Out, you can see that japan, the nikkei was flat, too. The hang seng and shanghai deposit down, too. Japan, the flat market there, japan avoiding a recession in the First Quarter gdp expanding by an annualized 1. 7 . Much more than a 0. 2 increase forecasters had predicted. Take a look at whats happening in european equities, the modest dines for the dax, cac, ftse. Down by 0. 25 . Take a look at crude oil price this morning, kruld is unchanged got all the way up to 48. 31. Brent crude is down six cents to 41. 42. Finally check out currency, across the board after comments from fed officials making it sound like june is actually a live meeting. Well debate this. The euro is at 1. 1266. The yen at 109. 41. Weve got top stories including political news, Bernie Sanders winning the oregon prime but nbc news is reporting that Hillary Clinton is the winner in kentucky. 99 tallied. Shes now within 100 of the delegates needed to clinch the democratic nomination. Goldman sachs downgraded its eq
Still there, 46. 21 for wti. Lower by. 37. The biggest market story is the dollar. Dropping to lowest level since brexit yesterday. Has since recovered on hawkish fed speak. The last 24 hours, atlanta fed president said two hikes were a possibility this year. Euro cost you a 1. 12. New york fed president suggested the central bank could raise rates as soon as next month. Two key events to watch today, st. Louis fed president James Bullard will speak and then well get minutes from the last momc meeting. And it is. The euro will cost you 1. 12. Pound 1. 30. The yen is at 100 yen dollar level. It had fallen below that yesterday. Violating what ive asked them to do. So now were back to maybe a couple of hikes when i think the probability had the hikes moved out to 2017. Well see. They love to pretend they might do something to get the benefit of whatever. Theres a lot of rumors about whats going to happen at jackson hole. About whether theyre going to say negative Interest Rates arent work
4. 2 billion pounds to show premiere League Football but bt hits the back of the net with its own deal. Nicely done. Heineken shares higher but they may lose fiz this year amid demand in markets. We are still battling with our programs. They will be addressed in the long hall. Battling against weak demographics in europe. Countries are recovering. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Lets have a quick look at where the greek bond yields are trading. The two year not the three year, has kbon above 20 . Thats at 20. 2 with the three year at 18. 2 . Banking stocks are sharply lower and the athens index is down the best part of 4 . This comes as the greek finance minister says the greek debt cannot be paid off in the near future. In an interview with german magazine stern he added if a debt can no longer be paid it leads to a hair cut. This ahead of talks with his counter parts and ecb president today. It comes after the greek Prime Minister
Open lower by 37 points. Nasdaq lower by 2. Goldman sachs holding a technology and Energy Conference today. Yahoo ceo and twitter ceo are expected to give keynote speeches later on today. In other media news nbc news announcing it is suspending Brian Williams for six months without pay effective immediately. He personally admitted he misrepresented events about coming under fire while flying in an helicopter during the iraq war. While on nbc news friday january 30th 2015 brian amissmisrepresented events that happened during the iraq war in 2013. Then it became clear that brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. She added this was a very hard decision. Certainly there will be those that disagree but we believe this suspension is appropriate and proportionate action. Brian has jeopardized the trust millions of americans place in nbc news. His actions are inexcusable and this suspension is severe and appropriate. appropriate. He says williams deserves a Second Cha
Performers on the dow this year. Can it continue to impress . We will get you the numbers and what they mean for shares first with the best analysis we can offer. And do you shop differently than you did five years ago . I know i sure do. What do you buy, how much do you spend, how do you spend it, what you acquire. We have interest data on what American Consumers are doing and how the retailers are reacting. Stay tuned for that just ahead. And heres where we stand in the markets with an hour to go. The dow up about 85 points, making a run back towards the highs of the session, when it was up 109. The s p 500 up about 11, 1,915 at present. Joining our closing bell exchange, Keith Fitzgerald from money map press, jack brujon from index financial partners, Abigail Doolittle from peak theories. David kudlow is from mainstay capital management, and our very own Rick Santelli is with us as well. Abigail, let me begin by asking you, the retail Sales Numbers, macys numbers are not particularl