good morning, lauren simonetti. take us through the highlights, please. uren: and you wore your green tie this morning i noticed, ashley. ashley: i did. lauren: it was a come from behind win from john rahm, he won 12 under par and brooks kepk a tied phil mickelson for second place so the masters had 88 players and 18 represent ing liv, rahm's win keeps the green jacket away from a golfer, and at least for now and an update on tiger woods. he withdrew citing a foot injury and the cold and the rain of the weekend the lethal combination for the 47-year-old golfer still dealing with residual leg issues from a 2021 car crash and you can see images of him limping and you could tell his foot was in pain, ashley. ashley: it was, yeah, it was difficult to watch but how about phil mickelson tying for second, amazing. lauren: 54 years old i believe, pretty amazing. 52? ashley: yes it was and john rahm , he's a star no doubt. lauren, thank you, let's move on to politics. now this. donald trump's attorney expects his legal team to try and get the indictment against his

we're going to get clicks honey. >> chadwick: he stabbed him let's see what happens. >> jimmy: lauren simonetti cops didn't arrest him in 30 minutes or less. >> lauren: yes. i love this pizza delivery guy, though. i mean, i watched his interview that he did with the local tv station and he's like look i'm stilling delivering pizza in the near term but i was just raised to do the right thing and that was my instinct to do the right thing. we see so much bad stuff right now, i'm guilty as charged you go like this or maybe take out your phone because you don't want to invite drama or situation and he just handled it. i love him. >> jimmy: it was gangster. i want to know like, don't you want to know who the pizza place was? because they deserve our business. >> joe: for sure because you know a domino's guy is not getting involved. [laughter] >> joe: i thought he was great because the move of the legs, he's totally a superhero. pizza man. they should pair him up with wolverines so he can cut the slices up. but the best part which no one has mentioned is 85% chance the guy who ordered that pizza watc

brian: we go from baby announcement to lauren simonetti in for charles payne. lauren, is it your birthday? happy birthday. lauren: thank you, but congratulations to taylor. i think 2023 is your year, taylor riggs. taylor: i think so too. lauren: happy weekend guys good to see you. i'm lauren simonetti in for charles payne, and this is " making money." breaking right now, stocks are retreating as inflation worries offset relief over today's better-than-expected bank earnings but while the big banks seem to be doing fine, what does that mean for the regional and the local banks? liz ann saunders is on deck to give her take and americans worries about inflation jump so how can businesses keep people spending their money? small business expert jean marks weighs in later and shopping figures on how to make biden's ev dream a reality. who will front the bill to get the infrastructure needed? economist greg valliet warns that well might be running pretty dry, and elon musk says ai has the potential to destroy civilization but he's reportedly planning his own ai start-u

you are right, lauren simonetti, it is round. 41% of brides-to-be have round diamonds. "coast to coast" is next. neil: we

stuart: sad day for america, lauren simonetti? lauren: yeah.america, and i think this imabout pass -- impacts every democrat or republican running for office going forward. stuart: all right. i've got to somehow or another move from this intense discussion to the tuesday trivia question. here we go. oh, boy, what a question. in which country does the easter bunny originate? usa, united kingdom, germany, itly? food for thought, ladies and gentlemen. if you're not careful, elliot, we'll ask you for a guess.y ♪ ♪name helps restore gum health, and rehardens enamel. i'm a big advocate of recommending things that i know work. . . you want a loan to build a factory in america? you can't do that. this is what we were up against. nobody builds factories in the us anymore. you can't do that. experts claimed you couldn't do what we did. you want to hire workers here in the states? you can't do that. weathertech has been proving them wrong, for over 33 years. building our own factories, employing thousands, and making world-class products, right here in am

lauren simonetti has more on that for us. hello, lauren. >> sandra, hello.ries, but there's not much panic today. first republic not viewed as a systemic risk but it does have problems. the way they're handled, it says a lot about who the government thinks is important. first off, first republic caters to the rich. their media network tops $3 million. some are worth more than that like stephen ross and meta's mark zuckerberg. he was offered 1% for a $6 million mortgage on his home in palo alto. why tie up your cash when you can borrow almost for free? the problem is borrowing is not free anymore. first republic was a name mentioned during the demise of silicon valley bank and signature bank. its stock has been almost completely wiped out. so has its deposit base with $100 billion in customer withdrawals in the first quarter. the big question now is what happens next? are any of these 11 big lenders that infused $30 billion in first republic last month ready for round two is this another fdic takeover? it really doesn't look like the government wants to be ba

lauren simonetti is here with the details. >> how you shop in a store like that?o with me to aisle 7? >> it's insane and disturbing. i count shop there. nobody wants to shop there when it's like that. that's what it is in california prop 47 classifies theft under $900 a misdemeanor. they won't lock up the criminals, so they're locking up shampoo. that's why the people are pays the price. the company is pays the price for layers of security. target says they hired additional security guards, adding third party guard services and using new technologies to protect merchandise from being stolen. guess what? not all businesses have such deep pockets. and those that survived the pandemic can't survive the crime. i spoke to to the owner of the grant and green saloon. he just shut the doors for good. the customers were to scared to drive in and park on the street because their cars would be stolen, this is san francisco is short 400 police officers. now you have democratic politicians calling for the city to fully staff the police force. residents paying the price. it's t

good afternoon, everybody, i'm lauren simonetti in for charles payne obviously. this is "making money." making some vows maybe at the same time. breaking news, take a look at this stocks sharply higher. more evidence pointing to inflation cooling off but jim bianco is here. he says that is not the end of the story. the fed may get even more emboldened. he will explain that call in just a minute. why the disconnect between fed officials on the odds we're barreling towards a recession? and real estate crisis, fears we are facing a commercial real estate crash worse than 2008 while americans are getting priced out of hopes. i have a ceo who says he has the solution to our affordability crisis. joe rogan warning after slippery slope, a.i. podcast stuns him and social media. got to look at it. lawmakers looking to step in. is it already too late. all that and much more on "making money." lauren: stocks rallying, producer price index, wholesale inflation is indeed cooling off. the dow up 305 points. the white house says it has even more proof there will not be a recess

lauren simonetti has more on what the retailers are doing to fight the thieves. >> entire aisles underock and key at this target in san francisco. more cosmetics, toothpaste even the soap is boarded up as organized retail crime in the city's second worst in the country behind los angeles. target said it hired more security guards, third-party security guards in using new technology to keep the thieves out as its finance chief estimates hundreds of millions of dollars of profits will be lost to theft. the first three months nearly 14000 cases including motor vehicle theft in san francisco. here's the rub, has to be reported to be recorded so the numbers are likely higher in some people say they still feel unsafe. >> is a former police officer myself, i don't feel safe in the city anymore. were fending for ourselves here, is terrible. >> businesses are complaining of crime and many are closing down. back to you. david: thank you very much. former san francisco police officer joe has been worded about the consequences of crime reform of businesses and residents. he joins me now. the word

you are right, lauren simonetti, it is round.ccording to the knot 41% of brides-to-be have round diamonds. "coast to coast" is next. neil: we interrupt this market fixation over what the federal reserve will do in may to focus on what china is doing right now. it seems beijing is increasing by the day the number of warships and warplanes it is sending toward taiwan. china is calling it a large-scale exercise. it is anything but. in fact, apparently china is simulating ceiling off taiwan all together. it actually effectively has. all of this in response to taiwan's president meeting with speaker kevin mccarthy in california last week, what has been a steady wave of u.s. delegations to taiwan over the last few weeks. the latest just this weekend. so markets are handling all of this in relative stride but u.s. politicians are not. meet one of them. house armed services committee member cory mills. he is here to say enough. so is former white house budget director mick mulvaney who says ha in light of all of this maybe the president'

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and this on a day where you just heard lauren simonetti say we had very strong inflation numbers. when i say strong, i mean strong as they were weak, and that is helping the markets at moment. so that would be unusual. charlie gasparino is bird-dogging the story. he's going to give us a window into whether this is yet another repercussion of the fixed income problem a triggered the regional bank with crisis back in march. now to the markets, the latest sign of cooling inflation is enough to heat up stocks as we kick off the final hour of trade. dow jones industrials holding on to 400 points of gains, that is pretty much the high of the session, 400, 401. s&p better by 55 points or 1.33%. that's a good move there. we've got the nasdaq better by nearly 2% or 231 points and the russ i el 2000 which, by the the way, is the winner so far when it comes to week to date games, it's up more than 2%, week to date, it's another 1.5% up now. the leaders on the dow heat map come from consumer, cyclicals, tech sector. we've got apple in the top position, up 3%. walt disney up 3%. nike up 2.33%.