Good morning. Thank you for having me. Great to have you with us straight to the Global Market picture. Comes off a flat week for most of the markets dow had four negative days in a row to end the week, ended flat given it had slight gains monday s p up friday. And nasdaq up a half percent friday 2 for the week. Underperforming sek ter was energy and health care, best performing sector up over 3. 5 . Best week for health care for this calendar year this morning, we are taking a lead around the rest of the world. We have seen gains around the world. Start with asia. Markets closing higher overnight. Hang seng and shanghai, strongest stocks up shy of 1 . Oil prices stronger, firmer overnight. Part of the reason we saw the lift in asia indonesia, singapore, malaysia, Philippines Closed for end of ramadan. Japanese up slightly, despite that takata bankruptcy it was expected. We know the trouble the company had. It was going to be delisted end of july. Still a shock to the market, and some
For you this morning, Kristen Welker at the white house, Stephanie Ruhle and ali velshi will be joining me. I want to start with kristen first. Sanctions coming out as early as today against iran. What do we know . As early as 10 30. Mike flynn came to the Briefing Room and said the administration was putting iran on notice for recent provocations, including a Ballistic Missile test, which the administration argues is in defiance of a u. N. Resolution. The u. N. Hasnt determined that yet. Today the administration is set to announce new sanctions as early as 10 30, coming from the Treasury Department, indicating it will likely be economic sanctions. As you know, this president on the campaign trail said he was going to take a tougher stance against iran in the wake of president obama brokering the iran nuclear deal. What we are seeing is he is attempting to follow through with that. I want to be very clear these provocations according to the administration are separate from the iran nuc