Were going to get back to john in a moment. Clearly we had an audio issue there. John reporting on this upcoming meeting on the heels of the discussion last night. Which by all accounts seems to indicate or suggest that perhaps we could see the government open as early as next tuesday as the what im hearing. The offer from the House Republicans is to to have a temporary debt ceiling extension of about six weeks. Then they have to decide if theyre going to open the government again at that time. John harwood, are you back with us now . Im with you. Can you hear me . Yes. Now we can hear you. Have at it. Bill, the deal on the table from republicans, it will be discussed at 4 30 when republicans meet with the president at the white house. Is that theyre willing to excuse me. To raise the debt limit for about six weeks. To midnovember. The president is going to ask insist that they reopen the government as well. Now, theres some interesting back and forth today. Jay carney said the adminis
Rich edson, we have flown him all the way to chattanooga, tennessee. I dow the fine folks there will understand a word that you say, rich. Rich they are picking up on the accent. Looking at this movement that pushed against the effort to organize workers here at the volkswagen plant, the uaw was granted somewhat unusual access. Almost a partnership with volkswagen. There was an expedited election. They are saying that this is a big failure. This all continues. It has been the first bite. One employee says he does not want this town to become detroit. Who is growing. Who is moving forward. Look at detroit. Look at city blocks of empty houses. What is the common denominator . The uaw. One possible other chapter this past election. It could be a point of contention. The uaw said there is influence from outside. Theyre basically saying that volkswagen would decide to build another plant here if they rejected the uaw. The nlrb could decide to hold another election if they determined there w
Better battery, bigger screen and we will talk about that later in the show. Out, house of cards came friday and more people are binging on this show than ever before. We will tell you how many and has netflix is more more shocking storytelling. Our lead story is the company that makes the addictive and super popular puzzle game candy crushed saga has filed to go public. King Digital Entertainment raised 500 million in an ipo. The company is based in dublin. We got to see a lot of numbers and some pretty good numbers but not some great numbers. What is your take away . These numbers were pretty much what we reported about six months ago and it shows they are reliant on one game for the majority of the revenue, about 87 . What we need to find out is if they can parlay candy crushed into other titles to make a lot of money. The next two titles fall off by a massive amount in terms of the amount of revenue. The way they make money is that users within the game by Digital Goods and thats w
Exchange. The nasdaq is up eight days in a row, the longest winning streak since july. To the russell 2,000 you see some weakness for the ddw jones, down 18 points, a big reason would be cocacola contributing nine dow points, and positive dow points. Home Builder Sentiment and new York State Manufacturing numbers, both of them were big misses and huge disappointments and the weather has something to do with this so we had those reports and i want to point out we had an awful month of january but there seems no panic in the market and coming off of the best week of the year, no excitement as well on the way back up. Connell we are moments away from president obama expected to announce tighter fuel efficiency standards, holding maryland, part of the pledge in the state of the union address. Dagen is a heavyduty vehicle. Connell now that you mention it, good point. Dagen the column that is there with more on this, this all trickles down to the consumer one way or another any time you incr
No class. A whistleblower says unc put top athletes in classes that never even met. His college ball killing the academy . Youll hear from an outraged faculty member. You are watching Market Makers. Its friday, everybody. Im Erik Schatzker. And im stephanie ruhle. Moving to new york city. Because he wants to be close to the bars. Wrote that and then closet crossed it out in his blog. Welcome to new york. Right now it is time for the top stories from around the world. We will begin with a fraud affecting citigroups mexican subsidiary that forced the bank to restate last years earnings. Profit was 235 million less than first reported in january. The bank said the fraud involved an Oil Services Company that was a key supplier to the mexican state owned oil producer. Citibank had provided them with shortterm loans related to accounts receivable of amex. Ukraine says Russian Troops are directly involved in the conflict in crimea. Troops have occupied the regions main airport. Another one is