Ten points. The nasdaq off by 22. Crude oil prices were up sharply overnight, topping 40 a barrel. First time weve seen that in quite a while. That came after the announcement yesterday of a surprise job in u. S. Inventories. However, wti has turned around since then. Looks like we flipped that contract, too. If you were looking at 40 overnight, were now looking at the may contract. Thats a decline of 7 cents to 37. 69. It will be interesting to see how this new contract plays out. We did see a huge gain in crude oil prices yesterday. The other big mover this morning, currency. The dollar hitting a 17 hch month low against the yen. This came after the minutes from the last months fed meeting suggested that the central bank is unlikely to raise Interest Rates before june. There were a lot in these minutes, but most people are looking at the doves comments after what we heard from janet yellen just last week. Brian . Some corporate stories to talk to you about this morning. Just go right
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Anyway. It is a seven. It is going to be very windy and chillier then it has been all week. We have maybe a sprinkle will or two there up in the pocono mountains this morning. This is moisture heading down from the great lakes with that colder air that moved in after the cold front that brought us the rain in the middle of the day yesterday. Things are dry now, they will remain dry over the weekend. 55 degrees a at the moment with the 13 miles an hour win. 6 43 is your sunrise time. We have temperatures that are mostly in the 50s this morning, and didnt get as cold as we thought it would, the clouds hung around but we have 45 degrees in mount pocono. The thing business these temperatures in the low to mid 50s we have wind were adding to it. So it does make it feel chillier out there 13 miles an hour wind sustained as we showed you in philadelphia 14 miles an hour in mount pocono. Higher wind in allentown. 12 miles an hour in Atlantic City and wildwood we expect these wind to pick up at