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About six points and the dow futures are down by 43. Overnight in area, the nikkei was down by 1. 6 the lesser gains for the hang seng and the shanghai composite which finished almost flat. If you want to take a look at early trading in european markets, across the board, you see some red arrows. The dax in germany down by. 7 . 75 decline for the cac in france and the ftse is down by 1. 3 . Take a look at crude oil ahead of tomorrows opec meeting. Oil was up 20r9 month, but you can see the wti this morning is down by 1. 5 to 48. 36. ] p e much more on that opec meeting in just a moment. Here are the big stories we are watching today. In corporate news, softbank selling at least 7. 9 billion in shares of alibaba. Softbank is softbanks largest shareholder. Its staples dropped now from 30 to 28 . Shari redstone says she has no interest in managing viacom. Red deny stone says on todays economic agenda, april Construction Spending out at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time as followed by the feds beig
next year. what s the difference in this version of the plan today? reporter: in this version of the plan, this is now the kind of newest proposal to come forward, this coming from senate democrats, this keep what this proposal does is extend the payroll tax cut for employees and actually expand it so employees would be having to pay even less in the payroll tax. so it would go from 4.2% tax to 3.1% tax. a big change, though, is this proposal does not include it has dropped the payroll are tax cut employers. democrats say that was done in an effort to bring down the overall cost of the package. it s now about a third of what democrats had originally proposed. also a change, brooke, is that it s paid for in a different way. it still includes a sur tax on income, over $1 million a so-called millionaires surtax republicans are opposed to. but democrats say in an effort to compromise with republicans, that s their wording not mine, they have made it a much skill scaled-d