 | Premieres Tonight 10:00 PM ET/PT
With 20% of all nuclear reactors built in earthquake zones, can nuclear power ever be truly safe? CNBC will premiere 'Nuclear Meltdown', which details the unfolding disaster at Fukushima. We find out exactly how it happened and why. Tonight, 10:00PM ET/PT on CNBC.
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LATEST BLOGS
| | - No Housing Recovery Without Private Label Mortgage Investors
Despite the lowest interest rate on the 30 year fixed in six months, mortgage applications to purchase a new home fell last week, over 3 percent. In fact, purchase application volume has been falling, on average, for the past four weeks, which is particularly troubling in this, the supposedly busiest season of the year for home buying.
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- Opinion: The White House, GE and Oil Companies
Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and current professor at Berkeley, is mad that this country’s most efficient manufacturing industry made money in the first quarter. He expressed his disgust over the weekend in a piece published at SFGate.com.
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- Auctioning Infamous Items: Why The Madoff Wine Auction Might Turn Sour
If you like offbeat, oddball or funky historical collectibles, today is your day. The U.S. Marshals Service is holding two auctions in an effort to sell the personal belongings of two men with notorious histories, Bernard Madoff and Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. But how will these items sell?
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| Premieres Wednesday 10:00 PM ET/PT
With 20% of all nuclear reactors built in earthquake zones, can nuclear power ever be truly safe? CNBC will premiere 'Nuclear Meltdown', which details the unfolding disaster at Fukushima. We find out exactly how it happened and why. Wednesday, 10:00PM ET/PT on CNBC.
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LATEST VIDEO
| | - Treasurys & $14.3 Trillion Debt Ceiling
CNBC's Rick Santelli reports on the impact the nations's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling had on the Treasury market today.
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- Stop Trading! Listen to Jim Cramer
CNBC's Jim Cramer with his take on companies he has in his sights, including Joy Global and Capital One.
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- NFL Players Advised: Stop Working Out
CNBC's Darren Rovell on NFL players being advised to not work out while negotiations continue during the lockout. The fear is, if any players get hurt, they could be released without pay once the lockout ends.
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- Obama's Commencement Speech
President Barack Obama talks to the kids graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tennessee, and advises that yes, they will need algebra.
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- Strauss-Kahn Denied Bail
Bail for IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been denied, reports CNBC's Mary Thompson; the Fast Money traders weigh in on Lowe's profit miss, and an analysis of the Nasdaq/ICE bid withdrawal for the NYSE, with Richard Repetto, Sandler O'Neill & Partners.
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LATEST BLOGS
| | - How Good Can a Hamburger Be?
For those of you who've never lived out West, the rabid loyalty fast foodies out here express toward In-N-Out Burger must seem exaggerated, too good to be true. I mean, come on, it's just a hamburger, right? No.
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- The Debt Crisis and Mortgage Rates
If you're not talking about the head of the IMF today, then the only thing left really is the debt ceiling, which we officially reached today. While estimates are that it will take until August for the US to actually default on its debt obligations, the concern in the short term is how Wall Street sees the situation and how that will be reflected in the bond market and in mortgage interest rates.
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- Agents Advise NFL Players Not To Work Out
Several prominent agents have told their players not to do a stitch of working out as the NFL lockout continues. No lifting weights. No pickup basketball games. It's smart advice if the players want to make sure they're guaranteed their money for next season, if that season ever comes. When players get hurt during team-sanctioned mini-camps, they are covered. Any injury that they suffer still guarantees them the money that they are owed for that season.
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