I dont think it is very effective because it is not sbet greated, and you have to work with private and Public Sector benefits and support, getting them to Work Together, even getting their rules to Work Together on behalf of your clients is chappinging. Want to hit something, mrs. Reynolds, you just said. There are generations of poverty, and it becomes very difficult to change that dynamic. When there is ly a crisis, and we dont stay. The cries we cant do transportation, food or health care, but we can do housing. Then we walk away. We go back when there is an tective service issue, and then we walk away. The 1 of all the entitlement, benefit spending less than 10 of federal spending on any of those programs goes to individuals who could in fact work. We focus on that 9 , talking about how we should do it. We need to realize that we have a population that is going to need generations of support and a whole new dynamic of what it means to be a working household and lifted out of pover
The jolt report coming out at 10 00. Then we have the Kansas City Fed survey, as well. Equity futures this morning, at this hour, at least, are indicated higher. Dow futures indicated up by about 50 points above fair value. S p up by about 6. 5. Andrew, back over to you. Good to have you back. Thank you. Its good to be back. This is a very different place than cnbc asia and bernie. Well talk about that in a bit. Rr done nelly is going to buy consolidated graphics for 620 million. As joe was just mentioning, bank of america lost a fraud trial over u. S. Mortgages yesterday. Live on fraud for claims related to defective mortgages for funds sold to its countrywide unit. And finally, Lehman Brothers, remember them . The Lehman Brothers holding company, this is the one that sort of went through the bankruptcy process is suing giants stadium. It wants to recover more than 100 million of a canceled Interest Rate swaps contract that would used to hedge bonds issued to the arena. The lawsuit ca
The crimean referendum, of course, is this weekend. The roadmap begins with continuing Global Concerns led by china and ukraine. Have the markets looking at a modestly higher open this after the major averages logged their worst day since february 3 period. General motors is firing back that air bag failure in recalled vehicles resulted in more than 300 deaths. Target admitting it did not take immediate action after Security Software originally alerted the company to malicious activity after the data breach. And Mark Zuckerberg calls president obama to complain about the governments surveillance programs. First up, though, thursday, the 13, was bad luck for the bulls as worries about a slowdown in china and rising tension between ukraine and russia helped spark a market selloff. All 30 components finishing in the red. And the s p has fallen to negative territory for the year and the nasdaq posting a decline for the fifth time in six sessions. The s p has only had a yeartodate gain nine
With this idea later in the hour. That is all coming up on markets now. Dagen doggie vacation. They just raised about 15 million in additional financing. That is a big chunk of change. Connell is that Better Business than buying stock in an athlete . Dagen guess, probably. Nicole is the New York Stock Exchange with the very latest. Nicole good morning. We are seeing the markets without the aeros. Less than 200 points away from the all time highs that we have been seeing. Yesterday we stopped the winning streak. It was our first down day in six. Look at that, we are back in the green again. We do have retailers and drugs looking good today. We got good Economic News from china. We continue to get earnings. We are watching forward closely. They talked about Global Growth going forward. Ford is up 1. 4 . Doing well with the ford focus. Back to you. Dagen thank you, nicole. Connell the big story in d. C. Today involves these contractors. They are facing some tough questions on capitol hill
Uniform burnt. It tells a story by looking at it what he went through in those three minutes. Very traumatic time for the fire service and fire department. We are family brothers and sisters and, as you can see here we rally around each other. Just really admire firefighters. We salute them. This firefighter in particular. A 25yearveteran is in Critical Condition with burns covering 55 to 75 of his body. We continue at the top of the hour im brooke baldwin. Youre watching special live coverage of the downing of flight 9525. I have new information, new revelations to share with you about this copilot Andreas Lubitz Mental Illness, suicidal tendency and injections of Antipsychotic Medication and the toll of his mental state. Revealing he was suicidal long before he got his pilots license, so a couple years, at least, and long before he steered the airbus 320 into the french alps. We dont have any documentation that says regarding his sight, any problems that he might have had or might ha