And William Shatner has something completely different. First, we kick it off with what everyone is talking about. The standoff between ukraine and russia. Tensions rising in ukraine. Prorussian militants continue to occupy buildings despite a deadline to leave. An emergency meeting of the un security council. The u. S. And russia blame each other for the violence. Tensions between russia and ukraine are kicking up a notch over the weekend. At least one Ukrainian Service member was killed in a shootout with a prorussian gunmen in the eastern part of the country, which has a large russianspeaking population. Cities in this part of the country that we are talking about our kiev and others, that had flareups last week. We have just seen of a police unit changing sides. We cannot say that this is just the russians. There is obviously a part of the local citizenry that is prorussian. There have been suggestions of russian involvement in organizing these bodies. That is not what the Russian
Right time for prudent to take over more of the country. Wilke . All that and more coming up today. Getting to the markets. The nasdaq up. 3 despite the lasses losses we saw last week. The stocks we are watching as we head into the close. For that, straight to julie profit that rose was unexpected in the eyes of analysts. Profits up by three. 5 . Revenue came in better than estimated. The Capital Markets business did show a decline am a but not as big as the company or in the list had been looking for. Equity trading revenue rose. Expectation flow were going into the numbers after citigroup failed the Federal Reserve stress test recently. Definitely seeing a rebound after lowered expect haitians going in. Life sciencesward today. This Company Recently won a Court Victory after the court said medtronic can no longer, at least temporarily, so of valve that is at the center of a patented youth at the center of the company. Edwards getting a big boost in medtronic trading lower. Finally, h
Lot of negative effect dictation the average analyst estimate was 19. 3 9 billion. This bite making 20 billion, the revenue was down by about one percent year on year. Citigroup is primarily blaming currency and commodity. Lets take a look at that. Revenue came in at 3. 8 billion for the First Quarter. Sequentially, this was not terrible. Youre on year, that is where it gets painful. It is down 18 . Training trading down 18 year on year. Net interest margins, how much citigroup makes, what they have to pay out in terms of rates and what they make in terms of rates comes in higher than last quarter, 2. 9 last quarter, under by about 2. 8 . We will pour through the numbers. The calls coming up later on the the stress test could not return the capital like they wanted to. How do they resubmit the test, will they be able to return capital to shareholders, and how much will it cost to do that . There are still a lot of questions here for citigroup. In 1. 30 percoming share, one percent year
Has something completely different. First, we kick it off with what everyone is talking about. The standoff between ukraine and russia. Tensions rising in ukraine. Militants continue to occupy buildings despite a deadline to leave. An emergency meeting of the un security council. They blame each other for the violence. Tensions between russia and ukraine are kicking up a notch over the weekend. At least one Ukrainian Service member was killed in a shootout with a prorussian gunmen in the eastern part of the country, which has a Large Russian speaking population. Cities in this part of the country that we are talking about our kiev and others, that had flareups last week. Just seen of a police hanging sides. We cannot say that this is just the russians. There is obviously a part of the local citizenry that is prorussian. Ofre have been suggestions russian involvement in organizing these bodies. That is not what the Russian Foreign minister says. We do not interfere in internal affairs i