"the wall street journal report." now, maria bartiromo. >> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. it was the most eagerly awaited initial public offering in recent memory. and on friday, mark zuckerberg rang the opening bell at nasdaq from facebook headquarters in california. on thursday, the facebook ipo was priced at $38 a share. the upper end of the expected range. it opened much higher than that. that valued the company at more than $100 billion, making it the largest internet ipo ever. company raising $18 billion on that ipo. the company began trading on the nasdaq on friday. take a look at how the stock opened and how it closed. the facebook anticipation did not help the markets much.

"the wall street journal report." now, maria bartiromo. we'll go behind the hype. lbj's legacy. politics, power and lessons learned. i'll talk to robert carrow. and is college worth the cost? an ivy league university president has some surprising answers. "the wall street journal report" begins right now. >> this is america's number one financial news program. "the wall street journal report." now, maria bartiromo. >> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. it was the most eagerly awaited initial public offering in recent memory. and on friday, mark zuckerberg rang the opening bell at nasdaq from facebook headquarters in california. on thursday, the facebook ipo was priced at $38 a share. the upper end of the expected range. it opened much higher than that. that valued the company at more than $100 billion, making it the largest internet ipo ever. company raising $18 billion on that ipo. the company began trading on the nasdaq on friday. take a look at how the stock opened and how

"the wall street journal report" begins right now. >> this is america's number one financial news programthe "the wall street journal report." now, maria bartiromo. >> here's what's making news as we head into a new week. a disappointing jobs report for the month of april. just 115,000 new jobs created last month. well below expectations. the unemployment rate fell to 8.1% as fewer people participated in the workforce but it is still the lowest rate in three years. the march jobs number was revise the upwards 154,000 jobs created then. the market started the week and ended the month on a down note though. on the first day of may the dow touched a four-year high. a bit of unexpected manufacturing data. then closed at a farr-month high. the markets fell later on in the week. we're getting more information about the facebook ipo. the shares will be priced at $28 to $35 a share when they go public. giving this company a valuation of between $85 billion and $95 billion. the company is expected to go public on may 18th. >>> auto sales softened slightly in april. chrysler up 20% compared to the

let me quote "the wall street journal." i will end with this. "the wall street journal" praised paul ryan because he was maintaining the military and resisting military spending and instead cutting medicare and medicaid. that's not me. "the wall street journal" thanking him. that's the kind of debate i want to have. i believe we are overspending on the military. time for western europeans to do a little on their own. the tradeoff. when you talk more of an aggressive military posture and oppose tax increases on anybody. you are forcing as "the wall street journal" acknowledges cheering him on. cuts in the quality of life programs, medicare/medicaid. >> bill, do you want to respond to that? >> yeah, ryan's budget does not cut medicare or medicaid it reduces the rate of growth, unsustainable growth. the current deficit, each deficit of the each four years of the obama administration, $1.2 or 1.3 trillion. the military budget all in with both wars, i supported them both. and proud to support president obama's surge in afghanistan. barney is for somet

"the wall street journal report." now, maria bartiromo. >> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week. hopes for a solution to the greek debt crisis were dashed again this week. european union leaders gathered in brussel and failed to produce any new solutions. there had been hopes for a euro bond backed by the ecb which would centralize the debt of all 17 countries in the eurozone but that did not happen, germany continues to resist. that helped bring the euro near a two-year low. there were several late-day turnarounds for the market. the dow is down nearly 200 points wednesday but finished flat. more signs of recovery in the housing market. new home sales increased 3.33% in april. every region of the country inproved except for the south. >>> sales of previously owned homes were up as well rising 3.4% last month to 4.6 million. economists are looking for an annual rate of 6 million as a sign of a healthy market. >>> two earnings reports. dell missed earnings expectations while hewlett-packard be

through an article that was put out by the wall street journal in the third who were that there had been an ongoing inquiry for the past year now with the way that the wall street journal wrote the article they found it with what came out it seemed they had great difficulty in talking about murders or mortgage fraud for closure for mortgage securitization none of that came out in the article despite the fact that they had extensive access to the congressional inquiry the day after the wall street journal article came out it happened that the new york attorney general announced a lawsuit against mergers now that would have a validated all of the issues that i have written to senator grassley a year before. but the congressional inquiry declined to release the letter saying that it was a year old despite the this announcement by the new york attorney general followed within a few days the department of justice and forty nine attorneys generals announcement of a national a settlement on the foreclosure issue now i think you let me ask you this dr van because you mentioned that wall street j

>> welcome back to the "the wall street journal report." market's at a four-year high. time to sell and go away, or stay, stay, stay? a billionaire businessman from a booming country. where he's putting his money now and why women should invest differently than men. "the wall street journal report" begins right now. >> here's a look at what's making news in the new week on wall street. a disappointing jobs report for april. just 115,000 new jobs were created last month. the unemployment rate fell slightly to 8.1% as fewer people participating in the work force, but still the lowest rate in three years. the march jobs number was revised upwards, showing 154,000 jobs created then president markets started and ended on a down note. but in the first week of may, the dow touched a four-month high. we're getting more information about the facebook ipo. they'll be priced at 25 to $38 a month, giving them a valuation of between 85 and $95 billion. the company is expected to go public on may 18. auto sales softened slightly. gm down 8% and foird fell 5%. auto makers say their nu

"the wall street journal report." now, maria bartiromo. >> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. a huge banking blunder by what is regard is as one of the safest and best-managed banks in america. jpmorgan chase revealing it suffered a $2 billion trade loss the result what was ceo jamie diamond called "a flawed and sloppy derivatives trade" by the bank's chief investment office whose job it is to manage or hedge the bank's risk. the unit had been expected to post a gain of $200 million. the bank's stock stumbled on the news late in the week. that helped push the markets down as trading began on friday. on thursday the dow had snapped its six-day losing streak, its longest since august. the markets falling because of fresh worries out of europe. >>> encouraging economic news in the u.s.. the price is oiling falling below recent highs of more than $100 a barrel partly due to slowing demand. gasoline prices are starting to decline as well. we are at the end of earnings season. disn

welcome to "the wall street journal report."romo. he's been right before, will he be right again? the man who says the greece debt crisis will lead to a lehmann moment. >>> the author of a new book that says the superwealthy are vital to american economy and society. >>> looking for travel bargains? we've got them. "wall street journal report" begins right now. >>> here is a look at what is making news as awhaed to a new week on wall street. >>> hopes for the european debt crisis were dashed yet again this week. leaders gathered in brussels. there were hopes for a euro bond, backed by the ecb which would centralize the debt of all 17 countries in the eurozone. it did not happen. germany continues to resist that that helped bring the euro to a two-year low. europe drove the markets much of the week and there were several late-day turn arounds. dow down 200 points, but finished flat. more signs of recovery in the housing market. new housing sales increased 3.5%, while every region in the country improved except for the south. sales of previously owned homes rose 3.5%, to an annualiz

that's where the "wall street journal." you have want to argue with a group of republicans? s cbs market watch sewned by the dow jones, which owns the parent network of the "wall street journal." >> bob: how can you dispute the figures that -- >> eric: here is how it happens. this is what happened. they said at the beginning of 2009, president obama had to spend on stimulus. we're not going to count that. we had to spend on other issues, we're not going to count that. we'll start here and talk about the increase. >> bob: so the "wall street journal" is lying? >> eric: misinformed. he's misinformed. >> kimberly: bobby, bob, bob. eyes on momma. $900 billion spent on stimulus in the beginning of his term. >> bob: he cut a lot of spending beyond that. >> andrea: take the stimulus aside, tarp two, obama is responsible for, we're still spending at historic levels. >> bob: if you spend money -- look. social security and medicare increase, by cost of increase, they do and every president goes up. it just does. >> andrea: you admit it goes up. >> bob: of course it's up in entitlement

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general motors coming into shanghai, and i assumed every one of the 2 million subscribers of the "wall street journal" was reading that article. and then i came back and i got the readership report that norm probably commissioned when he was editor of the "wall street journal" that showed, you know, page by page, we did this thing every year where we looked through with 100 people and asked them what they actually read. and we found out that once you get to page 3, 2% of the people are reading the article. we all like to think that's what everybody was reading. but i'm not sure that's true. i'm not sure that's valid. i think that people have -- people do seek out information that matters to them. and they go really deep now in the subjects that matter most to them. and it's a different way of consuming information. i guess i thi

the new nbc/"wall street journal" poll is coming up. if it's about the economy, president obama comes up short. if it's about connecting with voters and empathy, romney has problems. either way, it's shaping up to be a squeaker. a lot of parallels to bush/kerry '04. >>> and what has soured the nation's direction? ed prethe president needs hispa votes. and romney, what's it has for the country. and bain capital. it's all coming up. another election we're watching, this is historic. after what led to hosni mubarak's ouster, egyptians finally vote to replace the deposed dictator. with no new constitution, many worry about a future that plays such a key role in middle east stability. >>> welcome. good morning. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. fired up. nbc poll day. does it get better than this? increased economic uncertainty here and abroad. president obama's gay marriage decision. the battling defining bain capital. how do voters digest it all jp president obama is even or down slimtly in every key election category but clings

robert thompson of "the wall street journal," and joe klein. i did china. there's a lot of people who were in china in the 1980's and 1990's who are now writing things. we are all pushing for more sophistication in our coverage and deeper understanding of china. i think you see it in the -- in our stories. i am quite certain there are people athe top that care about china and understand how important china is and why china matters. you come out caring about china and wanting to get better coverage of china. there are all the frustrations that may resonate from having been there. the ability of a legitimate big news organization in the u.s. to be able to get a visa for a serious correspondent who understands china to go to china. china says we want greater understanding, we think it is important for americans to cover us and bring understanding to america. and we say we want to send someone who can speak the language and do a good job and we're met with a stone wall. that, i think, may create some frustration. we'll persevere and we'll fight over that stone

t the "wall street journal report" begins right now. >>> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. a huge banking blunder by what's regarded as the safest banks in america. jpmorgan chase revealing this week it suffered a $2 billion trading log, the loss of what ceo jaime. dimon called a "flawed and sloppy derivatives trade." the unit had been expected to post a gain of $200 million. the bank's stock tumbled on the news late in the week. that helped push the markets down as trading began on friday. on thursday the dow had snapped its longest losing streak since last august. market is falling because of fresh worries out of europe. >>> encouraging economic news in the u.s. the price of oil is falling. partly due to slowing demand. gasoline prices are starting to decline as well. >>> we are at the end of earnings season. the dow components disney and cisco both beat analyst expectatio expectations, though cisco had a disappointing outlook for the rest of the year. >>> mortgage rates have fall ton a new low once again. the average rate for a 30-year fis

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they couldn't get it done until the "wall street journal" came in and started beating up, i mean drum beats beating on the tea party types. that's the only way it could get done. in the past it would be the republican leadership would say, okay, here's the deal, guys. this is what we're doing. john boehner wasn't opposed to extending those taxes. how did it happen? i'm not criticizing john. john's in a situation where he has a group of people that old expression, this is the tail wagging the dog.

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our new nbc news/"wall street journal" tell le moonld emoonlu not confident among latinos. a 49-45 split there. that optimism is helping the president, but the romney campaign believes it needs one message rooted in the economy to speak to everyone, including lati latinos. romney's marco rubio said as much on fox. >> i'm not shump the message the republican party should have for americans with hispanic descent is any different than the rest of america. >> the big difference between the two campaigns tactically. this morning romney is releasing a second general election ad which also has a spanish language component. simply a translation, we'll play you that later this hour. again, it's just a translation. obama's campaign by comparison has not just created ads specifically for latino vote ads targeted by market mentionen local addresses like this one on education featuring an obama volunteer from fort lauderdale. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> so you see, it's a fascinating tactical difference. but the romney campaign continues to believe if they win the large ef argum

steve, the headlines in the "wall street journal," fears hit the markets. faith fades in euro firewall. is there a chance, steve, greece could leave the eurozone? >> yeah, i 30's a big chance. you've got to remember we had the greek elections nine days ago. and since then there's absolute deadlock because among all the major parties nobody managed to get a majority. nobody has a coalition together that could get a majority to move forward. it seems the anti-austerity grous and pro-austerity groups they can't form a majority government which means deadlock in greece, which leads to real grave concern that's greece could actually default on its obligations and potentially have to leave the eurozone. now, this puts the whole of the eurozone in a very sticky position because there is no default mechanism for people to leave the eurozone. when these countries joined the eurozone in 1999 and beyond, basically it was a one-way bet. you weren't allowed to go in and out of the single currency. so if greece falls out, the real concern amongst all of the europens and

for starters, let's start with 2004 in the "wall street journal." here it is. wall street joarnl -- "wall street journal" editorial, 7/13/04 "conservative support for closing the s corp tax loophole." "senator edwards supports the loophole. but that didn't stop him from using a clever tax dodge --" these are the words of the "wall street journal," not mine -- "a clever tax dodge to avoid paying $591,000 into the medicare system. while making his fortune as a trial lawyer in 1995, he formed what is known as a subchapter-s corporation with himself as the sole shareholder. instead of taking his $26.9 million in earnings directly in the following four years, he paid himself a salary of $360,000 a year and took the rest as corporate dividends. since salary is subject to 2.9% medicare tax but dividends aren't, that meant he shielded more than 90% of his income. that's not necessarily illegal, but damaging such a large chunk of employment tax skates perilously close to the line. attorney c.p.a. magazine listed it as number 11 of the 15 best underutilized tax loopholes.

eurozone so i spoke to matina status she is a journalist with dow jones newswires and also the wall street journal she's also a european economy and crisis analyst i asked her what sort of coalition can come out of these results or if it's practically impossible for one to form take a listen. well absolutely and that's the question everyone is asking in this town the problem here is that there's too much bad blood these parties are so weak in new democracy and socialist pasok and really with a massive rounds of a stereotype measures coming up in june who would like to be in government and that's a fair question there's an expectation that there will be elections very soon as soon some say as june tanned and let's talk about that one thousand what happens if the country does go to elections and the results come out and again make it impossible to form a coalition is this at all similar in your view to look greece experience during the sixty's when ill of inability to form a stable government pave the way for the military junta. well of course repeated elections inability to form government very wea

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para hablar mÁs de la entrevista exclusiva de la cadena telemundo nbc y wall street journal tenemos ano aparece ni en centros espirituales. >>> estoy optimista cuando analizamos el boto latvo latino no tenemos que verlo a nivel nacional. en estados claves como la florida y nevada. esta encuesta, obama domina el voto latino, pero hay esperanza, porque estÁ bajando. estaba en 67-68% y ahora en 61%. y antes romney en 14% y ahora en 27%. la gente hispana aÚn no piensa en las elecciones. en la manera que conozcan a romney y se den cuento que obama no cumpliÓ su promesa con la inmigraciÓn. >>> mire, 61%, estÁ bastante bien ganar 61% es a nivel nacional. >>> >>> estados como new york se va con obama. y tenemos a florida que tiene a romney con 40% del voto latino y obama con 42%. el presidente estÁ en aprietos. . >>> tambiÉn es importante distinguir el problema que tiene romney, aunque acÁ mi colega que estÁ mejorando la realidad, es que como Él dice, a la comunidad latina le falta conocer quÉ estÁ ofreciendo romney y las Últimas semanas hemos visto que no tiene un plan de inmigraciÓn tampoco

this man that i wanted to meet, and i read his articles in the wall street journal -- in "the wall streetournal call ends up in washington as a professor at the george washington university and i have gone to nell amitai etzioni. -in the very fortunate position to be able to introduce you to him. i will be back with the extraordinary amitai etzioni in a few moments. >> many have spoken out on the need to transitioned into a clean energy future. at exelon, we are acting, by 2020 we are committed to replacing more than 1500 million metric tons of gas emissions annually through greening operations, helping committees reduce emissions, and offering more low-carbon electricity in the marketplace. at exelon, we are taking action, and we are seeing results. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. now, your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. ♪ >> hello again. thank you for coming along. i promised you the exceptional amitai etzioni, and here he is tell me about 10 unitarianism. did yo

kim strassel from the "wall street journal" and jim cramer of cnbc.rphy, just listening to chairman ryan and senator durbin, it doesn't sound like the election is actually going to solve anything that's going to lead washington to govern any better. do i sound naive by saying i'm surprised by that? >> no. i think you're dead on right. the tough reality is that elections are about not solving anything. when you solve something you go to the voters with pain. if politicians have one thing in common, they know voters don't like pain. the elections are about winning and then maybe doing something later. >> but it's crazy, kim strassel, that we've got people who are so angry about washington being fundamentally unable to govern. i put the chart up of all the big things that have to get decided by the end of the year after the election or we could face another debt debacle. are they serious about this? >> something is going to have to happen. it's just going to be a question of who has the ability to get it done. so one of the issues is -- i actually disagr

lawmakers and former senior officials demanded listing secretary for the wall street journal reported last night that the obama administration is moving to remove the i make a from the state department's designated list of terrorist organizations while state department officials reportedly say that hillary clinton has yet to make any final decision seems like the camp ashraf will be one of the preconditions to seal that deal now we've spoken about the organization before high ranking officials being paid large sums to speak on behalf of the group despite the fact that most of the supreme court matters for anything that's actually illegal so if the administration does indeed go through with that kind of message is that going to send her to discuss with me is a raise in the russian research director of the national iranian american council thanks so much for joining us tonight so the last time you were on the program we have a resolving about the m e k and so now if this news is true right if what they're saying actually does come to fruition are you going to be are you surprised are yo