News conference here on cnbc. That starts at 2 00 p. M. With the announcement. 2 30 with the comments and questions theyll be taking from reporters. Ahead of the announcement here is how everything is shaping up this morning with futures. You saw what happened yesterday with the markets. Declines across the board for the major averages. You can see this morning things are barely budging one direction or the other. You can see positive arrows but these are gains of ten points above value for the dow futures. Less than 1 point for the s p and about 4. 5 points for the nasdaq. A lot of people are buzzing this morning about a wellknown Hedge Fund Manager on wall street weighing in on what the fed should do. Its on the front page of the Financial Times this morning. An anticipated Interest Rate hike later this year could, he says, take a bite out of the economic recovery in a letter to investors he is arguing now that the move could knock over the apple cart. He says this is history repeati
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