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And even up towards cleveland we still have an isolated threat for a tornado today. that is the concern as the system makes its way through, and it is a dangerous system. look at what we just saw yesterday. eight tornadoes reported, texas, illinois, even in through missouri. wind, strong wind damage sometimes can be even stronger than tornadoes. strong straight-line winds and large hail as well in the forecast today. the other side of this system, heavy rain and flooding. 4 or 5 inches of rain i...

Hurry. offer ends march 22nd. weight watchers. because it works. market alert as new practical reserve chair janet yellen just wrapped up her first news conference as head of the central bank. reporters peppering her with questions on everything from instability in ukraine to unemployment and inflation. the overall response stay the course on the recovery. the fed announced it will continue tapering off the bond buying stimulus by $10 billion a month. investors were expecting the news stocks d...

Pins s&p gaining 13 and nasdaq finishing up 53. policy makers began a two day meeting today and expected another round of tapering will than announced tomorrow. permits assigned rose more than 7% for housing. oracle shares are lower following their latest earnings report. that is it for cnbc. first in business worldwide. today i have new campbells chunky spicy chicken quesadilla soup. she gives me chunky before every game. im very souperstitious. haha, thats a good one! haha! [ male announcer ] ...

Slowdown of this tapering program remains to be seen here. but markets are watching these comments closely. fascinating story for you in the grocery space here. safeway, the number two store in the states is the bidding target of ser rebrus right now. and kroger is making an approach at this stage. its possible in the 9 billion $40 a share could go up. but you know what, as a consumer, watch this one closely here. because quite often when private equity gets involved, we see debt and prices go u...

Growing the global economy, and at this point, im not sure theres any way were getting there. >> can we tell if the new fed chair is a plus or minus in terms of stimulating the economy? or is it too soon to judge? >> heres the deal. she is following very much in the steps of her predecessor, ben bernanke. shes going to start tapering off all the money that weve been pouring into the economy. that means a couple things for us. that will mean higher interest rates. you saw how the stock market has...

That said, there needs to be a correction. there will be a correction. if i was the average person, id be really worried about this market cause every time the fed says it doesnt want to print money or may stop printing money, the dow goes down 200 points. >> when you say the word tapering, is that different? >> its different because tapering is a slow, methodical -- thats not -- >> all we ever heard is tapering. >> every now and then you hear the fed say, well, maybe we should taper even more. ...

All right. this was the thing that caught our wallet today, dow moving smartly up 200 points, in and out of 16,000 again. janet yellen, the new federal reserve boss hinting that may be tapering, not so fast, the nicotine the federal reserve has been providing the markets to the tune of, i think 65 billion, might not slow immediately. carl icahn what do you think of that, that this is a market that loves -- >> i think you shouldnt be all that sanguine. i am happy when the market goes up. right no...

Crystal ball. >> i wish i had one. i think we are in a slow economy thats gotten mediocre growth to it, 2.5 to 3% is what were looking at. i think the job market is very much symptomatic of what were seeing in the overall economy. i think unfortunately what were seeing is people are still somewhat reluctant to hire because they dont know what the end game will be with the federal reserve. i think the starting of the tapering which will begin in december and continue on throughout the year is goi...

Especially when you compare them to the gains of 2013. plus, heres whats interesting when you look at todays report, there were job losses in the field of health care. they werent huge only 400 but heres why it caught our eye. its because the health care sector is usually considered recession proof because people always need to go to the doctor, you know, this is the first drop also in health care jobs in 11 years. so, i guess to put -- to put a summary on the january jobs report, its a disappoi...

What this is implying, that means that the fed is less likely to taper off the stimulus. so its more likely, particularly under janet yellen, who is more of a money printer than her predecessor, so more likely to print more money to stop the tapering, and that means pumping all the money, which would raise the value of assets. houses and stocks. so the markets are going up. in a perverse way. i think its right, what bill is saying, this really is only helping the rich. what you have is a preside...