Threeday losing streak in nearly four months. That index is down nearly 2 in the last three sessions, closing yesterday at 1775. The s p 500 is up about 27 yeartodate. We are going to talk more about the fed markets. Thats coming up at 8 30 eastern time. The Producer Price index for november will be released at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. Congress are expecting a reading that shows an unchanged reading. Right now, take a look at the futures. At this point, dow futures are indicated up higher, up about 47 points. S p futures up by 7 points. Right now, lets get over to andrew with more of todays top corporate stories. Andrew. Weve got a lot of news for you, the first one being that directv is now exploring the idea of an online video service. The Company Plans to target what they call price sensitive young people. Other commerce have dropped their pay tv service. Directv and the nfl have agreed to a framework to renew the popular sunday ticket pass. Also, cocacola saying its going to split its north American Business into two operating units. This is part of the beverage giants brand to return to a franchise brand. Companies will be called cocacola north america and coca cola refreshments. You build it up, you destroy it, you build it up again. Finally, boeing planning to cut 1200 Research Jobs in washington state. Not good for the union movement. The move will reduce the companys reliance on engineers in the seattle area. Boeing currently considering proposals to move 777x Wing Development outside of the state to avoid union conflicts. Im not going to take this cord cutting crap watching internet stuff on some small screen. You dont have to watch it on a small screen. I dont care. Im doubling my big screen. Im doubling the size and the number and im getting xfinity on every one of them. Thats what im doing. This is ridiculous, cord cutting. You cant im going to. Because it doesnt exist. Theres bigger ones than 50 inches. You have a 45 inch one right now. I do. You dont have one thats only 45 inches, do you . 50. What is your biggest tv, joe . 50, i think. Im getting bigger and im doubling the number and im getting double xfinity. Double sequence xfinity on all of them. And a triple play for 99. Get the deal on that. And lets talk. What time is liesman on today . He has some all american thing going on, doesnt he . He does. He read his story last night. I read that story. But as many people when he went out, his neck is about this long on that taper thing. I know, i know. But you know who is telling him hes right . The market is telling him hes right. But if it turns out that it was right, what happened . Did the market listen to liesman or did the market already know and it was confirming that liesman right right . Its really moved. It did. As you said eloquently and with great feeling, lets not get you know, its 200 points. Were at 15, 7 on the dow. 15,739. Its down from 15,000. But when you look at these small daily moves, youre trying to interpret those, trimmers like that make a difference. But it doesnt mean the taper is going to all of a sudden kill everything. Although a lot of things have aligned, you know, now wire not worried about the budget any more. Now we are going to start tapering. So all these things that economic numbers have actually yeah, that, too. So these things, we were going up when infinity. We were going up when the xx opposite, as you like to say, we were going up as the exact opposite of these things were happening. Does it mean that theres a little bit of a breather here, mickey direction lerexler. What is the name of his suits . I made a suit called the ludlow suit. And the only thing low about the suit is the price, ludlow. No, very reasonable. I went with the old stand by when i went. The zegna. The zegna. Got me a zegna. Got me a zegma. Okay. United technologies is the stock were going to watch today. The dow component provided weaker than expected guidance for 2014. Profits as well as revenue. The company expecting a sales reduction from its Government Aerospace business. We got the impression from congressman ryan yesterday that some of the concerns from the right about the defense sequester had been ameal your ra emelurated to some extent. When the National News talks about boehner, they go think what you will. We all know you think hes a jerk because weve told you he is for the last five years. So we know you believe the Mainstream Media that he is a jerk. But in this case, i can hear it in their tone. That thats basically what theyve said. In this case, hes a little bit more palletble for us. You know what . Youre so good because you nail stuff. That is you know that im right with that. We live in new york, though. So were bombarded with and you are a product. I mean, you live, breathe, sleep, your heart is ticking, your lungs its all yeah. Anyway, inway washington oh, here we go. Did you see this . This is great. People were worried, 33294 for that bill, the bipartisan bill. And it really did kind of like some of the stuff boehner was saying yesterday. You know, he finally just said, look, ive tried to work, tried to take your position and not just dismiss them, but take them seriously. But try to further your goals and i agree with a lot of them, even though as paul ryan said, we have a democratic president and a democratic senate. But boehner said ive listened and ive tried to do it. But at this point, were going to do this. You loved it . You liked it. You liked it different as in stuff. Yeah. I think this was great. Nobody was expecting it to be quite this strong of a vote. Paul ryan didnt expect to see it. If you can get past some of this contentious stuff, build up relationships, people working across the aisles to see what we can get done instead of seeing what we can stop on both sides, there are some areas of agreement. If you can take those small areas of agreement and try and work on them, i think thats a great start. Was it true that 92 of the sequester remains . Thats what ryan kept saying. Do figures lie . I think if youre looking over the years, yeah. Is that how . Because everybody has a number that bolsters their you can look at this a lot of different ways. If youre looking at in this year, i dont know if how did we lose you . What are you looking at . Tell me. Its a story that becky is going to talk about. Youre is in the script preparing . No. I looked t screen and i wanted to be able to give you the exact answer about this because you would ask me before the program began. If what you told me is true, this takes out a large part of my daily pleasure. No, you can block people. Supposedly they dont get told if youre blocked. Lets find out whether its true. Twitter is backtracking after some changes to the sites blocking functionality. It was greeted with open revolt. Righting is reporting to the block function that users or interacting with their tweets. Allowing them to view or tweet. The people who are harassing still get the joy of harassing, still thinking that youre harassing. Twitter said the change is meant to protect users. It is back to the old world. Tell me in english, andrew. That means basically what they were worried about every time you block somebody, theres a potential for retaliation or that people will then write tweets about you but they wont use your hashtag or whatsoever. But i wont see them . You wont see them. So they thought, okay, the way were going to fix this is by letting people you can block them, i wont know that youve blocked me and ill keep writing these crazy things out there and ill feel like im completely empowered, except for the fact that youll never see it. But other people can see it, by the way. That was the issue. Because there are bitter, small minded haters. Some of them used to actually work here, hedge fund type that write stuff. I dont see it. I dont care at all. Im whistling past the graveyard constantly. Which you could still be doing, but they wouldnt know. I think the changes that theyve undone i dont think was necessarily a bad thing. Because you provoke someone when you block them . You do . Yes. Thats the whole point. When you block them, it will stay block. I do double secret blocking. I also report it at spam. Do they know that i report them as spam . And i mean both kinds of spam. Youre a scary preservative laden how do you think people feel but . Who . Hormel, the spam people. I think they like me, but they worry about me. Because the lovers of spam, we probably dont have a lot of them in our audience, do we . Have you ever had it . I cant say ive ever had it. I dont think ive ever had it. I dont think so. I like hormel products. I just think spam is funny. I think the name is funny. I think its a meat and if its a meat, it should be called whatever type of meat it is but no one knows. The next time we have the ceo of hormel on, we should ask him about how spam has been used in this verbiage. Anyway, so the bottom line is, you can block people and let me see if ive got anyone in that case, even someone nice. Joe, here is the catch. They can still write about it. They just cannot use your but i wont see it, right . You wont see it, but the rest of the world will. Go on a message board sometime and search sorkin. Trust me, i know. Anybody who is out there knows that. I sadly know. I sadly know. If you dont see it, its not happening. Its a good way to think about it. You know, big stars and ive seen this recently, they have to can you imagine affleck after batman, the amount of stuff that was pikers, we deal with three things . Aflfleck dealt with 3 million. Gweneth paltrow, how about the one you know . Ann hathaway. There are people devoted to hating ann hathaway. Its a lesson that we all need to develop thicker skin. Lets do it right now from here on out. From here on out, let us be thicker skinned. Deal. We hopefully wont need it. Were going to go across the pond for a moment. It is time for the global markets. Our good friend Ross Westgate standing by in london with a mix of red and green behind him for the Holiday Season. Thats right. A very good morning to you, andrew. And we have been in the session. Were about up to the session highs where we wandered down to the flat line here. Around about 5 to 5, just about advancers and decliners on the Dow Jones Stoxx 600. The ftse was down about 62 points. Up 13 at the moment. We have bounced off the low which we hit around half an hour or so ago. The xetra dax is up 0. 25 . The cac 40 is up about 0. 3 . The ftse mib is up 0. 3 today. Peugeot citron has been feeling the heat this week. Its down another 9 today. It was off nearly 9 yesterday. Its down in the last four trading sessions Something Like 23 . Today, the reaction is because u. S. Alliance partner General Motors sold its stake ahead of a possible new share issue by the struggling french carmaker. The french government says its not sure whether its going to buy into peugeot citron or not. But a poor week for investors in the french carmaker. And bitcoin is back in focus yet again. The European Banking Authority is warning that high volatility and a lack of regulation makes Virtual Currencies potentially dangerous for consumers. European Authorities Say they are going to investigate whether Virtual Currencies need to be supervised or not. So more scrutiny coming from regulators on Virtual Currencies, as well. Thats where we stand at the moment. Kind of even stevens. For now, back to you. Thank you for that. Now we are going to go jump from london to dublin where ireland is reaching a major milestone this morning. Julia chatterley joins us now with that story. Good morning, julia. Good morning. Well, as you said, ireland becomes the first eurozone country to exit its bailout program. The irish finance minister said to me, this is a huge achievement for a country that in the last few years has suffered a Property Market crash, a Banking Sector crisis and ultimately had to borrow 114 billion. Now, the best way to explain this story is to look at their tenyear yields. Back in 201 1, they were borrowing at almost 15 . Since then, rates have come dramatically lower. And i asked the finance minister if he sees more room for improvement in those borrowing rates. We are borrowing at rates that we couldnt have done. It is hard to predict the future. But i always say that we have come from the position where we were into raising and in terms of spreads, we were the strongest of the weak. And now we have moved into a Different Division where we have started by being the weakest of the strong. He said that the country is the weakest of the strong. And those weaknesses include debt levels that are higher than before the financial crisis. A huge spike in unemployment particularly for young people and concerns still about the health of the Banking Sector. So yes, its a positive message here from ireland today. The direction is right. But the road to recovery is going to be a long one. Guys, back to you. Thank you. Andrew. Nice to see you. Lovely tie youre wearing. Thanks. Today i saw him. He came in and tried to sneak in in that new suit. Im pretty perceptive because i saw you out of the corner of my eye and said oh, my god, you looked so sexy. Thank you. Didnt i say that right away inspect. Yes. He didnt have a tie on. His collar was open. Thats your lightest suit that youve worn. This is a is that a different tie than you started to put on this morning . No. But, you know, the day that he went over there without a jacket and he said you know, i walked past the mirror and i didnt like the way the jacket looked. Thats vanity. No, its not. But thats just something you have to do. Today he strutted over with the jacket on, almost had that going on . Yes, yes. Anyway, coming up yeah. Coming up, the debate over inflight phone calls. Im fine. I know youre fine. I am fine with them not letting this. Others may not be. The controversy is getting louder. That story is coming up in this mornings executive edge. Later, taking flight, wheels up, raising the stakes in private air travel. I will never own a jet, but if i ever could, it would be a cessna, the one that flies high, flies fast. I would be a wheels up member. Ill never do that, either. Scott ernest and Kenny Dichter will be here. First, though, will any planes be able to get out of the new york area this week . Thats the question that alex wallace of the Weather Channel will answer with his forecast. Alex. Good morning. Could be a tough travel time as we head our way into the weekend. No doubt about it. And it all starts here in the middle of the country. Southern plains down into texas, were seeing rain. This is the jennings of this winter storm. Were starting to see, in fact, here, in that purple, a little bit of freezing rain showing up. Parts of kansas into missouri. As the storm system brings the moisture northward and the cold air drives south, we bring in that wintry weather. So icing today across parts of noir at least to start off. Then well switch over to snow in places like st. Louis. Indianapolis, detroit, and then new york city tomorrow seeing that snow. You will transition late saturday to a bit of a mix. Most of new england heading into that snow through sunday. 3 to 5 in this darker shade of blue. That will be south of chicago working into detroit. This is where the big winners will be, particularly the interior spots. Look at this dark shade of purple. Thats 8 to 12 inches of snow. That will be west of boston. Boston, youre right on that edge of dealing with about 5 to 8. In and around new york city, youll be generally talking 1 to 3. Eastern cities, west of the city, 3 to 5 out there. With this wintry weather coming in, i dare to say there will be travel problems for the northeast and the midwest. Thats your national forecast. Squawk box is coming back. Announcer before you hit the road, here is your travelers check. In order to earn revenue, cities have been raising taxes on hotel lodging, car rentals and restaurant meals. And business travelers are feeling it. So which city taxes travelers the most . Find out next. vo you are a business pro. Maestro of project management. 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But the department of transportation says it isnt so sure that permitting calls is fair to consumers. It may even ban the use of cell phone calls by passengers during flights. On board and on aircraft. Theres a bit of a spat between two agencies or whether you can or cooperate and the fcc is basically saying, hey, theres no technical reason we should prohibit this. How do you feel about you remember yesterday you had about the quiet car on a train . How do you feel about a quiet cabin . Youd pay more or i dont know. Do you pay more . You have to figure that. The airline you pay more for each. You pay more to be part of one, and then you pay to keep it silent. Either way, you pay. You cant separate that. Even in first class, you can hear what theyre doing. Its not the same as in a train where you can go to a physical different car. I would like other people not to be able to make calls, but i would like to be able to do them. Thats what everybody wants. Im okay if no one can. Youre okay with as long as you can text and email, you can still get your communications out. And youre fine. Thats fine. Why dont they do that . Thats what theyre considering. Theres a ban on calls that the department is considering would just be on phone calls. They would still allow all other