the rec...

In her daughter's classroom. she had been charged with a felony after the school confiscated a dugtle audio reporter. she could have faced up to five years in prison. prosecutors says there was enough evidence to support the charges but they are exercising prosecutorial discretion. >> that was a pretty good call. let's get a check on cnn "money" stream. following the reversal on wall street. airlines and retail had a great day. the best performing sector, tech, tanked. the nasdaq fell more than 1% led by big drops, amazon, apple and netflix. those are the darlings of the year. meanwhile the ...

>> i'm insulted. what are you doing for lunch? you should come visit. we're watching the stock market this morning. right now it does look like we are in for a lower opening with stocks. but not nearly as low as we would have been before we got those numbers concerning jobless claims. jobless claims fell last week to 404,000. that was below the 420,000 that had been expected and below last yeek's 441,000. that's a good sign. still a lot of people asking where are the jobs? if the jobless claims are coming down we'd like to see the unemployment number improving as well. some earnings have been ...

Social networking site facebook, making a couple acquisitions. facebook shares up 10% in the first three months of the year, and as far as overall sector performance, the utility sector, the high dividend paying, safe haven utility sector was the best performing sector, and when you look at dow winners and losers on this barely changed stock market for the quarter, merck, up 13%. microsoft, scatter -- boeing lost 8%. goldman sack lost 8%. and again electric, your top losers for the quarter, so, barely budging for the quarter. even though we had a lot of big swings in the stock market, facebook...