It shows the power politics of russia as they look east and that they look south at ukraine. And as a power player, there was so much discussion over the past several years with russia as a superpower, and recent evidence suggests it is. Lets get to the calculus of a brief today. Overnight, here is what we learned u. K. Retail sales increased for a third month in april and in japan, the central bank refrain from boosting stimulus. That is a good sign. They do not feel that they needed. Are you with me . He is a playing it. The market it was up. 7 00, we have that the Weekly Mortgage application. That is a volatile number. 2 00, this is the one youre to focus on the fed minutes. The april meeting, tom. By the way, janet yellen is speaking at 11 00 today. What matters is several, fewer, many yeah, right. Those are the keywords. We are doing several items in todays brief. And there are several to mention. Before the bell, lowes, target, petsmart, tiffanys, scarlet, and american eagle. Ite
London versus paris, a realestate contest. And. Say in america. Varney and company is about to begin. Two bigname tech stocks where we start, ebay gave a disappointing forecast but theres more to it than that. They are giving the government 3 billion in tax. They are going to bring money back from overseas and to do that they are paying a very high tax rate on 3 billion. What is going on . Why are they doing that . We will answer those questions. The stock is down 5 . Twitter not growing as much as investors would like. It has a fraction of the users facebook does. It is not growing. Is twitter just an event driven niche platform . We will ask about the stock of the day on the downside, 10 lower. Check the big board. Modest gain this morning, 16557. I am trying to do the math in my head, we are 18 or 20 points away from the alltime closing high. I dont think it has anything to do with the run gdp number. We will delve more into the market later on. Here it is. Do you call this growth .
We are forever faster. Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central whats up. Jon stewart, were back. Im nominated to do the ferguson challenge. Not sure if its raising money for anything. Here we go. The ferguson challenge. Im excited and nervous. [beep] [beep] [beep] oh, is that mace oh, son of a bitch jon i dont nominate anyone. Can i do the ice bucket one now. August 26th, 2014. From Comedy Central world news headquarters in new york this is the daily show with jon stewart. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] jon were back. Welcome to the daily show. So nice to see you. My name is jon stewart. My guest tonight david rose author of enchanted objects. The emmys. Colbert report. Congratulations, great job. First big news the last few weeks, ferguson, missouri. A series of protests sparking in term a stern response which police who appear to be auditioning for robo cop. Its a story that has a lot of people outraged up and set. I came back from vacation because im furious. Of course y
All right, everyone, id like to be the first to welcome you to the gates of hell. Unfortunately, hell is a towin gate. All aw captioning by captionmax www. Captionmax. Com captioning sponsored by Comedy Central whats up. Jon stewart, were back. Im nominated to do the ferguson challenge. Not sure if its raising money for anything. Here we go. The ferguson challenge. Im excited and nervous. [beep] [beep] [beep] oh, is that mace oh, son of a bitch jon i dont nominate anyone. Can i do the ice bucket one now. August 26th, 2014. From Comedy Central world news headquarters in new york this is the daily show with jon stewart. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] jon were back. Welcome to the daily show. So nice to see you. My name is jon stewart. My guest tonight david rose author of enchanted objects. The emmys. Colbert report. Congratulations, great job. First big news the last few weeks, ferguson, missouri. A series of protests sparking in term a stern response which police who appea
Investigative reporter. Its gotten harder and hard. Not just political reporting, which is really not my favorite kind to do but any kind of reporting that goes after the powers that be. Theres such organized well financed efforts that go after the reporters and reports before going and after theyre being crafted. Its a lot of trouble. Why are they concerned about the powers that be . I think its a complex question. I think that theres an element of its easier just to do to take the path of least resistance. If youre a manager, why do you want the headaches they do and all the tactics they engage in. I think there are Financial Connections between people that we may do stories on and the networks and entities we work for. Theres a complex web of factors that have come together that led to this declining appetite for investigative reporting. All the investigative reporting from cbs are gone. Just for the show, i checked five years ago and the ratings for the week of cbs, everything is i