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10 Feb 2012

CNBC's Bob Pisani and Art Cashin, of UBS, discuss whether there will be much progress in a debt solution for Greece and whether the country will default, exit the euro zone, or both.

Investing in ETFs 10 Feb 2012
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Trading Volatility with ETFs

10 Feb 2012

Using ETFs to manage risk and volatility, with Nick Cherney, VelocityShares, and CNBC's Bob Pisani. Also, Scott Nations, NationsShares, explains why he thinks these products are too expensive.

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Jobs Report Caps a Week of Positive Econ Numbers

Published: Friday, 3 Sep 2010 | 8:56 AM ET

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By: Bob Pisani
CNBC Reporter

S&P futures popped 10 points on nonfarm payrolls. August nonfarm payrolls, at minus 54,000, much better than expectations of a loss of 120,000, private payrolls up 67,000, also better than a gain of 44,000 expected. Also helping futures: a large revision to July, now a loss of 54,000 jobs, down from an earlier estimate of a loss of 131,000 jobs.

Average hourly earnings were triple expectations to 0.3 percent.

Yield on the 10-year Treasury has backed up to 2.755 from 2.622 percent yesterday.

More outflows from equity mutual funds this week. Another $5 billion, according to AMG. That follows $4.6 billion and $9.1 billion of outflows from the previous two weeks. $1 billion inflows into bond funds. Again.

Elsewhere:

1) Campbell Soup [CPB Loading... () ] Q4 earnings were inline with estimates. Sales were a bit light ($1.52 billion vs. $1.59 billion) and margins fell slightly as a result of greater promotional spending. Soup sales in the U.S. continued to struggle, falling 5 percent—offsetting strength in its beverage unit (sales up 12 percent).

For the current fiscal year the company just started, Campbell is expecting earnings of $2.59-$2.64 (shy of $2.65 consensus) on sales growth of 2 percent to 3 percent (vs. 2.3 percent consensus).

2) H&R Block [HRB Loading... () ] rises 4 percent after Q1 losses were narrower than expected (loss of $0.36 vs. loss of $0.41) as cost cuts brought some relief to the tax preparer's bottom line. Costs fell 5 percent, but not helping the country's labor situation, the company reduced its staffing by selling 127 offices last quarter.

3) Walgreen [WAG Loading... () ] reported August same-store sales rose 2.1 percent, led by a 2.9 percent rise in comparable pharmacy sales. Despite fewer flew cases of the flu and negative impact on sales from lower-priced generic drugs, the drugstore benefited from more prescriptions being filled. Same-store sales of general merchandise, however, rose a meager 0.7 percent as traffic fell 0.8 percent.