Announcing that russia and ukraine agreed to a ceasefire starting on sunday. Leaders agreeing to with draw heavy weapons from the Eastern Ukraine region. Thats the area between ukrainian and prorussian separatists. The rouble was moving higher and that would be understandable. Higher than more than. 5 . At the bottom we show you the dollar so it had been steadily weakening against the dollar over the last year but strengthening at this point. Lets show you the russian index. This is the rts. Its higher by more than 4 and the major european stock markets right now, across the board they should be higher. Germany is higher by more than 1. 5 . Right now the dow would open higher by more than 12 and nasdaq by more than 30. Much more on this developing story and Market Reaction coming up in just a few minutes. For a few other big stories were watching at this hour, greece unable to finalize a deal within the European Union but the greek finance minister says talks to overhaul the countries
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
Happy monday to you. Welcome to the closing bell. Im maria bartiromo. Im bill griffith. Whod have thunk it . Stocks gaining today on a proposal about a tax increase. Markets in the green kicking off the week with hopes Speaker John Boehner is floating higher tax on people with incomes over 1 million. Were wondering if this will be a beginning of a kick start for a deal finally. Certainly feels like the market feels that way. Compares to the 250,000 threshold which originally the president had been sticking to. Take a look. Even though it is off of the best levels which happened at about 1 00 p. M. Eastern today. On the s p still higher by 11 points. The markets watching washington and shuttling back and forth between the white house and the capitol. Eamon javers has the latest. It looks like at this point the senate is going to have to come back on december 26th to take up among other pieces of legislation the fiscal cliff solution. Apparently. So whether or not thats set in stone, we
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