On it. I dont know. This one here. It looks like a military drone. There it goes. All right. I hope youre ready. It looks like theres a string attached. Oh, it does. And maybe they can drop that right on your lawn. Do you remember the guy that he jumped out of a balloon, the bungee jump. You have to make sure, a, that its the right length and, b, that the balloon is the right height. Because one or the other didnt work. If the balloon is too low, thats bad. So you have to worry about the same thing. Its an interesting story here. So its going to happen, huh . It could happen. Would you get your delivery if it did it with a little rope like that, i didnt see the rope. I like that. I dont know how theyre going to work it in on my island. If i ever do buy anything, the jeans, i was in the store when i bought them. How are the stretch jeans feeling . I havent touched them since i brought them home. But probably the same as they were feeling yesterday. Apple is working on pay by Touch Techn
General Family Dollar tieup goes through, the combined company would have 20,000 stores in 46 states, a total of about 28 billion in revenue. Now, heres the important part the synergies on this transaction, which contrast to the other one and i know were talking about dollar tree and Dollar General and Family Dollar, its confusing. Dollar, dollar, dollar. Dollar, dollar, dollar. Heres whats happening. On the Dollar General Dollar General tree. On the Dollar General proposal, they would have 550 million to 600 million in synergies annually. That would happen three years after the close. That is in contrast to what was 300 million in synergies on the other dollar tree deal. Now, the dollar tree is a much Smaller Company than Dollar General, and thats one of the reasons theyre not able to have the type of synergies. A lot of analysts had wanted Dollar General to come forward with this deal. Were surprised that they havent. Apparently, if you look through some of the filings on the origina
Jobless claims. That comes in at 8 30 eastern time. First time filers are seeing falling to 295,000. Also, cbs and dish network are locked in a fierce battle with a deadline of 7 00 p. M. Tonight. If an agreement isnt reached today, cbs is ready to pull its channels from dish in some of the nation aes biggest markets. Andrew. Thanks, becky. Here is whats going on. Disney boosting its annual dividend by 34 to 1. 15 a share. That company posting a record profit and revenues for the last four years now. The stock is up more than 20 just this year alone. Best buy is now selling a struggling China Business to a five star to a domestic real estate farm there. The retailer says it wants to focus on its north american operations. Terms of that deal not disclosed. And aeropostale plans to cut some stores. That Company Offering a weak forecast for the current holiday quarter. And earnings beating the street. That Company Offering a weaker fullyear outlook. Staying on the retail theme, pbh warnin
Oil shock ripple effects. The impact of equities and currencies and a closer look at stocks that are keeping the dow from hitting 18,000. Is it time to turn on the taps and lift the u. S. Export ban on crude . Well talk to a top dog on Global Commerce. And a shocking reversal on two Insider Trading convictions. The ruling that could change the rules for wall street as the second hour of squawk box begins right now. Welcome back to squawk box on cnbc. Im joe kernen along with becky quick. Andrew ross sorkin is at the dealbook conference. Hell join us in the next hour and well hear from jack lew speaking at the conference. Among the other power players attending, gm ceo mary barra, actress and entrepreneur jessica alba, a. Mex ceo. Well bring you those interviewing throughout the day. Acquired a 5. 1 stake in staples. The hedge fund has also boosted its holdings in office depot. Its move to call for a merger of these two companies. Economic data on the calendar today will get claims. The
You have average Hourly Earnings rise by. 3 . This could be the 12th straight month of job gains above 200,000 which would be the longest such streak since 1994 and that has people saying the fed is behind the curve and other people say when you look around the world to see whats happening with the strong dollar he they would be crazy to be raising rates but its a source of continued debate the do you is up more than 4 over the last four days nasdaq is up for the year. The index is on track for the best week since december of 2011 and right now the futures ahead of the report are basically unchanged waiting to see what happens with this s p futures off by over a point and nasdaq down by two. People are now saying can you take the january effect and move it to february and is that what happens for the year . Sometimes it gets the end of the year. None of these things work all the time. Gave up on the super bowl. Afc is bad. Here are the other big stories were watching today. German chan