Another deal to tell you about. Hasbro and talks to buy dreamworks animation. That is according to people familiar with matter. A premium of 34 over yesterdays closing price. Thirdquarter earnings Beat Estimates at walmart. Was to buy the increase in sales and its newest stores. Adding more smaller Format Stores to boost revenue. Overseas, another outbreak of widespread fighting in ukraine. Nato says Russian Troops and tanks have been flowing into eastern ukraine. Areu. S. And European Union deciding whether to impose more sanctions on russia. Heres the u. S. Ambassador to the united nations. Russia has negotiated a peace plan and then systematically undermined it and every step. They talk of peace, but keep fueling war. For more than two months, ukraine and the rebels agreed to a ceasefire. The controversial Keystone Pipeline. Monthve an impact on next runup election louisiana. They both want keystone approved. Landrieu has been trailing in the polls. The information weve gotten is th
Latest on what is going on. Press effectively what we have right now is a standoff between antigovernment protesters on the one side and riot police on the other. What divides them is a smoldering fire 30 feet wide. That is what that is. A 30 foot wide gap that in some cases has a kneedeep amount of coals. On the far side of that picture, across from the protesters, you see the police. They are not china move over that at the moment. That is independent square at the moment. 7000. Many have come more armed than they have in the past. Almost all of them are armed with clubs. We also have other room other weaponry. This all began when the president ordered the riot police, telling them to clear the square. Injured. 350 people we stopped short of that. See this kicked off at any time this could kick off at any time again. Class is there a possibility we could see an outbreak civil war . Say, no, we want to reject that and move toward. He European Union one is against a popular government
Increases. That is 36 quarters with sales increases. Shares have slumped 15 year to date. Everyones lips in the united kingdom. How will sainsbury ride this out . People just want better value. Jon, you are watching the Copper Mining company. Yes, earnings down on last year. Downtodate, copper is 11 . The estimates. Happens Going Forward . The copper prices falling. Right, jonathan. We are watching antofagasta. We will watch the fed tomorrow and the u. K. Budget. We are watching carmakers. Car sales rose some 7. 6 in february. This is largely helped by new models, but also some cash from incentives in europe. Nothing to write home about. We will take it. Jonathan, we have lots of components in todays trading session. What are you concentrating on . Expect them to vote against it. It is all about the details. Right now, they say it is time for the european market. Futures falling a little bit lower through the morning. It racing all the gains we have seen in the last few weeks. 5100. Da
There is no clue as to what happened in the middle east with planes that went missing last week. Hassearch and rescue team recovered a window that may have come from the flight that vanished from kuala lumpur to beijing. China sent rescue teams to the area and there is some evidence that the plane turned away from their normal route and may have been going back to kuala lumpur. The plane had a minor accident. The airline says it was in perfect working order. This aircraft was in the it was11 days ago and checked and nothing untoward was found. 1415 been operating hours a day since that time without any issue. This incident will be discussed through the course of the day. We will be joined in a short while. Lets have a look at the other stories making headlines and 100 trillion that is according to the bank of international settlements. There is a wave of borrowing with corporate and government. Exports fell 18. 1 . That is the biggest cents the financial crisis. Analysts were expecting
The big question though, does oil once again determine how stocks are going to move today . We are going to keep our eye on that. Our road map begins with the market rally built by caterpillar. The company handily beating estimates. Airlines and automobiles helping accelerate those gains. Results from gm, United Continental and more. Some mixed results in media. Well run through the numbers from yelp, at t, comcast, as well. First up, futures on track to open sharply higher. A big reason for the positive sentiment. Blowout results from caterpillar. Earned 1. 72 a share in the corner well above estimates raising their fullyear guidance. We had steady sales and steady production and getting after lean manufacturing. All our operational margins, getting good Cost Reduction, top line from our supply base, as well. Operationally, really makes me feel good about this year and this quarter. Cost cutting, for sure. In this environment, they are now looking full year 6. 50. Earlier in the year