A road map goes like this. With the taper heard around the world, stocks soaring during trading yesterday as the fed announce it is will start pulling back on its monthly bond purchases. Now the big question, where do we go from here . Plus facebook ceo zuckerberg hitting the sell button, 70 million shares with 40 million of those being sold by the facebook ceo himself. And major Security Breach at target Stores Across the country. The retailer saying credit and debit card information was stolen for get this, 40 million of its instore customers. And oracle reporting better than expected results in quarterly revenue. Well see what that can signal about a possible rebound in i. T. Spending. First up, amazing action yesterday, a will the lot of th, even seasoned guys, saying what a ride. Heres the cover of usa todays money sex, 5 reasons there was no taper tantrum. I love that phrase. Paul ryan said the taper came too late but its hard to argue with a market rally of 300 points that says
His own car was vibrating. Jon oh, my god that sounds terribly like every gas station and Convenience Store parking lot in america. [ laughter ] perhaps there was an extenuating circumstance. Do you have any type of ear damage . I do. Can you explain to the jury what damage you have and how you got that . Um, growing up in the keys scuba dive saying big part of is a big part of life and i have damage to my right ear. Jon and did this loud thumping create you any discomfort . Did it in my left ear, my sensitive ear. Jon those hooligans thoughtlessly playing loud music knowing it would attract moth like someone with one sensitive ear. [ laughter ] now you might think to yourself why didnt old pinder drums park somewhere else . [laughter] because former scuba diving vigilantes dont play that bleep . You dont recall saying i hate that thug music . If i would have said anything i would have called it rap crap. [ laughter ] jon because believe you me i know my racially continuinged terms for
Of explodable technology having advanced in two short centuries from barrels labeled tnt [laughter] to todays flying tnt barrel delivering unmanned aerial vehicles. And you know what they say, if you got em, smoke em. You United States has been conducting targeted killings in battlefield tour 10. 5 years. 375 of these strikes under president obama. Jon president obama is our countrys alltime leader in outside battlefield sky killing or bsk for those of you hes like barry bombs. La laugh [laughter] of drone strikes, if will you. But there are limits to this practice. For the record, i do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any United States citizen with a drone or with a shotgun without due process. Jon what a relief. [ laughter ] of course, that was in may. How does that statement hold up in february . Officials confirm that indeed the Obama Administration is trying to decide whether it can legally launch a drone strike against an american citiz
Twitter slows. Hello. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. I am anna edwards. In london. Welcome to the program. We begin with the earnings. First quarter profits rising 5. 2 . That is the net income increased. Analysts anticipate a profit of 1. 44 billion. The reason why it has been booted boosted by the purchase of its division in bell john. Belgium. Earnings were boosted by a drop in payments to minority shareholders after bnp body stake in one of its units for three and a quarter billion euros. It is worth noting bp hosted its profits and 08 after setting aside payments to u. S. Economic sanctions. It did say today that talks took place on the matter during the First Quarter. There is still uncertainty on the size of the penalty. Be excluded,annot but it could be significantly larger than the amount provision. That is worth noting. Bas profit rose and exceeded analyst estimates held by the person its of its provision in the elgin. Belgium. And they spoke to bloomberg. Reconsider
In just a few moments. Long before snapchat turned down facebooks multibilliondollar takeover offer, the ceo turned down a walk around facebooks headquarters with Mark Zuckerberg. We are rounding up the first 24 hours of ces and it has been quite an eventful 24 hours. Seeing all kinds of gadgets. Lgs new tv with flexible glass to new tablets from samsung and panasonic. Big names have taken the stage, including marissa mayer. She has made it clear that yahoo is making a big content push. Sony ceo also unveiled some new cloudbased gaming services. It will be coming later this year. Take a listen to his pitch. In japanese culture, this translates to emotional involvement. The power to stimulate an emotional response. The power to make people say wow. All sony products must be inspired. That was sonys ceo from las vegas. We will have much more from the Consumer Electronics show later this hour. I want to talk about Mark Zuckerberg and evan spiegel. If we want to talk about their relation s