Happy cinco de mayo. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. It is new music friday. This is the latest from justin bieber, lil wayne. It is jobs friday. U. S. Equity futures right now are pointing to a mixed open. The dow futures are down about 16 points. S p futures are up 1. Nasdaq futures are up 4. Oil is the big story. That tumble yesterday to the lowest level since november caught everyone and moved the market. Wti is back above 45 a barrel. 45. 70. Getting a bit of a boost this morning. Well see if that holds. Theres been a pattern lately where the early morning, this time of morning bounce disappears by midday. Brent crude, 48. 72. Nat gas, 3. 21. Well watch this and the spillover effect on other commodities like gold, copper and iron ore. The real takeaway, despite this fall in various commodities, earnings good enough to keep markets in positive territory. We have the nasdaq up a half percent, the dow and s p also in positive territory, coming off the back of a fantastic week last w
In paris. Neil, an absolutely wild day for 12 hours now we have been tracking these events. I think a coordination is the key word to sum up the days events, coordination on the police side and these rightless standoffs involving innocent hostages and also coordination on the terrorist side because they were talking to each other and working with each other lets illustrate what i mean. First we had the standoff situation 25 miles to the northeast of paris where the two main suspects in wednesdays brutal shooting at that newspaper office. They took a hostage. They said were going to die like martyrs if you try to storm the police. Just a few hours later, we saw here in paris, the same sort of thing, another hostagetaking. Turns out this guy is was the main suspect in the shooting yesterday of a French Policewoman and it emerged that police say that three of these guys were a part of a cell here in paris that was sending jihadis to fight in iraq and syria and also training in yemen, and