And wendys. All of them reporting before the bell. After the bell, we get gap, monster beverage, salesforce. Com, splunk, and deckers. Lets get over to andrew with more of todays top stories. And andrew, good morning. Good morning, becky. Were watching shares of jcpenney. The stock spiking afterhours. The trouble retailer reported a loss of 68 Cents Per Share for the Fourth Quarter. That was smaller than expected. Revenue also missing, but heres the good news. The retailer is upping its samestore sales and Gross Profit Margin forecast for the year and youll want to keep your eyes on that. Jcp shares are down more than 30 so far this year. Well be talking more about jcpenney with dana telsey at 7 30 eastern time. Tesla raising cash to expand into the future. The company will be rolling out plans to build a factory and develop what its calling its gen3 mass market vehicle. It plans to build its gigafactory in arizona or texas. The Company Expects the company to run at about full capacity
Almost completely frozen over. We are with the coast guard breaking up the ice trying to deal with a massive Economic Impact. And another big story. A deal in ukraine. Maybe you have heard. This comes on the heels of a huge fist fight breaking out inside Parliament Earlier today. There you see the hubbub in the ukrainian parliament. Protests, government leaders working their way towards a deal. Well see whether it sticks. We will talk to an expert. Outside of parliament in kiev its been of course a bloody week with scores of people dead now after street fighting. Today well ask if the truce can last and see if the deal that was reached simply to keep the cameras away in the closing days of the russian olympics, putins olympics, that are closing up right now. And a look inside Rupert Murdochs brand new bachelor pad. We have the Real Estate Broker who made the deal happen. Sue is off this week. Sara eisen joins me at the nyse. We will check in with her in a few minutes. But we start with
Exchange. Go, guys, unbelievable. I was shocked. A couple months. Feels like a couple months. The story of my life these days, where does my time go these days . Its brilliant. Big day setting up today, janet yellen is on the hill and a ton of retail earnings. The premarket, tenyear yield durables came in ahead of expectations and europe is dragging a bit some say as the war games on the russian Ukraine Border look a little worrisome. The roadmap begins with retail, jcpenneys and best buy in rally mode as earnings top estimates despite flat to slowing sales. Janet yellen is back on capitol hill this time testifying in front of the senate. This is an appearance that was postponed because of a snowstorm a couple of weeks ago, so any chance shes changed her outlook since then . And an electric expansion, tesla says it plans to invest 2 billion in a brandnew battery factory somewhere in the southwest within the next three years. The question is which lucky state will tesla call its new hom
Governments attempt to dictate and bias news stories. Now we learn that this government assault may not be over. All those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. Were live at 7 00 p. M. Eastern and 4 00 p. M. On the west coast. Our top story tonight, will Arizona Governor jan brewer veto a gay Discrimination Bill passed by the state legislature. Nbc news joins us with the details. Good evening. Reporter of course the poe opponents call it a religious freedom bill. In any event, governor brewer who is on the spot on this has just returned to arizona after attending a threeday governors conference in washington. Shell know that the momentum toward a veto has been building fast. All right. I guess we lost the tape, mike, but we got you and thats just as important. I guess we did, yeah. Im reading the same thing that you are reading. It looks like youve got businesses like apple and the n
How it could affect the entire American Auto industry. And the terrible violence in ukraine just keeps getting worse. Just 18 months ago, they hosted an International Soccer tournament and now are on the brink of, if not in, a civil war. Markets are starting to react to this. Russian stocks down big today. Sue is out. Kate kelly is at the new york stock exchange. We will check in with her in just a minute. We start, though, with frozenomics. Take a look at this chart of gas, up another percent today, a percent in the last month. One big reason of course is because new weather models, this big move today, 40 in one month, new weather models came in overnight. Wsi senior meteorologist dan leonard telling us today to expect cold now throughout much of the nation into quote, the first week of march and beyond. Originally, leonards model said the cold would back off by the second week of march, but now that part of the forecast has changed. Jeff grossman trades nat gas for brg brokerage. Wh