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Then, now i can move over here, there is sue, the it fed, decision time, one hour away and where does america stand on job creation . Its critical, obviously, to the fed and to the economy. Adp number out this morning, not so great. Lets check in with you at the nyse. Youre absolutely right, and we will get to that but we want to start, ty, with the fireworks on capitol hill as Kathleen Sebelius goes before the house energy and commerce committee. Bertha coombs is on the case on capitol hill. Ov...

Now and literally the end of the year. Yes. Unfortunately, the stakes are that high. Before i get to next week, though, let me just say that after today, where the dow gained 28 points, s p gained 28 points, s p climbed. 58 , we now know for certain this earnings season is turning out to be an incredibly bright one. This morning on squawk on the street, carl david and i were going over this remarkable advance to alltime highs and carl ticked down all the bricks in the wall of worry. That this ma...

S p up 13 of the past 15 sessions. We do have a fed decision this afternoon. Even initial reviews of the apple ipad air. As we monitor the hearing this morning in washington, lets get to jim. First, broad markets, weve not had a run look weve had this month in a long time. Whether youre larry fink or others, people asking serious questions about when in ends and how it ends. You keep thinking it should end and then General Motors comes out with a quarter that says, hey, listen, were back, too. Y...

Of delivering what we said we would deliver. What were saying is our guidance remains unchanged as a result of doing this. We dont think weve overpaid. The swiss market has caved in to carl icahn. Theyre paying a dividend for the first time in two years. France says its not standing in a way with a deal with iran after being blamed for stifling six Party Negotiations over ending the countrys Nuclear Program. U. N. Claims some 9. 5 Million People in the philippines have been affected by typhoon h...

To Monetary Policy. Rates will be staying where they are right now, which is close to zero, of course. Until at the very least the jobless rate falls to 6. 5 . We can only cross our fingers wherefore when that might be. Ben bernanke says these changes will make the central bank more transparent adding they can only help the markets. The central bank ramped up its Asset Purchase Program adding 40 billion to its 40 billion a month purchases of mortgagebacked bonds. He spoke about the objectives du...

Tenyear yield would rise or fall. I hear him yelling from across the room. Fortunately, viewers, you cant. That bet was for something we would we looking at, Something Like 2. 87 . Where is it, joe . Go ahead. Turn on his microphone on. Noumber one, it watts the en of the session today. How are you going to bow to me if we wait until tend of the session snm i am not here next week. And youre talking about less than two basis points. A win is a win, baby. Thats a fifth of a point. Ill take it. My...

108. The current continues index, 111. 3 in october. Again, versus the reuters consensus of 111. 6. Ifo expected index, 103. 6, a little below the expected forecast of 104. 5. There are no revisions to the september indices. The ifo index is probably the years most important sentiment index, slightly lower than what we might have thought. Not by much, but by a little bit. Joining us in the studio for the first part of the show today, moo moodys analytics. Frank, thanks very much for joining us. ...

Audi drive volkswagens trading higher in the Third Quarter. The auto giant is at the top of the dax. Spain is finally out of recession after two years, a mere 0. 1 uptick in Third Quarter gdp marks the first time the economy has grown for a while. All right. The fed wraps up its twoday meeting this afternoon. Central banks announced last month that it wouldnt start tapering purchases just yet. The move comes amid concerns about the budget fight in washington. Senator paul wants to hold up Janet ...

Shares down despite forecasts beating figures. Analyst caution the Smartphone Market is saturated. The ceo tells us there is Growth Potential elsewhere. Even in the lowend smartphone, theres the low end opportunity for many components. And we see generally that growth of low end and entry level phones. And apple is looking at the next shot in the tablet wars today, expected to unveil new ipad devices, big and small. Plus, seg gets a billionaire boost. Bill gates buys a stake. Now the second bigg...

To intervene with his country right now and that seems to have taken the wind out of the sails. The dow was up 125 points at its peak today, and now up just 27, and the nasdaq has turned negative. The s p 500 in danger of reversing as well. Well keep an eye on that closely. Yesterday we put in the new closing high for the s p 500 at 1848. Today it looks that could be called into question. Of course, the nasdaq, and this, bill, will be the question, was losing some steam even before this round bi...