Worldwide exchange here on a monday on cnbc im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost lets go to the markets and show you how the markets are shaping up especially the nasdaq. That was a standout. Up a full percent after the dow and the s p also closed higher futures are under a slight bit of pressure. S p down 3, nasdaq down 3 as well as for the 10year treasury note yield we come off a week with a pretty solid jobs report though wages werent moving higher enough and an announcement of a new fed chairman and the tenyear yield still low. The tenyear yield went down. It ended from 2. 43 to 2. 33. Better data on the u. S. Economy. Thats why financials were the worst performing sector. Tech was the best. Lets have a look at markets around the world asian markets this morning are a little bit mixed performance as you can see hong kong slightly lower. Shanghai and japan doing well. European trade for you, another great week for the dax both france and germany ended at record closes on friday. Germany
Bowe s boxilai. Andrew. Thank you, becky. We have a little bit of Corporate News this morning. Citigroup has suffered a significant decline in trading revenue. It threatens to decline the earnings. Theres a market wide earnings. Shares of blackberry today, the Company Warning on friday that it expects to report a huge quarterly operating loss. It plans to cut more than 1 3 of its global work force. Thats big, big news in blackberry land. Microsoft expected to announce a new surface tablet computer today, including a version with a smaller screen to compete with googles nexus 7. An event is scheduled in new york. Microsoft began selling surface tablets last year but sales have been slow. The changes to the dow are official. Visa, Goldman Sachs and nike are jumping into the blue chip index. Alcoa and hewlettpackard and bank of america, goodbye, youre exiting. Goodbye. If you went to sleep early last night, there are a few highlights from the emmys that you missed. Hbo dominated with the
In asia overnight, equities markets were a little bit mixed. The hang seng was up by 1. 5 . Oil prices are down another 1. 34. Thats probably because of what youre seeing happening in the dollar. Look at the ten year note before we get to the dollar. The ten year note is yielding 2 point poip 482 . The yield getting pressed down. Take a look at the dollar. The dollar is down against both the euro, the yen and the pound. Right now the euro is at 1. 3353. Oil would be going up. Oil is going down on syria. On syria is coming even further up to the forefront. If you take a look at gold prices this morning, up slightly. Up by 7. 40 to 1,316 an ounce. Andrew. Thank you. What a weekend. I remember five years ago we had one weekend and now we have another one. Its not the same. With Larry Summers out of the race, will president obama pick janet yellen . Is donald kohn a candidate . Tim geithner says he doesnt want the job. We have three guests joining us. We have ben white back. Ill start with