Opposition lawmakers while members from his own party resisted the cutbacks to creditors demands. Finance ministers are meeting today in brussels to consider the whole package. You figures revealed a slowdown in your area growth. Roseross thomistic product 3 10 a percent. Economists expected a stronger showing. The weakness especially pronounced in france, where gdp stagnated 20 to zero. Germanys economy grew 4 10 a percent. We will hear from our rome bureau chief and a couple moments. And hans nichols is here as well. Matt 4 10 a percent. We would not be happy in america. Be seen inction to ages stock markets. Chinas currency stabilized. The unexpected devaluation earlier this week rattled world markets. The currency is studying the second straight day, easing some of the uncertainties. The uns reference rate with Chinas Central Bank rose for the First Time Since the evaluation tuesday. Just 1 10 of 1 . Japanese Prime Minister shinzo other abe express profound grief for all who died i
Meddling well discuss the potential impact for facebook and for the other big tech names. Speaking of big tech names intel Ceo Brian Krzanich will be here for an exculusive interview about the companys new Autonomous Vehicle partnership with alphabets waymo unit that will be coming up a while from now. That will be very interesting. Plus, find out whether a nearly 8 billion Missile Defense deal could signal more deal making on the horizon for the Defense Industry which is enjoying alltime highs in this market today. Lets start, though, with facebook feeling more pressure from washington over those russian ad buys ahead of the election Julia Boorstin has the very latest julia . Reporter hey, kelly. Facebooks under fire for recent revelations that russians bought ads on the social network to influence the president ial election House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member adam schiff is calling on the company to testify before congress saying im distressed it has taken us this long to be
Merge. Hacking america, a secret military unit is said to be behind a series of attacks, but our friend, china, denying the reports. And countering it was the victim of u. S. Hacking. And the bulls are back from a threeday weekend. Can the s p 500 post an eighth straight week of gains . Weve got four days to find out. Its tuesday, february 19th, 2013. Squawk box begins right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin who is back from vacation. Lets get started with the markets. As joe mentioned, the s p winning streak has been a strong one. In the meantime, the dow is coming off a second straight weekly loss. Although, really, if you looked at this last week, it was the ever so slightest of losses. U. S. Equity futures are indicated higher. Dow up by 21 points. S p is up by two points above value fair and the nasdaq is up about 3. In 20 minutes, well turn to predictions on where the markets go from here.
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