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More and heinz knows it, they may have poured on the profits but higher commodity costs put on the squeeze, so much that the company is announcing 1,000 job cuts and westerning of higher prices to come. and now the heinz c.e.o. >> commodity costs are increasing all over the globe and with fuel prices up virtually the price of everything we put in our products has increased so we have to offset it and the way we offset it obviously is to price up and take as much cost out to remain competitive. >>neil: you absorbed it in the latest quarter and some were surprised. you think that is tough to rep...

At home, alternative fuels, energy efficiency, so that every time there's a problem in the middle east, every summer, every time there's an earthquake or a natural disaster, the price doesn't shoot up and we have the same conversation. that's kind of the -- we've got to get out of the current environment. jenna: so while we're waiting for that, for that environment to change, when are you seeing -- or how concerned are you about some of these higher commodity costs and when they'll be a problem for some of this job growth we've seen? because we have seen job growth over the last couple of mont...

A dollar is worth 11 cents less today against euro than last year. while it makes the export of u.s. goods cheaper abroad and helps the trade imbalance for americans it makes the cost of buying foreign goods, food, cars, middle east oil more expensive. but not everyone agrees that pumping money in the u.s. economy has caused inflationary pressures or weakened the dollar. >> strong dollar interest of the country and we'll never embrace the strategy of trying to weaken the currency to gain economic advantage, at the expense of our training partners. >> the dollar was declining up to the financia...

Infancy, the device appears remarkably similar to the current tablets. i bet they're regretting that. now a first look at how wall street will kick off the day. dow opens at 12479 after dipping 46 points yesterday. the s&p shed two point. the nasdaq rose five. taking a look at overseas trading, in tokyo the nikkei sank 1 13 points while in hong kong the hang seng dropped 130. fears of rising commodity costs has suddenly gripped wall street and will continue to do so throughout this busy week of earnings report. kimberly-clark fell almost 3% after lowering full-year outlook due to rising co...

Flake and we have been through the drill before, it hits you like an anvil over head. are we at this point yet or what to you look for? >> i think you look for a pullback in consumer confidence and consumer spending. we are starting to see that, neil. we saw big drops in consumer confidence last week. inflation to a large degree as well as deflation is a perception game and obviously so far we have seen that the producers have not been able to pass on costs but they are getting to the point where we are. look at all of the companies just this week that are saying hey, watch out, guys, we can't...