Prescription drugs from illegal Online Pharmacies. A former under cover special agent for the dea joins me now. Robert mazer, is the author of, the infiltrator, a memoir about his life undercover with drug lord Pablo Escobars colombian cartel. We can not show his face for his own protection but he is joining us now from florida. Robert, welcome to the show. Great to have you here. Explain to our viewers a little bit about your career as under cover agent. Sure. I was a federal agent for 2 years. For the greatest portion of that i worked on attacking and identifying commandandcontrol of the colombian cartels and their money launderers. For the all but five years i did that in traditional sense. With search warrants and informants and those types of resources. But, for five years i volunteered to become a longterm under cover agent and to infiltrate the Money Laundering systems of the cartel. So i got the opportunity to do that. And to see how the cartels run firsthand basis. I wound up
And two days, the federal government starts to regulate the internet. What is the rush . You have to pass this bill to see what is in it. Remember that . Delivery drivers for higher. The Meeting Place is the waffle house. Yes. It is happening. Passing and looking for a single word from janet yellen. We will not keep you waiting. Varney and company is about to begin. Janet yellen, you see her right there. Earlier, at about 1028 eastern time she said the Federal Reserve will not raise Interest Rates at least the next few federal meetings. Advanced guidance or forward guidance. You will hear about it before they do it. Anymore highlights . We will take you there live. By the way, she said that about not raising Interest Rates for a couple more fed meetings. The dow is up 20, maybe 30 points. It is now up 68 points. That is a lifetime high. 18,000. Got it. Strong profits. Strong sales at home depot. Home depot is still up three nearly four points. Look at apple. We have to follow this thin
Stuart this video from ukraine, members of parliament, look at that. After one common islamic voices support for prorussian protesters. Total chaos. We have got it. And warning of a civil war if ukraine uses force to subdue the same protesters in the eastern part of the country. Any reaction on the market . Maybe some flight to safety in gold. Now look at stocks, the dow industrial pretty much flat. Sandra, do you think the latest events in ukraine, heightening of the tension, have they got any fallout over here at all on wall street . Yes, youre looking at it. Stocks going nowhere. This is a market we know they want to buy this market, but if you look at the price of gold above 1300, up 10 on the session. You get these geopolitical tensions. You have risk coming off the table, so they look toward gold because they see this as an insurance against something horrible happening, the stock market imploding because a civil war could break out. Stuart lets stay on the market for a second an
Education results have been disastrous in some cases. We will talk to the attorney general investigating the processes. Ed stone talking about his new book. About his new things and twitter. Great, thoughtful guy. Has launched a bunch of Different Companies. Topre going to take the headlines, starting with samsung. Projecting its second Straight Year over year decline in quarterly profits and sales of the high end smartphones blow down. A profit of 8 billion, down four percent from the previous year. Thatg that the galaxy s5 comes out on friday and 150 countries will reenergize sales. Twitter started rolling out a redesign for web users and a larger profile picture for scanning and filters. They can pin a tweet at the top of the page. It will be rolled out to all users in the coming weeks. Cutting prices after raising 200 50 million in new funding. Announcing a price cut in 20 of all of the markets in which it operates. Huber uber similar cuts. Uber expanding. Courier expanding to a se
To meet new tough every Capital Requirements but regulators proposed this last year. The banks have been expecting it and already started raising that new capital according to officials. The rules, something, applying to something called a leverage ratio, apply to banks with assets of more than 700 billion that are systematically important, bank of america, bank of new york mellon, citigroup, goldman sachs, jpmorgan chase, morgan stanley, State Street Corporation and wells fargo and company will be covered under this new rule. They are designed to help protect these banks in another financial crisis and avoid future taxpayer bailouts, though the banks argue the rules will curtail lending and saddle them with higher costs. Melissa . Melissa peter, thanks so much. So back to the markets. They are alive. Stocks back in the green after three days of steep declines but whats really behind all the market mayhem . Here our very own charlie gasparino, barrons Senior Editor jack hough and Finan