Shooting overnight at a university. One person is dead. Thers were wounded a suspect has been arrested. The shooting took place in a parking lot outside a dormitory. President obama ghost oregon today to meet with survivors of relatives of those killed in last weeks committee college shooting. At everyone is happy with the president s visit. And an organization that pushed peacefully for democracy is honored by the nobel committee. Goes tors peace prize the Tunisian Group who led the spring uprising. Matt take a look at futures here. We are not seen the kind of movement that we are seeing in overseas markets. In europeally overnight. But only a gain in the many contracts on the s p and the dow right now. For itst oil on pace biggest weekly gain since august. We are looking at oil and its. Ighs price that is one of the reason that Energy Stocks are seeing their longest rally in six years. Is upp 500 energy index about 15 , 16 of the last eight sessions. The commodities are doing well to
Before the bell, well be hearing from retailers walmart and kohls. And the bulls are hoping todays earnings and Economic News can give stocks another boost. The dow snapped its threeday winning streak. Out to the futures this morning, youll see at this point there are some strong moves in a positive direct. Dow futures are up about 60 points above fair value. The s p 500 up by eight points, the nasdaq up by almost 20 points. While we were sleeping, asia closed mixed. Take a look at what happened with the nikkei. It was up another 1 . A lot of speculation out there that the Prime Minister shinzo abe may have decided to call an early election. Also thoughts that they would be putting off the planned hike in sales tax. If they put that off, that would be another positive for the economy. Industrial production rose therein than expected last month. Shanghai was down 0. 3 . Retail sales falling slightly below estimates. If you take an early look at whats been happening in europe, some stron
The yield is up after the fed minutes suggest the hawks are a little bit restless and as for europe we continue to watch the death toll in ukraine. The eu does hold an emergency meeting today. It is facebooks largest ever acquisition by far, the social network whying messaging Service Whatsapp and Mark Zuckerberg said the deal came together in ten days and some of the details are beginning to fill in. Closing the deal over chocolatecovered strawberries but a lot of metrics being thrown around, david, 42 a user and questions of how quickly this company can grow. Yeah. Of course, the thought being at 450 million users perhaps they can get to a billion. It is considered a communications platform. It is not about advertising. It is about communications. It is a very Popular Platform in europe. The user interface is said to be very slick. Given that most of the 55 employees that work at this company are engineers. But, carl, you know, there are many people who might want to ven tture its 19
Valero. It has a pullback to support. Another refinery name, mlp focussed on refining, northern tier, nti, and dividend analyzes about 16 . Women eiss, a quick read on mlps. Theyre interesting, but rates run up. I still like clmy, i think the mortgage reads, which are sort of mrps are going to do well. Joe, final trade . Were trying to two stuff outside the box with mark near the highs. I time a position in vitamin shop, vsi. Im going to go to ford. The setup in ford, theres been massive buyings. 1350 at a price range. The company will give us an update friday morning. Usa air, lcc, a strong dollar, because oil will come down and tourism going overseas will participate. Im going to buy some more gold at gmt ld. That does it for us. Follow me at twitter. Power starts now. Halftime is over. Power lunch and the second half of the trading day starts right now. Good morning, a wave of hacking attacks, one victim, the first lady, Michelle Obama. The secret service wants to know how her Finan
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