Miller with headlines. Matt on the east coast, a deliberate act to destroy the airplane. A Prosecutor Says black box recording shows the copilot on the flight locks the pilot out of the cockpit and then flew the plane into the french out. The ceo of german wings a few hours after having heard this we can only speculate on the motivational the copilot. I would like to very cautiously say this is by far the most terrible event in our company. Mats bryce robin identified the copilot as a junior pilot who started flying in 2013. He passed all of his tests and was fit to fly. Saudi arabia and its sunni allies have launched airstrikes in yemen which at the airport and a nearby military base in the capital. This comes as rebels advance on the port city which is the stronghold of the embattled president. The yemeni president has arrived in riyadh am a saudi arabia. The strike sent oil prices higher, hitting their highest price in more than a month with new york crude well over 50 a barrel. In
And comcast. Tom salesforce will be interesting. Lets get to the top headlines. Olivia it was a night of relative calm in baltimore. There were a few scuffles about the curfew. The worst writing was on monday. Most protesters went home. On friday police will turn over their investigation into the death of freddie gray to the states attorneys office. It will not be made public. Gray died of injuries suffered in police custody. A prisoner who share the police van with gray could hear him banging against the walls. He believed he was trying to injure himself. That report came from the Washington Post. Safety concerns led to a first for major league baseball. A game played without fans. The orioles beat the white sox behind closed doors, eighttwo. The death toll has climbed behind past 5500 in nepal after the deadly earthquake. Aid workers are delivering food, water, and medical supplies. Rescue crews pulled a teenage boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed building. It has been five days
Decision. More importantly, the ecb, they will be issuing their statement a. M. Ecision at 7 45 a. M 7 45 this morning. Cut expect druggie to rate. Draghi to cut rates. We will have Michelle Meyer with us as we see this decision and press conference. Anything goes even what we have seen overseas with the markets. In the meantime, back here in the u. S. , the parade of earnings continues before the bell. Aetna, gm, 20th century fox, and aol. We will pay close attention to aol, because the ceo of the company, tim armstrong, will be on later with us. After the bell, news corporation, linkedin. The olympic guys begin today in sochi. One guy is trading three lightbulbs for a doorknob in his room. Data check. Equities, bonds, currencies and commodities. One screen today. Futures are up nine points. The yield is back up, a good sign. Calming the market at 2. 67. Your wreck euro goes nowhere. Here is what i am looking at ahead of tomorrows jobs report, dollaryen. Weaker yen over the recent mon
Much as people had expect it. Demand obviously easing. Economic data, 8 30 a. M. , retail sales, initial jobless claims and import price index. Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index 10 00, business inventories, 2 00, and the budget. Earnings before the bell, power weeral and at 2 30 p. M. Will hear president obama deliver remarks on potentially increasing over time. Over tominimum wage overtime pay. He certainly has a mission right now. And the little bit of electioneering moving to the first tuesday in november of this Midterm Election you. Let me get through the data check here and we look at stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities. We bounce up today. Trade, yield, a risk off particularly wrapped around ukraine and crimea as they go into the weekend. 1. 40,ro making a dash to a huge deal for germany. Lets go right to foreign exchange. I am watching the ruble, the 10year russian peace as well. And the euroyen closeout, strong euro and weak yen. Havene and crimea, you may some fatigue o
Well and it is the Bloomberg Consumer comfort index at 10 00. Fed had had, so apple of days ago. We also had the Kansas City Manufacturing number. Why do they do regional numbers . If you add them up, you get it picture of the country as a whole. We are federalists. Before the bell, best buy, scarlet fu will break that. Hewlette bell, the gap, and packard and obama is speaking in cooperstown today. Thats because the orioles are in first place. Lets do a data check. Equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities. The equity markets have a surge. Weaker and nymex crude is elevated bigtime. Vxx shows under 12. The euro dollar is so important. There is iron ore. In shanghai. I have no idea what the number means but iron ore is cheap. This is the volatility in the market. It is gone. This is the 25 year average. Over the lastgst five years and down we go bearing down to a new complacency. This is the conundrum. Thank you Central Banks and janet yellen yesterday saying considerable . We are mo