i'm joe kernen along with becky quick. andrew is off. secretary of state john kerry may be reading with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov this week. but the u.s. says that will only happen if moscow is willing to engage seriously on a diplomatic solution to the situation in ukraine. ukraine is getting part of the blame, believe it or not, for a first quarter earnings issue with dupont saying the unrest in ukraine, where dupont has a feed factory is hurting its bottom line. congress's 30 senators are on the case. they're goes to pass legislation against the weather. what was that? another dow component microsoft also in the news this morning. it's releasing its widely anticipated titan fall game for the xbox 1. it's hoping the game will give xbox sales a boost as it tries to close the gap with sony's playstation 4. coming up, it is shark tank tuesday followed by the prophet tonight. and we're going to have marcus on to tell us about his turn around challenge. it was pretty cool about the meats. >> yeah. >> i wanted

i'm joe kernen.istration is calling russia's advance in ukraine a brazen act of aggression. also threatening sanctions against the country. secretary of state john kerry is on his way to kiev to show support for the new leadership there in the face of russian military intervention. we'll have more on this in the next half hour. >>> and california governor jerry brown signed a $687 million drought relief package to deal with the water shortage that he called the worst in the state's modern history. the largest share of relief package, 549 million comes from accelerated spending of some bond money that voters previously approved in two ballot propositions. >>> and the drama "12 years a slave" won the academy award for best picture. it's the first movie from a black director to win the film industry's highest honor in the 86 years of the oscars. i think we're going to look at the futures. yes, let's take a quick look. we'll keep checking these all morning long. 152 points, sharply lower but stable. that

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. coming 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 annexation of crimea. meanwhile, on capitol hill, the senate moves ahead to provide more sanctions on russia, but the measure could get hung up over proposed reforms to the international monetary fund. those changes are opposed by more republicans in the senate and the house. that is the one that's gone. the republicans conti

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick.rew will be joining us from las vegas in just a couple minutes. >>> this morning, the search for that missing malaysian airlines continues this morning. you realize when this happens how big the world is. they're trying to search 10,000 square miles and it took all day to search 30 square miles. >> these areas have been kwordonned off. each of these areas is about the size of spain. >> and you looked down -- you see muth but the ocean. they made little progress in determining exactly what happened to the jet or the 239 passengers and crew that were on board. the search is now in its fifth day. >>> tesla is no longer going to be allowed to sell its cars in new jersey. a tesla executive calls the decision disappoint fg not outright outrageous. new jersey joins texas and arizona. and a jump has temporarily frozen the u.s. assets of mark carpellus. mt. gox said that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins may have been lost in a hacking attack. however, account holders are claimi

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick.ng to join us live from new orleans in just a few minutes. topping today's headlines, walmart is filing a $5 billion lawsuit against visa. walmart is accusing visa of passing along unreasonable slide fees when shoppers use their cards at its stores. another high profile ipo is about to make its debut. it's called becky and it makes -- is the symbol b-e-c-k-y? >> though. >> why is that in there? am i supposed to ask you what you think about it? >> that was smooth. way to go. >> roll that back down. it's friday. >> you can roll through anything. >> what is that? >> make you can as an aside turn to me or ask me. >> are you involved or affiliated with this ipo in any w way? >> no. >> do you know what it is? >> yes, because -- >> are you involved in outdoor advertising? >> i am not. cbs is. >> did you help get les to appear on "squawk on the street"? >> i did not. my guess is that was faber. >> they might be down there at the u.s. stock exchange. >> anyway, cbs outdoor is launching an ipo t

this is joe kernen.s ever going to do anything again, how much money did you make there? then i look at biogen. people had no idea. don't sell yourself short. you've got a pretty good feel. we're, like, four blocks away from you. are you in a robe, one of those hefner robes? can you walk over here? we've got some breakfast sandwiches, avocado. >> i'd love to, joe, but i have to tell you, my way of looking at it -- well, actually, today, i'm really at a meeting. i mean, i know you don't believe this, but i am at a meeting. we're working on a deal right now. >> you're up? he's up. >> yeah. you'll see it, but i can't talk about it. i hope you'll see it anyway. >> what time will we be seeing that? >> no, not today. we're working on something. >> while we have you here, i want to talk about a couple things in the news. you've been battling ebay trying to push them to separate their paypal business from ebay. and as part of that, you've said that the board of directors is conflicted. in particular, you have go

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. our global markets 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 averages are higher. the dax in germany up by 1 is.5% and the if it cac in london up .7%. right now, stocks are up about 6% in moscow. yesterday, the stocks in moscow were down close to 11%. joe, right now, over to you. >> that 60 billion number is familiar. >> it's more than the olympics, right? >> yeah. this must have gotte

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. chicago this morning for the forbes reinventing america conference. in the headlines this morning, citigroup shares are under pressure in a surprise move the federal reserve -- i would say again rejected citi's plans for increasing its dividend and stock buyback plan. we've seen this movie before, but we thought that they had done enough at this point. the federal expressed concern about the bank's risk planning process. and stocks, that's $4.70 a stock if you go back all the way to where it was, even though it says -- >> we did talk to anthony polini from raymond james. i was surprised, he said buy the heck out of it. >> he's been saying that for a while, though, right? and you never know. >> and he says this is not a straight shot up. this is a recovery story. they have a lot of things they can do. it's expected to be a jagged long-term up. >> and he said when he was talking about management, he said none of this applies to current management. he was talking about most of the flaws,

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick. andrew was last seen at a craps table at casear's blowing on some woman's dice. it didn't say that here. it says that he lost his shirt. i don't know whether efs blowing on the dice -- i don't know how he's dressed at this point, but he's off today. >> or if he's dressed. >> or if he's -- you know, he could be on the mattress like in the first -- >> vegas is a dangerous place. >> it is. >>> plenty of economic data for investors to digest today, including jobless claims, retail sales and import prices. joining us now to talk about the economy is lindsay piegsa. chief economist at stern ag. and on the markets, david joy, chief market strategist at ameri is prise financial. lindsay, are you at 3 and have you wafrd at all? >> actually, i'm lower than 3%. i'm looking for more of the same as the economy is stuck in this 2%, 2.5% range throughout all of 2014 carrying into 2015. so even a little more pessimistic than some of those economists looking for 3% growth. >> yeah. because we decided

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. we had more fed speak overnight. this was from st. louis 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 well. if you take a look at the futures this morning after those gains, you'll see there are still green arrows indicating a higher open, as well. dow futures indicated up by about 44 points. s&p futures indicated up by close to 5 points and th

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 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.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 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 becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. who is in washington, d.c. this morning. he's going to be joined by former fed chairman alan greenspan coming up at 7:30 a.m. eastern time. greenspan will be part of our countdown to the jobs report. the labor department will be releasing the jobs report at 8:30 eastern time. economist res expecting nonfarm payrolls to come in at 152,000. the unemployment rate is expected to tick down slightly to 6.5%. as an added bonesus, the january trade deficit numbers are going to be released, as well. that number is expected to come in at $38.4 billion. both those reports will be released at 8:30 a.m. and that jobs number is going to be important. joe, what if we come in at 6.5%? >> that's a key number. we don't believe they're going to do anything there, do we? >> they're talking their way out of that somehow. it came across the bottom. it says yellen will do all she is capable of. >> i saw that, too. i read into that deeper. apparently that was her swearing in speech. >> she swore as she said it? i will do anything i ca

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. andrew is off today.start this morning with a developing story. the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 is widening three days after the boeing 777 went missing just one hour into the flight. one development overnight, one of the two men traveling with the stolen passport is believed to be an iranian national who was trying to seek asylum. the story has been developing throughout this and we will be checking in in just a little bit. we've been watching to see what happens with this and to this point, again, there are more questions than there are answers. we'll have a report from quala lumpur coming up in just a few minutes. >>> a mystery businessman, mr. ali, who is supposedly iranian and supposedly paid cash for the tickets of both the guys is what is being reported

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. andrew is off today.ries, general motors says that ignition problems with the switches, they dated back to 2001. that is three years earlier than previously disclosed. the automaker says that the problem was seen in preproduction of the saturn ion model. a technician reported observing an ion stall while the car was being driven and the owners had several keys on its key ring in addition to what was driving the car. now gm is urging drivers to avoid weighing down their key rings with anything more than the key and the remote key fob that locks and unlocks the doors. gm is offering $500 towards a new gm vehicle to more than an owners of compact cars. but the owners have

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. andrew is off today.op story, two major global pressure points leading the markets. russian troop movements along the ukrainian border raising the tension levels ahead of the weekend's referendum vote involving crimea joining russia. that combination creating a wall of worry for investors. overnight, the nikkei tumbling more than 3% today. it's down more than 6% for the week. a couple trading hours into europe, the markets there are lower, as well. the cac is the biggestdy cliner, only d b

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 joe kernen. andrew is off today. our top story, two major global pressure points leading the markets. russian troop movements along the ukrainian border raising the tension levels ahead of the weekend's referendum vote involving crimea joining russia. that combination creating a wall of worry for investors. overnight, the nikkei tumbling more than 3% today. it's down more than 6% for the week. a couple trading hours into europe, the markets there are lower, as well. the cac is the biggestdy cliner, only down by 0.5%. in russia, though, the benchmark micex index fell by more than 3% at the open. right now, it's down by just over 2.3%. the u.s. futures at this point are hanging in there. they're showing a slight rebound after yesterday's sell-off in wall street. you saw that decline when the dow was down by 230 points. also saw the s&p and the nasdaq down significantly. we will have a deeper market discussion with our panel in just a few minutes, plus a live report from kiev. secretary of state john kerry gets ready to

joe kernen is off today. he will be back on monday. we have another bullish session on wall street.nd 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 joe kernen. andrew will join us a little later from the big easy.ecial powers in deal making. in the meantime, though, let's take a look at the markets. let's take a look at what's been happening with the future. you will see dow futures are indicated up higher. the s&p futures up by just over 5. yesterday was basically a watch. the dow was down, but only by about 4 points. this comes after what we saw yesterday, what we've been watching for this week. the s&p 500 is still holding above 1840, but it is now essentially flat for the full year. as for europe this morning, take a look. in the early trade, things are trading higher and indicated higher. the dax in germany is up by 0.9%. the ftse

this is "squawk box" right here on cnbc, i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkinching the futures this morning. on this last trading day of the quarter, the futures are indicated higher. if we were to open right now, dow would up by 50 points, the s&p 6 points and nasdaq 14 points. the yield has pushed back above 2.7%. in our headlines, general motors ceo mary barra will be testifying before congress this week, answering questions from both house and senate lawmakers over the faulty ignition switches that have been linked to at least 12 deaths. gm is under fire for its handling of the situation which has seen the automaker expanding the recall to 2.6 million vehicles. the supreme court considers a key case for the computer software industry. the justices will begin considering when software is eligible for pat enthe protection. google, verizon, microsoft and hewlett-packard are among the corporate giants who have filed legal opinions. it's an important one because of the patent trolls that are out there. >>> an australian warship containing a black box deer has jo

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 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 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

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick, kind of.on our foreign policy expertise. >> i have been reading up on a lot of that stuff over the weekend. we have a lot of people we'll be talking to about that today. the situation in ukraine is obviously front and center. this morning, i'm in omaha with the legendary warren buffett. good morning, warren. >> good morning. >> great to see you. thank you for being here with us today. >> nice to have you here in sunny omaha. >> in sunny, freezing omaha. we thought it was cold in new jersey, joe, it's about 3 degrees here. >>> berk share hathaway managers ted weschler, todd combs and tracy britt cool. this is a rare appearance. they've never all sat

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. who is in washington, d.c. he's going to be joined by former fed chairman alan greenspan coming up at 7:30 a.m. eastern time. greenspan will be part of our countdown to the jobs report. the labor department will be releasing the jobs report at 8:30 eastern time. economist res expecting nonfarm payrolls to come in at 152,000. the unemployment rate is expected to tick down slightly to 6.5%. as an added bonesus, the january trade deficit numbers are going to be released, as well. that number is expected to come in at $38.4 billion. both those reports will be released at 8:30 a.m. and that jobs number is going to be important. joe, what if we come in at 6.5%? >> that's a key number. we don't believe they're going to do anything there, do we? >> they're talking their w

joe kernen is off.daq looking like it will open higher, 10.5 points higher and the s&p 500 up close to 6.5 points higher. in less than 30 minutes we'll be getting cpi and housing data. that will impact what the futures look like and how the markets open as well. >> getting a headline. putin signs the treaty on making ukraine part of russia. he addressed the parliament within the past hour. cnbc's steve sedgwick joins us from kiev with the latest on the big vote and the outcome. >> reporter: let me correct there. making crimea part of russia. you inadvertently said ukraine part of russia. >> crimea. >> we just listened to putin speaking for 55 minutes. he pulled out all the stops, comparing the crimea self-determination to the declaration of independence. he compared the self-determination to the reunification of germany as well talked about the example of kosovo as well. he added the fact that the west has behaved irresponsibly, lost their political sense. if you press the spring it cannot hold back any

joe kernen is off today. he 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 course as we got good economic news coming in. it was the philly fed that looked like things were turning around. >> yeah. higher in weste

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. andrew is out today. the futures are lower this morning.u see the dow futures down by 14 points. it comes after an unexpected tumble in china exports last month. also as investors are keeping an eye on the situation in ukraine, we'll have more on that in just a moment. the ten-year yield has been pushing back up towards 2.8%, setting at 2.792%. in our headlines this morning, the situation in ukraine is among the factors being cited for a 10 cent gain in gasoline prices over the next two weeks. the average price of gasoline is $3.51 a gallon. that's according to the latest lundberg survey. the author of the survey points out ukraine is a major corn exporter and nearly all of the ethanol in the united states is made from corn. >>> william clay ford has died at the age of 88. he is the last surviving grandson of henry ford. he was the owner of the nfl's detroit lions. >>> two deals in the news, chiquita brands is buying irish rifle fyffes. united rentals, the world's largest equipment rental company is buying national pump for $780 million. it