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Andrew levin, whos professor of economics at Dartmouth College and former adviser to former fed chair ben bernanke victoria fernandez from crossmart Global Investments is in houston congratulations. Thank you. Peter costa from empire executions is sheer at pohere a9 with us. Rick santelli is at the cme. Were going to get reaction later from former Federal Reserve governor larry meyer with us and Richard Fisher well get color from them on the new nominee, the impact he will have on the Federal Reserve Going Forward. Steve, lets start with you. As we await the president , to come out of the oval...

Overnight in asia, the nikkei was flat. The hang seng and the shanghai were slightly higher. In europe, in early trading right now, youll see there are mixed messages. For the most part the major averages are around the flat line. In italy things are down by 0. 9 . If you check out crude oil prices, right now it was up 1. 2 yesterday, giving back some of those gains this morning with wti at 54. 02. Lets get you updated on some big stories today. Earnings just out from Toll Brothers. The company earning 42 Cents Per Share in the first quarter. Revenue was better than expected. Home building del...

United flight. True story. Even when they say its a not it is always about money s cheryl bk faces severe backlash here at home. Ohio senator Sherrod Brown calling for a boycott. Jack hough, barons senior editor, Charlie Gasparino and the new economic thinking director. Charlie, a lot of story has been about mr. Buffett. The truth is we have very high tax rate in this country. This should be about mr. Buffett too. He is providing 3 billion financing for this. Preferred deal. Not a lot of money for him. That is a drop in the bucket for berkshire hathaway. Under normal circumstances that would b...

Going higher. These are widely held stocks that if you dont own directly you like we do in your 401 k or mutualfund or pension. Somewhere in your portfolio, big bold machines like boeing, walmart, johnson and johnson, mcdonalds. And down the road you see decent gains of up to 2 . We have big mergers and acquisitions. Is it news . Could there be a new marriage in the works . Time warner cable getting a boost following a report that Charter Communications is kicking up a sweet proposal but theres also theequestion of comcast jumping in. Nicole a multi player deal. Lets see what is going on. Time...

Calls. Well talk more about david tepper and some others in just a moment. But first, andrew has a roundup of some of the mornings top stories. Andrew, that story is already here in the new york city area. I cant believe it. We needed it about a week ago. I dont know. Shocked me a bit this morning, whoa, back to work in the snow. Well, happy new year. You, too, happy new year. Fiat decided to buy the stake in chrysler it doesnt already own. This is all in cash. Once that deal closes, chrysler is committed to giving the trust an additional 700 million. The agreement ends months of tense negotia...