Even though he is no longer the editor, what does that mean . John if you choose miliband you are risking the british economy. If you choose cameron, you are risking britain leaving the European Union. Charlie with miliband, you risk the economy because of the austerity policies . John osborne has done a fantastic job keeping the economy going. A lot of skepticism about it. Britain is growing faster than most of the other developed countries, europe as a whole. You have the thing of reducing the size of government. The tough thing miliband is doing is issues interfering with business, micromanagement. He is a much more leftwing leader then say tony blair and gordon brown. Charlie what are the big issues . John this is a bizarre election. We are used to having conservatives and labour. You will end up with a weird thing where labour, which came from scotland, could end up losing every single seat in scotland and still ed miliband becoming Prime Minister. It is like Hillary Clinton storm
Streak. That would be the longest one of the year. The major averages are now on pace for a fourth straight weekly drop. A lot of wild swings in the market, but its continue to go raise questions about the Federal Reserves next move. Comments from st. Louis fed president jim bullard, who we talk to regularly on this program, suggesting the Central Banks should consider its taper. Thats been fueling some stock buying. I heard a guy say that on this show the other day. His initials are j. K. , i think. What about liesman . Liesman would be balder today. But he hes not real slick, but he did not take he was smart enough not to he was thinks like six months from now, a year. Next day. Next day. I wasnt going to say this because weve got headlines to get to, but in the old days, there was this funny cartoon that said the market sold off early in the morning when it was noted that an asteroid would destroy the earth on saturday, but rallied at 10 after the money supply came in lower than spe
People heard louisiana and throughout it had something to do with true detective. Where the initial scene was filmed yesterday. Grizzly, on a former plantation, cool looking. Cant wait for more, jim. Good morning to you. Futures off a touch as bull market officially turned five years old over the weekend. A light week for Economic Datas ahead but plenty of corporate news, including mcdonalds sales. Nikkei down 1 as japan revised q4 gdp lower. Oil, flat week but up more than 4 for the year. Asian marks, down big so far this morning. Selloff comes after a slew of Economic Data including a bad reading on export. If things are so bad overseas, why arent we seeing an impact in the u. S. . Mcdonalds samestore Sales Numbers falling last month. The retailer blaming severe winter weather. Numbers werent all bad. Well tell you some bright spots in a moment. A twist in the battle between ebay and carl icahn, after the Company Rejected his nominees to ebays board. Icahn doesnt take rejection well.
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And squawk box begins right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc on this jobs friday. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. And we are past the point of no return. We have a rocking lineup for you today. Kelly king, the bb c ceo, roche ceo chevron swan and Houston Texas owner robert mcnair. We have matt shattock. Were going to be covering jobs in the market. Vince reinhart will be joining us. And what is a jobs friday without a little shot of rock and roll . Kansas is celebrating 40 years in the music business. It has been a very changed scene over those 40 years. We have the founding member, drummer and band manager phil e. Hart. Andrew, obviously, we have it all today. We do, we do. Its great to see you, becky. Joe mentioned stocks are off to a very strong start this year. If you believe in the january barometer, its a great sign for the bulls. The theory satsdz that the s p direction in january sets the tone for the next 11 months.