Mean we will not be seeing as much, but the other thing we have to consider whether it is china or other countries, the efficiency of utilization of fuel. Meanwhile, chinas stimulus measure appears to be working with consumer consumption up last month. Facebook is a job creating machine. They say they have helped create 4. 5 million jobs around the world. That would include all of the businesses that make money off facebook, according to a study paid for, of course, by facebook. This is after apple claimed it directly or indirectly created more than a million jobs through its app store. Amazon is going green. It will use went to power its data centers. The company signed a deal with a wind farm in indiana for the next 13 years. Once that farm is built and running, amazon will join apple and google in using largely wind energy. Nbc is going to try to use the patriots and the seahawks to get more customers. The network is open to leverage the massive interest in the super bowl to leverag
Instagram has made it. What everyoneth is talking about, ukraine and russia back in the headlines. The spontaneous protest taking place in the eastern part of ukraine. Accusing russia of instigating rest. Oun it is said to be similar to what happened right before russia crimea. To annexed those that youre looking at our prorussian demonstrators in front of a Regional Government building. Once the sun came up, it was a different story. These are some of those same protesters in handcuffs. The progression demonstrators this city, other cities are also seeing protesters. It has a large prorussian presence, and the white houses onto to it. We are concerned about several s moves in ukraine over the weekend. We see those as a result of increased russian pressure on ukraine. Theres strong evidence suggesting that some of these demonstrators were paid, and were not local residents. A strong accusation from the white house, that russia is paying these people to disrupt and maybe even start a ci
Gloom. Yes. You can understand why futures are slightly flat to down this morning. What else . All right, Economic Data here in the u. S. , we got the initial jobless claims, import prices. Those beat come out at 8 30. And then the bloomberg theres a g in that, right . Yes, very good, bloomberg. Bloomberg index comes out at 9 45. Earnings before the bell, walmart and kohls, youre going to break those. A lot of earnings from retailers today. Walmart and kohls before the bell. After the bell, jc pen sandee nordstrom. Yesterday we learned from macys that theyre not selling as much stuff as they thought, and thats because of all the promotions. Anyway, there you have the morning brief. Very good. We look at occurrence success, commodities, futures flat. 10year yield is nothing. The first screen is boring. On to the next screen. Courtney, the v. I. X. , thats stunning, 12. 90. You talk about resiliency and quiet across u. S. Equities, there it is. Well get to the german twoyear in a minute.
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