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Few hours ago. Plus bill miller at delivering alpha talking about his best investment ideas. He will join our show live for more ideas and will bring you highlights of interviews with others. Live from delivering alpha in new york city. Lets start with the price of oil reversing gains. Jackie deangeles has details. Good afternoon. 3 sell off today and closing at 44. 90. Three significant factors impacting oil prices. The first would be the monthly report taking demand forecasts down not just for this year but next year, as well. The wall street thesis for this rebound that is supposed to happen depends on demand staying at least flat or ticking up. So thats not really a good sign. The equity plunged today and also a little bit of strength in the dollar not good signs for crude oil. Inventories tomorrow. Remember last week we saw a draw down of 14 million barrels. Some are looking for a pretty substantial build. Those are the ones who think last weeks action was a one off event. The bui ....
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Cordray to be head of the new consumer financial protection bureau. at a speech in ohio, with cordray by his side the president said the appointment is necessary for the new agency to begin protecting consumers. republicans say the agency is bad for jobs and bad for the economy and they won t confirm any nominee until it s changed. house speaker john boehner also says he expects the courts will find the president s appointment illegitimate. the president, for his part, has no time for that. number three, a man charged with a spree of arsons in l.a. also under investigation for arson in germany. that s his home country. he was charged today with 37 counts of arson. authorities believe he set more than 50 fires after learning his mother may have been extradited to face fraud charges in germany. we have also now learned burkhart is a suspect in a fire which destroyed his family s home in germany days before he came to the united states. number four, fed chair ben bernanke outlined to cong ....
All right. we start the second half of our show with stories we care about where we focus on our own reporting, do the work and find the out front five. up first, does mitt romney have the backings of the business community? we reached out to the strike team, a group of biggest and best minds in the world of business and asked which gop candidate is best for the economy and the results show most support romney. two prefer gingrich. one said ron paul. here is something else. who would they support between president obama and santorum on economic issues. six of nine said they would support santorum, as you can see. nine for santorum, six for obama. that number might surprise some pundits and washington insiders. they are saying santorum is a long shot contender. might be interesting to see how this plays when you look at numbers like that. number two, president obama testing his constitutional power by making high-profile appointments while congress is in recess. the most controversial, ....
Numbers like that. president obama testing his constitutional power by making high-profile appointments while congress is in recess. the most controversial, robert cordray to be head of the new consumer protection bureau. with cordray by his side the president said the appointment is necessary for the new agency to begin protecting consumers. republicans say the agency is bad for jobs and bad for the economy and they won t confirm any nominee until it s changed. house speaker john baron also says he expects the courts will find the president s appointment illegitimate. the president, for his part, has no time for that. number three, a man charged with a spree of arsons in l.a. also under investigation for arson in germany. that s his home country. he was charged today with 37 counts of arson. authorities believe he set more than 50 fires after learning his mother may have been extradited to face fraud charges in germany. we have also now learned burkhart is a suspect in a fire which de ....