Liner for more than three months . A japanese paper out reporting cold winter temperatures were a factor in the meltdown of the lithium ion batteries which caused at least one of the boeing 737 dream liners to make an Emergency Landing in japan. Meantime, in alternatings news out of japan, it was a big quarter for toyota has the highlander is hot. Toyota posted a better than expected 3. 4 increase in quarterly profits and the automaker raising the outlook for the year. Can we move back to the battery . The battery thing, people dont have battery hybrid cars and things like that in cold places simple will ily because of the weather. Batteries dont do well in cold. Thats the whole thing. We had a guy the guy from toyota who lives in michigan who wont have a hybrid car in michigan because its too cold for the battery to actually do its thing. I would think this the plane is going its freezing up there every day. Im not a is that good news for boeing . Does it signal simply just a battery
Todays winners. Take a look at some of the big names in biotech, staging a comeback. Biogen, among others, leading the nasdaq 100 higher and speaking of health care, you got to take a look at Intuitive Surgical. Intuitive surgical shares, the best performing stock on the nasdaq 100 after its preliminary Fourth Quarter revenue beat street estimates. Then switch over to tech, because tech is the best performing s p sector providing market leadership. Google, expedia, apple, yahoo broadbased gains in tech. Tech is a sector favored to move higher in a rising rate environment. Lastly, social media, those stocks have had a couple volatile days. We are seeing facebook, twitter among others posting gains. Sue . Thank you very much, seema. The trading action here, we are just off the highs of the trading session but the big event in todays trading session is two hawks on the fed are making comments. Richard fisher will make comments shortly but mr. Plosser has made some comments and is talking
Month. And the fed minutes revealed officials agreed in december to taper the Bond Buying Program because it would eventually lose its zing to the economy. That lead to a mixed market wednesday with the dow down 68 points. Nasdaq in the green by 13, the s p was close to unchanged while gold fell 6 and oil dropped 1. 11. Lets do lunch outgoing fed chair ben bernanke has a lunch date today with Senate Democrats. The cbo reports the government recorded a 44 billion surplus in december. Macys out with a shocker after the close. The retailer plans to lay off 2,500 employees and close 5 stores. The chain also narrowed its sales growth forecast. Todd horwitz of averagejoeoptions. Com opens up our trading day. Good to have you on the show as always todd. Good morning angie. There was big news in the Treasury Department yesterday with the 10 year yield reaching 3 . What do you expect as far as follow through . I think were going to 3 ½ maybe 4 . I think that the bond market has gotten away fro
Subject to the jurisdiction of another country. Well, sir, the bilateral Security Agreement is in mind for the interests of both countries. We understand that the issue of immunity is of very specific importance for the United States. As was, for us, the issue of sovereignty and detentions and the continued presence of International Forces in afghan villages and the very conduct of the war itself. With those issues resolved, as we did today, part of it, the rest was done earlier, i can go to the Afghan People and argue for immunity for u. S. Troops in afghanistan in a way that afghan sovereignty would not be compromised, in a way that afghan law would not be compromised, in a way that the provisions that we arrive at through talks will give the United States the satisfaction of what it seeks and will also provide the Afghan People the benefits that they are seeking through this partnership and the subsequent agreement. [ inaudible ] thats not for us to decide. It is an issue for the Un
Get these problems solved so people can go ahead and have a prosperous future. Hallelujah is what im trying to say. Debris with that. Thank you. Nice of you. Cnn newsroom with Carol Costello right now. Condition critical, hospitals take emergency measures to deal with a severe strain of flu and overflow of patients. Plus shoot him again, shoot him. Oh, no. Moments of terror, a hero mother on the phone with her husband, while a burglar hunts down her family. Hear the 911 tape as she hides in the attic with her 9yearold twins. Breaking his silence, Lance Armstrong agreeing to sit down with Oprah Winfrey. The downfall and the doping accusations, will we hear a confession from the once cycling great . And he climbed all the way to the top of a stormsoaked roller coaster to plant an american flag. Later youll hear why he did it and what happened to him. Newsroom starts now. Good morning to you, thank you so much for being with us. Im carols cou s coulcostello. We begin with a story that mig