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on cnn. good monday morning to you, everyone. it s good to have you with us, welcome to early start. i m ashley banfield. we re bringing you the news from a to z. big developments in greece that are sure to have a ripple effect. winning yesterday s parliamentary election in a vote seen by many as an endorsement for the survival of the euro. i will make sure that the sacrifices of the greek people will bring the country back to prosperity. so now it s up to samaras to form a coalition government to quickly keep greece afloat. something that other euro nations are hopes that we can do. christine romans is monitoring markets. as we started, we said, ah, good news here. features have turned lower. and i saw this described as a stay of execution for greece. others have called it the status quo. what is the status quo? relying on other monies from other countries to stay afloat, to basically not go broke and it still has an awful lot of work to do here. but vote ....
international gathering and that means protesters. groups or individuals with something to say always seek out these events and the television cameras that cover them. we want to go straight now to chicago. paul, tell me about this domestic terrorist sceting that netted some potential troublemakers? reporter: what happened was authorities here in chicago have arrested three young suspects, all of them 20-somethings. they brought them into court today after arresting them wednesday and they re accusing them of a vast conspiracy. in fact, they say they were going to get molotov cocktails or fire bombs and perhaps throw them at barack obama s campaign headquarters. the mayor s home, rahm emanuel s, and also throw these fire bombs at police targets. very serious allegations. let s hear what authorities have to say. the individuals that we have charged in this investigation are not peaceful protesters. they are domestic terrorists who came to chicago with an anarchist ag ....
Winterfest, to bring in snowmaking conditions with 15 tons of snow. the dow opens at 12,801, after falling 89 points on nas. the s&p 500 fell 9 points. overseas trading this morning. in hong kong, the hang seng was up 103. investors may react to the greek debt. the austerity bill was a requirement for the second bailout from the euro zone nations to get the money to avoid default. japan s economy shrank by 0.6%, which was larger than expected. samsung is being sued by apple, which fronts a federal court to block sales of the galaxy smartphone because of alleged patent violations. gasoline is up 12 cents to ....
Other financial stocks like morgan stanley. investment bank goldman sachs net income declined 58% in the fourth quarter. but the company still made a billion dollars and beat analysts estimates. ebay s net income in the fourth quarter was almost $2 billion. it was helped by higher revenue and the sale of its remaining interests in skype. factory output surged in december by the most in a year. there was stronger demand for business equipment, vehicles and energy as manufacturing rebounds from the recession. foreign demand for u.s. treasury debt rose in november to the highest level ever. total foreign holdings increased to $4.75 trillion. the international monetary fund plans to raise an extra $500 billion so it can issue new loans. the imf says the euro zone nations may need to borrow a trillion dollars in coming years. eastman kodak fired for bankruptcy today in a bid to survive a liquidity crisis. the company had years of falling ....
choreographed affair, as we were expecting from north korea, very similar to what we saw 17 years ago for the funeral of kim il-sun. we saw the procession. coffin going through the streets of pyongyang, 40 kilometers was the procession. and along those snow-laden streets, there were tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of mourners who had come out to pay their last respects. this was a lot of emotion. we did see at the front of these crowds a lot of wailing and weeping and beating of chests. although further back in the crowds, there were some more passive looking people paying their respects. so this is as it was expected. kim jong-un obviously now called the supreme leader according to state media was also front and center. zain? will anything change in north korea under kim jong-un? this is what everyone would like to know. at this point, the consensus appears to be that nothing will change in the near term. what we did see today was kim jong-un walking ....