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Special coverage and well have full Team Coverage over the next two hours here, bill, to talk about a lot of the market expectations. Weve seen a lot of numbers to the high side of course. Then we saw that disappointing adp jobs report today. So a lot of back and forth. Strong jobless claims. So many cross currents to work through. Of course, the story weve been following for the last couple of hours, deal or no deal . Depends on who you ask right now. Word that iran and the five world powers in...

Mcdonalds joins walmart, gap and target announcing a wage hike for 90,000 employees. The ceo saying its all about the turnaround. Europe going big against google. Reports the eu is seeking a 6 billion fine. Does google in fact have an antitrust problem. Futures are mixed after the first trading day that q2 had. Saw losses on wall street. Oil prices pulling back as investors await the outcome of the ire ran Nuclear Talks. Jobless claims down last week from 20k to 268 near a postrecession low. Dat...

Not moving it these days. Also fed chair janet yellen shes already required to appear before the house and senate twice each year to test a Monetary Policy. Apparently thats not enough. Coming up, House Financial Services Committee Chair Jeb Hensarling to explain why he wants to see her double her appearances on capitol hill. Hewlettpackard and gap, well have the incident analysis of all the numbers as soon as they are released. Both those sectors. Hewlettpackard has turned out some great number...

Its deal with nokia makes sense. Alibaba is looking to invest in micromax with negotiations under way. Good morning. Welcome to the show. We have the norwegian central bank. 7 out of 13 economists expected a 25 basis point cut but we didnt get that and as a result of that were seeing the norwegian crown rising. The developments in the norwegian economy have been wrongly in line with the march projections. The krone strengthening after that position. Also saying from the info received recently st...

Will be joining us. But first the top stories. Its nice to see you again. Well do these stories in a second. Well take a look at comcast. It looks like they are beating it looks like they are beating on both the top and the bottom lines there. 79 cents, x items, and then 17. 83 17. 83 billion in revenue. Okay. In the year ago quarter, you had sochi, this quarter, you have the super bowl. So to compare apples to apples, theres a lot of excluding of different revenue metrics. Comcast is excluding ...

Markets slightly weaker yesterday. A couple of big stories this morning. The big one is hp reportedly planning to sell a majority stake in its chinese data networking operation for about 2. 3 billion. Heres whats going on. The wall street journal saying it comes after revelation that u. S. Spying for demand for tech products. Sis coe and others have had issues about this. Also in Economic News new numbers overnight showing chinese factory activity contracted for a Third Straight month. Chinese o...

The worst performer. What does mickey ds need to do to right the ship . Well hear from a former franchisee coming up. And then well talk about the state of the Music Industry and the effort to turn miami into the next big tech hub with recording artist, pitbull. He will be here from the emerge conference. Hell be ringing the closing bell. In the markets right now, simon just mentioned we have a 65 point rally for the Dow Jones Industrial average. The dow was up more than 100 points so clearly of...

Futures are up 10 , consumer stap ems flattening out. And two of chinas richest men lost billions in just a few hours. Well tell you who they are and how they did it. But we start with a very rough trip for mcdonalds. Protesters have hit the street outside of the companys Shareholder Meeting. Theyre protesting low wages. Kate rodgers has been monitoring that meeting. The protests and the stock, which as we mentioned is trading down by about 0. 8 of a percent today. Kate. Well today was ceo Steve...

There were young men who had rocks in their hand ready to throw them. They put them down. The good news is the scene has diffused for the most part and traffic is now flowing on north avenue again. Back to you. Leon all right, brad. You got it. We will get back to you in a bit now. Now turn to the weather here. We change gears here. The calendar says spring. It feels more like summer outside, though. Alison it does. Leon a very warm day outside today. Many of us putting the a. C. To good use tod...

Cisco, longtime ceo John Chambers is stepping down after 20 years in the top job. Cisco veteran Chuck Robbins is in bringing to an end one of Silicon Valleys lo. Mcdonalds investors werent impressed. They sent shares lower today. Cisco managed to rise fractionally. We have two reports. Josh lipton on cisco but first Courtney Reagan looks for the new strategy for the worlds es the golden arches have been a little tarnished in recent quarters. It will take a lot to turn around the Worlds Largest r...