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Enough to offset the damage if the u. S. Economy goes over the fiscal cliff. And the fed takes the new and surprising step in its ongoing efforts to boost the economy, tying Interest Rates directly to the u. S. Unemployment rate. Plus, investors cheering the plan to save danones plans to offset losses over the next two years. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Welcome to the program. Coming up on todays show, well be plenty busy. We head out to tokyo where carry enjoji has been talking about the upcoming elections. Then, we hone in on...

Good morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Hope you all had a good christmas. Im melissa lee. Were live from the new york stock exchange. Jim cramer has the day off. The latest s p schiller home price report has been released. The results being shown at the bottom of your screen. David blitzer will join us with a closer look at the numbers in just a few minutes. Lets get a check on how were setting up on this day after Christmas Trading session. The dow looking higher by about 15 points. S p looking at about two points at the open. European markets closed on this day after christmas. The u...

To Monetary Policy. Rates will be staying where they are right now, which is close to zero, of course. Until at the very least the jobless rate falls to 6. 5 . We can only cross our fingers wherefore when that might be. Ben bernanke says these changes will make the central bank more transparent adding they can only help the markets. The central bank ramped up its Asset Purchase Program adding 40 billion to its 40 billion a month purchases of mortgagebacked bonds. He spoke about the objectives during wednesdays news conference. The asset purchases and the rate increases have different objective...

Years. Companies are showering cash on shareholders. S p 500 companies bought back more than 128 billion of their own shares in the third quarter. Thats the highest level since the Fourth Quarter back in 2007. If you combine buybackes and dividends, you get a total of 207 billion. Thats just in the third quarter. Take a look at the futures right now and see how markets are setting themselves up for the morning. We have some green arrows again. The dow looking like it would open up about 30 points higher, nasdaq looking like it would open higher. We have more on the markets in just a few minute...

I mentioned this earlier, all the training that weve undertaken a. So weve really made an effort to highlight about how important it is. But no question. Ideas come anybody was great ideas about how we can be better, be better about what we are doing and be more effective, by all means im all in years. Even discussing and thinking about todays event, so what more do we need to be doing . Im always open to hearing good ideas from whatever source, whether its private sector, those in the room. Im happy to hear them. We only just have a couple minutes left, and i got one question from the audienc...