Charlie hebdo that left 12 attack. It left 12 people dead. They had been holding one person half her age in a small hunting house earlier. Authorities kill a third gunman. He was responsible for killing a French Policewoman yesterday. Holding as many as 20 people hostage at a kosher market and paris. Four hostages killed and four others injured. The whereabouts, currently our unknown. I want to bring in a team now. Thank you, to all of you for joining us. First of all, how critical is it that we find that fourth suspect . It is pretty critical. Now that she is on the run we do not know what part she played in it. A human being that is bent on killing is a very dangerous creature, male or female. If that is who she is and that is her mo, they need to find her. These are people who are very heavily armed and willing to kill. You take them any way you can. If they had not shot and killed them, they would have killed more of the hostages. Melissa doesnt make finding the fourth person even
Well see what happens as we get closer to the opening bell. Three big stories were watching this morning. Eu finance ministers are meeting in brussels in just a couple hours from now discussing greeces request for a six ismonth loan extension. Michelle will join us in a minute. Also in Corporate News this morning, deere will post Quarterly Results before the bell. Earlier this week we learned Berkshire Hathaway bought a stake in the company. In political news the nations current and former governors are going to be gathering in washington today for an annual meeting also taking part in the conversation administrative and legislative officials along with business and academic leaders. Here are some of the stocks were watching. Intuit posted a stronger than expected loss, Strong Demand for its turbo tax. Tax season. Hurry up. The clock is tick inging. Sneaks up on you. Nordstroms earnings falling short of estimates. The company says margins fell as it worked to clear inventories and used
Coming up in a few minutes. A couple of different stories were watching. The nasdaq partying like its the year 2000. Closing above 5,000 for the First Time Since then in only the third time ever. The nasdaq now. 8 away from the record close. There is a surprise from down under this morning. Australia central bank holding back on further easings. Gasoline prices jumped 37cents a gallon. Now thats the largest week to week increase since the agency began its survey in 1992 but life is relative and if you remember where things were six months ago its hard to complain. So it doubled in three and doubled again in three. So it doubled 72 divided by 3 is 24. 24. So its probably is it 24 return in six years if it quadruples . Yeah. If it sits right you can do it. So the nasdaq is up so instead of 6 or 7 for equity appreciation the nasdaq since 2009, 24 a year. So stay out of the market. If you put that money in 15 years ago youre just giving it back. They didnt have money 15 years ago. They wer
Live from new york where business never sleeps this is squawk box. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick with joe and andrew. Are you a millionaire in the making . If so a new Study Suggests that you are most likely a woman and youre in your 40s. The survey finds that 68 of emerging investors are female. Right now women only make up about 40 of the existing millionaire population. Well bring you the other common characteristics later this hour. But first lets get you through some of the big stories were watching this morning. As joe just mentioned china lowering its 2015 growth target. Now going down to 7 . Thats down from 7. 5 last year. Asian stocks selling off on that news and our own colleague will be joining us from hong kong with a full story in just a minute. So hang on. In other global headlines brazil hiking Interest Rates to a six year high of 12. 75 . Feels a little bit different than here. Policy makers there are trying to fight inflati
Issues at play with two special guest hosts. Wharton professor of finance Jeremy Siegel and trusted american businessman steve forbes. Both onset and ready to start this discussion at 6 00. First, though, andrew has a few of the top business headlines. Lets talk about some of the headlines this morning. Cisco systems buying Cloud Network start up meraki for 1. 2 billion in cash. It was founded in 2006 by members of m. I. T. s laboratory for computer science. Joe, i dont know if you take credit for any of that. Bp plans to spend up to 5. 9 billion buying back stock. Last week the oil giant agreed to pay record criminal penalties over the deepwater horizon disaster. And americans are carrying more Credit Card Debt and being less diligent about making on time payments. Trans union now reporting that average Credit Card Debt for borrowers grew 4. 9 in the Third Quarter and meantime the rate of credit card payments at least 93 days overdue rose slightly to three quarters of a percent. This