Giants stock buyback program. Mr. Icahn has a large stake in apple and maybe asking tim cook for an even bigger buyback. David that could be fly in that room twitter could make the ipo plans public as soon as this week. Fox businesss charlie gasparino, reporting the filing has to come this week if the offering is to be priced this year. Liz google had a u. K. Tax bill of just, 55 million last year but on sales of 5. 5 billion to british customers. The tech giant channeled nearly all the overseas profits to a subsidiary in bermuda today. Investors watching Royal Dutch Shell after the energy giant said it plans to sell in its stake in the eagleford shale in southern texas. They say it doesnt meet its global targets. Liz here is the news of the American Airlines is hiring more pilots. The carrier will recruit 1500 new pilots and recall all of the remaining furloughed crews. David jury selection has begun in the muchanticipated civil trial of mark cuban. He of course the billionaire owner
Rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside Natalie Morales, diylan as well. I love that music. Its kind of catchy. Weve been doing the drum beat for a long time. Welcome to the Alpine Village about 30 miles up in the caucacus mountains. Thats not some kind of a movie backdrop. Thats the real thing behind us. The mountains along the river, got some nice people Milling Around here. You mentioned that some of the games have gotten under way. Well be talking to some of the athletes fresh from their qualifying rounds in just a couple of minutes. And also unfortunately well have more on that security alert coming from the u. S. Government, ladies. Well, we look forward to catching up on all of that. The olympics are under way, the figure skating tonight, one of the favorite events. As you said, that top issue is this terror warning. Its a scary one. Yes, it really is. Im joined here by kyra simmons of nbc. He has more
As for todays market agenda, there are a number of key economic releases to be watching. At 8 30 this morning, we get weekly jobless claims plus the Producer Price index. Later this morning, theres manufacturing pmi, the philly fed survey and leading economic indicators. In earnings central today, retail is once again the key them this morning. Companies reportsing before the bell include target, dollar tree, Abercrombie Fitch and game stop. Well be watching closely after what we heard about walmart. Andrew, over to you. Thank you, becky. We have Corporate News this morning. The government rejecting fair homes recapitalization proposal of fannie mae and freddie mac. Heres what happened. Obama adviser Gene Sperling arguing the only way to revamp the home loan market is through what he calls proper Housing Finance reform. He didnt directly refer to fair homes proposal, but he did say that the administration cant allow fannie and freddie to be recapitalized in the current corporate form.
Doughnut. And naturally Donald Trumps hair, but instead of running your fingers through that. Would you like to touch the iron. Sure . Hasbro is using the new versus old token to try to pump up sales of monopoly. But watch out, kitty, that iron steams. The iron not very nice. Remember, you can follow me and what is going on here in the situation room on twitter and tweet me. Thank you for watching. The news continues next on cnn. You are in the cnn newsroom, im in for don lemon. Lets get you up to speed for the stories making news this hour. First, this storm and now the digout. Some parts of the northeast got off light, and other parts got slammed with more than 3 feet of snow. The blizzard is over, but they have a few days of hard work ahead before life returns to normal. 100 miles east of los angeles, that sound, Police Helicopters you can hear them there as they took over the air today over the San Bernardino mountains searching for annexcop. Christopher dorner has been the target
Dow jones industrials down 117 points and those losses down 6, the nasdaq composite the best group to dance names like microsoft and cisco doing well and the nasdaq is one of the 3. We got a weaker forecast in europe and that weighed on things around here. And cbs, a care markets briefed via outlook, and the fact they have participation of public and private Health Insurance they say list revenue going into 2014, isnt that nice . Up 2. 7 . It hit a new high at 64. 44 and they noted the process more prescriptions for new clients which was good news. Lets watch traffic with competitors noted traffic for items falling to a certain extent. Adam so far 2013 is the strongest year for ibm ands since 2007 with Tech Companies featured prominently among those going public including of course twitter. They start trading thursday but how worried should an investor be that several of these are not even profitable . For is that they turn to john molloy, a cofounder of blue run ventures, joins us for