Yeah, cold weather. Wisdom, maureen, good morning. Maureen, great advice. Extra layers this morning. It feels like Single Digits here in d. C. Even feels like below zero in a few of our suburbs. Well go through those. Well let you know how long the cold lasts coming up. Hey, erin. Right now roads are quiet but i cant stress enough, mike, it is cold out there. You need the boots, the layers, the scarves, the gloves. Whew. Backback to you guys. If youre just getting up were following a developing story from afghanistan. At least 35 people are dead after an attack on a news agency in kabul. 56 more people have been wounded. Local media reporting that the blast happened early this morning at the office of afghan voice news agency. Officials say a suicide bomber was likely behind the attack. Afghan journalism groups condemn the bombing. Recent reports show a surge in attacks against reporters in afghanistan. Former u. S. Senate candidate from alabama roy moore is taking his case to court. M
Countdown to the closing bell starts right now. Good afternoon, everybody, im liz claman, happy monday, last hour of trading. Lets focus on u. S. Treasury yields, marching upwards picking up where they left off friday. The tenyear at the high point, there it is, 2. 89 . That is the highest level since july of 2011. Now, the benchmark yield nearly doubled since may as investors grapple with when and how the feds asset buying tapers the market. Will businesses and stocks start to get hurt . Keeping confidence in u. S. Markets is the subject of president obamas meeting going on right now in washington on regulatory reform. The president urges top financial regulators to implement the doddfrank reforms, and theres more than a thousand that have yet to be enacted despite being passed in congress way back in 2010. We need to get to jpmar begin, in the cross hairs of the u. S. Government, this time, nothing to do with the 6 billion london wale trading scandal or complex electricity contracts.