I wouldnt mind enjoying the weather. Brian you have plenty of time. Tia i have a lot of work to do. Im so busy. Good morning. Its wednesday, march 9th. Brian i follow you on twitter, remember . I see you shopping and buying handbags can doing all kinds of stuff. Tia not true. Brian im brian duffy. Lets go to sam roberts. We have a beautiful forecast. Tia this is the shopper. Samantha i can neither confirm or deny. Brian were going to open a Branch Office of amazon at the station for you guys. Its getting ridiculous. Samantha those packages show up here. We have to get ready for spring and buy our spring clothes, right, because its warming up opened openedtoe shoe kind of weather here. This is another big story. That is that Daylight Saving time begins on sunday now now, my friends in this room dont love it much because we get an hour less of sleep. Just before 7 00, and it sets around 7 30. But on sunday our sunrise wont occur until almost 8 00 in the morning. Dont forget before you go
The german dax down nearly 3 today. Futures down sharply following yesterdays fed decision to stay pat on Interest Rates. Most fed policymakers are not ruling out a rate hike by the end of the year, four of them are forecasting an increase in 2016 or later. At yesterdays News Conference chair yellen outlined her case for holding off on a rate hike. Light of the heightened uncertainties abroad, and the slightly softer expected path for inflation, the committee judged it appropriate to wait for more evidence including some further improvement in the labor market to bolster its confidence that inflation will rise to 2 in the medium term. Jim, some video of you as the decision was coming across the screens. You were excited. Because you did not want them to hike. Now everyone is worried about what theyre calling the third mandate, somehow the rest of the world is driving our Monetary Policy. What i like about it, carl, its over with. We can focus on companies doing well and buy their stock
Out will will unveil its latest iphone on september nice according to people familiar. We know the phones what have larger screens. One will be 5. 5 inches. The size of the big screens, what might other features may be iphone have . And ike to Brian Marshall started by asking about the screens. Believe it or not, our goal is almost two years behind and the leaders. It is going to be enough to a massive upgrade cycle. We kind of joke for the past year, it will be the mother load. Why five inches inches . That is big. The ipad. S with the largest smart phone we have seen was the lg flex. We saw it this past year. It is six inches of buzz in curves. It curves across the mandible. We do not think it was to bed. We do not think the 5. 5 will be too big. We did not think it was too big. Our best to guess it will probably be a 50 50 split. Apple did not seem to get it right the last time. When the phone under performed for them. What does apple do . We do not talk about how well they have man
Marketing campaigns quite like this one. The firstecomes league with welcome. I am stephanie ruhle. Thrilled to be here. Matt is in the house. I am filling in for Erik Schatzker, who is on assignment. He is really on assignment. Not one of those on assignment. I was just in sonoma on a track. Tough job. We have breaking Economic News to get to right now. April, mikeh of mckee is taking us through the numbers. 1. 3 increase does not, go whole lot, but it is the best since last july. Home sales rise to a 4. 6 5 billion annual rate. We have been talking about this for a while. Condos and cars, people are moving into that area, away from singlefamily homes. Condos up 7. 3 . We are seeing a better trend in home sales, but not in the singlefamily area as much as multifamily area. Supply goes up in the month of april. That is good news. We have been waiting for more people to put their homes on the market. That may have an effect going forward. Thank you very much for that. Not exactly hittin
Cases there are large gatherings happening. Or b, play it very safe, following Public Health advice to gather only with people they know and with a face mask close by. Take a look at washington, d. C. , right now. This is the National Mall. President trump will host a big public celebration there tonight with music, military demonstrations, and fireworks. No need for you to go anywhere. Well have live coverage right here for you on cnn to enjoy so you can stay safe. But the president barely mentioned the pandemic at his speech last night at mt. Rushmore, where, as you can see, several thousand people sat closely together. Only a few of them had masks on. This, despite the news breaking shortly before that speech that top Trump Campaign staffer Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for the coronavirus. Shes the girlfriend of the president s son, don trump junior, and was in south dakota preparing to attend that event. Elsewhere around the country right now, we have live looks. This is from