i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. hollywood, i like to call him. although it's going to be done here in new york, right? >> explain to everybody what is this is. >> andrew, showtime is huge. it's the home of homeland and episodes and -- >> and soon to be billions by andrew ross sorkin. >> i wrote a pilot. just a pilot. >> but with some bona fide -- >> david levine. >> and great writing partners -- >> is it any good? >> 13. they wrote rounders, one of the great movies of all time. years ago, "run away jury." do you remember? >> i do remember "run away jury." who was -- >> john grisham. >> who was in that, who was the female? >> there was, and i -- >> you saw that? >> we digress. so billions is about a -- it's like about an attorney general or a prosecutor in new york and you're going to make it really anti- -- it's about a godless -- no, no, it's about the nuance of it all. it's about the nuance of this whole -- when you look at it, did you ever see the wire? and you think the drug dealers are the bad guys and the police are supposed to be the good g

i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin and steve liesman. joe is off today. we have a big lineup this morning. ursula burns will be joining us at 7:30 a.m., followed by john veehmeyer. then we have an exclusive interview with carl ice. that's coming up at 8:10 eastern time. stick around for those interviews. >> i hear your voice. >> i know. i've been trying. it's better than it was an hour and a half ago. >> if you need help, just -- >> better than it was a half an hour ago. >> just signal and we will jump in. >> i'm here. i wanted to be here. i feel okay, it's just that my voice is going. we're trying this morning. our top story this morning, the fed is kicking off its two-day meeting. the central bank is widely expected to stay the course both with the pace of tapering and with interest rates. but with any meeting, it will be the language surrounding that decision that will keep investors on their toes. that and janet yet yellen's first news conference. steve will have the cnbc fed survey results in just a moment. but as for today's data at 8:30 a.m. easter

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. >> say it slowly. phasis. i like that. you've exacerbated my name. >> aaron sorkin -- i called you sorkin. you don't know who i'm talking about? i can't remember who that was. they thought his name was andrew ross and his nickname was sorkin. aaron w-- the name would have been a lot better if there wasn't an aaron sorkin. >> i like aaron. >> really? >> absolutely. >>> let's get a check on the futures this morning. they have been moving higher after these latest developments coming out of ukraine. we'll have more on that in just a moment. dow futures up by about 163 points above fair value, more than the market lost yesterday. s&p futures up by 18.5 points, the nasdaq up by 41 points. >>> russian troops sent on a military exercise in western russia ordered to return to their bases by president putin. markets around the world reacting positively to that development. there is still tension in crimea, where about 16,000 russian troops remain this morning. nbc's jim maceda joins us now from moscow. >> report

it rhymes with lion. >>> and check out andrew ross sorkin's sorkin's first tweet. goes, ellipses, my first tweet ever. better than my whining about the airplane. ♪ it feels like the very first time ♪ no two people have the same financial goals. pnc investments works with you to understand yours and helps plan for your retirement. talk to a pnc investments financial advisor today. ♪ >>> take a look at the futures. you can see there how we have green arrows. dow looks like it would open up 52 points higher. brian? >> the results are in, the of 30 banks that participated in the latest round of the federal reserve stress test one bank, zions bank failed to meet capital requirements. zion up 10% this year. we'll have to wait and see what it does today. joining us now to talk about the results is governor frank keating. are you pleased by the results? one failed out of 30 which means 29 passed. on the stress test, stressful enough? >> i need to take a patriotic moment. david rubenstein is on your set. he's a major funder to keep george washington's there and the library.

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin who is in washington this morning. e, don't you, andrew? look at the jacket. >> we have the jacket. it's lovely behind me. it's all, you know, but i miss you. because i haven't seen you for two days in the flesh, you know. so to speak. not that you've ever seen me in the flesh. >> apparently you've thought about it a little. you have like a lunch set up with six senators and a couple of cabinet members. that's xushlly what you do when you're doing there. >> i have an acela train ride, that's my appointment, right after this program. >> honestly. all right. >> i have an appointment with henry and max sorkin a little bit later. >> and alan greenspan. >> and with alan greenspan at 7:30. >> we will say when he's here, just turned 88 years old. >> 88 years young is what we should say. yesterday was his birthday. god bless him. 88. nowadays, that's -- well, we'll see. he's still great, sharp as a tack for another 20 years hopefully. >> that's great. the futures right now, andrew, are still up, even after another good day yest

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin who is in chicago today for the forbes reinventing america conference. you made it, andrew. >> i did. i did. we're going to tell you all about it in just a minute. >> who do you have coming up today? >> oh, this the is you coming to me. now i understand what's happening here. we are in chicago. >> i know. it caught me by surprise, too. this is different than we usually do. >> we are in chicago this morning, very happily so at the forbes reinventing america conference. we're going to be talking about manufacturing, innovation, bringing jobs back to this country. probably have a debate about the minimum wage and thwhat that means. let me tell you who we have on the program because it's a roster you can't miss. we have the mayor of chicago coming up, rahm emanuel. this is the guy that run these place and has a lot of questions but also a lot of views on what's going on. not just politically, but in the economic arena. i always forget that he actually worked years ago. then we have steve forbes, the grand master of today's ceremonies. the

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin who is live in las vegas this morning. ew. >> good morning. we're having a lot of fun here in vegas. >> 4:00 a.m. in vegas. still up. >> what happens in vegas -- >> yeah, what happens should stay in vegas unless you're tweeting about it. let's look at the futures. there has been pressure on stocks as there's continuing concern about growth in china. there's another big economic number tomorrow ahead of that. asian stocks traded down. that, in turn, has brought down european stocks in the early trading. right now dow futures are down 53 points below fair value. people wondering about the emerging markets in general. those questions that have been dogging us since january. they faded for some time but do pop up from time to time. you see the s&p futures are down by 7.5 points below fair value. >>> ten-year note is yielding 2.746%. and the price of gold is also in our morning headlines. take a look at what's been happening with gold. it has touched a 5 1/2-month high. it's up another $11 today. 1357 is where it stands right no

i'm joe kernan along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. citigroup says executives at the bank are promising to bolster the auditing process. the failed stress test means the bank has to wait at least a year or at least until next year to increase, not to increase but to pay a dividend or to increase the stock buy-backs. >>> and new york state joined new york city in a lawsuit against fedex. the company is accused of violating state and federal laws in delivering cigarettes to residences. the suit involves a fedex partnership with a smoke shop that ships untaxed cigarettes. >>> and automaker tesla striking a key agreement with new york state to operate the five existing retail locations. any additional locations are covered under the franchise laws. tesla ran into trouble for selling cars directly to consumers without going through a dealer. >> they didn't talk about that at all. they didn't talk about that or really the safety stuff. >> no, they didn't. although we saw the batteries going into the bottom of the car. and you know what else

sudden it's like there you are. >> all right. >> i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkinew ross sorkin, the headlines this morning -- >> and you said joe kernen and becky quick, by the way. >> you're not in the post today, in that skz with all the fashionable -- i was sure you were going to find a way to get yourself in there with all these fashionable -- but you didn't. anyway -- >> goodness. >> the malaysian -- this is still happening. the search for the missing malaysian airlines jet continues. i guess the weather has improved in that part of the world. airline and boeing are facing the potential lawsuit in the case. chicago-based law firm ribeck law, have you ever heard of that? has filed a petition for what is known as discovery. the firm's trying to determine if there's evidence pointing to possible design and manufacturing defects in the boeing 777 jet. >> i heard this yesterday. they immediatee-mailed it to me. they're looking for anything and everything. they said it's for millions and millions. >> you jumped down my throat when i implied the gm thing was going t

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. w york city this morning, scratching and itching for a special change the world event. i'm trying to talk a little better in here, andrew. am i doing okay? >> you're doing just fine in the big city. >> welcome to -- must be all those cabbies. >> oh, my god, that was the prettiest cab. >>> anyway, we're going to bring together some of the biggest names in the financial world to promote cancer research at mt. sinai health systems. we're going to get into all that in a few minutes. but first, there are some headlines today. it resolve around ukraine. secretary of state john kerry is in paris to meet with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. they're going to discuss the situation a day after the secretary of state visited kiev. the foreign minister is in paris, as well. it's unclear whether he'll be part of the meeting, though. the diplomates are all in paris because of a previously scheduled conference involving economic aide to lebanon. >>> and an international airline deal could be i

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. have been indicated higher this morning. dow futures up about i 33 points above fair value. yesterday you said you saw the markets give back a little bit. that came after massive gains with the dow up 220 points. the ten-year note continues to yield to 2.712. in our headlines this morning, we have a busy day for economic numbers. even as investors look ahead to tomorrow's february job report. >>> we have initial jobless claims an revised fourth quarter gdp. fourth quarter productivity i should say. both out at 8:30 eastern time. later in the morning, we'll be getting the january reading on factory orders. >>> the crimeaen parliament approved a referendum to be held on march 16th on whether the region should become part of russia. no response yet from ukraine's government. yesterday, the prime minister said crimea would remain a part of ukraine. >>> directv is in talks with disney. they are seeking the right to offer disney con ten as part of an internet-based product that could be acc

i'm andrew ross sorkin along with michelle caruso cabrera.etting you itself up. the dow is up about 22 points higher. the nasdaq up 4 points higher and the s&p close to 2 points higher. brian. >> i know. i'm swallowing the cup cake. it was delicious. oh, my gosh. fedex shares under pressure. this is not delicious. the company reporting fiscal third quarter profit of a buck 23 a share. folks, that was 22 cents below estimates. revenue also shy of consensus. more importantly, the full year forecast was cut. fedex citing, what else? the impact of severe weather winter. we're watching automaker toyota, the justice department expected to announce a settlement of more than $1 billion with the company related to those unintended acceleration cases from a few years ago. toyota is expected to avoid criminal prosecution as part of the deal. and jp morgan chase will announce the sale of its physical commodities unit later on this morning. kate kelly reports the sale to swiss trading firm mark kuria will be worth $3 the.5 billion. guys, marcuria was foun

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.oming up in just about an hour, we have a very special guest house, philly fed president charles plosser. we want to start this morning with the markets. you can see this morning the futures are indicated higher. dow futures up by about 38 points above fair value. s&p futures up by just over 3 points and the nasdaq is up by about 9. in europe right now, the major averages are at least at this point looking pretty strong. in fact, the gains of better than 11% across the board. the ftse, the cac and the dax all looking up by better than 1%. prices in ukraine, the united states, the world's largest economies have kicked russia out of the g-8 in reaction to russia's

i'm becky quick with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin will be joining us from las vegas.off at 7:00 eastern time, we've got home depot chairman and ceo frank blake. then we will be talking to the ceos of masco and mohawk. then andrew will be grilling with frank webber. >> has anyone spoken to him yet? >> who frank blake? >> no, andrew. is he on a roof, on a mattress? is he in a refrigerator lost where he -- >> no. maybe we should send someone to take some photos. >> this is vegas and this is andrew. has anyone heard from him at all? >> what is it, it's had o'clock on in the morning there right now, right? >> yeah. >> there he is. there he is. >> okay. yeah, you had that ready? i

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin, live in new orleans this morning.t is larry bossidy, former ceo and chairman of honeywell. we have a lot to talk about. >> we do. >> you look good. good to see you. take a look at the futures. yesterday you saw the markets close down but just barely, dow down by 4 points, s&p down by 3 points and change. the dow futures are indicated above 38 points above fair value. the yield pushed lower once again. you could see this morning it's yielding 2.697%. >> yes. >> yesterday it was at a two-week low at 2.67. >> two numbers, an 80 cents loss. >> adjusted loss of 8 cents a share. >> and the estimate was loss of 55 cents a share. >> it's a $5 billion stock again. i was going to say why are we talking about it? you still have one because you still type on that thing. >> i have this and an iphone. >> you have a blackberry. >> no dead man walking. >> it's unbelievable. >> i know. that's why i got an iphone, too. >> you have to leave early today to go to the photo-mat. you have film to pick up. >> i know where the day is coming w

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i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. we had more fed speak overnight.ouis fed president james bullard. he says he expects the u.s. jobless rate to fall below 6% this year. he remains bullish on the strength of the economy. despite weaker data that we got earlier this year and he added the fed policymakers will need to see more progress on the markets before they can consider a rate hike. charles plosser was our guest host yesterday here on "squawk box." the markets managed to snap a two-day losing streak after a stronger than expected jump in consumer can confidence. the dow added 91 points to close at 16,367. the dow was up higher, triple dimt gains earlier in the session. the s&p 500 also up, adding 8 points yesterday while the nasdaq added about 8 points, as

i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin and steve liesman. joe is off today. a big lineup this morning. ursula burns will be joining us at 7:30 a.m., followed by john veehmeyer. then we have an exclusive interview with carl ice. that's coming up at 8:10 eastern time. stick around for those interviews. >> i hear your voice. >> i know. i've been trying. it's better than it was an hour and a half ago. >> if you need help, just -- >> better than it was a half an hour ago. >> just signal and we will jump in. >> i'm here. i wanted to be here. i feel okay, it's just that my voice is going. we're trying this morning. our top story this morning, the fed is kicking off its two-day meeting. the central bank is widely expected to stay the course both with the pace of tapering and with interest rates. but with any meeting, it will be the language surrounding that decision that will keep investors on their toes. that and janet yet

i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin and brian sullivan. joe is off this morning. our top story today, australia is now sending aircraft to an area of the southern indian ocean after satellites discovered two objects that could be part of a possible debris field of missing malaysian airlines flight 370. matt taylor joins us right now from sydney. matt. >> becky, thanks very much. the latest information that we're getting out of australia, authorities here on the east coast of australia is that one royal australian air force jet has been unable to locate any debris associated with these two satellite images that were released a little earlier on today by the australian government and australian officials. they say that two satellite images showing two objects which may or may not be pieces of da prefrom that missing malaysian airlines flight 370 have been discovered just south of the corridor that australian authorities have been searching. one is 24 meters or about 75 feet in size. the other is around about five meters in length or around about 15 feet in size. now

i'm becky quick along long with andrew ross sorkin. joe kernen is off today.e will be back on monday. we have another bullish session on wall street. and a rally in financial stocks like jpmorgan. jpmorgan jumped more than 3% to close above $60 a share for the first time since april of 2000. that helped power the dow. the index adding 108 points to close at 16,331. and the s&p 500 adding 1 1 points. it's now just about six points from an all-time high. the nasdaq higher, it now stands at 4319. if you check out the markets this morning, take a look at what's been happening with the futures. you'll see right now there are green arrows once again. up by about 58 points above fair value for those dow futures. remember what happened yesterday. we saw red arrows across the board. s&p futures are up by about 7.5 points this morning. in europe and some of the early trading there, you can see green arrows there, as well. the cac is up by 0.5%. same story with the german dax. we watched everything reverse

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin who is in chicago today for the forbes reinventingonference. you made it, andrew. >> i did. i did. we're going to tell you all about it in just a minute. >> who do you have coming up today? >> oh, this the is you coming to me. now i understand what's happening here. we are in chicago. >> i know. it caught me by surprise, too. this is different than we usually do. >> we are in chicago this morning, very happily so at the forbes reinventing america conference. we're going to be talking about manufacturing, innovation, bringing jobs back to this country. probably have a debate about the minimum wage and thwhat that means. let me tell you who we have on the program because it's a roster you can't miss. we have the mayor of chicago coming up, rahm emanuel. this is the guy that run these place and has a lot of questions but also a lot of views on what's going on. not just

i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin and brian sullivan. joe is off this morning.ay, australia is now sending aircraft to an area of the southern indian ocean after satellites discovered two objects that could be part of a possible debris field of missing malaysian airlines flight 370. matt taylor joins us right now from sydney. matt. >> becky, thanks very much. the latest information that we're getting out of australia, authorities here on the east coast of australia is that one royal australian air force jet has been unable to locate any debris associated with these two satellite images that were released a little earlier on today by the australian government and australian officials. they say that two satellite images showing two objects which may or may not be pieces of da prefrom that missing malaysian airlines flight

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.the futures this morning have been indicated higher. right few the dow futures are up by 17 points, s&p up 2 points and nasdaq is up by just over 4. the ten-year note this morning is yielding at least at this point, 2.764%. that yield has picked up steadily over the last week. if you look at the headlines this morning, president obama has arrived in the netherlands as he begins a week of international travel. the president originally scheduled the trip to participate in a two-day nuclear summit but an emergency g7 meeting is also on the schedule to talk about ukraine and russia's annexation of crimea. cisco systems will reportedly spend $1 billion over the next two years to enter the cloud services market. "the wall street journal" says the money will be invested in data centers to run a unit called cisco cloud safss. >>> "the wall street journal" says that apple is in talks with nbc universal's parent comcast about a service that would stream apple content directly to tv sets, bypassi

i'm andrew ross sorkin along with kbekky quick and andrew sullivan.liday season. dow looks like it would open up 93 points higher, the nasdaq 23 points higher. >>> wall street may be open for business as the new week begins. take a look at the weather. federal offices will be closed after more than 6 inches of snow fell in washington overnight. this could impact the release of today's economic numbers. the federal reserve is scheduled to release february data on industrial production. >>> however, the last few times the weather closed government offices, economic data was delayed. one report that should come out on time is the latest look at home builder sentiment from the national association of home bullers. that is due at 10:00 a.m. >>> one stock to watch in today's trading, hertz global. that stock is jumping in the premarket. >>> it could be worth as much as $4.5 billion. >> such an amazing story. the whole thing looked like it would go bankrupt. >> have you rented a car lately. >> i have. >> it's expensive. >> it is expensive. >>> becky, everyth

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin who is joining us from new york this morningack here after yesterday. our top story today, big decisions ahead of the european central bank. the ecb is expected to take action to losing lending decisiones and try and pull inflation out of the danger scope. it's been dangerously low in europe. this would support europe's economic recovery and we can expect an announcement at 7:45 eastern time. that will be followed by mario draghi's news conference. european markets ahead of this decision have been trading slightly higher. just barely at this point. the cac is up by about 22 points. that's 0.5%. other markets have seen more moderate advances. as for the futures here in the u.s., after a modestly down day yesterday, once again, you'll see green arrows here today. the dow futures look like they would open up about 38 points above

i'm barack obama along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.y for a change in the big event. some are using the bar on if a lon three pea to raise awareness in the health care system and mt. sinai. here is our lineup this morning. dr. kenneth davis, the ceo of mt. sinai. peter mayo, peter orszag, richard freedman of goldman sachs and glenn dupin. plus, carl icahn will crawl in before the end of the show. stay tuned to for that. we also have honeywell holding its investor conference this

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.rkets are rebounding after easing tensions in ukraine. this morning, russian president vladimir putin ordering troops engaged in military exercises along the ukraine border back to base. perzs that t exercises that were linked to kiev. john kerry is set to arrive in kiev in just a few hours to show support for the new ukrainian government. as we're speaking, vladimir putin is holding a press conference. you can see right now, take a look at the market reaction as dow futures are up by 162 points. that would be gaining back more than the losses of yesterday. this comes after monday's tumble where you did see stocks lower. right now, the major european

the andrew ross sorkin piece, this very good piece, einhorn someone leaking its micron. "ft" story, people are saying they are bringing all the value, front ran the new valuations. it's exactly right that it would only be up 23 cents. the quarter wasn't that good and you bring out value because the companies wasn't doing that good. >> not to mention the fact there were so many hedge funds that had piled in the name. that had already run up a bit. >> your show is uniquely, uniquely showing what stocks are overowned by hedge funds one of the things i love that you do. and you'll hear the stories was general motors -- >> gm is a hedge fund darling. a hedge fund hotel as some say. >> you check in and you never check out, roach motel? aig this morning burns -- >> i thought it was hotel california, you check in, you can never leave. >> aig bernstein says it's time. aig was a heavy hedge fund name and therefore it was the kiss of death. i think they are doing a good job. it's good to see the stock recharging. >> maybe that's one of the problems since we're on the topic of what'

there was a dispute between andrew ross sorkin and carl how much conflict there was in the skype thingt the west coast does things differently from the east coast. they are willing to have andreessen leave the room because they want his advice. carl wants everybody to be neutral. he did compare the system of corporate governance to elections in our government and said that our government's far more accountable because there's real elections. i think the idea that there's real elections in corporate just doesn't happened. >> you talked about the way he approaches this kind of thing, helping at motorola and he seemed to be drawing, i don't know a truce with apple? we have a new cfo who will come in september who has been called more shareholder friendly. >> if donahoe would call carl and say come on out and make case. there's a dispute right now to analogize, they talked about pepsico at the end of "squawk" are they too dismissive of nelsonnell nelson peltz, and a board like ebay would be well advised whether they like it or not to say, carl, come on. donahoe talks about in the interview

. >> he's said to our own andrew ross sorkin a number of months ago that, you know, look at the firesis particular issue, they were far fewer when you actually consider how many cars there were. >> right. >> versus the fleets of other automakers. >> as a side note solarcity does get some love today. >> yes. >> right? >> i tell you, i tried to look at the numbers, tried to read the income statement for solarcity. you know, look, i took a year of accounting. you need -- you need a serious accounting degree to understand how solarcity makes its money. i mean, maybe the price of the nodules are coming down. but, i mean, honestly, if you look at this one, you want to call your professor and say, is this true? can you do that? >> and how much of it is related to government subsidies? that is an issue that overhangs some of musk's businesses including tesla. >> well, i think a lot. but it is an interesting -- it's an interesting idea. your kids instead of wanting to go to kiddie city want to go to solarcity because they want you to put a panel on your house and this is the best way. musk has

we had frank blake on "squawk box" this morning with andrew ross sorkin talking about to what degreeaffected sales and how important that spring selling season is, too. take a listen. >> for our fourth quarter we said that definitely had an impact on us. it's not, like, we just were indifferent to it. it hit us by about $100 million. we had our earnings call just a couple weeks ago, and we also called out about $100 million up until that point in february, so definitely the cold weather has an impact on us. we need spring to come. but we think about our spring business in terms of a half a year not a quarter of a year. >> we need spring to come, jim. all retail could be encapsulated in that line. >> they have a big window that shrinks by the week if they don't get that, because planting season is so important. it was a great interview, by the way. you had the masco ceo on and credit suisse downgrades toll, pulte and you need housing to stay strong in order to get to the next leg. you have to. >> others, the big bulls on real estate say there will be a squeeze on supply when the warme