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people may be cheering about. let s look at futures. you can see it is a positive response to this after initially the market was selling off just a bit. no taper of the taper perhaps. let s take a look at the ten-year talking about taper and qe. you can see not much change there either. and over in europe a reaction, not a reaction, how is the day working out? well, pretty well after what has been generally a positive week for the various markets in europe. all right. let s get to that jobs number itself, of course, and talk about it, jim. you know, market reaction now seems to be positive. don t know what that s playing off of. maybe the tiny tick up in the participation rate after being down more or less for decades it would seem. i don t know. when you listen to the coverage that we were hearing before on squawk, mr. dortmund spoke and cvs and said the traffic s not there because of the weather and the weather was the worst nationwide since 1977. now, typically ....
trading day of the year. we looking like we have an up open. as for that all-important i m going to put all-important in front of the 10-year every time i say it. europe is largely green is where we are right now in terms of the markets can the 10-year go to 3.89? i pick that number because that s where the spanish 10-year is. unemployment, three and a half year low. spanish bonds are trading at a three and a half year low itself because business has come back. is that maybe a little bit of a roof? do you think it s possible that our 10-year is going to go through the spanish 10-year? it doesn t seem possible. so maybe we should stop fretting all the time. and i italian 10-year. before we go phracrazy, we an better shape than they are and they should have their own currency. it really is insanity we re so worried about it probably is a good thing, not a bad thing, because it s saying a lot of good things about our economy. i m more concerned do y ....
intensifying. new data showing that the economy slowed at a pace than originally anticipated. nasdaq starting off at a a closing high, and 14-year high. and the guidance says it is experiencing severe disruption from the winter, and gap suggest suggests gaap suggests it will fall more than expected. and on mad mad money last night, cramer talked about raising investments. and we will hear from apple s tim cook. and in the first full year results are lower after discovering fraud in the subsidiary in mexico, and they go into detail, jim. this is not a minor story, and i know that when you look at the big revenues of citi you say, so what, but this is a major client with a checkered history and it is a $360 million and they say, $230 million, but $360 million pre-tax the. okay. and you think it is important because you look at $360 million pretax fraud resulting in a $235 million after-tax writedown and it gets complex. it is complex. but related to tr ....
but it s a mostly positive picture in europe and the roadmap today starts with what else but the markets set to open higher yet again after comments from russian president vladimir putin but with the fed meeting kicking off today will stocks go back to trading on news from this country. after a long wait one of microsoft s flagship programs is coming to your i pad, we ll tell you which one in just a moment. and there s a new player joining the used video game market and it s the biggest retailer in this country. find out if used games will boost walmart s stock a little later on this hour. wow, we got a big day, jim, and most of the news today, the news flow, is coming out of russia. yes. putin is responsible for the futures being higher. well, obviously took a big position at the close. do you think that do you think facetious and here comes another facetious comment. i saw you said that norway and ireland are down. dublin and oslo worried about putin com ....
does this mean that i hopped across the middle east one that is that what you think it s quite sad at how stacked and twenty four debates in the meantime let s get to that over my tights is not ok like this. life isn t easy thank you darren. these are the headlines. louisa placed into a mass grave in tight clothes honest life and sublime is joined to look east and west to areas to collect the eight hundred or so the french priest is kidnapped in northern cameroon and claim responsibility act. from this nature operates in the area i brought obama offers a fixed every new council s health care plans will have more from simon marks in washington in amazement the philippines will waste a week now that i ve been high and not to destroy a tie them on the sec s the mass burial was held the idea. the mayor has blamed the government to widespread delays of burials by weezer policy identification of bodies will have to wait red cross volunteers and medical students down for bodie ....