Ears, i can hear, with the pressure. Youre sick. The nose spray clear. Your sugar i thought i was sounding pretty you sound up. Youre trying. Youre trying. I can hear it. Maybe its the end. It gets worse towards the end. You dont feel as bad, but you sound worse. Thank you. The european markets were mixed. Lets not fly over there. Im telling you, your ears will pop. Probably will. If youre buying wti, buy the barrel. A barrel will cost you 49. 41. Its touching joe has for your health. Melissa, save me. Here are the stories were watching. Saudi aramco has selected jpmorgan, Morgan Stanley and hbsc as Financial Advisers for its ipo. Saudi aramcos offering is expected to be the largest equity scale ever. The weekly jobless claims and the final read of q4 gdp out at 8 30 a. M. Grow cleveland fed president , loretta mester, john williams, rod kaplan and bill dudley speaking throughout the day. Jack lew, tim geithner, robert rubin, michael bloomenthal last night address the economic issues.
Market. We stay foe cut focused. As we should. Talking about our bond market hanging around that 2. 3. Under 2. 4 in terms of the yield. Thats been kind of the constant so far this week. You can see where we are on oil. Lets get to the road map this morning. Russian denials. President Vladimir Putin telling cnbcs Geoff Cutmore, quote, read my lips, his country never interfered in the u. S. Elections and calls the allegations lies and provocations. Plus, were keeping our eye on the Global Economy. Four former treasury secretaries sound off on financial reforms and risks and the trump agenda. And lulu sinks. Shares of lululemon tumbling, this after the athletic maker issued a weakout lo weak outlk for 2017. Lets start with putin. He made news at the International Arctic forum in russia. That was where he was part of a Panel Discussion with the president s of iceland and finland and Geoff Cutmore was the moderator. He asked putin if they interfered in last years elections. Heres his respo
Willing to speak with President Trump with the appropriate introduction. Cnbc europes Geoff Cutmore joins us live with the details. Hi, jeff. Reporter hi, kelly. This was ostensibly an event to talk about the arctic. And so we spent a little bit of time discussing the opportunities for cooperation between russia and other countries in the Arctic Community like the United States. But in reality i think there was only one question a lot of people wanted answered, so i put it. Lets listen. There is a Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing as to whether russia has used disinformation to affect the outcome of the last president ial election. Translator i knew it was coming to this. I wouldnt really like to have all this positive sentiment while were discussing the arctic region to be killed off by the issues in bilateral americanrussian relations, but i respect you personally and cnbc which is your company instructed most likely you to ask this question. Well, of course then president putin
Deal with the uk but warn britain would have to continue to accept free immigration from the continent. And former National Security adviser Michael Flynn agrees to testify in the russia investigation in exchange for immunity, as president Vladimir Putin tells cnbc that claims of election meddling are fictional. You and the russian government never tried to influence the outcome of the u. S. President ial election and there will be no evidence found. Read my lips, no. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Welcome to cnbc. Very glad youre with us for the next hour. The finance minister of south africa, Pravin Gordhan has been sacked in the capital reshuffle. Mr. Gordhan will be replaced by Malusi Gigaba, according to a Statement Issued late on thursday by the president s office. We are just glancing at some of these stocks exposed to south africa. You are seeing the trading down heavily here in the trade, off somewhere in the region of 4 to 8 when it comes to old mutual. Investec off by 6 , and
Good morning. Happy friday and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im sara eisen. A quiet and reserved happy friday. Yeah. Happy friday happy friday tgif good morning to you from me as well. Im wilfred frost. I thought you were referring to the music, too. Maybe the music lulled you into it. Its new music friday. Were not sure what that song is called. Well find out. Well give you the name later. Lets get to the market action. The Global Market this morning after a mini rally on wall street yesterday, show you the futures board this morning and how its shaping up on this final day of the quarter. A great one for global stocks. The wordow futures are lower th morning on the final trading day, down about 48 points. S p down 5. 5, nasdaq down 14. The nasdaq outperformed everyone this month. The s p went flat yesterday to higher in the trade. The dow still down for the month of march. As for the tenyear treasury note yield, ticking higher yesterday. Bonds selling off. You saw that healthy finan