Are now taking. Good afternoon. Im tori campbell. An attempt to deliver thousands of signatures to the archbishop of San Francisco was blocked by locked doors today. Sal castanedo was there as protesters urged the archbishop to cancel plans to attend a rally against samesex marriage and sal joins us now live. Good afternoon, sal. Reporter tori, good afternoon. Just as you mentioned, when the group tried to present those petitions to the archbishops office, they were met with locked doors leading to grumbles from the crowd that had gathered. The group says it came to present a petition asking archbishop to skip a washington, d. C. Conference that opposes samesex civil marriage. The petition is signed by 30,000 people and 100 elected officials. The archbishop is scheduled to speak at the gathering thursday, and that has angered many in the lgbt community, and politicians, including nancy pelosi, lieutenantgovernor gavin newsom and San Francisco mayor, ed lee. Were not asking him to tote
In new york city. Im Erik Schatzker. I am alix steel in for stephanie ruhle, who is on assignment. I am a lucky man, thank you. These are the top business stories from around the world. Prosecutors are widening their investigation of the Exchange Industry the Justice Department is questioning salespeople at fx to see if Bank Straight traded at head the clients or colluded. A surprise for blackberry. A First Quarter loss that was smaller than expected. Ceo john chen has been cutting costs, to turn the company around. The Supreme Court to decide the arialrea today today, broadcasters went to court to keep them from broadcasting over the internet. Their very existence is at stake because they would go out of business if the Supreme Court ruled against them. For the networks, a loss would mean billions in lost revenue. If a decision does not come today it will likely come next week. One of the most controversial names in retail is out of a job this morning. The head of American Apparel, wh
I am not sure that bernanke will discuss the topic. Looking at both fedex and General Mills. Fedex has been a great performer. They have done maintenance on the planes. That has also cut down on the prices. We are seeing General Mills under pressure while fedex is hitting new highs. Lori thank you, nicole. Adam we are just an hour away from the latest decision from the central bank. Lori will they, or wont they when it comes to tapering . Peter most of the Analysts Expect them to do a soft launch of its tapering. Probably dial it back right ten 20 billion a month or so. Make sure that markets and investors know that it will be future tapering and it will be data dependent. This may not be a slamdunk for the fed. Take a listen. With such a slew of moderately bad news, much weaker than they expected, you know, it does raise the question why start tapering now. I think the market has not really priced that in yet. Peter one of the other options could be not to start tapering now. I also w
Business. Chinas central bank promises to watch for inflation after the premier league sounds a hawkish warning. And initiating countdown sequence, india just minutes away from launching asias First Space Mission to mars, heating up a new global space race. All right. A warm welcome. Were into the twohour Worldwide Exchange again after the u. S. Changed their clocks over the weekend. Now, a lot of earnings out today. Details out in a minute. Nissan shares taking a big fall in japan today. The automaker cutting its profits down by 20 because of weak sales in asia. Well get the details in around 10 minutes. Helia is in london for a first on cnbc interview with the owner of Imperial Tobacco. Well get more at 10 20 cet. And in new york, the yearlong mayoral race draws to a close as voters head to the polls today. About frontrunner bill deblasio score a victory or is a lastminute upset on the cards . Plus, well speak to the italian finance minister about his vision for the future of europe.
Feel a Little Something . You had that, joe, two weeks ago, right . Exactly what you had. You didnt you remember i remember bridesmaids, right . Im not sure what all that came out of. I had both going. You didnt have both going . You are the just you were hurling. I was, i was. In the middle of the night. I had to send an email to the producers. Its very weird. Its not even a 24hour thing. No, i will say it was going by when the show was still going on. We have a pro gun advocate on. You didnt throw up when okay. By the way, a viewer has offered to take me shooting in new jersey at a shooting club. I saw a lot of stuff. Im taking him up on it. But we have news to get him up to. Some people hold that Second Amendment thing, they actually think it means something. They took a little bit of offense. Anyway, theres a lot to talk about. We are going to talk about the latest fiscal cliff developments out of washington. But before we get to that, why dont we start with our day anticipates top