Ukraine and the pro russian separatists. No letup for a bruised market. Ukraine, troops at the border. The futures do rise. It is a money and murder investment, cia kraft will make what is its largest acquisition ever. Citi reports stronger than expected numbers. The stock is rising, headcount may not be. Get a new friend request. Facebook looks into whats next, yeah, a digital currency. First up after a rough week on wall street, stocks are poised to open higher this morning. Retail sales rose a better than expected in march. After the nasdaq closed below 4,000 for the first time, s p and nasdaq each suffered their first Weekly Performance since june of 2012. Jim, on friday, you had a playbook of sorts to get us through the week. Namely around companies that are going to report, coke, ibp, google and others. We are trying to see whether the value of revolution continues. Cocacola i dont expect to be good. If that works, which would be similar to what General Mills had last week and ke
And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown washington was awhirl today with more talk of avoiding the muchdiscussed fiscal cliff. But as november wound down, the president suggested an agreement on taxes and spending could come in time for the holidays. I believe that both parties can agree on a frame work that does that in the coming weeks. In fact my hope is to get this done before christmas. You know me, i was born with the glass half full. Im an optimist. Brown hopeful signs emanated from the white house and the capitol today, about getting a deal before the new year brings automatic tax hikes and spending cuts. President obama offered his optimism at an event with middleclass americans whod be hit by any tax increase. Im glad to see if youve been reading the papers lately that more and more republi
Change peoples minds about the war on drugs without making it a race issue. In fact, you know, every poll thats been done shows that white americans in particular dont want to hear about race or racial bias or the racial dimension of any issue, let alone mass incarceration on the war on drugs. But i believe we would be making a huge mistake if we were to pursue drug policy reform without talking about the racial dimension of this crisis. Because if we do, if we go about our advocacy in a colorblind way and talk just about cost savings and dollars and cents, and the benefits of drug treatment, never address the racial dimention, we will fail to learn the critical sson that this moment in our history has to teach us. Marion cotillard, Andrew Solomon, and a look at incarceration when we continue. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Marion Cotillard is here. She came to fame with her oscarwinning performance in 2007s fil
Susie a parade of Business Leaders in washington today to persuade president obama and congress to avoid the fiscal cliff. With just 33 days left to nail down a deal, c. E. O. S made the rounds to explain to lawmakers that because of cliff gridlock, theyre holding back on hiring and spending. As darren gersh reports, c. E. O. S werent the only ones campaigning hard today. Reporter the president and republicans focused today on staging events designed to pressure the other side. The president called on americans to tweet, facebook and call members of congress to tell them to pass tax cuts for everyone making less that 250,000 a year. 97 of Small Businesses would not see their income tax go up by a single dime. Even the wealthiest americans would still get a tax cut on the first 250,000 of their income. Reporter the speaker dismissed a call from a fellow republican to give the president what he wants, saying its not good economics to raise tax rates on Small Businesses. Going over the fi
before the joint economic committee. that starts at 10:00 eastern time, and obviously, investors will be looking for hints of a policy shift, although none is expected. if you go with conventional wisdom, this will be more dovish talk. also we get the minutes from last month s fomc meeting, released at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. in other news on the fed, politico is reporting that chairman bernanke met privately last week with house oversight and government reform committee chairman darrell issa, along with other lawmakers. they are said to have talked about the central bank s efforts to try and stimulate the economy and possible exit strategies as well. now, issa sent a letter to bernanke last month expressing display that the fed was not providing lawmakers with more information about how it plans to wind down its bond portfolio. maybe he hasn t wanted those things to leak. the news of this meeting leaked, but the details did not. among some of the other items on today s u.s