The dude abides. Look what happened last night in seattle when the clock struck midnight. 321 whoo cenk you thought it was midnight no, it was 4 20. Weve got both sides of that argument again tonight. Its interesting washington now officially the most liberal state. Way to go, evergreen. White resumes black resumes. White sounding names black sounding names what are the results . The person who did that experiment is on the show. Weve got elbows. It is in fact go time. [ theme ] cenk now the president has been selling his idea for the grand bargain and tax increases for the rich in the country. In fact, he went on twitter to talk about it. Apparently this is the first time on twitter. They put out a little video from the white house about him doing it. Here, watch. There we go. My tweet has been posted. Thats what im talking about. Cenk sometimes i forget that hes older than me. Come on, dude. That was your first tweet . Hes the president of the United States i guess he doesnt have tim
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 impossible keeping expectations low while increasing revenue and cutting costs and investing and so forth and cash as well. Well talk a lot about that with meg in a minute. The futures are up a touch which means the s p could post its first threeweek win streak in three months. Meantime, were keeping our eye on the tenyear yield and overnight in asia the nikkei was almost up 3 as the markets liked the manufacturing data out of the u. S. Yesterday. First up, though, ukraines government said a tentative
As well as your backyard. It is monday, so they will try to stump me with my mystery guest. We will see if they can do so. But first, headlines from carol massar. The big headline today was the continued drop in u. S. Stocks. The s p 500 losing more than one percent. The index now at a three week low that has erased the benchmark game for the entire year. Coke Industries Run by the Koch Brothers and Goldman Sachs are near buying flickr group for cvc from cvc capital partners. Deal may be announced as early as this week. And consumer borrowing in the United States rising more than forecast in the month of february. The 16. 5 billion dollar credit exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg Survey of economists. Back over to you. Mergers and acquisitions. Over 400 billion so far this year in the United States. Today, five deals each worth more than 1 billion an ounce today. One of them involves a group that agreed to acquire alabama gas from energen. About 1. 3 billion in cash. Joining me now
Always is a dumb idea. Youre watching Market Makers on Bloomberg Television. Thursday in new york city, i am Erik Schatzker. I am stephanie ruhle. How do you feel . I feel great. Im not sure how i feel. These are the top business stories from around the world. Barclays will cut 7000 jobs in its investment bank, about one fourth of the total market. Trying tonkins is reduce his dependence on fixed income, which has been its biggest source of revenue. A big jump in homes being sold for cash according to the tracks 43 according realty tracks, were all cash in the first quarter. Mortgage lending has plummeted because rates have been rising and lending requirements have become stiffer. Macdonalds best month, samestore sales were up 1. 2 . Mcdonalds has been struggling to attract consumers because of growing competition like talk about like taco bell. There is a Consumer Confidence problem. Show deal ora game no deal, top executives from comcast and Time Warner Cable are back on capitol hill
Stump me with my mystery guest. My producers. We will see if they can do so. But first, headlines from carol massar. Pimm, thank you so much. The big headline today was the continued drop in u. S. Stocks. The s p 500 losing more than one percent. The index now at a three week low that has erased the benchmark game for the entire year. Coke Industries Run by the Koch Brothers and Goldman Sachs are group deal with flint from cvc capital partners. The deal may be announced as early as this week. And consumer borrowing in the United States rising more than forecast in the month of february. The 16. 5 billion dollar credit exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg Survey of economists. Pimm, those are some of the top hedlines at this hour. Back over to you. Mergers and acquisitions. Over 400 billion so far this year in the United States. Today, five deals each worth more than 1 billion an ounce today. One of them involves a group that agreed to acquire alabama gas from energen. About 1. 3 billi