welcome back to squawk. we re getting the final host from our guest host, howard wilson and howard ward. economy is getting better, capital chase returns and stocks continue to trend higher although there s profit taking here and there. okay. we ll take that to the bank. the key question about europe. it s all about credit quality. who do we have to worry about? spanish, italian and greece. you re very worried. people have to start doing their work. europe never did the work of fixing bank solvency in the first place. gentlemen, thank you for being here. happy monday. that does it for us today. make sure you join us tomorrow. right now it s time for squawk on the street. welcome to the last week of the first quarter. good morning. welcome to squawk on the street. i m carl quintanilla with melissa lee and jim kraker. futures reflecting the relief of the cyprus deal. a similar picture in europe where the italian tenure is now below where it was b
the stock of the day amerisource, you re right, becky. amerisource again. the prompter cuts everything off now. walgreens and alliance will get their branded and generic pharmaceuticals from that company and you have to buy them in order to position them as the drug wholesaler. arianna, thank you very much for joining us today. thank you. it was lots of fun. that does it for us today. it is time for squawk on the street. good tuesday morning. welcome to squawk on the street i m melissa lee with jim kramer and brian sullivan. carl quintanilla and david faber have this week off. let s take a look at how we are setting up course. we have a lot going on in the u.s. the fed meeting kicking off today. more signs also of a housing rebound with starts rising last month and permits rising to the highest levels in 08 and as for the picture in europe. german confidence hitting the highest level in three months and everyone will focus cyprus and w
why do you like it? price is 8 bucks. going to see a reacceleration in terms of revenue story. there s also a feeling on the street that potentially there are takeover targets. i think the stock on a value basis trade to ten with the knowledge that they are target. mike? i think board here is a great stock to buy. opened up week this morning. if you jumped in there, below 13 for a short amount of time. they raised the dividends. dividends up over 3% from current levels. we know there s negative news over europe. i think if you focus on the u.s., ford can go higher. stevesteven, you get the fin trade. gold, the move that we saw today it was a fear move, emotional trade as we saw the averages recover p. and we saw. even the euro start to recover and dollar trade back down. i think it s going to trade goal and get it back below 1600 and all the technical analysts out there that which i don t agree protecting the trade, the whole 1600, now capitulate. about to be
workers accept a 22% pay rise, ending six weeks of protest and violence. you re watching worldwide exchange, bringing you business news from around the globe. welcome to today s program. it s hump day. halfway through the week. i don t think antoine got the message. if he did, he wasn t listening. it s also speak of what today is, international what is it? pirate speaking day? speak like a pirate day. it s the tenth anniversary of international speak like a pirate day. are you suggesting there s a connection? there was a connection to bristol, you were saying. yeah. we ll get into that. there s so much there. we can t do it right now. coming up on today s show, minutes from the bank of england s monetary policy meeting. we ll find out whether the decision to keep qe unchanged this month or not. htc with a brand-new product, but will it be a phone or a tablet? possibly both. brazil is expected to begin hiking rates soon, but we ll talk to one guest who sa
paint business. apollo declined to increase its offer. and finally pfizer and johnson & johnson, bad news are scrapping further studies of an experimental alzheimer disease treatment. this comes after the drug failed to help patients with memory robbing condition in a second high-profile late the agency clinical trial. shares of those companies have been falling after hours on that news. in other corporate news. acer wants microsoft to reconsider its planned venture into the tablet market. they argue microsoft s plans to launch their own surface tablet would be negative for the worldwide eco system. acer has a tablet. chesapeake energy earnings fell short but revenue was above. company expects to announce the sale of a key west texas asset that we talked about to help that company s balance sheet within the next 30 face and shares did rise after hours. dream works and chinese partners announcing they will produce the next kung fu panda and jointly develop an entertainment