In just a few minutes. But first, the rest of todays agenda, earnings central will be hearing from General Motors, nbc parent comcast, chrysler, corning and sodastream, all before the bell. This afternoon, we have visa, facebook, comcast, kraft foods and many others. On the economic front, the fed wraps up a twoday fomc meeting in washington. This is a policy announcement set tore 2 00 p. M. Eastern today. The central bank is expected to maintain its massive bond buying campaign. Fed watchers say ben bernanke and company may point to softer readings on the economy to signal that the policy will be extended into next year. As for the other items on todays economic agenda, the october adp employment report is going to be released at 8 15 eastern time. Its expected to show 150,000 private jobs were added this month. The whisper number, though, is below that. Well see what happens. Coming up at 8 30 eastern time, we have the september Consumer Price index. It was delayed by the Government
Bloomberge from European Headquarters in london. Francine lacqua is off today. Privacying up, putting first. We test out the world most secure smartphones. Is it really nsaproof . We begin with the crisis in the ukraine. There could be a delay to the vote for a new government. Remains onpresident the run with a warrant out for his arrest. Bloombergs managing editor is on the ground in key ever with the latest. What is the latest . With the latest. What is the latest . What we have seen over the last few days, the situation in central kiev is very disciplined. That more remember than 60 people died last week. Unarmedal, the mostly Citizens Militia seems to be keeping control in the city. Still no sign of the official police anywhere. Can you give us an update on what is happening in the south of the country . A more prorussian part of the ukraine. There seems to be a different view of the situation down there. Yes. [no audio] it sounds like we have just lost our connection to kiev. We w
Surfers have enjoyed the clever musings of gs elevator. There were comments on the Goldman Sachs elevator such as there is no way your guess is as good as mine. Part of the appeal came from the mystery, who is this mystery Goldman Sachs employee . We know. The New York Times reported it was not an employee at all and was never in a Goldman Sachs elevator. He is a 44yearold x bond executive. He started the account is a joke. Last month, he sold the book about wall street culture based on thosetweets for six figures. The Goldman Sachs response was that nice to see everyone has a sense of humor here. Wall street can get on with the business of making money and that comes at a price. Jpmorgan chase it would eliminate 8000 jobs at its consumer and mortgage Banking Units this year because falling demand for mortgage refinancing. The reductions would bring the staffing cuts to 24 thousand 500 into two divisions since the start of 2013. Banks have been the goto place for hundreds of years. The
Arkansas. We have others as well who are starting to talk about the idea that the problems with obamacare car so intense, so problematic, the website working so poorly that we must delay the individual mandate. That is the talk to settle. Tonight one of our reporters saying that the dam is breaking as people start to talk about this very issue. Tomorrow as we know, contractors who helped develop this website will be talking in front of a congressional committee. Were already seeing some of that testimony tonight. Heres what i can tell you. Cdi, the company in the spotlight, the Canadian Company saying that the federal government is responsible for the problems with the website. Ultimately it is not their fault, but hhs, health and human services, of talk tonight. Lets bring in the former policy adviser for the center for medicaid and medicare services. Lots of headlines. Let me tell you, there are reports tonight that the administration is going to say that we need to delay the mandate
Many people on the website theyre giving a grace period. If you were in line yesterday waiting to sign up and the system told you you had to wait, you could sign up actually by the end of today. Here are obamacare statistics brought to you by cmx. More than 50,000 were on the site. Its only designed to handle that many people and then put you in line. 1. 2 million visitors over the weekend. What officials havent said how many people signed up in the last minute flurry. President obama expects 2 million by january 1st, half of those would have private insurance and the other half government or medicaid or chip. And this is halfway to the goal that the administration projected a couple of months ago and doesnt sclu include the millions of americans who had their health care canceled. The mandates have been delayed and the botched rollout of the website and the numbers are far below what they hoped. The Administration Says it will get better as the website improves. 2014 a lot more goes i