A sea of red. Dow open 133 points off. S p 500 off. And nasdaq off 37 points now. Lets look at the ten year treasury. The yields hitting the highest level since early december. Looking at 2. 338 there. And also you should Pay Attention to the german bund driving a lot of the action in the global bond market lately and especially overnight. 2. 3 . Didnt we close yesterday at 2. 2 . Pretty big move. It was a big decline of more than one point yesterday in the ten year. And the bund last time it bounced. We couldnt figure it out. Remember that morning we were here early. This chart is incredible. That was the one that went there and the markets were covered. Its going to test the recent highs in yield. It was because the economy was going. Its what we talked about that day. We live by the sword, die by the sword. When rates finally start being normalized in europe we were staying low. Lets show everybody whats going on in the European Equity markets. Theres a big sell off going on this mo
Our Long National nightmare is over. Our Long National nightmare is over. Our Long National nightmare is over. Our Long National nightmare is over. Letterman is retiring. [laughter] hes just kidding, right . Charlie here was his final top 10. David top 10. Thank you. I think this is a pretty good list, considering it is our last list, and the category, top 10 things i have always wanted to say today. Listen to this, presenting tonights top 10 list, 10 frequent late show guests and good friends of ours trade once again, top 10 things. Let me thank them in advance, i appreciate their time, the talents, and her generosity. Top 10 things ive always wanted to say today. Number 10, alec baldwin. Of all the talk shows, yours is most geographically convenient to my home. Thank you, alex. Number nine, barbara walters. Barbara dave, did you know that you wear the same cologne is my orthodontist . David i do know that. Number eight, steve martin. Your extensive Plastic Surgery was a necessity. An
Cspan elsa walsh, why did you write divided lives . Guest i wrote this book because i thought that women werent telling the truth about their lives, that they were presenting particularly prominent women were presenting a very idealized version of what it was like to be a woman in the 80s and the 90s, and that was a picture that didnt at all reflect what i heard other women talking about. My friends talking about, women i had interviewed as a journalist. I knew it was a lot tougher out there than the little blips in the road that you saw that women talked about in public sort of presentations. Cspan is this your first book . Guest its my very first book. We also call it my first baby. Cspan was it hard . Guest it was hard. Writing a book is much harder than i anticipated. Its something that you really have to be committed to doing. But it was also fun, gave me a good life during the period i took off. I was a reporter at the Washington Post. Im still there and im on leave. And it gave
Stocks are down for eight straight days. That is their longest losing streak in 11 years. The second Texas Health Care worker infected with the disease has been transferred to a hospital in atlanta. The cdc had given her the goahead and said passengers e at little risk areas where always open about what we know when we know it and we always share more rather than less information as we work to protect americans and provide extra margins of safety wherever possible. Ago, tom frieden said any hospital in the u. S. Can safely take care of ebola and were finding out that is a different story. Beatue and earnings estimates and goldman boosted a Quarterly Dividend by a nickel. One reason, Investment Banking lows. Portion of revenue to pay employees. The company known for secrecy has leaked pictures of its newest ipad tablet. Apple done in typical style, they were posted wednesday on itunes before being taken down. And apple is hoping the new ipads will jumpstart sales. In hong kong, the gove
Scientific research centers, and he puts his name on almost all of them. You want the world to know about it by putting your name on all the things you do support. I dont keep it a secret, thats for sure. [ticking] when sony, the Electronics Giant thats the epitome of japan incorporated, lost its cutting edge, it did something radical. It hired a westerner, sir Howard Stringer, as its new ceo. Sony is no longer the coolest. This is the coolest. You can take ipod and beat us over the head with it, but its only one product, and we have 1,000 products. Still, talk about a tough job. He has to turn sony around in a culture thats not always easy for a westerner to understand. Sorry. Thats all right. Were you lost in translation too . Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im steve kroft. In this edition, we talk with a trio of business moguls, carl icahn, eli broad, and sir Howard Stringer. We begin with carl icahn. It takes a certain breed of stock market investor to thrive in queasy times, and ic