Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. Happy friday. Happy to have you with us. The futures at this hour are pointing a little bit higher, up 42 points for the dow. 72 for the nasdaq. A a big jump in tech stocks. The s p 500 up some 9 points for the week as a whole, the nasdaq is 1 the s p is down 0. 6 the dow is up 0. 3 as we come into today it has been quite broad, if you look at some selling in the s p. 9 out of 11 sectors are down week to date telcos very much at the bottom of the pack, down 3. 3 a bunch of Big Tech Companies moving higher. Following earnings amazon, alphabet, microsoft and intel all firmly in the green, as you can see more on those numbers in just a moment that move in amazon, the stand out, up 7 . First big deal news hitting overnight. Cvs is in talks to buy aetna for 66 billion, making it the biggest healthcare deal ever Bertha Coombs is here with more. Whats behind this deal . This seems like the tail waging the dog, but the deal makes
Defense leaders they need to play their part in booting out terrorism. Every terror in the region needs absolute surety that terrorists find no sanctuary on their soil. Russian officials firing james comey would easy pressure from the investigation. Good morning, everyone. Yes, its monday. What a week that was last week with the plus 1. 4 losses given the revelations about donald trump. It seems like were more level headed this week. The ftse 100 inzex up by. 033 . This may number part down to weakness in the currency one telling you that sterling has retreated below the 1. 30 handle given weaker conservative polling numbers roughly two weeks before the election. The xetra dax is up. And i guess were consolidating after last weeks losses. Lets tell you whats happening in the specter phase. What youre seeing chemicals doing very well. And the deal between clairent and huntsman. Well get into that as well. And utilities up slightly. Lets get back to the big story, swiss chemical chi clar
Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im sara eisen im wilfred frost very good morning to you from me as well. Nice to hear coldplay. Im having some sound issues. Thank you for telling me that. Thats probably while they snuck in a wilfred frost choice band you know i wouldnt approve the british band i like coldplay. After a quiet session on wall street yesterday, the dow ended fairly positive. Small moves on the major averages this morning notable strength. Dow futures up 71 points s p up 6 1 2, nasdaq futures are up 20 points well get the minutes from the last fed meeting today after a batch of data in the u. S. Economy yesterday that was pretty decent. As for the tenyear treasury note yield higher yields and a bit of a stronger dollar for a change is what we saw in yesterdays session. 2. 28 is the yield on the tenyear watch the yields and the dollar. The dollar near a threeweek high thats starting to get the attention of wall street maybe a little pressure relief for some european stocks th