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The dow futures are up 23 points above fair value. The s p futures are up by 2. 5 points and the nasdaq is up 5. 5 points. As for the markets in europe, you can see things are decidedly worse with the cac down. 70 . The dax in germany is down. 60 and the ftse is off. 30 . In the meantime, the russian micex indicated slightly higher trading higher this morning, but this comes after steep drops over recent weeks because of what was building up in the situation in ukraine. And the dollar at this point, at least in the morning, youll see this stronger across the board. Euro trading at 137. 73. And...

Expected to hold steady at 7. 7 . You have a few economists who revised their predictions, moving them higher after yesterdays strong adp report. Forecasters at Goldman Sachs are now expecting a gain of 200,000 jobs. Credit suisse is calling for 185,000 nonfarm payrolls and the u. S. Equity futures are barely budging at this point. Theyre going to wait and see what happens at 8 po been right now, s p futures are unfractionally. This is coming after modest declines yesterday following two strong days of gains. And, of course, the other big economic story were talking about this morning is the f...

Start to august. Yesterday, you were looking at the dow industrials, the dow transports, the s p, the russell 2,000, all closing at record highs. And the nasdaq was at a 13year high. Meantime, take a look at the tenyear. Yesterday, very interesting action here after all the strong economic numbers that we have been looking at. You saw the tenyear rising above 2. 72 , climbing again today to 2. 738 . What was interesting about that is while the yield was climbing, stocks were climbing too. People are looking at the good economic numbers and thinking, okay, maybe things are actually finally star...

Charlie rose, syrians president bashar assad denied he had anything to do with the chemical weapons attack that happened. Well talk to john harwood and politicos ben white. We also have some corporate news. Nieman marcus in talks to be bought with the canadian pension Investment Board for more than 6 million. The wall street journal says theyre trying to finalize a deal. The talks could fall apart. The company filed for an ipo in late june. Some of the sources ive heard of and talked to, this deal will come. A number of folks have been flying around since the ipo was there. Canadas pension fun...

Well. Its wednesday, february 6, 2013. Squawk box begins right now. Good morning, welcome to squ squawk box on cnbc. Becky quick is under the weather. Hope you feel better. Joe is off, steve leaseman here, as well. Our guest this hour, Yahoo Finance senior columnist steven kohey. A lot to discuss about the markets. Stocks rallying to wipe out most of the previous session losses. Check out the socalled ear gauge. The vix as we call it, tumbling below 14. Then in the next hour, something a little different on squawk box this morning. Were going to be joined on set by three wellknown names on wal...