ashley webster joining me right now on set.g who cares about this small island but the entire euro zone at stability. >> the way they sold the problem has struck fear around not only the euro zone but elsewhere as well. for the very first time, bailing out a country by taxing the big deposits in the bank's, having those bank customers help bail out the situation which is very unique. the euro zone members overall said this is one up, only in cyprus. don't forget the dutch member of the foreign minister said we think this could be a blueprint. cheryl: i completed royal field -- european markets. ashley: another member of the european central council backed up what he said in the first place, it is still on the table. just another example of how the euro zone got its act together when it comes to a unified statement. cheryl: the worry this will spread into italy, portugal, spain, they had the same protests we had in cyprus. >> cypress is a very unique case. this has become a haven for money. when the soviet union collapsed in the

ashley: i am ashley webster. michael steinberr arrested on insider trading charges. ashley: mortgage rate climbing from record lows. bill emerson will be joining us in minutes. where he thinks the housing recovery is at at this point. nicole: crisis and cyprus. this may last for months. ashley: the top portfolio manager arrested this morning by the fbi on insider trading charges. our colleague at the "wall street journal" catching that arrest of michael steinberg this morning. he is the most senior executive of the hedge fund to be snared in the government probe. he has pled not guilty and will be released on $3 million bail. mike has conducted himself professionally and ethically. we believe him to be a man of integrity. charlie gasparino has been all over this story for us. charlie: they gave us a news story on good friday. nicole: a man of integrity. what do you think? >> i do not know. he says he wrote an ethical shop. i have gone round and round with sec for years. i always believed that the ultimate target of the investigation, not think he is guilty, but the ta

i am ashley webster. tracy: and i am tracy byrnes. possibly just right to keep the fed stimulating the economy. ashley: could it hit 15,000 by the end of the month? heritage capital president says yes. tracy: jobs not the only major economic reports today. the crop report just out. we are live from the pith of the cme with reaction. ashley: plus, there is a new sheriff in town. oklahoma city attorney general. finding out why he thinks dodd-frank reform is unfairly attacking banks. tracy: that was on bugs bunny once, wasn't it bush or mark. ashley: the sheriff in town? tracy: nicole petallides on the floor of the stock exchange. nicole: be surpassed them and not giving it back. we are up again today. we are setting all-time highs. the nasdaq and s&p with of arrows. you can see that the dow is on track to have its fourth straight all-time record close. you can keep crossing out those prior numbers. there is a look at a one-week chart. the dow and s&p each gaining more than 2%. we are also seeing an environment that really helps these sto

tracy: hey, good afternoon, i'm racy byrnes. >> i'm ashley webster.higher gaining back yesterday's losses and then some. the s&p just a few points away from reaching its highest close ever. is today the day? we're watching the markets every move. tracy: americans losing confidence in this economy, partly on the billions in automatic spending cuts. how will the cuts plus that pesky payroll tax hike and upcoming tax refund shape the mood of the consumer ahead? we have a leading economist and he will share his take on all that in a moment. ashley: plus new concerns about housing's recovery. josh says, he was, by the way, one of the first to sound the alarm about the housing bubble years ago. now he is warning about a new housing trend. he will be our special guest straight ahead. a good numbers and bad numbers in housing. tracy: hard to decipher. it is all green right now. time for stocks as we go down to nicole petallides on the floor of the exchange as we do every 15 minutes. happy tuesday. >> back at you, tracy and ashley. we're looking at a market th

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ashley: i am ashley webster. bernanke is in london speaking out. his comments straight ahead. tracy: meanwhile, we have a deal for cyprus. it will keep the nation using the euro. ashley: that is not enough to keep stocks in the grain. the dow is up 94-point. tracy: we have a former nfl quarterback in the rare position of playing defense. group bledsoe fighting for the right to send alcohol to his friends. he will explain that coming up. ashley: first, time for stocks now. let's head back to the floor of the new york stock exchange. down 100 points now. nicole: very interesting to watch what is going on on wall street. the idea that cyprus is on its way to a bailout and a plan with the euro zone only to see the market turned around and turned into the red. we are down about 110 points on the dow jones industrials. bank stocks turned into the red and worried about contagion in europe, you have a very strong dollar today. worries that other countries may follow with this bank restructure. let's take a look at another story. increasing the focus on nondegree courses. you can see th

tracy: good afternoon, i'm tracy byrnes. >> i'm ashley webster. looking for a spark.starting the week with caution, moving the dow further away. just below the water mark from the all-time closing high? what if anything will be a catalyst for more buying? steve word of russell investments is here. tracy: spending cut versus reality. homeland security chief janet napolitano says airports are already seeing long lines yet several major air ports say that is simply not try. "wall street journal" gerry seib weighs in on that and washington's next battle. ashley: check your facts first. as more and more students loans go bad investors buy billions in student loan backed securities. they're selling triple the rate they did a year ago. an interesting story. much more on that ahead. tracy: it is top of the hour. time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes. sandra smith is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. sandra, we are just fighting to get back to that green. >> we are in the green. the dow may be holding onto a four-point loss right now, but broader stock market, s

ashley: i'm ashley webster. so can the dow make it lucky seven in the win column? 35 points at this stage, headed for another record high. raymond james chief strategist jeff saut says there is eneven more upside for stocks. he will tell us how to play this market coming up straight ahead. tracy: gop congressman paul ryan ups the ante on his new budget plan. it is the best solution for cutting our nation's massive debt and will it get anywhere in deeply divided washington? congressman scott garrett and peter welch will debate it this hour. ashley: are wall street capital gains about to lure its biggest fish? billionaire hedge fund manager john paulson may be headed for sunny san juan. those details are ahead. tracy: it is a big loophole. i'm surprised more people haven't gone. ashley: perhaps they will now that they're getting news. top of the hour. time for stocks. the dow is up 35 points. let's head down to the stock exchange with nicole petallides. >> great news for the bulls out there, ashley and tracy. the dow jones industrials once again hitting record intrad

i'm ashley webster. lori: i'm lori rothman. we knew they were coming, but after unsuccessful talks with congressional leaders the president signaling sequestration is set to hit by day's end. the "wall street journal" joins us on washington's and the military to deal. ashley: wild swings for the market to finish of the week. stocks clawing back after being down more than 100 points in today's session. the dow yet again within striking distance of a new all-time closing high. lori: and cyber security fears realized. mcafee gives fox business exclusive access to its control center as engineers track the latest threat. updating you now on the stock market as we do every 15 minutes, it's back to the floor of the new york stock exchange to check in with nicole petallides. close to session highs. >> reporter: close to session highs, close to all-time highs, another exciting day on wall street. dow jones industrials up 46 points at 14,101, the ethier index taking a breather. it was gaining during the president's speech to abide that p

what's in your walle ashley: good afternoon, everybody, i'm ashley webster. how high will it go? the dow smashing through another record, rising, we're up 36 points right now, 14,332. so what if anything is going to stop this rally? ashley: boeing adding 14.5 points to the dow, so doing some heavy lifting itself. one week in the sequester, virginia governor bob mcdonnell said the spending cuts are costing his state billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs. he will tell you how virginia is coping straight ahead. tracy: pipelines clearing a major government hurdle. weeks ahead are critical to deciding its fate. transcanada ceo says he is still confident the obama white house will approve keystone. he is our special guest coming up. ashley: first, top of the hour. time for stocks now. let's go to nicole petallides on the floor of the news zai. you know how often we do it. every 15 minutes. nicole. >> we don't want to miss any market action on the fox business network. the dow jones is up 36 points. that is the gain of 1/4 of 1%. nasdaq and s&p each gain

ashley: i'm ashley webster. it could be a day for stocks.00 hit its best intraday level ever. will it close at a new record? dow best first quarter closing in 15 years. but the question is, what is the markets next move? some opinions out there. a big money manager shares his outlook in minutes. tracy: red states versus blue states and we were thinking there were purple states out there probably. all this when it comes to attracting american business, "the wall street journal" stephen moore says the evidence is all in the census numbers. we were talking about census numbers yesterday. steve moore is here to explain he next. ashley: cypriot banks back in business. they opened for six hours under heavy restrictions. when will cypriots have free access to the money and what will be the long-term impact on the euro. currency expert marc chandler will be here on the show. tracy: we were talking how orderly that was. ashley: yes. >> close to the jersey banks? forget it. there will still be --. top of the hour. time for stocks now. as we do every 1

today we are joined by an awesome pair of, our own ashley webster, all while the. first up.s paying for videos like this one. the irs bin $60,000 on a training video that km gilligan's island and another video that spoofs start track. are you even really surprised, first of all? >> why are they spoofing gilligan's island ansar track when they are trying to hit the enter demographic? really confused by this. sandra: what is gilligan's island. >> right. sandra: and mean, this is -- >> they don't know what it is. star trek, of course, irs, i was trying to come up with something. iteally sucks. >> how many other bad movies either producing out of maryland? >> absolutely awful. you have seen. it's so bad. it's terrible. sandra: what would you expect e government-funded video. well, a brooklyn fashion

fib chief economist bill dunkelberg weighs in next with tracy byrnes and ashley webster. miss it. dad, i'd put that down. ah. 4g, huh? verizon 4g lte. 700 megahertz spectrum, end-to-end, pure l build. the most consistent speeds indoors or out. and, obviously, astonishing throughput. obviously... you know how fast our home wifi is? yeah. this is basically just asast. oh. and verizon's got more fast lte coverage than all other networks combined. it's better. yes. oh, why didn't you just say that? huh-- what is he doing? >> markets taking a breather after five consecutive trading sessions closing at records for the dow. melissa: we'll have to rally if we want to make a record again. ashley: almost become ho-hum. another day, another record. tracy: thought that little bit about mars was interesting. >> i can never hear enough about that. melissa: will never get rid of lori. she is so excited. lori: i hope to go. a lot of people accuse me being off on mars anyway. tracy: you might have relatives. i think so cool some day instead of going to disney they go to mars. lori: space

ashley: good afternoon, everybody, i'm ashley webster. tracy: i'm tracy byrnes.ion rules the day on wall street. stocks falling as investors wait for what's next from europe. the dow is down about 36 points right now, but well above the worst levels of the day. ashley: yep, cyprus, just hours away from reopening banks after a nearly two-week shut down. heavy restrictions though will be in place. we'll have the very latest where things stand plus a live report from the scene. tracy: and connecticut offering tax credits, free loans and more to companies that move jobs to the state. governor malloy tells us whether or not it is working. he is our special guest ahead. ashley: we'll find out. tracy: it is top of the hour. time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes. nicole petallides on the floor of the exchange. the dow is better but not great. >> as i look at the big board, tracy, and ashley, you see the down arrows on dow and s&p. at its lowest point it was down to 14,439. you have seen significant rise off the bottom of the market today. however at the same time, th

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ashley webster is here to tell us how everything got to this point. >> this did not happen overnight.wall. in the end, it was closer to 75%. that decision cost banks more than 4 billion euros. this is for a companies whose gdp is just about 18 billion euros. march 16, sex birth they will be hit with a 10% tax. as protesters hit the streets, the banks had closed. three days later, march 19, the parliament actually rejects the idea of a bank tax. two days after that on march 21, the ecb stops. unless the bank taxes put in place back on the table, that emergency bailout will be cut off during the week. the bank tax back on the table. lawmakers trying to reach some sort of agreement. they stick with a 10% tax on wealthy depositors. the protests continue. march 24, they take affect with withdrawal. you can only withdrawal 100 euros. march to five got a last-minute bailout deal is finally reached. cyprus agrees to inflict heavy losses on wealthy uninsured depositors. small savers are spared. the banks remain closed on this wednesday. dennis: once it settles, is this crisis now over? >> not

. >> i'm ashley webster. with two hours to go stocks are closing in on another record week.ow is heading for the fourth straight winning week. we're down slightly at moment. how should you play this record market right now? it is a question we hear every day? big money strategist tom sowanek shares his tips straight ahead. tracy: making money from others pleasures or even your own. we're looking at business of vice, smoking, gambling, pornography. this hour it is all about tobacco. we'll look at stocks which light up your portfolio. ashley: i quit years ago. a look at one of america's biggest cigarette-makers, reynolds american. the vice president will tell us how the company is transforming itself primarily with smokeless products. tracy: but first, top of the hour. time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes, nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. hey, nicole. >> tracy and ashley, looking at a market coming under pressure. this is market we're not used to seeing too much of after 10 days in a row of gains for the dow jones industrials where we've been

i'm ashley webster. tracy: i'm tracy byrnes. we're kind of raising the roof on the dow 30.chip index smashing through its record high. the dow is up a whopping 136 points right now. so how high will it go? and should you adjust your portfolio right now? we're looking for some answers ahead. ashley: several airline stocks by the way are hitting a 52-week highs with reduced capacity boosting profits so is there any limit on how high these stocks can fly? one leading airline analyst is here to tell us about it. tracy: and the first step in getting the government out of housing finance. freddie mac and fannie mae are merging some operations. how will this affect the housing recovery? we'll have that coming up. ashley: first up the dow is breaking the record high which it held for nearly six years. nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange on a historic day, nicole. >> this is a great day. it is an historic day, obviously. record-setting day for all the bulls out there. i say this cautiously. some people are betting the other way or their particular stocks di

ashley: good afternoon, everybody, i'm ashley webster. tracy: i'm tracy byrnes.g their record run with authority. the dow is up 48 points right now, trading above the 14,500 mark, just barely, about three points up. the s&p 500 is closing in on its record high as well. billion dollar manager kevin caron from stifel nicolaus says there is a clear way to play this market right now. his strategy is moments away. ashley: lobster on the menu for president obama's lunch with senate democrats, very nice, thank you very much. will be it be served with a side of progress on the budget talks? maybe just coleslaw. new details from capitol hill ahead. tracy: in this economy everyone is looking for ways to make extra cash. how about renting out your car? relay ride let's drivers do just that. its ceo is here. he will tell us much more and how his customers are making money. that is coming up. ashley: don't want a smoker in the car but hey. dow is at record high and s&p 500 closing in on a new record. but so-called veer index, the -- fear index the vix is sending a different s