Coming up on the show, we have Dale Stafford. He will join us on all the dealmaking and unmaking going on. We will preview aprils retail sales. Jon looking forward to that conversation. S p 500 futures negative five. Switch over to the board very quickly. 1. 1345. Lar, foot. Llar is on the front yields are down by two basis points. What a week for wti. 46 thought. Flat. Lets go around the world for indepth coverage. Selena wang as the latest. We are 90 minutes away from the april retail Sales Numbers. Speaking of ecodata, guy johnson has latest on euro area growth. Julia tells us what to expect a day after Dilma Rousseffs suspension. Apple has found a way to use its enormous pile of cash and it could have an effect on the uber. Lets get the details from selena wang. Selena this is a huge deal. This is the single largest investment they have ever received. Was in talks to raise 2 billion. This is very unusual for the smartphone maker. They dont normally invest in startup funding rounds
I am alix steel. Have you done the bucket challenge . I have not. I would not mind donating money. I do not see myself doing the bucket challenge. I challenge you. You are like the seventh person and i am still not going to do it. Going to existing home sales for the month of july. Scarlet fu in the newsroom with headlines. For the month of july economist looking for a drop. Instead what we got was an unexpected increase month over month. Existing sales rose 2. 4 from a month ago. In terms of an actual number, 5. 1 5 million, higher than what economists had been looking for. I was told 5. 1 five millions the highest level since october. Some good news on the housing front. We know the Federal Reserve had been siding housing and weakness, but concern is the slowdown as you look at the rotter economy. Another index is the leading index of Economic Indicators higher than anticipated as well. Again of. 9 . A gain of. 9 . Falling more than anticipated to below 300,000, a sevenyear low and e