After a poor first half due to poor weather and a weak yen. Fingers crossed, everybody, that today will be the end when we have to the end of time when we can stop talking about taper. Set taper gossip giving away to cold, hard facts when the feds twoday meeting concludes. The fass dak being up at a 15year peak on tuesday, u. S. Treasuries up for the fifth day in a row and the nikkei up on an eightweek high. Investors appeared calm by the prospects of a modest scale back of stimulus. But what if recent data turns paper light into paper zero . Get a look at some of the estimates for more. Cnbc. Com. Right now for more we have our own inhouse expert here in london. Karen has all the details. These are the estimates to how much the fed will taper. We have got first up let me run you through the numbers. Warptants expect 14. 5 billion to be taken off the table, up absolutely from the Previous Survey which averaged just over 12 billion. The poll of Top Economists said reduction, which is ex
U. S. Market, especially the nonblue chips will work its way higher perhaps by 20 to 30 in the next year or more likely over two years with the rest of the world including emerging Market Equities covering even more ground in at least a partial catchup. But then he continues, we will have a series of of serious market busts since 1999 and presumably greenspan, bernanke, yellen, et al. Will help happy. And we the people, of course, will get what we deserve. Dow futures down by 11 points. S p futures off by 2. 25 points. It is worth pointing out that we have seen a super strong run since october 9th. Were going to continue to talk about the markets throughout the morning. But first, we heard to some of the mornings top corporate stories. Thanks, beck. I wish we could get someone to look at his recent comments. I cannot remember in recent years him predicting we would get this far. Hes always been pretty concerned, so i dont know. I dont know how to read that. We need someone to look in t
Andrew, welcome back. Thank you, becky. It is now official, weve been talking about it for weeks if not months, but bnp paribas has pleaded guilty to charges and paid ads 9 billion fine to resolve violations. 9 billion i think is the most any bank has ever paid in a case like this. The bank is banned for a year from conducting certain dollar transactions. Thats key and its important because its a key part of bnps International Business and will cost them and hit their bottom line. Fbi director jim comey yesterday with a message to all shareholders, not just those with a stake in bnp. The 9 billion thats walking out the door today is your money. We do these cases over and over again and shareholders money walks out the door. Until shareholders demand from their boards that those boards choose leaders who understand what it means to create a healthy culture of compliance, the money will keep walking out the door, well have to keep doing this work. And the penalties against bnp are signif
Those numbers expected to hit at 7 30 a. M. Eastern time. Then well have muhtar at 8 00. Johnson johnson expected to report. Theyre expected to earn 1. 48 a share on revenue of 18 billion. After the bell, youll have to wait for it, intel and yahoo are reporting. You can get the numbers on the closing bell. Then on the economic front, hire whats going on. The government is going to release the Consumer Price index for march. Economists expect a slight tickup, up. 1 . That is coming at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. We have a lot on the agenda. Midnight is the deadline for taxes, right . Yes. Are you done . Oh, yeah. I paid for my Auto Insurance, er. No extension . No extension. Straight. Okay. Good for you. Huge bulls eye on your back. Yeah, for sure. Youre like one big like tea party. Youre like a Big Tea Party yeah. Youre one of those nonprofit. Yeah. They dont like you. No one as. Going to rain on your parade today, andrew. No one is going to rain. This is a big day. Its a day to celebrate
Substantial. The nasdaq composite is up half of 1 . The swing is not even 100 points. We started off in the red and now we are in the green. We got in home prices that rose the fastest in seven years. This group is doing really well. Kb homes up 7. 7 . We saw double digit Revenue Growth for kb homes. Back to you. Lori thank you, nicole. Gaining 12. 4 from a year ago. There are some concerns about the home price gains peaking. Adam news alert for you, Eric Schneiderman seeking the help of washington, d. C. To help prevent highfrequency traders from getting information earlier than the rest. They paid thompson and reuters for that information. Speaking at the bloomberg market, the attorney general had this to say. We are seeing something far more insidious than insider trading. Small coop of powerful groups inside the market are able to use soon to be Public Information combined with highfrequency trading. Adam he says regulators face several challenges tracking and preventing these. He