Quarter gdp. Also up today, a lineup of heavy hitters on the closing bell. We have exclusive interviews with paul jacobs rob sands. Have you seen what constellation stock is doing today . Jumping. And we have commerce secretary penny prits zer and john legere. We will get get the real story. He was escorted out of an at t story. He says he was there to see the musical act. He loves macklemore. Sure he does. Microsoft taking a hit today. Allen mullally is taking himself out of the running to fill the ceo role at microsoft. Microsoft announcing it will now be february at the earliest when they announce who is going to be the new ceo. Who are the likely candidates and who is wall street rooting for . We have an in depth look at that very important story coming up in a little while. Were keeping a close eye on market this is hour as we head towards as were into the final hour of trading with the dow down 82 points. Thats half of 1 . We have the nasdaq actually the outperformer today. Only
Closing bell. Im kelly evans. Im bill griffeths. Fourth time was a charm. This is our first rally of 2014 after declines. Pretty good Economic Data, the trade deficit number was strong enough. Thats 10 of our economy. So that bumped up the growth estimates for the quarter. The trade deficit figures were a big deal. Very excited about trade deficit. You can talk about the Immediate Impact to the Fourth Quarter gdp numbers. 2. 4 to 3. 3 on that report alone. Could you talk about what it means for the u. S. Energy story. Could you talk about what it means for the u. S. Dollar because the trade gap which is part of the current account is shrinking quickly. Were here to talk about the rally. The dow is up 114 points. Not far from the high of the day, but we got a ways to go before an alltime high. As bad a start as weve had to the year, were only 40 points off the closing high for the Dow Jones Industrial average. Were only 10 or 11 points for the s p 500. Its the Rolling Stone article that
Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. I am anna edwards. Welcome to the program. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world ready to deliver the stories that will drive a yard day. Hans nichols it in berlin. Expand theireu sanctions. Ryan chilcote has a data store. Earnings from samsung. Breaking the news from the Biggest Energy supplier. Last talk about the numbers. 15. 8 billion. Battles against an estimate. A comfortable beat. And that was against an estimate. Course, the fascinating story to talk about at the moment is a business that operates in 41 countries. Everybody including us want to talk about the relationship with russia. They have a cooperation which isth headed by the ceo. He has appeared on the sanctions list has published by western nations in the last 20 four hours or so. The company itself is not on the sanctions the less. We will talk to the ceo of statoil. Thats how we are learning about thes sanctions and what it means for his relationship. Nd his rela
Seen for the very first time as mediators work for their release. Plus, calling a foul, the nba investigates the racist comment attributed to the owner of the l. A. Clippers. A historic day in vatican city where for the very first time in the entire history of the Catholic Church, two popes were elevated to sainthood in a joint canonization ceremony. Thousands filled saint Peters Square to witness the unprecedented event while millions watched from all over the world. Pope francis led the ceremony for john paul ii and john xxiii. In fact, john ter bennett has reaction from newark, new jersey but first with Nick Schifrin live in vatican city. Nick, what is the emotion there like . What is the reaction where you are . Reporter morgan, i think the people i talked to its not just thousands. Its nearly a Million People who witnessed this ceremony is threefold. One, they are awed by the sense of history. They are sense by the awed by the sense, as you said, two popes becoming two saints in 2
He said microsoft is focused on building the next big thing, but adds that he is open to acquisition. It appears that corporations are not doing enough to fight hackers. A new survey from pricewaterhousecoopers found that the average number of security incidents at an organization was 135 over the past year alone. And 67 of the organizations responding were unable to estimate the financial losses due to the incident. Samsung is holding what it calls a major event focused on health later this hour. No new products are excited to be announced, but samsung is promising to start a new conversation about the future of health. Appleses just before worldwide developer conference next week where apple is expected to unveil a new forecast. Now to our lead story of the day , from search giant to carmaker, google is building more than 100 prototypes of the self driving car. No gasf this car has pedal, no breaks. It runs on software. Potential about the at a conference. Take a listen. The reason i