Indicators. And friday, existing home sales. As for earnings central, watch for reports today from cocacola, medtronic, more weejance cruise lines and others. Then this afternoon, were going to hear from Companies Like herbalife. Ahead of all that activity, lets take a look. Its a mixed bag, plus or minus the flat line either way. Scott, it is a short week, but it is a busy one. Europes activist is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire forest laboratories. Forest value the it up to 25 billion. That stock is up about 18 . And the deal could be announced as early as today. Mine while, hp executives reportedly knew about autonomys Accounting Practices months before a whistleblower flagged them. Youll remember hp said it was a victim for having paid 11. 1 billion for buying autonomy in 2011. But it was accused of overstating revenues before it was sold. They said a report was provided to hp after it bought the british softwaremaker. Hp shares, mean wile, at the close of trading on friday
December 2007. The best gauge for fear in the motorcycles, the cbo volatility index plummeted last week. If you look this morning to see where things stand, youll see u. S. Equity futures are indicated just slightly lower. Right now, dow futures down about 35 points. Same story in europe. If you look at the early trading there, youll see a slight pullback across most of these markets. The cac is off. 3. 5 . Major asian markets overnight, things barely budged with the hang seng and shanghai was slightly higher and the nikkei was down by about. 8 . Andrew. And werings season officially begins after the bell tomorrow. Thats when alcoa will be posting First Quarter results. Earnings are expected to rise. Lets get a quick check on the weeks economic calendar. A quiet start today. Tomorrow, well be getting the Nfib Small Business sentiment survey. Were going to get the Consumer Credit and on thursday, weekly jobless claims and wholesale trade and finally on friday, International Trade and im
Suddenly reading the rhythmic vertical super tuesday state of florida. What is Mike Bloomberg running on . On thats a trick question actually. Bloomberg is running on anything. Not because he doesntan have ideas, hes got plenty of ideas and some of them are far outside the american mainstream but bloomberg doesnt think any of that matters. Hes not running on ideas, hes not trying to convince voters of anything. Hes not making arguments are working to change their minds on policies they care about. Hes trying to buy them and hence the presidency. If the single most cynical Political Campaign ever run of this country. Bloomberg is trying to subvert our sonography with cash and hes going all and to do it. Bloomberg has spent more than 417 million on advertising so far in this race. His nearest rival, Bernie Sanders, has spent 40 million, thats less than a tenth. Joe biden, the men they told us was themi front runner, has spet just 12. 3 million. Compare that, lets say it again, to the at
We begin with rob in morgan city. Rob. Reporter hey, charles, if you can hear me there, i dont have isp, i hope you can hear me, but were in morgan city, louisiana. Ive lost my earpiece out here in this nasty storm weve got here. Still barry is a Tropical Storm at this point here in southern louisiana. It could become a hurricane here at any minute. Were about 75 miles east of new orleans which is where a lot of the attention for this storm has been because it is a lowlying area, very populated area. But here just to west is where were really getting hammered. Were not too far away from the storm which is making its way onshore. Were here on a lake which looks like the gulf, its just getting pounded so hard. The waves are high, and this is usually just a flat lake that you can ride your boat around on. Not today though. Here in morgan city weve seen gusts at about 55 miles an hour, sustained winds a little lower than that and a lot of pounding rain as these outer bands and now a little
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