To 2 here as we await a big week in europe as well. We start with the markets. New optimism about the cliff. President obama in myanmar saying hes confident the fiscal situation will be dealt with hours after he hit the phones calling top ceos. Lowes shares on better than expected earnings. The results renewing hopes this morning about the housing recovery. International pressure mounts for israel and gaza to agree to a ceasefire after a weekend of air strikes leave a dozen dead and hundreds injured. Brent continues to climb with gold going higher. The president and congress will strike a deal to restore the fiscal cliff. Over the weekend in asia, the president said hes confident we can get the fiscal situation confident and reached out to ceos including tim cook, Warren Buffett and jamie dimon. After top house and Senate Leaders say fridays meeting was constructive. We see headlines that may bring news to other companies. Intel ceo Paul Otellini to retire. During this period where a l
Billion due to serious improprieties and misrepresentations and disclosure failures that occurred prior to its purchase by Hewlett Packard. In other words, its fraud. After autonomys founder and ceo Michael Lynch was fired by meg whitman, sources close to the company tell me a Senior Executive from autonomy came forward with evidence of widespread accounting misrepresentations that occurred before it was bought by hp. Hp began an investigation and concluded that these accounting improprieties inflated the value by 5. 3 billion. The ceo then relied on audited financials when making a bid to buy the company. Those financials were audited but there were plenty of investors out there who questioned autonomys growth rate. Sources close to the company allege that autonomy pursued a number of avenues to make margins, growth rate and overall value appear far higher than it actually was. The company was selling computer hardware. Desk top computers, its a Software Company at a loss to supplemen
The nasdaq down by about 12. Because of tomorrows holiday, you do have the Labor Department coming out, releasing its weekly jobless claims numbers today. We get them a day early instead of a day late. Also today well be getting Weekly Mortgage rates. And freddie mac will report on the Weekly Mortgage rate averages as well. Lets talk about the top Global Market story this morning. It is greeces International Lenders, which did not reach a deal, and now they wont be releasing that next bailout payment. Nearly 12 hours of talks failed to reach a consensus. The imf and the central bank all going to gather again on monday to try again, but this is not necessarily good news at all. Hostess brands will proceed with a plan to go out of business. The maker of twinkies says lastminute talks with the striking workers broke down yesterday, hearing with a bankruptcy judge set for 11 00 eastern time. Then we have another string of bad news. A bad development. A very bad development. I thought for s
Now off that low, down 39 at 12,756. Nasdaqs lower. Apple is also lower today after that monster 7 plus rally yesterday. Its down about a percent right now. The nasdaq down 8plus points. The s p is down 3 at 1383. Not a lot of news from the bernanke lunch except this. The federal chairman warning that if the economy does go off the fiscal cliff, he cant help. He has no more tools. Take a listen. We can certainly have a meaningful contribution to supporting recovery, but in particular, in the worst Case Scenario where the economy goes off the broad fiscal cliff, the largest fiscal cliff, which according to cbo and to our own analysis would throw the economy into recession, i dont think the fed has the tools to offset that. Thats why it is important for congress to address these fiscal issues soon. Boom. Thats where it was. You got that immediate market reaction. You were there. There was a reaction at the crowd too. Everybody has agreed that was the one thing he said that was probably n
Bowlessimpson proposal. Erskine bowles saying the gop offer does not represent the plan, he says both sides are kind of far away from it at this point and that its now up to negotiators to figure out where the middle ground is today. Bowles said that the mid point that i used back in this is where we were last year. So used the mid point of the negotiations, but its in longer the mid point i guess. He also said he is a testimony, but he has separated himself from the administration by saying that they thoo should have taken more of their proposals more seriously. He also said last night that you will see higher marginal tax rates. Higher marginal or effective . Higher mar begin ginal rates talking about last night. Thats part of the 500. He thinks as part of the compromise to get there, youll have to see the democrats get their way in terms of higher marginal tax rates. He also said that the republicans should be able to see higher entitlement cuts, that that should be part of this con