i'm mary thompson for the nightly business report. >>> johnson and johnson are trading near all time highs on the pharmaceutical businesses. it closed slightly lower but with a growing threat of la over the talc product investors want to know how they plan to grow the rest of the business. >> reporter: johnson and johnson makes some of the world's most iconic brands. but the company's growth in recent years has been driven by the prescription pharmaceuticals so today it met with analysts and investors to chart out a plan to grow the rest of the business. >> we've been looking at our portfolio because while we're excited about the investments in the future we realize in other areas we needed to be more effective and we see the business model changing with the

mary thompson mentioned that in the program. the chain raised its earnings in revenue forecast for the year after it reported better than expected results for the most recent quarter bucking the broader retail trend. courtney reagan takes a look at the place where consumers are spending. >> reporter: if you listen closely, you'll hear signs of relief across wall street thanks to american homeowners. home depot posted quarterly results for profit and revenue and full-year earnings forecast. the retailer found particularly strong comparable sales growth of more than 7% in the u.s. >> now that prices are recovering, there are fewer houses relative to a year ago, about 12% of homes are under water versus two or three years ago it was in the 30s. people are spending it on roofing, on windows, doors. they are doing that and buying appliance because there's innovation there. >> reporter: spring is the holiday season for home improvement retailers because it marks the beginning of demand for outdoor merchandise from furniture to plants

mary thompson has more from east providence, rhode island on where . >> reporter: over 150 years old are, the global engineering and consulting firm arcadeis finding business. >> environmental business is the biggest. >> reporter: cleaning up toxic sites and making sure others comply with state and federal regulations is a growing business. expanding the market for environmental engineers. >> contaminating cleanup is a huge sector. >> reporter: he runs a environmental recruiting firm. he says generational turnover who plan and oversee cleanup sites are in high demand. >>fy can get the genetic material and shoot it into individuals, create myself a five to seven-year professional environmental engineer, i would be a wealthy man. >> reporter: the government estimates environmental engineering jobs will grow by a higher than average 12% by 2024 and arcadeis one firm that will be adding those jobs. >> we're looking to hire approximately 400 engineers and scientists this year. >> reporter: that's not the end of it. the north american ceo sees payrolls growing 10% to 15% the next five year

mary thompson is covering it from the new york stock exchange. >> reporter: the largest strike since 2011 could be coming to a close. labor secretary thomas perez saying that verizon and almost 40,000 workers have reached an agreement in principle on a four-year contract. in a statement he has said he expects the workers to be back on the job next week. verizon said it was pleased with the agreement in principle that will affect over 36,000 of its workers. while a union involved in the strike issued a statement that said striking cwa members have achieved our major goals of improving working families' starts of living, creating good union jobs in our communities, achieving a first contract for wireless retail store workers. perez said the contract is in the process of being written and that it will go to union members to be ratified. now workers in verizon's wire line unit went on strike on april 13th. they have been working without a contract since august as the two sides were at odds on issues including pension benefits as well as the outsourcing of call center jobs. effects of the

back to you, melissa. >> mary thompson, thanks so much. pete, does this tell us -- >> i don't think -- i would say they're absolutely struggling. they've got competition in the space now. unfortunately for them, it reminds me of gap, quarter now after quarter where you just can't compete. and because of that, i think there's no reason to try to bottom fish in this name right now. >> up next, disney tanking on a massive top and bottom line miss. the call is now halfway through. we'll hear from ceo bob iger. >>> welcome back to "fast money." best day in two months. the s&p and nasdaq joined in on the rally jumping more than 1%. all of the major indices are just off the all-time highs. in the second half of "fast money," check out shares of disney. the conference call is about halfway through. we'll hear from the ceo bob iger. huge eureka retail earnings kicks off tomorrow. we'll tell you which stock traders are expecting the biggest moves later on this hour. but first, after a rough start to the year, facebook and amazon, looks like they're

mari thompson joining us from rhode island. mary? >> reporter: they're doing soil remediation, basically cleaning up to make it safe for future development. work like this is plentiful these days and so too its demand for the engineers who can do it. over 150 years old, the global engineering and consulting firm is finding lots of new business in making what's old new or at least clean again. >> our environmental business is the biggest. >> reporter: years after cleaning up toxic sites and making sure others comply with state and regulations is a big business expanding for environmental engineers. >> the clean-up is a huge sector. >> he runs the staffing, environmental recruiting firm. along with regulation, he said generational turnover means these workers who plan and oversee clean-up sites are in high demand. >> if i could get genetic material and they could create myself a five to seven year professional environmental engineer, i would be a very wealthy man. >> speaking of wealth, the median wage for these workers, over $88,000.

at the oern i'm mary thompson fornightly business report." >>> as mary mentionedho strong new home sales put e commerce department said new home sales c more than 16.5% in april to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0 its, an eight-year high. diana olick has more on what's shing up to be a very strong spring market. >> reporter: there just aren't enough homes for sale. that's one reason builders are seeing big demand. falling nationwide and mes are especially in major cities. inventories dowble digits in seattle, atlanta, portland, lottdallas, and kansas city just to make a few. new listings are down as well as potential sellers are a ngbuy. n't be able to find >> we got in theou market because of the super-tight inventories creating demand and massive job growth. this is a great setup for a slow and sy recovery. >> reporter: slow but not so steady. sales of newly built homesumps nearly 17% in april after falling in the months before. but it's not just that headline turning s. it's the price. edian price of a newly buil home soared nearly 10% to $321,100. the highest reading on record.

we have to get to mary thompson. >> why, man? over the weekend? >> maybe. whatever you want. mary?> we're seeing a modest gain on wall street on what is a busy preholiday thursday morning, we got better-than-expected data on durable goods. the earnings bag mixed and importantly oil above $50 a barrel. we're watching a number of ipos. i'm standing in the post where three of the ipos will trade today. let's look at the s&p 500 index. going into the end of the session today, we have the fed governor speaking tomorrow setting up the fed speech tomorrow by janet yellen. investors listening to see whether there are any clues given as to whether the fed will raise interest rates in june or july. this is the busiest week for the ipos and the biggest will be trading at post 8. that's us foods. it's priced at 12 at the higher end of the range, making it over $1 billion ipo, the second largest this year. behind me over here is gypsum management supplies. and to my left at post 6, we have cotiviti. it priced at the high end of the range at 19, expected to open right now, indicated between 20 a

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mary thompson joins us from east prove dense, rhode island. >> behind me a firm is doing soil remediation, cleaning up this former industrial site to make it safe for future development. now work like this is plentiful these days and so, too, is demand for the engineers who can do it. over 150 years old, the global engineering and consulting firm arcadis is finding new business in making what's old new or at least clean again. >> our environmental business is the biggest. >> reporter: years after love canal cleaning up toxic sites and making sure others comply with state and federal regulations is a growing business, expanding the market for environmental engineers. >> contaminated cleanup is a huge sector. >> reporter: frank runs an environmental recruiting firm ape long with regulations he says generational turnover means these workers who plan and oversee cleanup sites are in high demand. >> if i can get some genetic material and shoot it into individuals and create a five to seven-year professional engineer i would be a wealthy man. >> reporter: the median wage for these workers over

. >> afternoon selloff is accelerating here and let's get to mary thompson on the floor of the new yorknge. mary? >> reporter: talking to some traders and watching the wire with some of the headlines coming out of the speeches made by the federal reserve ear non-voting members, speaking the markets a little bit basically raising expectations that we could see a rate hike in june and a couple more rate hikes this year. the federal reserve's williams saying we could see rate hikes two or three more this year and then also the federal reserve's kaplan saying recently the fed wants to normalize rates so those comments, of course, putting pressure on the markets. the dow jones industrial average now up 209 points and certainly giving up all the gains that we saw on yesterday's session that was driven in large part by the strength we saw in apple and oil. oil continues to climb today now at 4830. energy is the only sector that's performing well right now. the broad-based decline led by consumer staples in today's session. there you see wti. a june rate hike could be on the takeout table and t

mary thompson. thank you. >>> the transport is up.he vicks up by a point and a half and the nasdaq is down only by about a point. >> we've gone 20 minutes and now we're going to talk about it. to hike or not to hike. up next, a former new york fed official will tell us why he thinks janet yellen should move in july, not in june. >>> plus, apple reportedly will start releasing a major iphone upgrade every three years now instead of every two. we'll discuss whether that's a smart move or a sign of trouble later on "closing bell." what are you doing right now? making a cake! ayla reminds me of like a master chef and emiana reminds me of like a monster chef. uh oh. i don't see cake, i just see mess. it's like awful. it feels like i am not actually cleaning it up what's that make mommy do? (doorbell) what's that? swiffer wetjet. so much stuff coming up. this is amazing woah. wow. now i feel more like making a mess is part of growing up. stop cleaning. start swiffering. it takesbut stealing itd work to eaonly took a few days. female announc

mary thompson has more. hi, mary. >> analysts were looking for a dollar a share from the insurance giant. the company says its return on equity did increase to 8.9% and it also cut operating expenses by 5% from the first quarter of last year when you adjust for currency. however, the company said it was negatively impacted by market volatility in the first quarter. if you look at the operator and the pretax income in the first two lines, commercial and consumer, the commercial line was well below expectations of $89 million. analysts were looking at a quarter of a billion dollar and on o consumer side, analysts were looking for $862 million, although we do want to note its pernlts insurance line within that group performed well but it was weeker in retirement and life as well. so once again, some disappointing results from aig. they've written in their commercial line. they were expected to be up. they actually declined to $4.3 billion. so, again, some disappointing numbers from aig in the first quarter. back

mary thompson has the details for us. what are you hearing, mary?> the largest strike since 2011 could be coming to a close. verizon and almost 40,000 workers have reached an agreement in principle on a four-year contract. in statement he said he expects the workers will be back on the job next week. verizon declined comment. a statement from one of the unions involved said striking c wca members -- the contract is in the process of being written and then be ratified. they've been working without a contract since august. the workers go on strike as the two sides remain at odds as they talk issues of job center calls. the labor department stepped in in the middle of may. the mace jobs report reflects a loss of 35,000 jobs links to the workers who haven't been receiving any pay since they went on strike and when they reported their second quarter results in july, this strike is expected to impact its bottom line. >> a lot of people are trying to figure out what impact it will have. you have these people striking, but on the other hand the company did

we can get to mary thompson. why not? what do you think, carl? >> sure, dow's up 157. 64. mary, good morning. >> good morning to you, carl. that's the highs of the session for the dow jones industrial average along with stocks today we are seeing strength in the dollar. oil is also to the upside. the rally we're seeing broad based and on the back of gains in europe as well as bull shows likelihood of a brexit a little less likely actually and also strength in the exports as dollar is strengthening against the euro. take a look at the s&p 500. all the gyrations this year puts it pretty much unchanged, today though up just about 15 points thanks to a broad based rally all ten of the s&p 500 sectors that we watch are in the green in early trading. what we're watching today of course there's more fed speak. you heard carl mention it earlier, philadelphia's harker saying a rate hike in june is certainly a possibility, two to three rate hikes this year but of course focus will remain friday when fed chair janet yellen speaks. investors are watching that very closely. also tod

moving to the session lows, but part of it is because of the comments of president bill dudley, and mary thompson back with the news. >> well, kayla, why this is important is that dudley is a voting member of the federal reserve, and the press briefing a kocouple of minutes ago he wa asked about the possibility of the rate hike in june or july, and this is what he had to say. >> looking back a few days ago, i think that there was a strong sense among the membership that you could see it in the commentary that market was not putting in a sufficient probability look of tightening in the june or july meeting, and aim quite pleased to see that probability as in fact moved up. >> dudley went on the say that it is data-dependent and to that end, he said that the second quarter is tracking stronger than what we saw in the first quarter when growth was weak. also, he was asked about how a brexit vote might figure into the mix or the fed's decision, because keep in mind that the fed's meeting is a week before the vote, and he said a number of things would be considered, including the probability of the uk

mary thompson reports. >> aig reporting disappointing results missing analysts' estimates for a thirduarter in a row. the insurance giant hit hard by the market volatility during the first pleathree months of the y. in particular, this hurt hedge fund investments. and it put pressure on it. adjusted earningses of 65 cents a share came below inteshare. consumer and commercial became in below wall street forecast as well. aig is in the midst of restructuring, of course and it did report improvements on a couple of key metrics. it's return improved, and the company cut expenses by 5% in the first quarter of last year once you account for currency translations. importantly, the combined ratio which say measure of profitability, that, too, improved in a number of business lines. most notably, its commercial and property casualty line and consumer personal line which say bright spot in an otherwise dim quarter for aig. back to you. >>> now, it was a miss on both the top and the bottom line for hugo boss with the fashion house blaming weak sales especially in the u.s. as well as a measure in

right now the dow is up over 100 points, david, back to you. >>> thank you very much, mary thompson.to get into a couple of the existing merger and acquisition tussles going on out there starting with monsanto. yesterday monsanto responded to bayer's $122 all cash offer for the company with a very encouraging rejection. i'm not sure you could call it a rejection of course. and we reported on this yesterday late in the day bayer coming back and saying thank you for that, we look forward to engaging with you. and, in fact, in speaking to people close to the situation the expectation is both companies will engage soon in negotiations designed to see whether they can reach a deal under which bayer will acquire monsanto at a price obviously above the $122 that's been offered but has been deemed significantly below what monsanto views its overall value at. in speaking to people familiar with the situation, they indicate to me however that shareholders out there at this point who seem to be expecting a price perhaps as high as $135 to $140 may be disappointed. now, you often will get this k

. >> thank you, mary thompson.o tech news, facebook is revamping the trending section after that meeting with the conservatives. it is going to be editorial guidelines and a top ten list of approved website, and they said they did conduct an internal probe, and did not see any bias, but nick, we have talked to political types who were in the meeting with zuckerberg, and they are seemingly satisfied with the meeting, but how is that playing in the valley? >> well, two different schools of thought. the people who are the liberal tech folks who are not thinking that there is bias and they have their viewpoints on it, but also the tech media, and some of the folks that i have spoken to there have a philosophy i which i share which is that everything has bias, and the to say that, you know, this is a fundamental problem with news that has gone back centuries that we try to say that there is no bias in news, and the reality is that there is bias in everything that we do, and that is human nature, and what is disturbing a

marry mary thompson is on the floor. >> well, it looks to be improving.hree that went public. three of the biggest with us. foods going public trading higher, and gms, gypsum trading higher apdnd cotiviti up 4.75 and now norfor the ipos, you can see that reporting to the renaissance expert that mean s that ipos are down 54% from 2015 and we vhave room to make up there if we are close to the 2015 year's level. if you are looking at the renaissance ipoe tf you can see that we are starting to see the broader spectrum of companies going public. at the beginning of the year, it was only health care companies, but then we started to see the tech and other firms going public, and that is a positive. and now, will the fed rate hike be an ipo killer? we are watching to look ahead to see more biotech companies to go public, and more tech companies, too, and that is important because they are the ultimate growth companies that investors want, but they have been shying a wai away from the money-losing companies, and so they may have to reposition themselves as compan

are have a news alert on the new york stock exchange glitch reported moments ago, and over to mary thompson for more on that. >> the new york stock exchange is commenting on the glitch that is impacting the tradinging of 9 99 stocks, and the spokesman said that they were aware of the issue before the market opened and the stocks traded here at post 5 to my left. it is important to e note that the stocks are continuing to trade on other venues including the nyse arca and nevertheless, they are working on it, and they have canceled the orders route ed to the new york stock exchange floor, and the stocks are trading elsewhere, but the new york stock exchange is working on it impacting about 199 stocks that trade on the floor here of the nyse and they are trading in other venue, and they have been working on this glitch since before the markets opened. back to you, carl. >> thank you, mary. and now, coming back, we will talk to the president of the chinese company didi. ♪ the intelligent, all-new audi a4 is here. ♪ ♪ ain't got time to make no apologies...♪ . >>> on the heels of apple's billion

. >>> mary thompson joins us from rhode island with a look at one industry that's hiring right now. orter: joe, we're going to show you or tell you about an environmentally friendly sector that is cleaning up when it comes to job growth. that's coming up after the break. ♪ ♪ (charge music) you wouldn't hire an organist without hearing them first. charge! so why would you invest without checking brokercheck? check your broker with brokercheck. >>> stock on the move this morning. stocks, fire eye shares getting slammed. cyber security firm reporting a smaller first quarter loss than expected. it's cutting the full-year revenue forecast. yelp posting better than expected first quarter results. even as higher spending led to the company's fifth straight quarterly loss. consumer review site is raising its 2016 outlook. >>> today's top story is the jobs report. ahead of the government's numbers we're looking at one sector cleaning up when it comes to creating new jobs. mary thomas joins us from new providence, rhode island with the latest installment of where the jobs are. >> reporter: beh

mary thompson on the floor. hawaii, mary. >> hi, bill. things were quiet but now it's hopping. u.s.oods was one of four stocks to make their debut here at the new york stock skparng. let's take a look at where it's trading right now. it priced at 23, which is toward the high end of the range, but it's up ever since. now 2471. why is it -- it's the second largest ipo of the year and basically marx -- it's one of six that traded today. 31 ipos so far in 2016. as farr as numbers go, it's down. consider this. we're starting to see a pickup in the number of companies going public. there were only six, there there were seven in april and 18 in may. again, six of those happening today at the new york stock exchange and at the nasdaq. and, again, u.s. foods being the highest ipo. you can see. take a look at the intraday on the stock. it's the second largest food distributor in the u.s. and so far with the gain, it's the tenth best performing ipo in its first day of trading. but roy we're starting to see in what is typically a slow summer business, year over year is still down about 50%. but

mary thompson following this for us. >> at a press conference attorney general loretta lynch announcingoj is filing a federal civil rights suit and the states didn't of safety, lynch saying that they recently passed hb 2 or so called bathroom law violates the civil rights. this action is a great deal more than about bathrooms. the laws that we as the people and as a country have enacted to protect them. indeed, to protect all of us. >> the lawsuit in response to north carolina filing a lawsuit against the doj over this law earlier today. of course, the doj say it is also reserving the right to withhold federal funds to the three entities involved in that lawsuit and the funds could amount to over a million dollars. back over to you. >> time now for a cnbc update. if true it could be provocative and destabilizing. it said any launch with iran could be consistent with a u.n. security council resolution. this is el sunshine owe storms have wrought relief in california. it will decide whether to lift the 20% cutback in water use. >>> mercury making a relatively rare use beginning at 7:00 a.

mary thompson is with me on the floor of the new york stock exchange. we'll point out very quickly as we mentioned new york enterprises will have earnings out. david faber will be joining us. you were telling me you have ipos tomorrow. it's been wild. >> there's a million ipo coming out. that's a big event for tomorrow. but you know what we saw today was a pretty steady -- the markets held onto that gain. during the morning i said, do you think we'll see this. initially we saw a rally off the back of the european market and, of course, the blockbuster sales on the home front. short space helped too. we saw financials, health care and tech, the worst performing shares lead the markets today. >> we'll see if it continues tomorrow. >> there are some doubts about this market. you know, the higher rates coming on. >> the skepticism hasn't gone away, that's for sure. thanks, mary. going out with gain of 210 points. it's all about water today. muller water is ringing the ball. artesian resources at the nasda nasdaq. see you, tomorrow, kel. >> thank you, bill.

. >> we flif interesting times mary thompson. >> we do. but it is a bit of a repeat every day.ed the fed the fed for, you know, a long time now. >> ground hog day continues. >> yes. >> 200 point swing from top to bottom but finishing virtually unchanged right now. the close of the bell here at the new york stock exchange, shareholders services association and sim corp ringing the bell. >>> thank you bill. welcome to the "closing bell" everybody. i'm kelly evans. we were up. we were down. finishing just about on the flat line. a slight drop for the dow at 5 points. and the s&p fractionally higher. we'll keep an eye on that for you. 2040 the level there. and the nasdaq up about half a percent. embracing yourselves for more out the fed tomorrow morning. nevers are getting set right now for a big round of earnings. dominick choo, susan li, courtney reagan and urban outfitters. cnbc commentator mike --. and carol roth. welcome both. fast money trader steve gras sew will join us shortly. seems like we're up and down up and down. >> the market had to readjust to what was going on in t

. >> and on this jobs friday our mary thompson has a special report on where the jobs are.'s at environmental firm in rhode island with a great story today. stay tuned. i'm here at the td ameritrade trader offices. steve, other than making me move stuff, what are you working on? let me show you. okay. our thinkorswim trading platform aggregates all the options data you need in one place and lets you visualize that information for any options series. okay, cool. hang on a second. you can even see the anticipated range of a stock expecting earnings. impressive... what's up, tim. td ameritrade. >>> welcome back. with less than half an hour go on the floor, i'm here on the floor. are you surprised? even the ten-year yield is starting to creep up. >> we're giving free money. >> the fact that everyone is pushing out their rate hike forecasts? >> it's a place to put it. it's continuing to be the case. we're seeing that today. i'm surprised with the rally at the end of the week with the outflows, you know, from the money flows. it's a good sign. we needed it. the nasdaq really stab

mary thompson joining me on the floor. they said it had moved ed td t deficit.h a 1% gain still for the industrial average. so we'll see if that can continue. the retail fund also continues. tomorrow morning home depot will be reporting. that's something we'll be talking about tomorrow. >> home depot, lowe's, target. it's interesting. it wasn't only energy but also apple that helped the dow move to these levels with the news with warren buffett taking a stake or berkshire hackett away. those were two key factors. we have come out. talking to traders they're not quite convinced the is a trend. we're in this market but remains range-bound, they say. it's pretty much a reaction to the event of the day. today it was oil and the news on apple. >> the last two times we had rallies like this, it was to the down side. i'm not saying it would happen tomorrow. it's in part. >> it's interesting. i've heard. it's become pessimistic. it's an optimistic side for the market. i don't know about that. still they're trading. you know, a very, very reactive market. >> thanks, mary

let's send it over to mary thompson back at headquarters. mary?a's swinging back at the federal government' 'cusing the department of justice of vastly overreaching. of course, this has to do with the transgender line, whether or not they have access to public bathrooms. according to the filing, the suit says the government is misreading federal law, says the law cited the federal government in the letter last week does not declare transgenders protected status under the federal civil rights law. again, all of this coming from nbc's pete williams on the air. again, accusing the doj of overreaching here. the lawsuit was filed in the governor's name, mccrory versus the u.s. we will, of course, have any updates on this. but as we know, the business community has been fairly outspoken in support of the federal government in this issue. back to you, simon. >> and just to clarify, today's the day that the doj challenges them in court. that's where that's coming from. that's a defense against the doj, saying what you're doing is illegal. mary, thank you

. >> let's get to mary thompson. dow touching its lowest level since march 29th. orning, mary. >> good morning to you, carl. the markets as you indicated extending losses from yesterday. the big selloff of course caused by expectations we could see interest rate hikes here in the u.s. sooner than expected on the back of some hotter than expected data, and comments from a couple of nonvoting members of the federal reserve that said expect two to three rate hikes this year. both of those comments coming from fed officials who said similar things to steve liesman about two or three weeks ago, but the markets really took notice of it yesterday. right now the dow is off 57 points off its worst levels of the session. but what we want to do now is take a look at the s&p 500. one of the levels we're watching there is 2039, and the market's touching 2039 just a couple minutes ago bouncing off those levels, but keep watch on that. that is near-term support for the s&p 500. again, the markets facing another negative with that call out of goldman sachs saying they're negative

i have mary thompson here with me on the floor of the new york stock exchange.mber they're going to keep an eye on very carefully. >> they will be watching that for the next couple of weeks. you know, i think what you want to see today, as you mentioned, it was a fairly narrow trading margin. >> yes, it was. >> this week is back end loaded i think. we have yellen speaking on friday. jobless claims later in the week. people will be focusing on that. today was a bit of a quiet session, but what we saw actually is some of the defensive stocks, those, of course, would be negatively impacted by the higher rates that we continue to anticipate possibly for june or july. >> like the utilities, for example? >> and the telecoms but the weaker sectors. >> the utilities especially at the close there -- >> yeah, they took a dip lower. >> that was a lot. the s&p telecom sector, suh he what it did if brian will move out of the way then i can see it. thank you very much. there you are. so down about 2/3 of a percent on the close today. >> that's right. so what we're looking at

let's get to mary thompson on the floor. >> hey, carl, it's been choppy trading in the early going onorning. right now the markets higher across the board although very modest gains there. we are seeing the vix tick up a little bit. little strength in the dollar index putting pressure on commodities and yields on the ten-year pulling back after last week's big gains when we had a lot of chatter of course about a potential rate hike here in june or july in the u.s. let's look at the s&p 500 because it managed to break a three-week losing streak last week. right now up just fractionally. these are the things the markets face in the days and weeks ahead. of course more fed chatter about a rate hike. we had three fed members coming out this morning basically adding their voice to the expectations we could see a rate increase in june or july if the data supports it. but also of course over the weekend there was the g-7 meeting when once again finance ministers expressed concern about weak global growth and right now a number of people believe stocks are too expensive. last week there was a

mary thompson's in new york with details on that. >> hey, carl.he declining pay is closely linked to a tepid stock market and fewer really big paychecks at the country's biggest firms. over the weekend "new york times" and compensation consultant releasing annual look at ceo pay. it's a shifting group, not a static one made up of the 200 highest paid ceos with firms over a billion in revenue filing proxies by april 30th. on average these ceos earned $19.3 million, a 15% haircut from the 2014 average. median pay down as well 5.7% number of executives taking home more than $40 million dropped by half to 8 from 16. in 2014 two executives were paid over $100 million, last year no one hit nine figures. expedia ceo total pay of $94.6 million at the top of the list. expedia stock the best performer of the firms run by the highest paid executives. cbs's total stock return fell 14% last year, ceo les moonves had a 4% pay hike. 42% stock fell and oracle's co-ceo rounding out the top five. media firm taking six of the top spots, only two had positive stock r

let's get to mary thompson on the floor. >> hey, carl, the dow pretty much close to the highs of the seeing strength in transports, little weakness in both utilities and retail stocks today, but it's energy that's driving the bus, energy and materials among the strongest sectors in a week where some of the data or the more important data points come out later with data on housing and also keep in mind we have that g-7 finance ministers meeting at the end of the week and investors will be watching and listening to that for expectations for any signs of added stimulus. quick check of some of the sectors here, as i mentioned energy among the strongest sectors as oil continues to move higher. materials also stronger, gold up as the dollar is weakening, and financials also a little bit higher in today's session. we see the yield on the ten-year ticking up a bit. and that's good for that group. just to dig deeper into the energy play today, range resources lower on its bid for memorial resource corporation. exxon, chevron and chesapeake all higher. of course goldman upping its target for o

thompson: all right. troubling story. thank you so much, maryh sheridan from the "washington post." >> thank you. >> thompson: this week, the broadway smash hit "hamilton" was nominated for a record 16 tony awards, including, as expected, best new musical. the show's creator, lin manuel miranda, was individually nominated for three tony's, including best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical." hamilton" has grossed $70 million, and tickets are nearly impossible to get. but a select group of new york city high school students are seeing "hamilton" and getting face time with miranda. it's a new educational program that connects the stage and the classroom with plans to expand it to other cities when "hamilton's" national tour begins later this year. in tonight's signature segment, the newshour's saskia de melker has the story. >> reporter: "hamilton" is about the personal and political lives of alexander hamilton and america's other founding fathers. >> ♪ moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide, ♪ left him with nothin

thompson: as co-chairman of the technical caucus, i who ize mary an boulders was named administrator of the year. she is the vice president of the secondary education at the central institute of science and technology located in center county. she has been with c.p.i. having previously worked with the tyrone school district. this is a true sign a in helping students not only across pennsylvania but across the oons. she is working on a grant to assisting students and teachers environment.e best rereceived the word that she had won this reward. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new hampshire seek ecksnigs -- recognition? mr. guinta: i rise to recognize the men and women who protect new hampshire. a robbery suspect shot and wounded two police officers. they caught the suspect. the officers are healing. other police officers who risk their lives every day haven't been lucky. two have died earlier the line of duty. ashley's name will join those on the memorial in darksdrs. officers are here to pay their respects. i had the pleasure of meeting

thompson has that story from outside boston. >> reporter: an extraordinary act of faith and defiance came to an end today. >> 11 years, seven months and three days. >> reporter: that's how long mary ellen and john rogers and 100 parishioners occupied this church in massachusetts. holding around the clock vigil despite a decision by the boston archdiocese to close the church as part of a reorganization. >> we took this all the way to the vatican supreme court and we took it to the united states supreme court. >> reporter: marti o'brien joined the parish when it opened in 1961. we met her seven years ago. >> i'm not going to die until i can get buried right in front of that church. i'm stickin' around. did you hear that, god? i'm still here, but i guess i won't get buried from here. >> reporter: the 86-year-old spitfire sat in these pews up to five days a week. >> do you feel your faith has gone unrewarded? >> not my faith in god. my faith in hierarchy at least in this archdiocese, yes. >> reporter: time has not tempered the fury toward's boston's cardinal sean o'malley. he has welcomed the people back to the archdiocese but few plan to accept. >> i think we were naive in thinking