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Against all of the political changes were seeing today, first i want to show you the Market Action. Stoxx 600 is sitting roughly flat, but weve seen interesting trading session where the nikkei really surging to the up side again today. More on that in a bit. Take a look at whats happening across europe because after a couple of uglier days in the market, were seeing something of a comeback now led by technology, Retail Stocks are also in the green, food and beverages, autos among the sectors dragging on the indek. We can take a closer look at the bourses. Ibex is down. Ftse 100 sam thing, so ...

We will analyze what the president said with our expert panel, all of those stories in the kudlow report, beginning right now. Until tonights 5 30 p. M. Leadership meeting, president obama had been notice bled absent from these negotiations, but our own Cnbcs John Harwood scored an exclusive interview with the president today. He asked the president where he would negotiate. Well, im prepared to negotiate on anything. I think its important for you to talk about how we create a budget that is creating jobs, encouraging growth, dealing with our longterm debt issues. The deficits are coming down ...

In the meantime, a look at the markets. Its been a zigzag day. Complicating this is its expiration day. Futures and options are going off the board. That always causes some volatility. That rise midday was after the congressional leaders came out of the white house and used the word constructive to describe the meeting. Right now the dow is off the highs, up just nine points now at 12,552. We do expect more volatility and more volume in this last hour. The nasdaq is up about eight points now at 2844. The s p 500 index with a gain of just two points at 1355. Equities have been set to end the we...

The nasdaq down by about 12. Because of tomorrows holiday, you do have the Labor Department coming out, releasing its weekly jobless claims numbers today. We get them a day early instead of a day late. Also today well be getting Weekly Mortgage rates. And freddie mac will report on the Weekly Mortgage rate averages as well. Lets talk about the top Global Market story this morning. It is greeces International Lenders, which did not reach a deal, and now they wont be releasing that next bailout payment. Nearly 12 hours of talks failed to reach a consensus. The imf and the central bank all going ...

Bowlessimpson proposal. Erskine bowles saying the gop offer does not represent the plan, he says both sides are kind of far away from it at this point and that its now up to negotiators to figure out where the middle ground is today. Bowles said that the mid point that i used back in this is where we were last year. So used the mid point of the negotiations, but its in longer the mid point i guess. He also said he is a testimony, but he has separated himself from the administration by saying that they thoo should have taken more of their proposals more seriously. He also said last night that y...