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Numbers this morning showing unemployment in europe, record high. 12.2%. lets compare that with the u.s. the unemployment rate here, 7.5%. still going in the wrong direction in europe. stocks on wall street set to struggle, dow futures down 90 points right now. well continue to watch that for you. president obama will be surrounded by college students at the white house today to warn that theyll soon be paying a lot more for their student loans. interest rates on government-backed loans are se...

7 million college students could soon be paying more for their loans unless congress acts. from the cnn money newsroom in new york, im felicia taylor. and this is "your money." interest rates on government subsidized student loans are set to double on july 1st. president obama welcomed a group of college students to the white house today, and encouraged congress to act to keep rates low. >> americans now owe more on our student loans than we do on our credit cards. i know this firsthand. michell...

Discussion on the fiscal debt deal nobody talked about how it would help the economy and help people go back to work. >> it doesnt. one other thing that people have to watch. we are talking about the stock market and that moves up and down for a variety of reasons. the thing everyone has to watch is the ten-year treasury note. as interest rates rise the cost of for country to barrow money increases, which means we have to print money and makes your cost go up in order to pay the interest on that...

good morning everyone. welcome to early start. nice to have you with us. im ashleigh banfield. im zoraida sambolin. were bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. lets get started. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin with breaking news this morning. two american tourists kidnapped by gunmen in egypt. it happened in the town of dahab in the region of egypt. the report says that two americans were forced out of a car and taken away. the alleged kidnappers de...

Is injecting direct cash into the economy, for example, by buying up some of the toxic mortgage, by buying up long term debt, and i do believe if we had another qe, quant -- quantitative easing plan, the fed would continue to buy up this long term federal treasury note. and when you think about that, martha, what the federal government is doing then is the left hand of the bottom, the treasury department, is issuing all this debt, right, and right hand of the government, the federal reserve bank...

That determine that? >> well, basically, people are getting out of -- its based on the 10-year treasury note. you dont have to pay attention to that. people are getting into stocks and leaving bonds behind, that means they are getting into riskier investments, which means they have a good sense of the economy. they are more confident. and that is a good sign for the economy. thats basically wais leading the rates to go higher,. >> heather: thank you very much. >> thank you. >> heather: we will c...

well get more details on that. >> also if youve been looking, there are pictures that are mind boggling. a cruise ship much, much bigger than the "titanic" on its side. there are reports of six dead now. two americans among the missing and harrowing tales from those who tur vived and the captain has got some explaining to do. he is being asked by authorities there why did you leave that ship? and the first chance for overseas markets to react to the mass downgrade of european nations...

Their fingers crossed over the summit. traders position themselves for either summit success, yielding a clear plan to put europes debt under control, or a failure. those hedging against failure drove up the cost at the treasury note as well as gold. some sat on the sidelines. financials rose. the agency put the european unions credit rating on watch negative. . a second straight monthly gain in borrowing. bloated oil and gas supplies pushed oil prices lower. martha stewart living after jcpenny ...

house. he is inside of the courthouse in winston salem courthouse. and you can see it in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, but we are expecting john edwards along with the defense attorney to walk in front of a crowd of reporters, and we will bring it to you live as soon as we see it, but i know that my pal, joe johns, has been out there off and on covering the story, and he has literally walked outside of the courtroom. joe, first, talk me through what you have just experien...

Just the jobs data, theres another big dose of economic data that the bulls can bite into. we have the ism reporting stronger services sector and also some housing data out today, pretty positive for the stock markets as a whole. pending home sales from the national association of realtors surging in the month of march, so theres some more economic data today pointing to an overall recovery, and thats helping that rally to continue but at the same time, jane, i should point out that all the grow...