Fedticipation. Looking ahead to tomorrow and what people can expect. Valeant shares are down big this morning after disappointing results. And its mega tuesday with five major primaries taking place across the country. Well go live to one of the most important states hitting the polls today. First up, retail sales down 0. 1 last month, in line with expectations, january sales revised downward from 0. 2 to 0. 4 down. Producer price is down 0. 2 in february. Unchanged if you strip out food and energy. The data coming as fed policymakers are set to begin their twoday meeting today with the latest policy Statement Due tomorrow afternoon. That will be followed by Janet Yellens news conference. A big question is whether or not their statement reflects some firming of inflation. Ppi today relatively stable. I think things are tame. Obviously James Bullard was talking about oil going to 20, how he might have to revise his view. It went to 40 and has come back. The thing thats devastating is th
People thought. The worst market overall was there, unfrozen that you can get a sense of things. Theres a look at europe. Again, the losses not particularly substantial given that move down in crude. In asia is where things were a bit tougher overnight, japan in particular with that stronger yen suffered a more than 3 decline. Lets get back here and start with our road map. And where does it start . Well, where youd expect, oil prices are down after the failed doha deal. Were going to take you there live and bring you the latest. Morgan stanley shares getting a boost from what was a better than expected quarter this morning, although not great. Well give you everything you need to know about that report. And we are also live with pepsis cfo, hugh johnston. Were going to talk about this companys earnings plus his new seat on twitters board of directors. All right. Lets start with oil. You were talking of course the squawk gang about it is its the key to this market im going to say this
In europe. And then finally a quick look at crude before we get to a couple of the big stories of the morning. Wti at 46. 57. That would have been a good move around the 40 handle couple of days ago. Here are the big stories were watching today. Amazon crushing earnings estimate, posting most profitable quarter ever. We asked yesterday are they still sewing . Or starting to reap . Looks like the reaping has been. Cloud computing business. I thought they sold books. No. They have changed apparently. Side things. Other things in the last few years. Helped the Online Retail giant pull off the beat and stock took off. Jeff bezos net worth went up estimated 6 billion dollars based on how much stock he owns. And other stocks on the move this morning as we check into earnings central. Pandora reporting a wider First Quarter loss. Although it wasnt as bad as analysts expect. The streaming Music Service is raising full year outlook thanks to higher ad sales. And baidu fell to lowest level. Chin
We start with the equity markets which is moving higher as the fed meets to decide whether or not to begin raising rates. Lets look at the numbers with the dow, the nasdaq and the s p. The nasdaq and the s p are now tracking for their second consecutive week of gains. Something that neither has done in nearly three months. But, ty, the real action here is in the oil market this hour with oil soaring. Wti crude up by 5. 3 . It could still be the biggest daily gain since august 31st when wti jumped nearly 9 . Brent crude, and weve been talking about the spread there narrowing, havent we, ty . But its up by 4 as well. Jack Jackie Deangelis is joining us from the nymex. Lots of people bringing lots of reasons to the table as to why we took off. You tell us what youre hearing. I have three main reasons that were moving higher, a spike like this today, 5. 5 . The first is that bullish eia report. A drawdown in inventories. Cushing down nearly 2 Million Barrels. Refinery runs are going up, an
Watch the tenyear, near 2. 3 now. Fedex does miss expectations, cuts guidance. Shares are down sharply in the premarket. Well have a cnbc exclusive with hewlettpackards meg whitman. And the stage is set for what could end in the merger of the worlds two biggest beermakers. First up, so much going on one day after that rally on wall street. The fed kicking off that twoday meeting today with a decision on rates due tomorrow. Possibly the first rate hike in about nine years. One barometer of the economy, fedex missing with Quarterly Earnings and cutting its full year guidance. Sabmiller receiving a takeover approach from Anheuser Busch inbev. You have been busy. This is not something we have been unaware of. Many of us have been chasing it so a certain extent. Well get into more detail later, that Anheuser Busch, they did not want this to leak out the way it did. The time clock has started under uk takeover law. They have 28 days to make an offer. There is financing, the family which owns