perceive it or do more than is absolutely necessary. and in japan, minute endo promises to regain its shine after poeing it first annual loss in more than 30 years. and fed chairman ben bernanke down plays the expectation of any further easing in the mere future but doesn t completely close the door. i remain prepared to use balance sheetle tools to support the recovery and to help make sure unemployment continues its downward path. and u.s. trade representative ron kirk says china has room to free up its markets further. ambassador kirk joins us live for a first on cnbc interview. and coming up in today s program, u.s. treasury secretary tell oth any geithner says europe is doing a better job of managing its crisis. find out what else he told cnbc in an exclusive interview. and the exclusives don t stop there. i spoke to the chairman of icbc. tune in for that at 10:40 cet, plus ways to make money in latin america. we hear from an expert who is overweight brazil. find
weeks? he did see his shadow. one day after we kicked off the month on a bullish note, the dow looking to lose about three points on the open, but basically unchanged across the board, as for europe, taking a look there, and similar action there, up just fractions of a percent. the dissection of facebook continues this morning, but how do you play it outside of the facebook name? we will get cramer s take on that and more specifically this morning, zinga. will there be sparks between ben bernanke. will there be sparks between him and paul ryan? and a mixed bag in the retail sales results, target, limited, costco, macy macy s. we have to start off with facebook. now we have some of the metrics here that we didn t know before, we know how many users they have, 845 million users, we know how much revenue they make, it s an 88% growth rate. try to replicate this company, you can t. when you try to evaluate that company, if i gave you a lot of money, could you re-creat
disappointments. facebook sets the wheels in motion filing for a $5 billion ipo and giving the public a first glance at how it makes money from friend requests and the like button. okay. so welcome to the program. today we re going to focus right off the top on earnings and m&a activity. europe is one hour into the trading day. advances equaling decliners on the dow jones stoxx 600. it s about the detail of the earnings and the m&a news. we ll be digging into deutsche bank. cac is down. bond auction out of france today. ftse mib down 58 points as well. in terms of sector performance right now that xstrata/glencore boosting their stock. chemicals, financial services are firm here. we have seen disappointment from the licks of unilever, the trend seems to be weakening. we ll hear from paulman as well l. shell is weaker. that s dragging oil and gas down. here is the key thing as well. auctions not only from france but spain today so we ll keep our eyes on ten-year government
and jean-claude trichet, and wolfgang schauble and olli rehn. the nasdaq is inching higher. fortunately we re above 1300 on the s&p 500. mary thompson is our eye on the floor of the new york stock exchange. we ve been above the 1300 on the s&p all week. that is positive. we re closing above 1315 for the week, meaning it finished the week in the green. so it s up for the fourth straight week as well. we ll take it. again, a mixed day in the headlines. gdp weaker than expected. earnings were mixed. then we got the facebook news around 2:00 eastern time today. a busy day as far as the news flow goes here on the markets. volume, again, continues to be very weak here. let s take a look at the dow movers, it will tell the story here. chevron coming in with earnings less than expectations. that put pressure on its dow component exxon mobil. procter & gamble put pressure on its stock. cisco down with weaker than expected results. travelers, was down today. the biggest loser among
and now, bbc world news america. welcome to newsday on the bbc. i am in london. here are the headlines. syria s president denies ordering his troops to kill anti- government protesters. under pressure, britain s prime minister fault calls for a referendum on europe. vladimir putin is certain he will stand for the presidency. this is newsday. hello, there. we start in syria where president bashar al-assad has insisted he has not ordered the killing of any protesters during his government s brutal crackdown more than 4000 people have lost their lives during a nine-month democracy uprising. in a rare interview, president assad said that any leader who would kill his own people would be crazy. the day after day, unarmed syrian protesters come out to use to face machine guns, snipers, and armored vehicles. the cost so far is 4000 dead. but in his abc interview, ,assd denies killing his own. we do not kill our own. no government in the world kill its people, u