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bob diamond declined to comment on his bonus. know the bonus pool overall has been cut by 25%. elsewhere in the earnings today they may miss profit targets but overall being take ebb positively because the stock is up just over 4%. outperforming the broader ftse 100. alcatel-lucent, a strong performance which may surprise when you hear revenue and adjusted profit both dropped. adjusted profit down by 20% in the fourth quarter of last year. many clients of this company which is a gear maker have been cutting back on spending but strong cash flow and the last time they reported results the shares fell very hard so pulling back from that particular move. total down by 0.8% but thet profit that moved higher on the back of oil prices. this is the picture on the currency markets and we are looking at 1.3278 for the euro against the dollar. euro/yen at 103.16. euro/sterling 0.8388. against the aussie dollar up by 0.7% or so against the australian dollar. now the bond markets. yesterday, of course, we heard from the ecb and the bank of e

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bob diamond is set. let's get to pick four numbers. the maryland lottery -- let yourself play. >> ava is talking about heat wave. this is ridiculous. >> we are pushing into the 60s by thursday. until then, we're talking 50 spirit may be some sprinkles later today in the west. by saturday, much colder. >> thank you for joining us for 11 news at noon. >> watch tonight at 5:00. i have a great day. -- have a great day. >> follow breaking news and weather any time at wbaltv.com, and stay connected with us on facebook and twitter.

all bob diamond. pick four. the maryland lottery -- you better let yourself play. yes. >> more winter weather bank on the way. >> temperatures are a little chilly. typical for this time of year. most of tomorrow at the time should be dry. saturday morning, rain-snow mix. sunday, generally dry, breezy, a cold, snow flurries. >> thank you for joining us. >> watch tonight at 5:00. have a great day. >> follow breaking news and weather any time at wbaltv.com, and stay connected with us on facebook and twitter.

bob diamond is all set and ready to go with your pick four game. the maryland lottery -- let yourself play. >> winter weather bank advisory, primarily west of the day, until 10:00 this evening. we could see around baltimore an inch or so of snow before it ends this evening. rush hour is a target. >> thank you for joining us for i just had it with cable. it just got more frustrating and frustrating. a lot of times, the picture would break up. for the amount of money that i am paying, my cable company should take care of me. [ male announcer ] stop paying for second best. move up to verizon fios tv, internet and phone for our best price online -- just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years. first time we saw tv on fios was amazing! i was just in a trance watching it. i'm discovering new channels every day. [ male announcer ] and here's a special bonus: sign up now and get $300 back with a two-year contract. fios internet -- the speed, you can't compare. i'm able to take care of things much faster now. [ male announcer ] start saving now. move up to

bob diamond is set for your pick four game. the maryland lottery, let yourself play. >> another pretty mild day out there. >> gusty, watch out for that through the afternoon. storm had our way, 48 for the high tomorrow. rain more likely to the afternoon and evening hours. we will keep our eye on the storm this weekend. sunday is likely to be much colder it could bring some snow, to be substantial snow, on sunday. >> thank you for joining us for 11 news at noon. >> watch tonight at 5:00. have a great day. >> follow breaking news and weather any time at wbaltv.com, and stay connected with us on facebook and twitter.

bob diamond is ready to rock and roll ander pick 4 numbers are -- 1- 3 - 5 - 5.ng the pick 4 game, 1355, the maryland lottery, let yourself play. >> we are holding on to the roller coaster. >> we are, we're on the downward trend. we have sunshine and the clouds will increase to knives and we will drop the down into the 30's overnight and only in the 40's tomorrow. it will be rainey and chile tomorrow. showers early thursday and warm to the mid 50's and the 60's on friday. >> we will take it. thank you for joining us for 11 years at maryland. news [ dog growls, barks ] bring your dog to work day... not our best idea. [ barking ] george! stop it! stop. oh. it was a nice thought. [ male announcer ] some business decisions are better than others. the best decision is switching to verizon. you're good to go. that was fast! thank you. [ male announcer ] speed, reliability, and now with our worry free guarantee, there's no better time to switch. get your choice of terms. no activation fees. a 30-day money back guarantee. flexible scheduling. professional on-site install

now, bob diamond is all set with your pick 4 numbers.ve an 8 followed by a 9 as printed on the ball in your next number is say 0 and your last number for your pick for game is 5. 8905, but let yourself play. >> we have another mile day on our hands. >> it is chilly and baltimore, only 48 degrees at the airport with overcast skies and the east windsor but to our south, it is in the 50's and south of there in southern maryland, is in the 60's already and the difference is clouds. you can see clouds in the north half of the state and down in virginia, they are in the 70's. we see some rain in the mountains to the west. scattered showers and thunderstorms in the forecast and the high will be and 60's we we don't see some sosun, will not break out of the 50's. by tomorrow, we -- it will just be playing chile. mid 40's over the weekend and we might pick up a snow flurries on saturday and next week we are in the 40's as well. >> a lot going on, thank you so much and thank you for joining us for 11 news at noon and honest tonight at 5:00. >> fol

barclays bob diamond is with us, as well as charles plosser.oth joining me in the next hour of the "closing bell." first, take a look at the averages as we approach the final few minutes of trading for the day. we're back in a moment on "closing bell." >>> four minutes left in the trading day, before the closing bell here. by the way, we haven't mentioned, happy leap day, everybody, february 29th, happens only every four years. so those of you born today, happy birthday. and we'll wait another four years. as we close out the month, we notice on this final day, the dow up for the montana, 3%. the s&p up 4%. the nasdaq up 6% in just the month of february. in fact, the s&p is having its best february since 1998. take a look at this. abigail doolittle was talking about taking profits in apple. she felt it was topping out. and she would take some profits here. look what happened while she was talking. coincidence while she was talking or not? i don't know. but probably didn't make many friends among apple shareholders. the stock tanked for a time an

the charity challenge a big thing in the charity community so this year, was sahara desert and bob diamonda partner of mine in virginia and myself and a few others and folks from all over the world joined in this challenge to raise $100,000 or 100,000 pounds, for the hope center. why did i think i could do it? i think walking across the desert would have been somewhat easier than walking up a mountain. >> mount kilimanjaro. i don't want to let these pictures go by without explaining what we are looking at erica, what is clearly it is the desert tell me about the conditions what was it like. >> surprisingly cold. we thought it would be a little chilly our days were nice and present we had direct sun except for one day in a sand storm that was the biggest challenge one picture you saw was literally our view for four days sand and formations just beautiful. >> can i be super official and say where did you sleep and did you have a big backpack on? i just need to know details scott tell me about that part. >> well, you have a day pack and you have a lot of energy bars, all kinds of your daily n

larry fink explains why he feels investors should be 100% in stocks right now and barclays ceo bob diamondfederal reserve charles plosser why he thinks might be undermining investor confidence. we look forward to seeing you here at the top of the hour. see you then, mandy. >> thank you very much, bill. looking forward to it. in the meantime let's look at staples. down almost 10% today. in fact, down exactly 10%. the stock was up more than 10% though ahead of earnings. the office supply company beat estimates, but they negated that fact after making two pretty pessimistic comments about the united states and european economies. so complete giveback of all of the original gains. in the meantime it's time now for your retirement equation with some headlines that could impact your plan. 68 is the new 65. i'm sorry. it's sad. bad news. but it really is. a new survey by human resources from towers wattson finds that nearly 40% of u.s. workers plan to delay their retirement with a majority putting it off for at least three years. well, here's a downer. if you are old and you're alone, you're like

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bob diamond said he's not going to comment on his bonusbut bear in mind they still are making lots of money at barclays. they haven't had the government bailout so you may say why should he forgo his bonus? stock is up after its results. alcatel-lucent higher by over 16%. the operating profits and the revenue actually fell. makers said their clients are cutting back but last time they reported they had a big drop in their stock price. so coming back a bit from those levels today. total also out with figures. the stock down by 1%. the bonds have seen a real tightening between the german yields and what's going on in spain and italy. that is certainly being taken as good news because we are well below the levels in italy and in spain. while there's concern, joe, about what's going on in europe and about a lack of resolution in greece, doesn't seem to be hurting the bond markets. >> wow. i got a close-up shot here, beccy. can you go wide on me like maybe -- you can't get to cleveland, can you? how far back can you go? keep going. keep going. all right. that's a little bit easier on the e

bob doll, and tobias, levkovich, the scandal at diamond food. trading in the stock was halted and a big deal with p&g could be off. we will get the details next up. . >>> there's breaking news on the nationwide mortgage settlement and and diamond foods, serving the heads of the company up on a platter. cnbc brian shackman joins us with the details. good evening brian. >> thanks for letting me come on the show tonight, first to the breaking news, in the multi-state mortgage settlement talkser sources saying that california has agreed to sign on to the deal and we will have more tomorrow. diamond foods, an investigation showed problems with payments to walnut categories, the company will have on restate earnings for 2010 and 2011, because of that the cceo and cfo is out. and news of this caused the shares to fall a third, and it now down almost 43%. shares of cisco were up and then slipped. profit surged and revenues beat expectations. but there were keconcerns over growth in the third quarter. six flags has gone to 60 a share, looks like a lot of