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Kind of quiet on the earnings front. It will get busier as the week goes on. Davos is one week away. I will be in zurich. Lets do a data check. Were looking at stocks and bonds and commodities. The yield is 2. 85 . Crude goes nowhere. Where did the vix close on friday . Nicely under 13. That is interesting. It speaks volumes about a sluggish jobs report. We will talk about that today. 6. 04. Inese yuan, that is a shop for anybody on the asia watch. Were blowing through to east stronger yuan. A g...

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Mountain coffee. Janet yellen will be speaking at 10 00. She is addressing. . The joint Economic Committee and its a big deal. Everybody will hang on every word. Nobody is really paying attention to this. Thats usually when a bombshell gets dropped. It bears scrutiny this morning. Its been a steady range on the 10year note. Obama will travel to little rock and survey the storm damage in arkansas. He then moves on to los angeles where he has a fundraiser. Lets do a data check. 1, the euro is abov...

Certainly a different tone than continental europe. I should point out that chinas Service Industry also strengthened in august. In the u. S. , we got the Weekly Mortgage applications. Ism manufacturing survey. Factory orders. The fed beige book, that is the important one. Then we get vehicle sales, which have been running very strong. Earnings after the bell. H r block. Taxpaying americans, were you pay them through h r block. That is the brief. Lets do a data check. We have significant headlin...

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We are live from bloombergs headquarters here in london. We have another big interview to bring you with the u. K. Secretary of state for scotland. Support isask why starting to grow for Scottish Independence. That is according to the latest holing. U. S. Budget negotiators have unveiled a agreement to avoid a Government Shutdown. The house will consider the measures. Manus cranny is our markets editor and he has more on this story. Talk us through the details. An imperfect deal, but it is the s...

Cocacola and Johnson Johnson. Interesting to see what they do. Coke earnings expected down four percent this year. The last time you drink . I generally dont drink soda. Thats the problem. No sugar. Whistle pig or ginger rail. Or his espresso in the morning. Espresso hour, a double. After your the bell we have yahoo and intel. And we will be joined by peter or zach, former budget director, king about all things tech tax. Andniversary of the boston bombings. We will go inside a new technology tha...

I want to know from Robert Seinfeld where wall street in new york will be in the next five years. Were going to start off with the morning brief. That news out of china. They have been inspecting a slowdown in. We have suggestions that were going to get contraction in chinese manufacturing. Europe is going the other way. Expansion is showing more than forecast. They are not out of the woods. Spanish unemployment comes in above 25 for the sixth month in a row. Actually, 26 . Not good news. Here i...

Statement this day after we had a shortterm budget deal. Also earnings trickling out this morning. Mens wearhouse after the bell. Bank. To buy jos. A. Iplon, big news of the day, supposed to be a record ipo or a lodging company. This is not another deal. This is in some way a top of the market deal. Terrific research on this. We will have it all day on Bloomberg Television. I got goosebumps. Almost like 2005 all over again. And is it a problem . Groupl ask a gas from isi and we will talk also to...

And in italy, as archaeologists explore the ruins of pompeii, new investigations shed light on the nature of the roman family and the surprising role of slaves. Who do we live with and why . What can these ancient families tell us about our own families . Around the world, archaeologists are looking far beyond the palaces and temples into the households of common people, bringing families to life out of the past. Come forward all the way. Oooh thats it. Good. Hold on me. Come forward. Ease the b...