Expected to hold steady at 7. 7 . You have a few economists who revised their predictions, moving them higher after yesterdays strong adp report. Forecasters at Goldman Sachs are now expecting a gain of 200,000 jobs. Credit suisse is calling for 185,000 nonfarm payrolls and the u. S. Equity futures are barely budging at this point. Theyre going to wait and see what happens at 8 po been right now, s p futures are unfractionally. This is coming after modest declines yesterday following two strong days of gains. And, of course, the other big economic story were talking about this morning is the fed. The markets were surprised by the minutes from the fomc meetings. The notes showing several policymakers would like to stop the feds Bond Buying Program before the end of the year, citing concerns about Financial Stability and the size of the Balance Sheet. The news prompting some to speculate about an early end to the Central Banks fouryear Stimulus Program and the threat of higher Interest R
Defund the health care bill. Among our newsmakers on the topic this morning, we have former oh bam in omb director peter or zaszag. Then coming up at 8 30 eastern, we have former vice chair alice rivlin. And aei senior fellow Kevin Hassette. And in other washington news, the federal Housing Administration will likely soon take a cash infusion from the treasury. The agency needs help to cover losses from souring loans. Jcpenney looking to raise as much as 750,000 to 1 billion to build up its cash reserves. The retailer is leaning towards issuing new shares. But other methods of raising capital are erroredly on the table. Goldman sachs says it expects the retailers to move more slowly. Anyway, another hard hit stock this year, blackberry, we talked bit almost every morning. Fairfax financial says it is confident it can find the money to fund its 4. 7 billion for the smartphonemaker. But shares did fall yesterday on doubts about that bid. Meantime, tmobile, i dont know, becky, announcing
Exchanges but no bound so sightly tightly that youre so stuck on the rules, you cut them off just before they say, i killed my wife. Sorry, youre out of time. You want to make sure thats exchange. We all function by rules, though. Judy, you raised about the topic. Did you like the format, one for Foreign Affairs i think given an ideal situation, you think a president deals a great deal with Foreign Policy, domestic policy, and i think ideally it makes a lot of sense just to make sure that youre not going to be so heavily weighted one way or another. For example in the 2004 election, when iraq was a huge issue, i could say, gwen, remember this better than i will that may have been a time when there would be when the candidates would want to spend a lot more time oop Foreign Policy. Right now most voters say their primary concern is the economy. So, i think maybe there needs to be a little more flexibility on that. I know candy, im sure, was thinking about that as she was figuring about
Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in every corner you can imagine, rural areas, small towns. Many of them are providing Competitive Services even against some of the largest providers today. And whats great about these smaller companies, its a terrific story because theyre providing broadband, highspeed broadband in rural areas that desperately need Broadband Service. So these are the members we represent. Theyre smaller, theyre independent which means that theyre not affiliated with larger content companies or larger providers, and w
For more information on this weekends 48hour television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Coming up next, congressman paul ryan presents his thoughts on conservativism and the Republican Party in conversation with former governor and republican president ial candidate mitt romney from the union league of chicago. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] [laughter] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. Its great to be here. Its not where we wish we were, but [laughter] but its great to be here, and its wonderful to be with paul again. We had quite an experience, and i know a lot of you think it must be just awful running for president because youve got to go every night into a different hotel, and you get debate after debate after debate in the primaries and then in the general as well, and you have the adoring press always at your heels. [laughter] but the truth is it is a magnificent experience because