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THE WORLD'S HOT NEWS ON MARCH 6TH, 2015.

Friday, March 06, 2015
IN THE NEWS TODAY BY CNBC
U.S. stock futures were searching for direction in early trading, ahead of the 8:30 a.m. ET release of the February jobs report. Wall Street broke a two-day losing streak Thursday, with the Dow and S&P 500 close to breakeven and the Nasdaq up nearly a half of percent for the week. (CNBC)
Economists expect nonfarm job growth of 240,000 for last month-below a three-month trend that was the strongest pace of hiring since the 1990s. The unemployment rate is seen ticking down to 5.6 percent. (CNBC)
Fed policymakers should not wait too long to raise interest rates, because the risk of overshooting on inflation could force more dramatic hikes, said San Francisco Fed President John Williams. (Reuters)
After the ECB announced its massive quantitative easing campaign would start Monday, the euro Thursday fell below $1.1000 for the first time since September 2003. In early trading today, it remained under pressure. (CNBC)
Apple's (AAPL) new mobile-payment system has been hit by a wave of fraudulent transactions using credit-card data stolen in recent breaches of big retailers, including Home Depot (HD) and Target (TGT). (WSJ)
Google's (GOOG) planned wireless service may launch by the end of March, but will work only on the company's latest Nexus smartphone and not on other phones using Google's Android operating system. (WSJ)
Amazon (AMZN) has opened an online store on Alibaba's (BABA) business-to-consumer platform Tmall, in a move that analysts say will boost awareness of its brand in China. (CNBC)
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban is warning of a private tech bubble more dangerous than the bubble in publicly-traded companies that burst 15 years ago. (CNBC)
The Fed has given favorable marks to all 31 banks that underwent its annual stress tests, including JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), and Wells Fargo (WFC). (CNBC)
Following a similar pledge by McDonald's (MCD) earlier this week, Costco(COST) said it wants to eliminate chicken and meat that are grown with human antibiotics. (Reuters)
In the latest derailment involving trains hauling crude oil, a BNSF Railway train loaded with crude jumped the tracks Thursday afternoon in Illinois, withtwo of the tank cars catching fire. (Reuters)
Federal regulators are looking into what caused a Delta Air Lines jetliner with 127 passengers and five crew members aboard to skid off the runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday during a snowstorm. (CNBC)
Actor Harrison Ford, 72, was "battered, but OK" after the vintage World War II training plane he was piloting crash landed on a California golf course Thursday. (NBC News)
All-time March record lows are likely to be broken this morning as one more shot of bitterly cold air plunges south, following the latest winter storm. (Weather Channel)

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