Inc. Portfolio power lunch starts right now and happy friday your money carving out decent gains in the major indexes the dow trying to end the week higher just like the nasdaq is doing. The nasdaq is now more than 5 for the year melissa highlighted general bills and blue buffalo and if you are investor, go home and give your dog a pet tonight because that stock is soaring. It is up almost 17 . Other interesting stocks today, go daddy hitting a new alltime high on pace for its best day since august of 2016 Red Robin Gourmet Burgers rallying and Planet Fitness strong on the earnings and out look now to michelle. You have to work out after you eat a red robin. Thank you. The dow is up more than 200 points and lets get to the Market Action here on the floor. Bob pisani joins me. We are watching to see what happens for the rest of the day. Because were just off the highs. Look at the s p 500. Every day this week there has been i g a gap up and then we move down and close near the end of th
Had been so concerned about just a short time ago, with the s p trading up nearly 1 . And nasdaq is over a percent. Former trump advisor rick gates will appear before a judge any minute now. He is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy and making a false statement in the ongoing russia probe. I want to be very clear here, there is still no mention of collusion. We have more coming up later in the hour. First to blake burman at white house where were about to hear from the president in just a short couple minutes. Hey, blake. Reporter momentarily what we were told. President trump, the australian Prime Minister as well here for a joint press conference. The president saying earlier today that the issues of trade of course, security would come up, this is one of those instances where they are going to get questions from both sides. You know the issues of guns and School Safety will be most likely asked upon the president today. Earlier today he made several comments both in the speech at
Looked at the amount of time he would have to invest, the amount of money it was going to cost him and the toll, frankly, that it would take on him and his family, he decided to take the plea deal. Plea deals typically are struck to do this, but he would cooperate with the special counsels office, potentially testifying against Paul Manafort. The white house today through Mercedes Schlapp saying rick gates issue has nothing to do with the white house. Listen here. I just, i dont know how many times i have to say this. Theres no evidence of collusion. As we continue to be cooperative with special counsel. At this point, while there is gonna be those journalists who want to keep focusing on russia and this issue, we are going to be continuing to focus on the president s economic success. Reporter members of the senior staff for the australian delegation and american delegation beginning to file in. We are just a couple minutes away. The president s speech to cpac at which he talked at le