Good morning. Welcome. You are watching the pulse. I am guy johnson. What else have we got for you . Accounting offers a list all. Will gobranson said it to space before the end of the year. Counting off the lift off. Air france pilots say they will stay on strike indefinitely. We will sow the troubled carrier can get off of the ground. Data coming through at the moment. I. E. Euros september Services Data was weaker than anticipated. Numbersust getting the at the moment. The manufacturing numbers at 50. 5. That is pretty much in line. The services looks a little weaker. Earlier on we had a french manufacturing data better than expected but germany was worst. That is a positive spin we will put on. Our top story. Israels army said it has shut shot down a syrian warplane near the border as the United States and arab allies launch their first airstrikes against militants inside of syria. For more, lets bring in elliott dokken. Lets start with a is really an story. A little bit of confusi
I am a very fortunate Stephanie Ruhle. Y . Matt miller in here with you. We are sending you the best, but in the meantime we are getting you breaking news. Existing home sales are out. Michael mckee is on hand with the real deal. Rate it down. It down. Eak a reasonable news story with home sales. 4. 6 million at dollar annual rate, barely lower than it was in january. Five,ober we were in the so we have a long way to go. Whatever the weather effect, it has been relatively steady for the past four months and we expect a big spring rebound. Here, a drop in condo and coop sales, 1. 8 . Singlefamily home sales, just. 2 of 8 . One of the complaints about home sales in the past couple of months has been not enough homes for sale, so that may affect things. The other number we just got and here is some good news for people worried about the economy and the weather. February 6. 3, and it comes in a positive numeral mind. It looks like overall the Employment Index is lower, but the Overall Inde
Car, a smartphone turns into a car on wheels, is very much at the forefront of what people are talking about. Let me just show you before we get to the news. This is how General Motors is setting up its connected car. This is a live feed of whats happening in this car and on its dashboard. Weve got mary chan, head of the Global Connected Consumer Group at General Motors, they are going big. In fact, nine of the ten Major Car Companies in the world are here at the Consumer Electronics show. A lot of these people were either delayed, some havent gotten here because of the deep freeze thats engulfing the nation, but that ice has not extended to the stock market. Take a look at whats happening, a decent day, a bit of a rally on wall street, snapping some of the losing days we have had. Cheryl casones coming up in just a minute to give us all of the market news including that big news about jpmorgan and its 1. 7 billion settlement involving the Bernie Madoff scandal. Were going to take you
By 1 5 today. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton joined by one hide. The eu imposed its strictest sanctions on moscow since the iron curtain fell. We are joined by Ryan Chilcote. Lets talk about the shank the sanctions. Eu did it. It will surprise some people. Three is really the eu is going to ban state backed banks in russia from issuing new bonds and stock in europe. The second thing is they will ban some technology for the oil industry that they need for unconventional projects, more sophisticated drilling, deepsea drilling, shale deposits. The export of that material from the European Union is now banned. Get ane are going to arms embargo. The one caveat is that france will still be able to sell its warships to russia as it was hoping to do. These are not retrospective. I think obviously we were expecting these, but when you have 28 countries involved, and they all have their own vested interests, and those interests are vastly greater than the fact thaterest, the this happene
Manager. John halfer ford income trust. Fedex blasting away that Earnings Report leading to a huge rise in the value of that stock. Very shortly well have oracle reporting as well. Dennis will report that. We also have surprise visitors coming in including ron paul by the way toward the end of the hour. Tim, i want to go to you first, if i may, talk about who bernanke, bernanke is always talking about the economy. Always talking about unemployment motivating his decisions but to what extent was the Market Reaction the basis for his decision . That is, do you get a sense bernanke was playing to wall street in his decision today . If i would guess, david, i would guess he is playing to the Housing Market, maybe not so much wall street. Were stockpickers, not fedwatchers, but i think he was really spooked what the backup in rates could be doing to housing because housing has been one of the biggest drivers in the consumer led turn around. I think he was placing to the Housing Market, not