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CNBC's Rick Santelli, explains why he hears 'crickets" when he asks questions about Fed Chairman Bernanke's policies. "Enough is enough," he rants.
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Ken Langone, Invemed Associates chairman and president, called Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a "lame duck." |
Cramer shares six stocks to watch, and reveals them in under 60 seconds. |
President Barack Obama "essentially fired" Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in televised remarks this week, former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence Meyer says. |
Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, highlights that while Janet Yellen is a strong candidate to succeed Bernanke, there are a number of other people who could do the job. |
Harvard University's Martin Feldstein discusses how the Fed's policy has created a "bubble" in the long-term bond market and investors have been losing money as the market has come to "adjust" to it. |
Ron Paul still likes gold. In fact, he thinks it could go to "infinity." With CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now Traders. |
Will the Fed shock the market? How long will easing last? Pimco's Tony Crescenzi offers his thoughts, with CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now Traders, Jeff Kilburg at the CME and Anthony Grisanti at the Nymex. |
FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce describes how NSA surveillance helped to detect and thwart a plot to bomb the NYSE. |
Ron Paul says Fed Chairman Bernanke should "resign," and explains why the Fed's plan is in so much trouble. With CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now Traders. |
CNBC's Bob Pisani and Art Cashin, of UBS, discuss the NSA surveillance program and the revelation it foiled a bombing attempt at the NYSE. And during an interview with Charlie Rose that aired last night, Pres. Obama may have put tapering on the table, Cashin says, to set it up for Bernanke's successor. |
An airline passenger records a Chinese cargo handler as he tosses boxes of something on to and off of a conveyor belt for shipment. Hopefully, the cargo was packed well. |
Pro golfer and U.S. Open winner Justin Rose talks about how it feels to be the newest member of golf's elite club, and reveals his strategy for capturing the championship title. |
The FOMC meeting kicks off on Tuesday. Mad Money host Jim Cramer explains why this week isn't make or break it for the economy. |
Violent protests broke out in eight Brazilian cities last night, with the worst violence occurring in Rio de Janeiro. Thousands of protesters threw Molotov cocktails and anything else they could find. The protests began over a 10-cent increase in bus and subway fares. |
Beijing is hoping that building more cities will create wealth for its people but as CNBC's Eunice Yoon reports, it's also fueling a debilitating rise in property prices. |
There's a big money mystery in Canada. Some Canadians believe the Bank of Canada has added a maple syrup scent to its new plastic money. |
A student threw a salami sandwich at Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday. It is the second time this month that a sandwich was thrown at her. CNBC's Matthew Taylor has more. |
The latest video to have gone viral introduces "Prancercise." An exercise which mimics the various gates of a horse. Jane Wells tries it out. |
Turkish markets tumble as protesters unsettle investors, reports CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. |
Mad Money host Jim Cramer bursts all the bubble talk and gives you a clear takeaway about the market's direction. |
CNBC's Jim Cramer explains why he's not worried about the Federal Reserve slowing down its quantitative easing efforts. He's watching another indicator. |
CNBC's Rick Santelli compares Canada's jobs number to this morning's U.S. nonfarm payroll report. |
Greg Deaver of Las Vegas, Nevada, explains how he accurately predicted this morning's job's number of 175,000. |
CNBC's Bob Pisani and Art Cashin, of UBS, discuss the day's jobs number, which seems to have been just right for the markets. We got lucky, he says, when the S&P hit 1,598 and turned around. You can't dismiss the "buy the dippers," he says. |
James Paulsen, chief investment strategist, Wells Capital Management, says he believes the market will spend the rest of this year treading water as it continues to digest the recent surge. |
CNBC's Bob Pisani and Art Cashin, of UBS, discuss strength in Japan's GDP and other news impacting the markets. The action's been borderline "wacky," he says. |
Art Cashin of UBS lists several factors pushing down stocks today, including a bearish technical pattern. |
CNBC's Rick Santelli makes the distinction between fundamental and technical issues. |
CNBC's Rick Santelli explains how rising interest rates lost its momentum yesterday. |
In his daily CNBC.com-only video clip, Art Cashin of UBS talks with Bob Pisani about the stock market's weakness. |
U.S. Video
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Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 1:36 PM ETAnticipating the Fed's policy statement, with CNBC contributors Jeff Kilburg and Jim Iuorio.
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Asia Video
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Europe Video
European shares closed lower on Wednesday, as investors awaited a key policy statement by the Federal Reserve after its two-day meeting.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 11:30 AM ETSam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, explains that markets expects Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to say that tapering is not the same as tightening, and advises on how to invest.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 11:20 AM ETVolker Treier, deputy chief executive at the German Chamber of Industry & Commerce, comments on Obama's Berlin speech, and its emphasis on shared values.
Analyst Interviews
David Trone, JMP Securities analyst, and Jason Goldberg, Barclays analyst, explain how the Fed's decision on interest rates will impact the financial sector.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 10:22 AM ETColin Rusch, Northland Capital Markets analyst, discusses whether news of a seat-mount defect found in some of the electric cars will impact the stock.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 10:15 AM ETShares of the economic bellwether are up after its earnings beat but revenue miss. Brandon Oglenski, Barclays analyst, and Christian Wetherbee, Citi analyst, break down the results and provide a play on the transportation company.
CEO Interviews
Jorge Perez, The Related Group of Florida chairman & CEO, discusses where he is seeing investment opportunities in Miami real estate properties.
Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 6:45 PM ETMad Money host Jim Cramer speaks to Airgas Chairman Peter McCausland, and CEO Mike Molinini, about the gas industry, and the U.S. economy.
Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 4:40 PM ETAre mergers & acquisitions ready to take off? Richard Hendrix, FBR & Co. chairman and CEO, explains why there will need to be different valuation and growth environments before private equity firms will get more aggressive.
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The FBI has failed to find remains of ex-Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa in a field outside suburban Detroit, with the "Power Lunch" crew. The search goes on.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 1:36 PM ETAnticipating the Fed's policy statement, with CNBC contributors Jeff Kilburg and Jim Iuorio.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 1:31 PM ETBernstein downgraded BlackBerry, citing weak traction for the company's new BlackBerry 10 phone, reports CNBC's Seema Mody.
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Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 8:53 AM ETKen Langone, Invemed Associates chairman and president, called Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a "lame duck."