i have asked steven green, our trade minister to work at home and overseas to increase the quantity andices offered, could relate to the smaller companies seeking to establish themselves abroad for the first time. he will begin within 8 million pound pilot and 20 keep markets and go on to lead a transformation that will change the face of british trade overseas across the globe. there are valuable markets out there that just have not received the attention from government that they deserve. places like to wait, vietnam, algeria, indonesia, rocco. we need to do more to get britain into these markets now. today i am personally appointing a number of senior parliamentarians from all political parties. they will engage directly with government in each of these countries and help open up the crucial markets to more british businesses. right now britain is in a global race. it is a moment of reckoning for every country. sink or swim, to or decline. the critical question is this, how does britain compete and win in a world where all around us new countries are on the rise? i believe britain ca

i have asked steven green, our trade minister to work at home and overseas to increase the quantity andrvices offered, could relate to the smaller companies seeking to establish themselves abroad for the first time. he will begin within 8 million pound pilot and 20 keep markets and go on to lead a transformation that will change the face of british trade overseas across the globe. there are valuable markets out there that just have not received the attention from government that they deserve. places like to wait, vietnam, algeria, indonesia, rocco. we need to do more to get britain into these markets now. today i am personally appointing a number of senior polymer and terror -- parliamentarians from all political parties. they will engage directly with government in each of these countries and help open up the crucial markets to more british businesses. right now britain is in a global race. it is a moment of reckoning for every country. sink or swim, to or decline. the critical question is this, how does britain compete and win in a world where all around us new countries are on the ri

stevens creek boulevard near the cupertino border. the site could accommodate more than 1200 workers. apple says it has out green room for expansion in cupertino. the company has leased space in sunnyvale where some 5,000 employees could be located. >>> >>> you know those dry days, we have to put those on the back burner until monday, between now and then, it is going to be wet. it is already damp pavement no matter where you are in the nexus tells, stronger winds, heavier rain through the end of the weekend. -- doppler shows the rain in cloverdale, by cobb mountain, clear lake further south highway 30 out of lucas valley, -- 37, out of lucas valley, ignacio, low to mid 60s, showers continue to develop throughout the afternoon today, first in the north bay then sinking south by the afternoon commute a few showers more like the later evening hours the rain picks up, 7:00, 8:00 tonight, then we are looking at the rain becoming more widespread. here's a look at what is to come, 5:00 this afternoon, a few showers then heaviest rain late tonight into tomorrow. right now is what you call a little break. >>> good morni

steven is stepping down just weeks after the company launches windows 8. the company did not give a reason as to why sinofski is leaving. company veteran jew gee lar son green will take over his responsibilities for the time being. >>> a live look outside this evening where we are still seeing clear skies around most of the bay area including the north bay, which is allowing temperatures to drop off at this hour, but clouds are expected to increase, which will keep temperatures still a little warm than what we saw last night. chilly in nevada with 41 degrees, 44 in val val -- that's going to be mainly low 40s away from the coastline. again t clouds i just mentioned are expected to increase to the north overnight and increase even more tomorrow afternoon but we're still going to see warmer temperatures tomorrow than what we saw today. i'll tell you about that plus rain in the extended forecast coming up. >>> new developments keep unfolding in the david patrais resignation scandal. tonight the pentagon is now investigating the top commander in afghanistan, general john allen, for e-mails to the woman that patrais had an affair with. the fallout from the inves

steven hammers says the fiscal cliff is y2k all over again. i want to start with stephen, because he's been looking at green mountain for a long time, but is it too hot to handle? even though it is popping after hours as a result of these earnings, it is a very hot stock to hold, is it not? >> the stocks do have consistent earnings, otherwise we wouldn't have it. but because we weight securities based on the risk, we call rise the risk. green mountain coffee has the lowest exposure to our large cap fund which is only a .03% exposure. so we don't have much of green mountain coffee. but it is consistent earnings. liz: okay. you know, the trade action of the day, larry, it looked pretty ugly today, but there were some pretty good winners. nonetheless, i like how you put this. you said there are nuisance headlines coming through, and a couple came in the form of, in essence, i guess coming out of d.c. that the talks have stalled as it pertains to the fiscal cliff. does that just cause the markets to dive? >> yeah, i think so. i mean, i'm actually -- i feel like i'm standing in the wrong line, as it were, the wrong checkout line. the market contin

green business inside me. i could show everybody. >> no, it wasn't exactly like that. so steventer wound up with 800,000 in theback with the super pack. you arranged for him to keep that. but pretty much everybody else. >> it's actually disappearing from the public. >> we'll never know where it goes. >> pretty much everybody else spend the money. they found a way to spend it. >> to pay the lawyers? >> but besides that, we for the most part spend everything. >> it was more than a billion dollars of spending by the outside groups. something like 11 ding it's more than the last 11 cycles combined. the total of outside spending. but the argument being made that a lot of biggest donors didn't get much of the money that we wound up with -- status quo election. tens of millions of dollars. to support month. mitt romney. he went over. does it turn out it doesn't matter that much. the influence of super pac has been exaggerated? >> i think we are beginning to see the influence of superpacs and they are not profit affiliate and how it plays out. first of all, on the democratic side, it tu

states on the green leave more takers than makers, and he suggests that we should not invest in the states and shouldn't buy their bonds and don't buy a house there, rent instead. and stevenwith the manhattan institute. don't buy a house there, don't invest in their bonds, what's steve mar langea say about that. >> and let's take the part first, politicians in the states themselves said this, rahm emanuel said this year, if we don't fix our pension problems you're not going to get a family to buy a house in chicago and not going to get a company to invest in chicago, why? remember what milt freeman said about government debt, nothing more than taxes that haven't been collected. people understand that now and see that in particularly local communities where most, most pension funds are funded with property taxes and they know property taxes are going up and in massachusetts the massachusetts taxpayer association did a study calculating how much property taxes have to go up in 50 communities, in order to pay for retirement benefits. and it's clearly something that is going to influence taxes down the road. >> the new york time's lead story yesterday, front page, lead story,