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Pashakokis, both cnbc contributors. I start with jared bernstein. Good to see you. Hello, michelle. Yesterday, president obama touts this change by treasuries as a great thing, citing understandably one of the great things about america is its rule of law, but apparently missing the irony that by changing the rules in the middle of the game he has undermined the rule of law. How on earth can this be justified . Laws change all the time when there is a problem. I think the government this is not ...

Jamie dimon making the headlines on the call this hour. Five of the National Banks do not have plans sthould there be a winddown. What does that mean . 40,000 verizon workers are on strike. First up, jpmorgan, better than expected First Quarter results due in part to weakness in trading and Investment Banking. Jamie dimon calling the results solid. He goes on to say, quote, the consumer businesses continue to grow loans and dposs impressively, attracting depo t deposits faster than the industry....

Those new worries for the fed on the labor front. September nonfarm payrolls weaker, rising by 142,000 in august. Revised sharply lower to show 136,000 added. The rates stay steady at 5. 1. Average Hourly Earnings come in flat, but we were looking for something in the 0. 2 0. 3 range. Maybe the most biggest disappointment of the year so far. Coupled with the august revision lower. The 2015 average goes to 198,000 jobs created per month. Thats a sharp slowdown. Last year we were averaging 260,000...

If congress does move on relaxing the u. S. Ban on exports of crude oil. Ill keep an eye on that story which the white house says they still prefer their administration to address. We take you live to the nymex for the latest shortly. And fitbit soaring again today on nufz a corporate account with target. We debate whether this stock is more than a fad bill. They order 335,000 fitbits theyre going to hand out to all target employees. Thats a lot. Plus mad money meets closing bell. Jim cramers go...

Country, and that is why what is going on in mali is such big news here in paris and in france. Here back in paris the french Prime Minister is announced that the death toll has risen to 130 from 129 in fridays deadly attacks. This morning paris police met with members of parliament to discuss Security Issues and one member of Parliament Told us the list of topics they talked about. The whole list of very difficult issues ranging from the protection of schools to public transportation, protectio...

Here. That ipo pricing at 14 last night. But right now you cannot get it for that price because you can see there its up to almost 24 bucks on the session. A huge move day one for the Cloud Company despite vocal skeptics. Theyre questioning their profitability. This feels like the debates we were having back in the 90s during the dotcom boom. Im not saying thats the case here, but off booming ipo with people wonder wrg is the money right now. Another bombshell from the president s tax plan. Pres...

Now shareholders of kraft will get that in the form of a dividend worth about 27 of the shares of kraft right now. I believe thats what it is. 16. 50 is the number we were hearing before this crossed the tape. 27 , youre right. We believe that equates to 1650 as we speak. I have props guys this morning just to show everybody sometimes you try to figure out what these deals actually mean. This is what it actually means. You have planters did you get this all out of your of course the ketchup, Eve...

Really make it happen. But quarter after quarter the company has been able to deliver with a surprise when it came to sales for pcs which we know are in decline but perhaps not quite as much decline as wed anticipated particularly on the commercial side on notebooks where they choed real strength. That did help the quarter and on the revenue side, printing went fairly well. They did come ahead on revenues and on profit. One of my favorite notes Morgan Stanley saying they are achieving the imposs...

To avoid shifting costs to nonparticipants which would make it difficult for a program like cleanpowersf to compete against it. So, trying to preserve those options. As i say, thats all activity ongoing at the california puc. And then of course there is some legislative activity picking up. We have new legislate ~. We have a bill introduced by Assembly Member bradford ab [speaker not understood] that were keeping an aye on and a bill introduced by Assembly Member ammiano, ab [speaker not underst...

Melts, we do some tuning up and make sure were in good stead on all the up country generating units. Its pretty typical in every year we do some purchasing, some selling. Are we not taking any additional purchases because of the drought . We probably will have some additional purchases in the spring. The spring. Yeah, towards the end of this fiscal year, early summer we at the rate of storm right now, what were looking at, we are expecting to purchase a little bit more than we typically would. B...