Last ten years. Were going to talk more about this store with the tech giant in just a minute, but first, andrew, over to you. General mills is buying organic foot Food Producer annies. 46 a share in cash is the price tag. 820 million in total. Thats more than 37 premium to annies Closing Price yesterday. Maker of cheerios hoping that deal will help it expand in the fast growing Natural Foods market. Were going to talk more about foods and the consumer in the next hour with the ceo of kellouke kello kelloggs, john brian. Analysts say global comps likely to climb by 4 last month with samestore sales have been falling by more than 2 for mcdonalds. Well see if they can turn that around. Shares down nearly 9 in the last three months. Restaurant and arcade chain dave busters is filing for an ipo. The Company Looking to raise up to 100 million, listing under as a symbol play. The company pulled plans to go public in 2012. Earlier this year, scrapped plans to sell itself for more than 1 is mi
Good morning. Todays top stories, a key debt auction in italy amid postelection uncertainty. In the u. S. Quarterly report due from retailers like target, dollar tree, and tjx. Plus, ben bernanke goes back to capitol hill. Yesterday the markets rallied on what the fed chairman had to say with support of easy Monetary Policy. Its wednesday, february 27, 2013. We have one day or two days left in the month. Squawk box begins right now. You called me a dove. Maybe in some respects i am. But on the other hand, my inflation record is the best of any Federal Reserve chairman in the postwar period or at least one of the best. About 2 average inflation. So we have worked on both sides of the mandate. And were trying to achieve a stronger economy for everybody. Good morning, everyone, welcome to squawk box on this next to the last day of february. It is not a leap year this year. You know that, joe. Friday is march 1. Im becky quick along with joe kerner and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Weve been watchin
Kornacki in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. Well, stopping trump was a riddle for ten months no one in the Republican Party could solve. Now, were t minus six months until election day and that riddle still looms large as Hillary Clinton and the democrats plunge into general election battle mode with trump. But before we get to that, theres been some movement in whats been dubbed as a kamikaze effort to recruit someone who run a thirdparty bid against trump and clinton in november. The Washington Post reports that a group of exasperated republicans and actively plotting to draft an independent candidate. And theyve looked at a number of names, including the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, mark cuban. And we are going to talk with the always candid mark cuban in just a minute on this show. Make sure you stay tuned for that. But first, lets look at the clinton trump war for the white house. Over the weekend, president obama previewing what hell sound like once hes free to
An initial tweet after boarding air force one that clarified his comments on the Intelligence Community. He wanted to make sure that was clear. At the very first chance he had in a public setting, the following day, he clarified his comments and i dont think that it was that long for that to be the very first public appearance that he had following arriving back to the United States. Its a pretty long time and it was out there for quite a time it wasnt 24 hours before he responded at all. Again, he put out an initial tweet from air force one. To clarify his remarks to clarify the would to wouldnt or wouldnt to would. And i think a lot of people would argue that there was ample time for the president. He tweets all the time from air force one. And he tweeted that night. To put out a statement which clarified what he meant to say during the joint News Conference and he didnt do that. What took so long is my question . Once he reviewed the transcript, he wanted to publicly he wanted to pu