how about you, abigail?hat are your thoughts in terms of taking what you're learning, and how you're evolving, and what you want to do in the future? abigail: well, my dream job would be to be an architect 'cause i really like designing things, and then maybe bring some cool, like, ideas into the houses or other sculptures that i build that represent things. robert: and of course, one thing too is that people who are successful in life, they get to have more of an impact on the community too, huh? you get to pick an issue that you like and you get to have a little bit more influence on them, huh? yeah. are you--come from a family, does your family, are they pretty active in these kind of things? or are you building up their awareness? abigail: it's a little bit of both, i think. robert: both, yeah. what's your main interest right now in terms of your activities? abigail: i really like doing art class and rock climbing. robert: oh, really? you're very physical then, huh? abigail: yeah. robert: charlene, give

here is abigail doolittle. abigail: they approved the first quadruple etf.plain is eric, analyst. we had been referencing the movie "spinal tap." what does this mean for these etfs? does not seem higher than the current three times. when you get to three, when you go from there? go to four. the sec has gotten conservative lately over the last eight years. they have tried talking about not using derivatives and put a freeze on leverage issuers. it is a reverse course. happen the same to the commissioner was born in. could be a trump effect. if this needed? it was a lot of reaction on twitter, which is where sometimes i can gauge how people are feeling, and the reactions work on this is the top? it is all downhill from here. there was a lot of naysaying going on on twitter about the products. i picked the top five reactions. my favorite was the people guessing on ticker symbols. it is wild. it is something that people need to be very concerned with. the question is, the you need forex when you have three at and 4x 3 when youneed havex and2x? saw product launch

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abigail doolittle joins us now in new york with more. so, abigail, what stocks stood out today?gail: overall it was a quiet day for stocks, ever down -- down ever so slightly. but the nasdaq 100 actually finished fractionally higher, up more than the 0.1% putting it on , its eighth wedding day in a row, the longest winning streak since and very exciting, -- february. a record high. as for those movers that did stand out in the session, micron was one such stock. with morgan stanley raising numbers area once again, he thinks the pricing their looks really strong, adding a bit of a tailwind to nvidia. but then we had another stock going lower, and we had some of the chinese internet stocks trading lower, helping to explain why the nasdaq itself finished down ever so slightly. another brighte spot. that is tesla. tesla has yet another record high. we have a great chart of this stock all of the way from the ipo back in and look at 2010. that. the stock is up more than 1800%. it is not clear what drove the stock higher, maybe just technical momentum. but those gains over the last yea

we have to help abigail and girls like her get to school.the first female president in afri africa, she heard about what i was doing and invited me to her house and she said, as long as you are serving the children of liberia for free, you get this building. then she gave me this building. i was like, yes, how will i fix this thing up? we didn't have this big but it. i ended up on the primetime television show and we ended up eating the most amount of likes throughout campaign called i'm like emma abigail. it went viral through facebook and instagram. we won a million dollar grant. [applause] we ended up winning a million-dollar grant and we started first free, all-girls school post world country and world for girls. the president was there and was the best day of my life. it wasn't just the school, just make my we were cutting the ribbon and we addressed every challenge that young women face in getting an education. we had health programs, afterschool programs, community was of all, kids were having two or three grades at a time. the ebola

found in the letters and there's over 1,000 letters between abigail adams and john adams. neither of them was capable of writing a boring letter or a short one. you're reminded that history is human. his -- history's not about remembering dates and quotations, it's about human beings. that's why it's so important. jefferson said any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what it never was and never can be. and he said when in the course of human events and the operative word is human, none of these people who occupied our highest office have ever been perfect. >> charlie: remind me -- jefferson didn't write books. >> no. >> charlie: did he write letters? >> yes, indeed. >> charlie: many letters as many as adams. >> jefferson destroyed every letter he ever wrote to his wife or she wrote to him. he would write to friends of theirs saying if you have correspondence from my wife return it to me and he destroyed it. >> charlie: why do you think he did that? >> i think he felt his private life must remain private. >> charlie: why didn't you write about jefferson or

abigail doolittle is here. it looks like a quiet day. abigail: it's a must like watching paint dry ahead of the long holiday weekend. a small moves for the major averages. trading slightly higher, the tech heavy index is on pace for a record close. as for the small moves, this is g #b2b 3430. it is the small since july of 2014. smaller than that very small they at the end of last year during the holiday season. investors are really on the sidelines ahead of the long holiday weekend. we may have small moves for the major averages, but we do have big cap movers. the estimate of 3.9%. it has everything to do with the wideny product mix with a array of product mix. and we also have disney trading higher of 1% as "pirates of the movie is beingh released and there's lots of hype around that, . much today.ng relative to the haven assets in the vix plunging, but look at gold trading higher. we also have bonds trading down ever so slightly. the real confirmation of risk, but huge games on the week. vonnie: abigail doolittle, thank .ou for that se

what about the markets, and they don't -- abigail doolittle? abigail: another day of unchanged trading for the major averages. the s&p 500, if it closes fractionally, the gains it has right now, it would be they at about where the s&p 500 doesn't .2%.a move up or down five remarkable given the macro events we have out there. a better-than-expected payrolls report. perhaps investors are treading water, on hold ahead of the french presidential election. right now we're looking at unchanged markets. this could be a bit of a rebound going into today. copper was down 3%. this is concerning investors. on copper rebound, we have freeport mcmoran trading higher. we are seeing a bit of a pop chemical.e to dow and a bloomberg intelligence analyst told me not so long ago that what this has to do is the fact that court is trading higher on the day by 2% and investors think this will translate to better spending from farmers. let's look at what commodities are doing on the year. 747. is g #btv we have gold and precious metals with industrial metals. hereinb

♪ i had the time of my life now it's up to abigail and colt to pull off. >> now it's time to learn theift? >> reporter: it took months of training. >> i would literally -- i would lay on the ground and just put my arms up and she'd put her hips here. >> you were lifting me off of the floor. you would think i was bungee jumping out of an airplane -- >> guys. guys. guys. i'm like you can't fall anywhere. you're right here. >> did you ever hear from jennifer grey? >> i actually met her a couple months later. she was like, hey, baby. and i was like. >> heart stop. >> real baby. >> reporter: in the dance studio with colt -- i mean johnny. >> this is your space. you've got to hold this strong. >> hold the frame. >> hold your frame. look at you. >> i channel my inner baby. but of course steer clear of the lift. >> so were you happy with the way it came out? >> yeah. we had such a fun time making it. and i think there are so many dark things that go on in the world. so i think that for three hours to be able to watch something where you can just have fun and see dancing, i think that's kind of

because abigail was adamant on the subject.can never fully understand the influence of the women who are part of the story from the beginning. there is a whole field that needs more exultation. charlie: you said the best presidents were historians. woodrow wilson was a historian. was he one of the best? david: was he a best president? he's one of the top presidents, no question. was he perfect, by no means. charlie: nobody is perfect. but was he in the top 10, wilson? david: i never ranked presidents, but yes, i would say he was. certainly, washington was a great reader of history. so was obviously, adams and jefferson. and theodore roosevelt began a quite good naval history of the war of 1812 when he was a student at harvard. and of course, franklin roosevelt was a reader of history. eisenhower was a great reader of history. truman, as we said. kennedy. barack obama, great reader of history. barack obama recently, in fact, on monday, i said, i happened to meet with him for a future project. i said to him, how is the memoir com

let's get a check on where the markets stand now with abigail doolittle.bigail: we're looking at a continuation of what we have been seen for much of the day, mixed trading relative to the dow and the s&p, and the nasdaq, which have been higher all day. look at the nasdaq, up about 6/10 of 1%, really being helped by technology putting in new record highs. let's hop into the bloomberg and take a look at the s&p 500 map to take a look at what's happening. the top sector here, technology, not surprising that it is helping that huge outperformance on the date in the year, continuation of what we haven't being on the year. right below that, financials are the second-best sector, up 4/10 of 1% on those highs, but interestingly it appears that that bloomberg interview with margaret tao has moved the banking sector. it had been higher before, with president trump telling bloomberg that he is considering moves to break up the wall street tanks and he is calling for a "21st century version of the 1933 glass-steagall," separating consumer investing and banking. takin

abigail doolittle joins us with the latest market action.bigail: they for that reminder on may day, very celebratory. we do have gains for the major averages, dallas, -- dow, s&p 500, nasdaq all trading higher. what stands out is that divergence between the dow and nasdaq. the dow is barely higher. veryasdaq up 6/10 of 1%, solid gain as the tech heavy nasdaq once again is carving out new record ighs. -- highs. not surprisingly behind this strength in technology, we take a hop into bloomberg and take a look at the imap, a great way to get a quick snapshot of what is happening sector wise. first of all we see mostly green. theop, financials and tech big story. financials being held by yields rising. the 10 year yield is up 4 basis points. tech being helped by the likes of amazon, facebook, an apple. real estate had been in the top sector earlier. let's take a look at some real winners within the space. associates, and apparently the closet of strength here is that ggp's ceo on the first quarter call said the company is evaluating strategic opt

. >> reporter: abigail breslin is baby and colt prattis is johnny, leading the star-studded cast of abc'se of the 1987 classic. >> my mom was a huge fan of the original. it's like her favorite movie. she used to say like, if only you could play baby one day. when i got the call i called my mom and she was just like crying. >> reporter: a new generation of fans about to experience the timeless tale all over again. >> they don't know who jennifer gray and patrick swayze are because they're young, they're babies, they're not running around watching classic movies yet. >> reporter: the remake staying true to the original storyline. set in the 1960s. about a young woman, baby, a feminist, finding summer love for the first time with her bad boy dance instructor, johnny castle, played by the late patrick swayze. a role that turned him into a sex symbol and one he told barbara walters he almost turned down. >> so why did you do it? >> i felt something for johnny. a guy from the streets. >> johnny castle, yeah. >> yeah. a guy from the streets that is fighting to like himself, to believe in himself

abigail: it was a quiet day for stocks in the u.s.he dow, s&p 500, and nasdaq finished fractionally higher and not really much of a reaction to that terror tragedy. this is pretty consistent with what we have seen over the last year or even more so. perhaps investors weighing in saying that the tragedy is unlikely to affect the corporate .utlook for u.s. companies we also have the vix trading lower, so not a lot of fear there. names ande high beta nasdaq traded higher. nvidia was lower. paul sweeney, intelligence high beta names tend to trade down significantly. we are not really seeing a reaction, and the reaction from , we see stocks finishing down about .4%, so not a huge decline, but that was much more related to company-specific action as opposed to anything to do with that terror tragedy in manchester. stocks? at about chip they underperformed. what happened? abigail: wells fargo downgraded shares to market perform. and analyst citing lackluster growth opportunities. plus, morgan stanley plus analyst has been relatively bullish

abigail doolittle, thanks so much for that update.he volatility in the markets triggered by volatility in the white house. president trump faces the deepest crisis of his presidency on reports that now former fbi director james comey wrote in a memo that the president asked him to stop investigating his first national security advisor, michael flynn. for more now, we are by alex ross in new york, a best-selling author, former advisor to secretary hillary clinton at the state department, who has just announced he is running for governor in maryland on the democratic ticket. thanks for joining us. let's get right to it. do you think what trump has done, allegedly, is grounds for impeachment? alex: i do. if he is seeking to shut down an ongoing investigation by the fbi, it's a demonstration of his lack of fitness for the office. he has are the proven incapable of basically the executive functions of the presidency and, now, clearly and not surprisingly to a lot of us, he lacks the moral and ethical backbone necessary to be president. it

there are over 1000 letters between abigail adams and john adams.either of them was capable of writing a boarding letter -- boring letter or a short one. you are reminded that history is human. history is not about memorizing dates and statistics and quotations. it is about human beings. that's why it is so important. , any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never can be. he said, "when in the course of operativets," and the word is human. none of these people who occupy the highest office has ever been perfect. charlie: remind me, jefferson didn't write books. did he write letters? david: yes, indeed. charlie: lots of letters. as many as adams? david: no. the main thing with jefferson's he destroyed every letter he ever wrote to his wife or that she wrote to him. he would write to friends of theirs and say, if you have any correspondence from my wife, please return it to me, because i would like to have it, and then he destroyed it. charlie: why? david: nobody really knows. david:charlie: what do you think? david

abigail, where are you? i'm trying to find you. i haven't forgotten you.en't disturbed by you. i am, too. you keep me up at night and i hope that you always do. you are my vow, my promise and i'm coming to get you. so i moved to liberia thomas 12 years ago. i was 23, my first job out of college. it was almost like a peaceful situation. they said you're going to liberia. i got there and i was in charge of running adult literacy programs. i came to the city to be honest to do probably because i wanted to get a visa. -- pizza. i'd come to the city and i would make kid like agnes and abigail and we became friends. i would hang out with the children in lieu of trial like donkeys in the sand. i would ask these kids, if you could have anything in the entire world, what would it be? over and over again, they said the same thing. we just really want to go to school. they kept coming. i was using my speech to tell stories. people from my hometown, church, sending me money and the new york city tax attorneys like you really need to make this an organization. i rememb

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. >> 21-year-old abigail breslin played jennifer grey's "baby."pressive abs helped colt prattes win the part as patrick swayze's johnny. but his biggest fear was having to say these words -- >> nobody puts baby in the corner. i felt like i got that do it with an eyebrow. just as naturally as possible. >> say it. >> say it. >> nobody puts baby in the corner. >> that iconic lift was tough for abigail, who had absolutely no dance experience. she rehearsed for about eight weeks before trying it the first time in the lake. >> i was terrified. i could feel like my heart racing so much and then when i was up there and we held it i was just like, ah, i did it. i'm here. >> i wanted to cry when -- when i saw abby do the lift for the first time. i've known abby since she was 1, i was 6. and to see her conquer something like that is really amazing >> "modern family's" sarah hyland plays older sister lisa. nicole scherzinger is dancer, penny. bruce greenwood is baby's dad. debra messing plays her mom. from the dance on the log to swayze's jump, shot for shot,

abigail: a lot of people were talking but amazon and alphabet.ing, just lightly above $1000, and here we have another great chart from amazon's ipo. look at that. 51,000%. this really reflects the company move into the clouds, the web services, plus their dominance in e-commerce. speaking of that, let's take a look at a chart in the bloomberg. 1376.s we have the market cap of walmart, so traditional works bricks and morta rs, and in the last two years, amazon has shot higher. not only performing well, but for the future that e-commerce will continue to be the rage seems to be crushing to some degree the retail sector, but very interesting, emily. this massivehave market cap, around 400 $80 billion, but this is another one. 0 billion, but this is another one. the largest market cap in the world, and look at amazon, the fourth-largest at about $480, phabet ando have al berkshire hathaway, so those are the largest market cab comanies there. emily? you, abigail doolittle, for that report. by a guestjoined from seattle. what is your take in this? it i

abigail doolittle is with us. abigail: one of the big stories is the dollar.rg dollar index more -- down more than 3%, the worst year since 2009. longer-term chart of the bloomberg dollar index and we see around 2015, the bloomberg dollar in text started to go to the pattern of uncertainty and congestion. debte congestion, too many crisis. it crosses below the $200 moving and the gainers are gaining momentum. the last one took it to the bottom of the range and the near -- in the newest one is nearing it. , theis entire range broadening formation, dropped down, it could be a 20% drop. we have had the president trump administration reiterating or suggesting they like a weak dollar and perhaps that is behind some of the bearish we are seeing. it could be a pretty big decline on the dollar index and that would equal about an 80. we have the euro higher on the year. another charge, mario draghi, the ecb president, said ecb stimulus is not entirely working. the ecb's balance sheet and close to the fed balance sheet. this has weighed on the euro all the way back to t

abigail thought, she is never going to make it. john adams and louisa were friends, but as time went on, abigail came to really respect louisa, and they developed a very close friendship. that was both family and two first ladies. i'm trying to think of who some of the others -- lesley: maybe we can talk more interestingly about feuds between first ladies. gil: jackie kennedy was marvelous with hillary clinton in terms of coaching her on how to handle having a teenager in the white house and kids in the white house, which i think is important to emphasize. one of the things that often happens is, because politics is a form of combat, you internalize. the men sometimes get over it, and the women hold on to the grudges. [laughter] lesley: oh. hold on. i know men who hold onto it more than women. gil: that is the role they have often played, partially because they are taking it on. one of the things you see with nancy reagan and hillary clinton is that ronald reagan and bill were always being mr. affable and would let their wives be t

in new york, abigail doolittle.since i am taking on mark barton, i have to go big .ith the yen and ham it up a three-year chart of the end. the dollar-yen traded higher. it has been in the range of 100 and 125. the dollar-yen is down 5%, the worst year since 2011. the dollar is declining. there might be more declines ahead for the dollar and strength of the yen. the 50 day moving average goes below the 200 day moving average. last year, the yen went all the way down to 100, the dollar-yen went all the way to 100. there is reason to think we could see the dollar-yen go back to 100 as we have a haven bid for the yen on uncertainty in d.c.. so much going on that there are smart early investors going to be haven class. vonnie: let's go to mark barton. his piece today is inspired -- and spire today's battle. a lovely piece about volatility, or the lack of it. he cites a 90 day volatility, the lowest level since november 2014. this is gold running at levels almost unseen. what is going on, the sheer volume of information

abigail doolittle joins us now from new york.hat happened in this session in tech stocks in the week in general? >> today we started off, relatively lackluster session, and on the close, both the nasdaq and s&p 500 finishing at record highs. a lot of this has to do with tech, the best-performing sector of the week, relative to the best stocks for the nasdaq. it helped of the nasdaq rise of third week in a row. some of the best weeks since november of last year. they posted a solid march quarter, beating estimates by 1.5%. there drug numbers were good enough. that stock went up quite nicely on those results. another winner, a software company. they are saying some of the bidders, could include bain and carlyle. they have a $23 billion market cap. they may not choose to sell themselves that all three of but it shot up higher on the week around as big investors. the possibility they may by cit rix. and analyst said it has to do with a report out of europe suggesting demand for travel is very strong. interesting, on the day the stock

abigail is here with some stories. abigail: we have the dow come s&p 500 and nasdaq all trading right around even in mixed action. the dow, s&p 500 and nasdaq all open slightly higher and have dipped lower. the doubt now trying to go higher again. -- the dow. finished down .1%. the nasdaq finished up .7%. perhaps a bit of a breather right now after that trading action yesterday. taking a look at some stocks that are really lagging, the auto sector -- general motors, ford and fiat chrysler all trading down sharply after the big three did miss auto sales estimates for the month of april. , light truck sales fell 7.1% versus the estimate of down 4.7%. this is the fourth monthly decline for auto sales for the big carmakers. perhaps suggesting that it could suggest we are seeing the peak of seven years of record sales. one of the stories we been following this week, last week, the nasdaq. right now, the nasdaq is flat on the day. i mentioned the big divergence yesterday. that is the story of the year. this is the s&p 500 re

something like that. >> nobody puts baby in a corner. >> that iconic lift was tough for abigail, whot weeks before trying it the first time in the lake. >> i was terrified. i could feel like my heart racing so much and then when i was up there and we held it i was just like, ah, i did it. i'm here. >> i wanted to cry when -- when i saw abby do the lift for the first time. i've known abby since she was 1, i was 6. and to see her conquer something like that is really amazing >> >> "modern family's" sarah hyland plays older sister lisa. nicole scherzings er idancer, penny. bruce greenwood is baby's dad. debra messing plays her mom. from the dance on the log to swayze's jump, shot for shot, abc's tv movie is remaking the original film -- which is celebrating its 30th anniversary with edition dvd. i call this "dirty dancing 2.0." we have a three-hour movie event instead of an hour and a half feature. >> beau casper smart plays the guy that befriends baby. perk of the job? during filming, his ex, jlo, visited the set and even stayed for an epic onesie-wearing dance party. that's jlo in the

vonnie: abigail, one to watch. thank you for that.n, chief investment officer at goldman sachs, says the markets are looking past almost all risks. he spoke to bloomberg on "daybreak" this morning. they asked if the and he close to overheating. >> overheating seems like a bit of a strong statement. we do think we may see in the second half of this year growth that looks more like three than two. everybody has been looking at that for a while. the second quarter will definitely get a rebound from the first quarter, but we think there's some momentum there. that being said, overheating i think would be a strong statement for the and here now. but the one -- the evidence is very much in the labor market. so i think we look at the unemployment rate now at 4 l. 4%. you're clearly seeing wage growth accelerate. people still, i think, like to say, well, where's the wage growth? there is wage growth, and we've seen it consistently. we see in the surveys. we see it in the hard data. it's just growing. it's accelerating at a low rate, so i gues

abigail mendoza and her sister refina are zapotecan -- original people from mexico before the spanishil has been grinding corn by hand, making masa, and moles like this, the ridiculously faithful time-consuming, difficult traditional way, she was taught to make these things. and the way she's been making them since she was 6 years old. look at her hands by the way. small, surprisingly delicate given all the hard work, all the pushing, kneading, grinding, stone against stone over the years. then look at her forearms. the power there. it's impressive, and beautiful. >> alejandro: every time you enter a house in oaxaca, especially in small villages, they alws offer you a shot of mescal. >> anthony: mm, so good. seguesa. a mole and chicken dish. this mole sauce, like a lot of the real old-school moles made by masters like abigail, uses 35 different kinds of chile peppers and takes more than two weeks to make. do you think that, until recently, until guys like you, that mexicans were not looking back at their own food culture, they were looking elsewhere? what was going on? >> alejandro: w

what adams wrote to abigail was, "may none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." >> glormes fader is an actor known for his disark darkand destructive characters. he stars as the concierge of crime on "the black list." the series is now in its fourth season. >> nowadays, to a great degree-- and it's probably the reason for the explosion on television in terms of programming-- is that writers and directors and actors have migrated, to a great degree, to television to be able to pay for the plays and the films that they might like to do. >> rose: in other words, you have your own standards. >> i just-- i bury myself in the work. when i-- it's why, when i did films-- that's all i did-- i didn't do many of them. i didn't-- i did as few of them as i possibly could because i really-- i just buried myself in it when i was doing it, and then-- so when i stopped i was relieved and glad to have stopped. i do the same on a television show. and it's-- but a television show is a very different animal than a film. a television show swallows you whole and choose you up and refuses to sp

abigail doolittle has the latest. abigail: a relatively quiet day in the u.s.he dow and the nasdaq all trading fractionally higher after switching between small gains and losses. it feels as though investors are on hold perhaps ahead of the apple's earnings report ahead of the close. the fed decision tomorrow is considered to be not very alive in and we have the french presidential election sunday. the top sector is technology. let's take a look at g #btv 7260. this is the story of the year. on top, the technology sector is up about 16% and in yellow, s&p 500 is up 7%. in blue, the bank is up about 1.5%, dragging on the s&p 500, something also happening today. as for technology winners on the day, one is apple, putting in yet another record high. some investors worry this could mean the stock's price perfection. our team earlier was told he thinks the growth estimates are very achievable and he thinks aroundck will go higher the corner in both the near term in the medium-term. facebook hitting another record high on this report tomorrow and then twitter is up 5

we saw abigail take us through that. what can we expect from the sector, depending how this vote down? >> the stocks in the healthcare industry that are going to be closed -- closely watched are hospital stocks. they benefitedded from a medicaid expansion under obamacare. before obamacare, there was a care. uncompensated but more people gaining coverage program.he medicaid that gap was narrowing. there's a threat that with this medicaid expansion would be vote back and hospitals will uncompensated care. if this bill passes today, prettysee stocks get hit hard. there is a failure of republicans to be able it get through, then hospital stocks will benefit. >> ask -- what the white house role has been. an event at the white house. executive order signed promoting free speech and religious liberty. end up going to the white house. >> tell us what exactly the president have to do with any of the turning some moderate republicans or even speaking to the freedom caucus? >> the white house involvement has been haphazard. craftin

abigail doolittle has a deeper look.: marquis is talking about the idea that the old adage sell in may isn't working for the stoxx 600. chart. a year today in blue, we have the s&p 500 up 7.5%. in white, we have the stoxx 600. after the first round of the presidential election in france, gainsock had steady through may. technology is the leader on the year, up 17%. that is being helped by the apple suppliers. on the bottom in orange, that is the energy sector. very similar to what we are seeing in the u.s. julie while we have stocks rallying in europe similar to the u.s., we have bonds rallying in a decent way at this point. at 1.5nish 10 year yield percent -- 1.5%. remember back in 2011 when the price was closer to 7%. the remarkable. that's pretty remarkable. salman ahmed is here to give us his outlook. why are we in a sweet spot right now? salman: that's got to do with the broadening in the eurozone. if you look at the soft data and hard data coming out of the eurozone, it is quite strong. 3% annualized growth. on top

abigail doolittle, thanks so much.mp's new tax plan's pitch to the middle class, but not the wealthy. critics suggest the opposite. we are back with bloomberg chief washington correspondent kevin cirilli at capitol hill. of desiretill a lot for details within the white house, the tax plan. what do we know know about who will benefit the most just from the outline we have been given? kevin: there were some disappointments that there are not enough details in this tax policy plan and it's widely being perceived as a conversation starter of sorts. i just spoke with the senior aide, a republican member who is against the border adjustment tax. i can tell you that there are new political battle lines being drawn as we speak. the house ways and means committee right now is meeting behind closed doors in a private meeting about tax policy. all of this is really just the beginning part of the conversation. this is a congress that was still very much like the past health care policy reform, ahead of tax policy. that is also dom

thanks abigail. numbersaribas posting that trounced its rivals. he doesn't see more hedging that could be linked to the french election. see like whates you saw in the u.s., things grinding to a halt. waiting how things would evolve. it seems in france things .ontinue >> you haven't seen any more hedging? seen anything that can be linked into the political uncertainty. >> you can't deny there is a political risk. this could have an impact on interest rates. how do you plan for that? what do you see in terms of longer-term impact? >> for the moment interest rates are low. we really stay close to our client. held them in their projects. first quarter results of french retail you can see loans of 7%. continuerend would that would be helped to offset overtime to low interest rate environment. if on top of that the interest rates would pick up that would further boost the contribution. cfo. b.n.p. paribas let's get more on the french election ahead of emmanuel macron and marine le pen's only one to one debate. european banks preparing. during us now, m

vonnie: alex doolittle -- abigail doolittle, thank you.ill the firing of fbi director james comey affect president trump's agenda? sam zell weighed in. i am not sure he has been put off the rails or if it gets him off his agenda. voluntarily, or otherwise, got himself involved in a whole bunch of stuff. so, he was the wounded animal to begin with. and the only question i would ask is what took so long? i do not necessarily have an opinion as to the decisions that mr. comey made, i just think that the timing and the appropriateness of it, you know, affected his credibility. i think this will pass very quickly. i do not think it is a major event. it is interesting that all of the presentations and everyone i have seen, i read "the new york times" and nobody mentioned comey was a republican nominee. trump got rid of a republican nominee. and he will nominate somebody else. served under george w. bush and the number two position. you have not been shy to make tough decisions, even controversial. how important is it to explain why? some of the

we hear now from abigail doolittle.y, another record for the nasdaq and the s&p 500 before it turned down. the tech heavy index is outperforming the other major averages in a big way. 8625.s g # btv up, it tells us the nasdaq is outperforming. that is happening right now, the most since 1999 and 2000. the answer -- the question is is a closer to 1999 or 2000. some seem to think the uptrend is more firmly established. turning to the stocks helping today, more the consumer discretionary stock including expedia, yahoo!, and when. expedia trading higher as mastercard brings master pay to expedia. yahoo! is buying back $3 billion worth of stock before the verizon deal closes and when resorts. wynn investors seem to like that. the big winner is amazon. you would think that is a technology stock, but it is a consumer discretionary stocks. up more than 36, about 9% this year. really helping to explain some of the records, the current and it is said that nothing is specific behind the games today, just the anti-brick-and-mortar

abigail doolittle is scanning by. abigail: thanks.e are looking at relatively small declines of the dow, s&p are looking at very sharp losses for all three averages. the dow at one point had been down about 140 points at session lows. the nasdaq down nearly 9/10 of 1%. paper, third day in a row, the first time it happened in a month. the first time that could happen, we will see tomorrow in four weeks. helps to explain some of the bearish action we are seeing in technology,, -- down more the company gave a disappointing forecast. call climbed down 1% saying the company could justify a $120 bid price, about 15% above were current shares are. investors may not like hearing that news. 10,w version of microsoft more friendly with other devices. intel now down six days in a row. the biggest tech loser is snap. shares of that social media company are plunging on the day after they put up a horrible first quarter missing right across the board. they missed revenue and all important daily active users figure, growth was smaller there. there a