Famine. We have more on premier league games coming up. Hundreds of iranian soldiers have taken part in a joint operation inside iraq with kurdish forces. Thats according to forces on the front line. It is believed to be the first time that iranian troops have been involved with fighting thon scale. They have the peshmerga taking the town from Islamic State, what more can you tell us about the iranian fighters who are there . Reporter well, it was an operation aimed by iranians protecting their own border. The place theyre fighting is to kilometers from that frontier. There has been iranian involvement in this fight in the sense of advisers, iranian backed militias and Security Officials that come and go between the two countries. They say they were engaged in the fighting and retreated very early this morning back across the border. The peshmerga said they were going to continue their effort to retake the town of diyala. The Iraqi Government is participating with helicopter strikes an
Crude oil does figure very prominently into the movements of our market. As you can see, wti down again. Not a great deal but down again this morning. As for the tenyear note yield hovering around amazingly enough that 2 level. That is exactly where we find ourselves at weekend. The first full trading week of 2015. We are going to have more on the jobs report in a moment. Our road map starts with continuing terror in paris. Multiple hostage situations unfolding. We are going to bring you the latest details throughout the show. Here at home the december jobs report comes in above forecast. Well get the administrations reaction from labor secretary thomas perez. First on cnbc. Nelson peltz launches a proxy fight for four board seats. Jim and i both will have more on that impending battle. December jobs report shows nonfarm payrolls rose 252,000, above forecast that were around 240,000. Unemployment rate down to a 6 1 2 year low. It is now 5. 6 . Some of the decline reflected people leavi
Global markets are going now. Dont do it today, hitting that 118,000 mark, could tomorrows jobs number put us over the top . A closer look at what people are expecting tomorrow morning, when that allimportant report from the Labor Department is released, 8 30 a. M. Morelier Oil Prices Today as we showed here on closing bell yesterday. Some stations, look at that we did it, 1. 99 a gallon. Thats why a few politicians now from both sides to of the aisle are starting to talk about the possibility of raising the gasoline tax, which hasnt been done in about 20 years and use that money to help fix our crumbling infrastructure. We have a de bit on that. Our friends kudlow and frank will be joining us. That should be fun. Looking forward to that. Will have a chance to weigh in. Here is what we see on the markets, an hour to go in the session it is the oil names again which are weighing on the dow, off about 16 points. Seems like chevron off about 2 . Exxon down about half of 1 . The s p dividi
Possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. In a major unannounced policy shift, american troops serving in afghanistan beyond the end of this year will be allowed to engage in combat against the taliban. This from the New York Times, which says the new policy also authorizes the use of american jets, bombers and drones to support afghan troops on their combat missions. Last may, the president had said the remaining 10,000 american troops in afghanistan would be limited to Training Afghan forces and hunting the remnants of al qaeda. The president s change of heart came at a time when the
Possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. In a major unannounced policy shift, american troops serving in afghanistan beyond the end of this year will be allowed to engage in combat against the taliban. This from the New York Times, which says the new policy also authorizes the use of american jets, bombers and drones to support afghan troops on their combat missions. Last may, the president had said the remaining 10,000 american troops in afghanistan would be limited to Training Afghan forces and hunting the remnants of al qaeda. The president s change of heart came at a time when the