Today. Call it daydream. The head of vr will join us to discuss this daydream. In a first on cnbc interview. In the meantime after losing a second lawsuit claiming Johnson Johnsons talcum powder causes ovarian canister, they are speaking out right here on cnbc. Comments in a moment. And super bowl of bio tech coming up in just a few weeks. Well start getting data from a number of companies that that could cause sol bic moves. And fed minutes released about an hour ago. Steve leisman has some of the highlights for us. Thanks a lot. The u. S. Federal reserve strongly suggesting the possibility of a june rate hike if the Economic Data improves and that is what they expect to happen. In fact in the minutes before the april meeting that came out just a few hours ago the fed said some of these conditions are already been met but many members of the fed expect the other conditions to be in place by the time the fed meets in june. That means further evidence by the economy is rebounding in the
Retail sector is still under pressure. Pandora shares on the rise after activist Investment Firm calling for pandora to consider a sale. Stocks poised to open lower following mondays rally. Futures up 0. 4 as gasoline, medical care and food prices up. April Housing Starts up 6. 6. Well above expectations on a 3. 7 gain. Economy doesnt look too bad this morning, jim. No. A lot of that increase in cpi is gasoline has come up. Thats something that the market likes, which is the craziness of this market. Remember we go to 48 for oil yesterday, and we have an explosion. All the stocks of the companies that do poorly when oil goes higher, but thats all right because oil is meant to be a barometer. We keep telling ourselves that. At a certain point its not a barometer. At a certain point its back to the inflation rate. But at the same time i dont see a lot of strength. I just see a lot of no volume, algorithmic moves in the stock market. Yesterday was one of the worst examples of it because t
Crude oil prices also, which yesterday ended relatively flat. Prices have picked up slightly to 48. 25 for p ti. Brent crude up as well. Existing home sales come out at 10 00 eastern time. Expected to have a risen but at a much slower pace than march. As for earnings look for campbells soup, deere, foot locker and the buckle. Its stubhub. They got pay you 500 oh okay, how much . Oh pay me a thousand o go. Kind of a negative Interest Rate thing where they actually pay you do come. Its ban busy week on the retail front. The latest name to report. Gap. The retailer posted earnings in line with previous guidance but it is giving a cautious outlook for the rest of the year. Warning it needs trends in the Apparel Retail environment if it going to hit wall streets earnings target. Amid that slump gap plans to close all Old Navy Stores in japan. Also some banana republics, mostly outside of north america and lit do that by the end of the business year. Following the latest reports s p downgrad
Moving the markets. Record low bond yields, new attacks on viacom, and at merck shares are rising in the premarket. But obviously a lot of review to go over on what the fed said yesterday, jim. Yesterday was a kind of admission, it wasnt even tacit, that maybe were in a kind of different era, which is so interesting because a couple months ago they certainly didnt think we were. And thats going to cause the id say kind of a grumpy attitude toward the fed, people who say theyve lost it because they now feel look theyre swinging in the breeze, the pundits. Wow. All of a sudden were much weaker than we thought, previously much stronger than we thought and were data dependent. It does add up to something that i want to step away from and say its good for stocks. So we can talk fed policy, as if we are indeed fed members. Ill let you be from i dont know, some west coast man and ill be a philly thing. When it clears, we can go back to clorox and back to look at Procter Gamble after these pro
Civil suit. The Justice Department dropping its twoyear effort. Weve got the details on that coming up. Meantime, amazon is making a big bet on its echo device called alexa. All the alexas answering out there, people listening in. Theyre looking to make it a 1 billion business. Will increasing competition from apple and google get in its way. Thats something well look at coming up here. Plus, the end of an era. The partnership between American Express and costco will officially end on monday. Weve got new details on how American Express is looking to address the losses. What citigroup and visa are planning next. Lets start with the concerns over next weeks uk vote whether to leave the European Union. Will fred front is about to head over to london for coverage of that big event. Before you leave, though, will, give us the latest. Thanks very much. Campaigning on both sides of the Brexit Debate was postponed today following that Fatal Shooting of labor party, a member of parliament, jo