Across baltimore every night this week. Six officers have been suspended, and the mayor and Police Commissioner are promising the results of an investigation next week. Heres chip reid. Reporter this evening another mass protest in baltimore. Its become a daily ritual. Police commissioner anthony batts, in the job since 2012, has publicly vowed to end baltimores history of police misconduct. Today, he told cbs station wjz that the departments intentions were good but sometimes officers have gone too far. To an extent, were responsible for the pain in this community, where we thought we were doing gods work, where were going out trying to make communities safer weve made mass arrests and taken people to jail in numbers and weve obliterated this community. So we have to own that. Reporter but gene ryan, the head of baltimores fraternal police, today launched a spirited defense of the officers and in a statement likened the protesters like 2 a lynch mob. When youre trying to put somebody
Live from new york where business never sleeps this is squawk box. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick with joe and andrew. Are you a millionaire in the making . If so a new Study Suggests that you are most likely a woman and youre in your 40s. The survey finds that 68 of emerging investors are female. Right now women only make up about 40 of the existing millionaire population. Well bring you the other common characteristics later this hour. But first lets get you through some of the big stories were watching this morning. As joe just mentioned china lowering its 2015 growth target. Now going down to 7 . Thats down from 7. 5 last year. Asian stocks selling off on that news and our own colleague will be joining us from hong kong with a full story in just a minute. So hang on. In other global headlines brazil hiking Interest Rates to a six year high of 12. 75 . Feels a little bit different than here. Policy makers there are trying to fight inflati
Kitchen. Well show you how. Okay. Lets get to it. We begin with what could be Ground Breaking development in the war against alzheimers, the biggest news event in biotech this year and bet your Bottom Dollar investors and us watch closely. Biogen releasing full data tomorrow on the drug. Shares are rising, and in fact high today at 1. 8 as we speak. What is at stake here . Hey, mandy, a lot. Start with the size of the problem, more than 5 million americans currently have al timers disease, and that could triple by 2050 according to the alzheimers association. Its now the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Treatment options are limted. The only drugs in the market work on the symptoms rather than slowing the course of the disease. In recent years rs theres been a number of high profile failures of drugs making this a very risky bet. Agents data in december were positive. The study was small and named primarily to evaluate safety. It shows signs of ethics as well, removin
Down. Musk wants to commercialize space flight and hopes reusable rockets will reduce costs. Well get you up to speed on the markets in terms of the futures. Of course things will change in a big way but the dow looks higher and its surprising because well explain why in a moment. 48 points higher now. Nasdaq up 48 points and s p 500 up over 5 points. Its official. This mornings big corporate buzz story, the eu is just now announcing the antitrust moves expected against google. These are just crossing the wires at this point. European regulators are likely to accuse the company. They could face massive fines of 6 billion. Something like 10 of its worldwide sales are liable to be fined doing this and theyll be forced to change the Business Model. The eu has been looking at google for about five years now. Whats interest as good the company only gets about 10 weeks to respond. Its a different rule of law over there. Lets tell you about other big stories were watching this morning. New nu
Across baltimore every night this week. Six officers have been suspended, and the mayor and Police Commissioner are promising the results of an investigation next week. Heres chip reid. Reporter this evening another mass protest in baltimore. Its become a daily ritual. Police commissioner anthony batts, in the job since 2012, has publicly vowed to end baltimores history of police misconduct. Today, he told cbs station wjz that the departments intentions were good but sometimes officers have gone too far. To an extent, were responsible for the pain in this community, where we thought we were doing gods work, where were going out trying to make communities safer weve made mass arrests and taken people to jail in numbers and weve obliterated this community. So we have to that. Reporter but gene ryan, the head of baltimores fraternal police, today launched a spirited defense of the officers and in a statement likened the protesters like 2 a lynch mob. When youre trying to put somebody in j