Territory for the First Time Since 2008. The futures this morning after those two trading days do look like they are indicated higher. Dow futures up by 19 points above fair value. The s p futures are up by just over 1 point. On the economic agenda, december nonmanufacturing ism and november factory orders, both due at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Later this morning its about jobs. The adm jobs report on wednesday and the governments payrolls will follow on friday. Thats going to be the big one were watching. We have more on the markets and the economy throughout the morning, but first andrew has a roundup of the top corporate headlines. Good morning. Good morning, becky. We have a lot of news for you. Jpmorgan nearly a 2 billion settlement with federal authorities to resolve suspicions of the bank ignoring signs of Bernie Madoffs ponzi scheme. The New York Times says the banks civil and criminal settlements would involve deferred prosecution agreements and of course the 2 billion settlem
Of those highs. Lets watch twitter today. Twitter a name that has been recent high today, down 5. 5 . A couple of those analyst talking about it. Morgan stanley with the target. Half of where it is right now. Downgrading the stocks to underweight, some of the analysts like names like facebook better than twitter, i think twitter is still a niche. Back to you. Lori thank you, nicole theatre adam chicago is freezing today, but just how cold is it . Cold in siberia. Currently 35 degrees, even colder than mars today. Between negative 13, negative 34 degrees according to the mars rover. Join nicole, jeff. I believe it. Take a look at what you are seeing. It is really awful, with the camera looking at arctic sea smoke, something you never see or you rarely see in downtown chicago. When it gets this kind of dramatic cold. That is frozen already. The windchill is incredible, not just here in chicago. Want to get out for a second, show you the map if i can. You see how wide a swath these cover.
With their archrivals, if not enemies, the iranians. That also holds true, to a large extent, in iraq, even though it has a shia majority. Theyre not persians. Theyre arabs. Iraq fought a bitter, brutal eightyear war with iran from 1980 to 1988. Hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides. Most of those casualties on the iraqi side or iraqishia arabs. So again, it is a great phrase. Our enemys enemy may still be our enemy. We have to be very, very careful here. Thank you, sir, for that question. Id only add to the previous two comments that in syria, iran continues to support the regime of Bashar Al Assad and Bashar Al Assad needs to go and allow a transition for our instate end goals and security. So this is a problem. Thank you. I yield back. Thank you all for being here. Thank you, mr. Chairman. You stated isil was both formidable yet vulnerable. Can you list the top three things that make them that . Absolutely. They are very well funded. They have got some victories and that
After Texas state troopers arrested more than 50 people at a University of Texas at Austin protest this week, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is facing accusations that the state went too far. Police in riot gear broke up an unsanctioned but nonviolent demonstration at the state’s flagship university Wednesday. Among those arrested was a journalist…