In just a few hours. As for europe, some green arrows, despite a miss in the eurozone in production this morning. The road map starts this morning with, of course, the fed. Expectations for revamped bond buying program. What will the Economic Forecast say about next year and what to make of the wall street journal story that says academics are driving Monetary Policy at secret dinners in switzer land. More counteroffers in the debt negotiations. It looks like Corporate Taxes are part of the deductions. Costco beats by 2 cents, better sales and better sales and membership fees. Some more reports about apple tv today. The journal said its designing a high new highresolution set. Microsoft trying to widen the list of retailers that will carry the surface tablet. The fed is going to wrap up its twoday meeting. A watch is on to see if ben bernanke and policy makers make a decision about the Interest Rates. Later on, the chairman will hold a News Conference, and of course, cnbc, will bring i
We find chris live in melbourne. Chris, we saw you last hour. Since then the sun has risen. Whats changed there since we saw you last . Hi, cori and kendis. Its like Mother Nature was giving us a warning a few minutes ago. Right now we have blue sky in melbourne, florida, but for about four seconds we had a nice little rain shower, a dark cloud coming over like, this is coming. Let me show you the beach. It is a beautiful morning. I cant stress how nice it is right now with the sun coming up over the water, but you can see the surf is really, really rough. We have some people walking the beach every now and then, but the timing is running out for people to get prepared. State and local officials are a little concerned that people might not take this very seriously because the storm has been downgraded. And they say, obviously, that would be a mistake, because even if this is a Tropical Storm when it hits this part of the space coast, theyre very worried about the storm surge. They are
Different this time around. Im ali velshi, and this is real money. This is real money, and your ate the most important part of the show. Hit me up at facebook. Com slash ali velshi. The United States and the United Nations up the ante. Both targeting russia with sanctions. Treasury sector jack liu said given russias military efforts to destabilize ukraine we have deepened our sanctions against it but extended an olive branch to the russians saying if they pull back their support for the operatists in ukraine, they will withdraw it. But the big issue that created the stand off between russia and United States. Sanctions specifically banned transactions with five stateown companies. And targeted a tech firm that does a lot of business with the russian military. Five of russias banks are targeted survivel severely restricting their ability to borrow bond money. But the Energy Sector is one that will be felt by multi nationals on this side of the atlantic. Exxonmobil is paying the majority
This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show. Join our lives conversation on twitter and facebook. There is intriguing news today with the mega retailer target. It did not involve that breach of credit cards, but it is another Public Relations headache. The Company Announced it is going to end health comfortable for all its part time workers more than 36,000 people. They say its good news for those workers because by targets own admission there are better Coverage Options better on state and federal insurance exchanges now that obamacare is up and running. The new healthcare exchanges are gaining in popularity. As of three weeks ago, 2. 2 Million People had signed up since enrollment started in october. The department of health and Human Services estimate 79 of all enrollees expected plans with Financial Assistance from the government. Back to the 2. 2 Million People already enrolled. The latest figure shows twothirds of these people had insurance before signing
Squawk on the street begins right now. Good wednesday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. The shows going well already. Im carl, with melissa lee, jim cramer and david faber. We have earnings season officially under way. Courtesy of alcoa, some pretty decent sentiment this morning. Well talk about that with cramer in a moment. Europe, numbers over there as well. Germany Industrial Production did miss. Green arrows across the board from london to paris to frankfurt. Our road map kicks off with earnings season. Europe is better than expected, but does this set the tone for the season with goldman predicting the s p will be in a Holding Pattern for the first quarter. Apple at the low end. The journal reporting a cheaper iphone may be in the works. Is apple simply going to where the growth is, and a sign that margins may face more pressure . Yet another setback for boeing and the 787. Canceling a domestic flight after a computer erroneously signaled a brake problem. Clearwire gets a