U. S. Equity futures have been indicated higher after the markets were down yesterday. The first time in seven sessions that the dow and nasdaq were down this morning a rebound from that these were modest declines yesterday and this morning s p futures indicated up by three. The nasdaq indicated up by 2. 5 overnight in asia, we have seen some gains in some asian markets. The nikkei up by a half percent. How many winning streaks is that 16 in a row that weve seen for the nikkei now trading at 21,805. Hang seng closed down bay half p percentage point in europe, as you look at some of the early trading, you will see green arrows across the board. Modest advances. Ftse up by 0. 4 . The cac is up by a quarter percentage point the dax up by 0. 2 look at crude oil prices looks like crude this morning is up wti up by 444 ce cents, brent u 57 cents. News out of Chinas Communist Party congress, members confirm president xi jinpings status as the most powerful leader since mao by writing his name
Points. Here are the big stories were watching today. Weyerhaeuser is buying plumb creek timber for 8. 4 billion in the total price tag. The combined company will keep the weyerhaeuser name and manage 13 million acres of timberland. You can see plumb creek timber up 17 in the premarket. The dubai air show is now open for business. The last show two years ago saw record breaking orders. Thats not the case this time. No major purchases yet announced. Some say this is raising the red flag about the longer term health of the business. And in other global news, lufthansa canceling more than 900 flights today due to a cabin crew strike. A union calling for a walkout in frankfurt, munich, dusseldorf. 900 flights canceled. We talked about it on friday, i dont remember a lot about it. I remember i had to say dusseldorf. I remember seeing that in the teleprompter and nailed it. Nailed it. So theres a five star hotel there. There might be but i wasnt there on vacation. You were you were not there
Come at 8 30 eastern time and at 10 00 wholesale trade. Well be getting Quarterly Results before the bell. Okay. Lets tell you about some of the stories that were watching this morning. Valeant said to hold a Conference Call at 8 00 eastern this morning. Its going to be providing a Business Update to investors and take questions. Town more than 40 since the short sellers report was published on october 21st. That report accused the company of fraud compared to drug pricing. Now that same short seller now focussing on did i mispronounce it you tell me. How would you pronounce it. Mallinckrodt. I thought i came close. Good for you. They call citron a far more defe offender. Shares of that company dropping near a two year low yesterday. The Company Tells cnbc its fully confident in its Business Model. They will join us live to talk about it. Also in tech news this morning, apple ceo tim cook is in italy today speaking at the university in milan. He was in london yesterday for the launch o
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