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Competition is cutthroat. And today we let the economy play out once again as we have pretty much every day since this Earnings Period began. Dow gained 22 points, s p backsliding. 9 . Nasdaq climbing. Theres a debate going on oddly which im in the center stage of of how anemic business in this country this quarter. The press, notably the wall street journal, is trying to make a case that business after all this quantitative easing, all this help from the federal reserve, is still depressed. I d...

Competition is cutthroat. And today we let the economy play out once again as we have pretty much every day since this Earnings Period began. Dow gained 22 points, s p backsliding. 19 . Nasdaq declining. Theres a debate going on oddly which im in the center stage of of how anemic business in this country this quarter. The press, notably the wall street journal, is trying to make a case that business after all this quantitative easing, all this help from the federal reserve, is still depressed. I...

Theres also a whole lot more coming up from delivering alpha. We have activist investor nelson pelt, coming up in a few minutes. He may be making headlines at what he is looking at now. Well bring that to you live as soon as it happens. Right, bill . Leaders of pepsico will be listening to that. And another activist investor, carl icahn, and the dell letter getting hot. He issues a letter ahead of the vote tomorrow. Hell have a lot to say on that surely issue coming up. That will be a little whi...

I think we should give full disclosier first. Comcast is the parent of our company, cnbc. By the way, the ceos of both companies, they were be joining david faber right here on squawk box coming up at 7 00 eastern time. Ive already had i was walking and thinking im going to leave this show with neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night. And i saw that was written into the prompter and i thought for a second, whose motto is that . The post office. Who wants to compare comcast to the post office . ...

Nasty up the eastern seaboard through boston, physical, new york and soon head sfwhungd new add weg. Its not over. The forecast is 30 seconds away. The airlines are affected, not in a good way. Thousands of flights cancelled and delayed today. Weve got extensive coverage on how much damage this bad stretch of weather is doing to the economy. We call it frozenomics. And a media mega deal involving cnbcs Parent Company comcast. Its going to buy Time Warner Cable. Number one, number two, put them t...

As for the tenyear note yield, a couple of days now after yellens testimony. Shes coming back soon, too, though, right . Tenyear note has moved up of late, 2. 743 . Lets take a look at europe. See how we performed there. As you can see, weakness there perhaps following probably some weakness here in the United States. And that is where we start with the deal that will create the Largest Cable Company by far in the u. S. Comcast the parent of Nbc Universal agreeing to acquiring Time Warner Cable ...

The percentage might look small, but the amount of money i think is robust enough for allowing us to have a great future. The u. S. Senate prepares for a hearing today on the use of force in syria while the u. N. Endorses a military response. Very good morning to you. Microsoft is buying Nokia Smartphone business for 7. 2 billion. The deal which includes licenses of nokias patents. This is microsofts second biggest acquisition behind the purchase of skype. Microsoft will use some of its near 70 ...

Because employment wasnt strong. And then it went down at the opening because russia didnt budge over president obamas in treaties with putin saying he would back syria if the u. S. Bombed it. Then we rallied intraday because Interest Rates declined. But at the end of the day we gave up those gains as it became clear the syria situation was destined to heat up over the weekend. Dow only falling 15 points, s p inching up. 01. And im going to be the first to admit, this is all crazy. Thats right. ...

And proceed with the hearing in that order. Let me make just a couple of custodial announcements. Apologize, the other day we tried to get the official hearing i am sorry official Committee Room photo of the committee and noticed one askew, but we will reschedule latch, and if votes are cancelled on monday, which i dont know if they have made that announcement but if they do we will probably shift the official photo to wednesday morning. Folks may not come back until tuesday and probably at 10 1...

I took the chairmanship in october 2010. The summary of the title is the federal government must stop sitting on its assets. We have taken on gsa and some of the billons buildings that have sat vacant. They continue the effort to get empty buildings filled. The report also talks about the northeast corridor, one of the most valuable assets in the entire world. It is an asset we are sitting on. It probably would will never be developed to its fullest potential by amtrak. This outlines part of our...