Authorizing a big buyback. A big move in oil after what has been volatile week. The tenyear crept up to 1. 93. Reroad map, blockbuster news out of General Electric selling the bulk of g. E. Capital, 50 billion buyback. Stocks up 7 in premarket. Well get fabers exclusive with jeff immelt. Apple watch preorders began at 3 00 a. M. Large lines absent this goround but online models not available until june or july. What does it mean for sales at apple . Retail moving in premarket. Gap down 2 despite posting stronger than expected march sales. Stock futures are edging higher here all hail to the power of qe abroad nikkei surging past 20,000 for the first time in 15 years and equities in europe are now at a new record high. We will start with our news of course involving General Electric, released this morning at 6 30 a. M. The Company Effectively exiting the Financial Services business. Something that will take place over the next couple of years, as disposes of many of the businesses withi
A sea of red. Dow open 133 points off. S p 500 off. And nasdaq off 37 points now. Lets look at the ten year treasury. The yields hitting the highest level since early december. Looking at 2. 338 there. And also you should Pay Attention to the german bund driving a lot of the action in the global bond market lately and especially overnight. 2. 3 . Didnt we close yesterday at 2. 2 . Pretty big move. It was a big decline of more than one point yesterday in the ten year. And the bund last time it bounced. We couldnt figure it out. Remember that morning we were here early. This chart is incredible. That was the one that went there and the markets were covered. Its going to test the recent highs in yield. It was because the economy was going. Its what we talked about that day. We live by the sword, die by the sword. When rates finally start being normalized in europe we were staying low. Lets show everybody whats going on in the European Equity markets. Theres a big sell off going on this mo
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2012 and get this were on track for the best yearly gain percentage wise for the dow since 1996. There it is. Theres not a lot of volatility. Just a slow roll upward. A reminder for those listening in their car were at 117 points on the dow. 7 of 1 . Nasdaq up a. 25 . Home depot is adding to the dows strong performance. Without we can top that cant we . Oh, yes. If theres one stock that everybody is talk about on the floor is twitter. Its up big again. The shares are up more than 170 since the ipo just early november. Adding 3 today. 72 bucks a share. Of course we want to know if twitter can flying to a new high. It was up 6 at the peak. It was up to 74. 75. The volume weve traded 70 million shares of twitter. This is for a company that had a 10 million share floated in its ipo. Here on the floor were only doing 240 million shares. Thats only 20 of the total. If you say thats roughly more than a billion twitter a huge piece of whats happening in the market as the only reason why were o