Chief ursula on july and paid a visit today to ukrainian president voldemort zalinski and keep her talks on integrating ukraine into europe. Meanwhile, russian attacked on zalinski is home town made headlines, damaging Critical Infrastructure and the attendance greet himself. Roger federer announcing he is retiring the 20 time grand slam singles winner describing his decision to leave the court as bittersweet. After so many injuries, the swiss star says his body is trying to tell him something. Ah, i bring gov is good to have you with us on this thursday. Russian president vladimir puget and his chinese counterpart, shes in pain. Met today. Their 1st face to face talked since moscow invasion of ukraine began back in february. Now speaking on the sidelines of a summit in whose becca stand, whos in thank china for what he called its balanced position towards ukraine. And he urged deeper ties with beijing putin as well as she have met dozens of times over the past few years. But todays ta
Making headlines. Peter cook has the fallout from the fed meeting and News Conference. Thee hyman is monitoring alibaba ipo. Asked forpresident u. S. Military aid. The details of this aid package that president poroshenko was seeking . A jointnt before session of Congress Making an emotional appeal, saying we appreciate the help we have already gotten from the american government, but frankly speaking, we will not win a war with blankets and night vision goggles. We need you tos debt but their game and bring into military assistance. We need you to step up your game and bring in military assistance. Approved annt also aid package for equipment that the ukrainians made. Im sure its more than just a photo op. Peoplet is underscoring in the United States and for the audience in russia and in kiev that the United States is 100 behind this democrat lee elected government and it will be there just like europe will be there. For them. The reason it is important is because, watching back in ki
Staples and childrens place, well break them all down for you. Paypal cofounder reed hoffman fires back at carl icahn and ahead of tomorrows big jobs number weekly jobless claims did decline slightly as we said. Well start with retail. As we mentioned three big misses, costco biggerthanexpected fall in profit as deep discounting during the Holiday Season hurt margins. Childrens place announcing an 18 drop in Fourth Quarter earnings. Highly promotional market in Severe Weather and then staples missed on revenues said its going to close more than 200 stores by the end of the year now that nearly half of its sales are generated online. People are calling it a triple whammy in retail and obviously tough news for obvious reasons. Disconcerting mostly by costco because costco when i saw the number, hey, thats not so good but when i read the release they were telling you they were unhappy with their performance. Its the new pattern where someone says, look, its not just the weather, we didnt
This abbreviated session. This is historical tendency in terms of the period between thanksgiving and december 3rd. Most of the time we are higher in the markets and were seeing that play out so far in future. Look at the picture in europe. A surprise increase in german Business Confidence there really helping to push the indices higher across the board with the exception of spain which is down by. 2 of 1 . It is the most wonderful time of the year for the retailers. Millions of shoppers are hitting the malls this black friday looking for door buster deals. A number of Stores Including walmart, target and toys r us upping the ante with thanksgiving night openings. 147 Million People will hit the malls and Stores Friday through saturday slightly below last years levels. Unbelievable number of people who started lining up so early. I mean, a week ago. Those people we saw at best buy with the tents. We assume they got whatever they were after. I certainly do. I certainly do. There were un
Siemens. Answers. Welcome back to squawk. We want to thank or guest hosts for being here on this postsuper bowl wrapup day. Steve liesman, well see you tomorrow. Join us tomorrow. Squawk on the street starts right now. Good morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im carl quintanilla, with melissa lee, jim cramer. David faber is off. Signs of reemerging political turmoil, both in spain, and in italy making investors a little bit reluctant to press the button for the upside. It comes after the dow did top 14,000 on friday for the first time in more than five years. Look at europe, thats where the storys going to be for most of the morning before we close at 11 30 eastern time. Germany taking it down 1,100 points as well. Asia got action as well as china. Nonmanufacturing came in better than expected. Clearly the story is going to be in europe for most of the morning. Weve certainly seen a flight to safety take place this morning, as weve seen the bond yields, particularly the spanish 1