Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in austin, texas, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. For the third time in the past six months, Chinas Central Bank has slashed interest rates, this in an effort to boost growth in the worlds second largest economy. Officially, china is still growing at more than 7 a year. But last years growth rate was the slowest in a quarter century. The central bank said today chinas economy is still facing relatively big downward pressure. The death toll from the earthquake in nepal has now surpassed 8,000. And avalanches and poor weather conditions have forced rescuers to call off their sear
Needed sort of a level of Critical Care that really had never been given to that degree before. Woodruff plus, an alarming increase in food allergies, and the Experimental Research showing promise to diminish the chance of a lifethreatening attack. These kids are being so desensitized. We buy any product we want. The other kids birthday parties, if theyre alone, they eat the cake. Restaurants, everything. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers li
Needed sort of a level of Critical Care that really had never been given to that degree before. Woodruff plus, an alarming increase in food allergies, and the Experimental Research showing promise to diminish the chance of a lifethreatening attack. These kids are being so desensitized. We buy any product we want. The other kids birthday parties, if theyre alone, they eat the cake. Restaurants, everything. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers li
Merge. Hacking america, a secret military unit is said to be behind a series of attacks, but our friend, china, denying the reports. And countering it was the victim of u. S. Hacking. And the bulls are back from a threeday weekend. Can the s p 500 post an eighth straight week of gains . Weve got four days to find out. Its tuesday, february 19th, 2013. Squawk box begins right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin who is back from vacation. Lets get started with the markets. As joe mentioned, the s p winning streak has been a strong one. In the meantime, the dow is coming off a second straight weekly loss. Although, really, if you looked at this last week, it was the ever so slightest of losses. U. S. Equity futures are indicated higher. Dow up by 21 points. S p is up by two points above value fair and the nasdaq is up about 3. In 20 minutes, well turn to predictions on where the markets go from here.