Before the open this morning along with twitter overnight in asia, you will see what was happening there the nikkei ended down by almost half a percentage point. Hang seng was down by 0. 7 shanghai in china, you did see stocks higher. Up by a quarter percentage point. In europe, the three major averages had all been in the green. The dax up by 0. 3 the cac up by 0. 4 the ftse up by more than that. Italy and spain stocks there weaker spain down by 0. 7 in the treasury market, again with the gdp number coming up later this morning at 8 30 the tenyear yielding 2. 069 everything that happened with the ecb yesterday what that means for the fed, well talk about all that coming up in a bit. On the squawk planner, we have first look at gdp in the Second Quarter thats on tap. Forecasters expecting an increase of 1. 8 after a surge of 3. 1 in the First Quarter on the calendar we will hear from twitter, mcdonalds before the opening bell next week it gets crazy. It is the busiest week of earnings
Disease in virtually all of the countries around the world. I was just impressed as i walked through the poster sessions at aaic how many of the posters were researchers from korea, thailand, china, japan, et cetera, who were coming here to washington to share their knowledge and their perspective on the disease. Its a global disease, for sure. Its not affecting western countries. I want to throw one more question in here which is in terms of having a National Plan and harnessing all of the different groups working on this from the Research Community to big pharma to universities, government, et cetera. Three years ago, the Obama Administration released a National Plan to address alzheimers and the goal was struck me as exceedingly ambitious. By 2025, so in ten years to be able to prevent and effectively treat alzheimers disease. Does that strike you both as realistic . Ten years . The way we look at it its an aspirational goal. We absolutely want to be there by 2025, and i think the e
You can see there is a bounce back. A lot of that coming from walmart. 44 points from walmarts deline alone. You can see this morning theres a bit of a bounce back. Dow futures are up by 107 points, s p futures up by 12 and the nasdaq up by 28. A couple of big stories were watching. First data priegs its ipo at 16 a share last night. Heres the bad news, thats below the 18 to 20 expected range. Selling 160 million shares to raise 2. 6 billion in total. It is the years largest Public Offering but albertson was expected to be the years second biggest ipo but the super market chain decided to delay its pricing due to market volatility. Also it could be that the market is now that window is closing. Mobile Payments Company square officially filed for its ipo saying it plans to list on the nyse under the ticker sq. The news comes just a week after square qceo was named ceo of twitter. It reported a net loss in the first half of this year. United health out with quarterly numbers. It Beat Est
A tornado qqssed us and lasted for four hours. It cut a wide, especially hard hit, the residents endured 150 mile an hour cwinds. Leaving behind devastation on a massive scale. I mean, at least, it was the ceiling, then the roof. Flying in all directions. Pdramatic rescues saved many. Away from a tide of destruction. Many did not survive. We have an estimate on the casualties, ten,000. So many dead people. The waterym supply is contaminated. Food washed away by the storm. The town is suffering badly. After sweeping through the philippines, typhoon haiyan is taking aim at vietnam. And the rest of south china. Vietnam braced for the storm, evacuating hundreds of thousands, and packing sand bags against the fury. Ht homes no longer standings, washed out roads, dramatic photographs of the destruction people are facing. This is the nasa picture of the storm from the international spacec station. The typhoon is headed for vietnam. Expected to make landfall by tomorrow morning. They have e
But david cote will be rolling out its plan phenomenon honeywells futures to us. Good show this morning, guys. If you change the world, you have to get all spruced up. Everyone is wears coats. Spruce goose. A lot of money were going to talk about. There is. Weve got a whole becky back there, a lot of private equity guys, fat cats. It will be okay. Were going to take a look at the markets this morning before we get started. Check out the u. S. Equity futures. After that huge gain from yesterday with the dow up 127 points, you can see the futures are flat, unchanged this morning. Of course, yesterday everything happened because of the easing tensions in ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin said he would use force only as a last resort. They gave no sign of pulling back military forces from ukraines crimen peninsula. Yes, joe, finally, finally, finally. It was there and it pulled back. Nobody likes ukraine. But lately, the market has gotten back more than its sold off. When we have a