Trying to sustain economic momentum. The stocks reacting negatively to that news. Read things on the economic front. 8 30 initial jobless claims. 9 45 Bloomberg Consumer comfort. No jobs report tomorrow. It will be next friday. Storm hittingr the northeast. We will get updates from bonnie schneider. Bring it in close. The winter boots. Broke them out early. Is that ok . Likes it is ok. Eight inches in new york. Possibly 14 outside in places like boston. There we are. Futures up nicely. If you did nothing since thanksgiving, you had to dive and in january. The yield is a big story. Euro a little bit weaker. Nymex crude has done nothing for one month, two months . The vix did not move down that much. 13. 72. The difference in yield. A stronger chinese currency off the good economic data. Brent crude does nothing. Is what the pros are looking at. They are looking at the yield difference between the two and the 10. Down we go through 2013. We come back to a steeper yield. What does the ste
Numbers, we see a little bit of an improvement. It is really incremental. Mainis really one of the benchmarks. How many cases of the carbonated soft drinks and soft drinks more broadly do they ship. You looking at unit case volume of two percent. This gain was international. It was up two percent. North american volume was last. This is an ongoing issue that cocacola has been facing. Companies earnings per share came in line with estimates. You can see that shares are rising as people look at the volumes numbers and earnings numbers. Ceo reallyn the focus on cost cutting as a way to make up for that. Trendroadly, the secular is that we are seeing the appetite, especially in north carbonated soft drinks declining. We heard ken shea talk about that in the past hour. Seeing concerns about aspartame and diet drinks. Thank you so much. Julie hyman turning to the economy. Americans hate inflation. The feds theoretically hates inflation. Aboute people so worried the falling inflation rate ahe