Page 10 - Michael Eisner News Today

Im enjoying this graphic book that im doing. Im enjoying pouring with this novel, but the idea as a lyricist to sit down and write with musicians and to be in the room when these courts are being created and melodies are being created, i find most enjoyable of all the activities. Host david ritz, we appreciate you sitting down with booktv. Guest my pleasure. You are watching 40,000 nonfiction authors and books on c. And twos booktv television for serious readers. Up next Brent Schlender who cove...

Really wanted to create a box of nobody else could create it is going to outdo everybody. You know its just sort of, you know, it was fascinating and it grew really frustrating for all the people from apple who moved over to next with him you know . They all eventually come i think everybody eventually left. Left. I was struck by the number of interviews that youve quoted in that section when hes trying to build next enemy times hes referring to apple. In almost every interview as you were talki...

Continuing his policies. Yellen is expected to be confirmed by the senate, although she has her critics on capitol hill. Senator corker will be our special guests coming up at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time. The other major story out of washington, it is day night of the Government Shutdown. President obama and Speaker Boehner trading words once again yesterday. A very briefly phone call where they basically figured out they had nothing to say to each other. The uncertainty was enough to send stocks do...

Alcoa kicking off earnings season. Europe was missed and the nikkei was up about 1 . Our road map begins with history in the making. The president set to nominate Federal Reserve vice chair janetijanet i yellen to be the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. If confirmed, shed be the first woman. Young, costco and Family Dollar all down after issuing disappointing results. First up, though, history is about to be made in washington. The president will nominate fed vice chair janet yellen to repla...

Microsoft executive. Does he have what it takes to move the stock higher and get the Company Performing on all cylinders . Well find out and discuss it. And here it comes again. More snow coming. Two significant systems developing and targeting the eastern third of the country. Lets check in, meantime, with sue down at the new york stock exchange. Its all that pesky groundhogs fault. Stocks are higher today, up about 93 points after yesterdays big selloff. The dow higher for only the third time ...

Manufacturing coming up. A lot of earnings. Janet yellen is expected to testify before the Banking Committee today. She gets a snow day every once in a while. Lets get a data check. Futures were up, now they are down. Go right on to the next screen. These are the currency markets. Yen abruptly moved on the crimean is. Crimea news. Ukraine currency is out of control. Shows anruble so injection as well. I am watching the japanese yen. Strongerews flow, a yen. That is the place to go. Buy it and se...

Earnings before the bell. Happy st. Patricks day. Some welsh. Green beer later on this hour. I am a quarter irish. Here is a headline. Inflation and little but lower than expected. Sir. 7 0. 7 . Lets do a did a check. And optimistic bounce off a tough week. 10 year yield goes nowhere. Euro essentially goes nowhere. Nymex crude is still under. Vix, 14 to 18. Yan is a little bit lower. The rubel goes nowhere. That is a headline. Part of it back stories on commodities. Here is copper, the ascension...

Territory for the First Time Since 2008. The futures this morning after those two trading days do look like they are indicated higher. Dow futures up by 19 points above fair value. The s p futures are up by just over 1 point. On the economic agenda, december nonmanufacturing ism and november factory orders, both due at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Later this morning its about jobs. The adm jobs report on wednesday and the governments payrolls will follow on friday. Thats going to be the big one wer...

And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis jim henson, creator of kermit the frog, ms. Agee and so many of the muppets is no doubt a beloved american icon. More complex than his followers made have imagined. Book written by brian jay jones, lets take a look first at a clip at how jim henson action created kermit the frog. He is one of the supposed puppets. Inside of his head, theres nothing in there but my hand. So its just a little cloth pattern here. The e...

And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. We hear a great deal about weapons of mass destruction. It seems we have come close to accidentally detonating one. Awardwinning journalist Eric Schlosser has pulled back the curtain on what has been capped hidden. Kept hidden. Good to have you on this program. Thanks for the research that went into making this possible. Referenced this before you went on camera. I grew up in a place called bunker hill. My dad served in t...