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Tonight. And rain man. Matt fights through a wet day on the roads and a visit from natalie makes things more interesting. Our first flat of the trip. My first flat ever. This morning he is back on track. So, as we begin day four of the red nose challenge we have 172 miles behind us, 55 to go today wednesday, may 20, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning were. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning....

We have also got the overall number at 108. 6. That was forecast at 108. 4. Thats the Business Sentiment index and the Business Expectations. Lets have a look for that has come in at 103. 5. The forecast was 104. 4. So lets just have a look. Overall the expectations just below forecast the Business Sentiment and Current Conditions just ahead of forecasts. Of course this follows yesterdays pmi where germanys came in at 41. 9 down from 52. 8. So mixed set of data coming out of germany over the las...

Tonight. And rain man. Matt fights through a wet day on the roads and a visit from natalie makes things even more interesting. We have our first flat of the trip. My first flat ever. But this morning hes back on track. So as we begin day four of the red nose challenge, we have 55 miles to go today. Wednesday, may 20th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednes...

South korea, spain or australia. If you were to create a society with these companies you would have something that looks like the b. C. Him out of the matt damon movie. This year, when america wakes up to the fact that google, amazon, facebook and google are the biggest tax avoiders in the world offering 20,000 to store their eggs and offer battery eternity benefits, there and municipal Transportation Health benefits, dna testing, effectively economically through lobbyists they have achieved wh...

Ive seen books that got terrible reviews that have gone on to sell very well. They review relatively few books. Thats the hard part. It matters greatly to the author come and the New York Times can only review so many books. They are limited by the number of pages in the book review and are so many, i know they have to say no to a lot of books that they wish they had the room to cover. And then you know, that always puts them in our position. Host i promise that wasnt set up, but maybe it was. B...

But it couldnt hold onto the close couldnt hold onto that level, we should say. The entire market losing altitude in the final hour. Lets bring in the closing bell panel and figure out what we learned today. Joining us jon fortt, kenny from oneill securities who is just finishing up trading on the floor and hell be be shortly. Sheila over at the nasdaq. It was nasdaq 4,000 all the talk earlier today. By the close it was the hit social media was taking. Whats going on . We managed to eke out a ga...

Country ahead of the 8 30 eastern report, u. S. Equity futures take a look. All this may change at a moments notice once we hit it. The dow looked like it would open higher by 4. 5 points, s p up 2. 5 points and the nasdaq up 11 points. Lets take a look at the tenyear. 2. 707 . Weve got a lot of special guests this morning on this jobs friday. The maestro himself, former fed chairman and cnbc 25 contender allan green p Alan Greenspan is going to join us like at 7 30. Before we do that, were goin...

Whatsapp. Our lead story of the day, Caroline Hyde sat down with the blackberry ceo. They talked about the value of messagings bbms pprvice in light of the whatsa acquisition. I was really surprised when i started doing more research on whsatsapp. Isot of study said that bbm dominant. Would be typically places outside the u. S. It is strong. It is clearly an asset of blackberry. Messaging is a basic sort of means. There is a competing messaging Service Called message me. They said they thought a...

Our lead story of the day, Caroline Hyde sat down with the blackberry ceo. They talked about the value of blackberrys bbm messaging service in light of the whatsapp acquisition. I was really surprised when i started doing more research on whatsapp. A lot of studies said that bbm is dominant. It would be typically places outside the u. S. It is a strong service. It is clearly an asset of blackberry. Messaging is a basic sort of need. There is a competing messaging Service Called message me. They ...

Microsofts earnings and revenue topping expectations. Results were helped by shares of its offices and server sales. Were going to talk to an analyst who covers the company at k67 40 eastern time. Amazon reported results, as well. Sales grew by a better than expected 24 which investors say bodes well for results this season. We will talk to an amazon analyst in just a few minutes, as well. Lets take a look at todays calendar. The Commerce Department will release two reports. Durable goods for se...