Here is todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Iran says it has captured 17 spies of the u. S. Central intelligence agency. Tensions escalate in the middle east. Iran releasing new video of the moment it seized a british flagged tanker it says violated maritime law. Across the nation a dangerous heat wave gripping the country has turned deadly. So hot. Got to carry this dog now. Shes panting and cant handle the heat anymore. The president is launching another salvo on four democratic congresswomen of color. He says he doesnt believe they are capable of loving our country. Do you believe the president is a racist . Yes. No doubt about it. Protesters back out in puerto rico hours after the governor refuses to resign. He apologized saying he will not seek reelection. In hong kong another day and night of protests ended with police launching tear gas at protesters. Swedens Prime Minister says asap rocky will not receive special treatment despite efforts from the president to get him
President obama said there are larger issues to be resolved and they wont be fixed by throwing bottles or breaking car windows. He spoke last night. The situation in ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between what enforcement and communities of color. According to prosecutors, the most credible witnesses told the grand jury the teenager Michael Brown charged that the Police Officer just before he fired the fatal shot. Turns out that chuck hagel did not put up a fight with president obama asked him to resign as defense secretary. One pentagon official said he was ready to go anyway. White house officials disagreed with hagel over policy. Hagel was frustrated with the white houses management style. None of that came up when the announcement was made yesterday. It has been the greatest privilege of my life, the greatest privilege of my life to lead the most important, to serve, to ser
Im guy johnson. And i am francine lacqua. Coming up, a bloomberg exclusive. We speak with the South African finance minister as a nation sets to go to the holes. The army in ukraine has become an operation to retake ovyansk. Pressure is reporting that two helicopters have been shut down and one pilot killed. Down and oneshot pilot killed. Heather, can you give us the latest on the situation, visavis the offensive . Day. Re protests on labor the situation here has become increasingly tense, as you mentioned. There was an antiterrorist operation by Ukrainian Forces to slovyansk. We have had two statements, one from the interior ministry saying this operation started about 4 30 a. M. Today. They have circled the town, taking control of nine roadblocks as interior minister and the head of the National Guard and the defense minister are on the spot there. They are demanding the release of hostages as of yesterday. They have released two, but there are still 15 more, including the eight inte
9 45, the ism manufacturing for new york. 10 00, we get factory earnings, chevron, cvs, msg, estee lauder, we will also get the annual meeting from Berkshire Hathaway. The differenceey this jobs date field, the up feel here, within the mergers, acquisitions, the dow at record highs. A change in nonfarm payroll at the 250,000, that is big, double what we need for population. That is putting america back to work. I know the Labor Participation at alan kruger is on a little bit later. Nymex crude, 99. 88 will stop lets move onto the vix and the idea of 13. 25 really shows what talking about on this job stay and gold futures 1285. Then there is the geopolitics, adam. You were going to mention president obama and chancellor merkel. He will indeed be meeting with chancellor merkel around 11 30. Think of merkel, putin as the equivalent of blair and bush. We will see what they have to say. And this is a levin 40 this morning, a joint press conference. 11 40 this is at morning. This is nonfarm
Well keep an eye on those. The u. K. Banks say firstquarter profits tripled. How will that go down . Manus cranny, what are you watching this morning . I think those are the three s. We have a great new function. Were looking at the nonfarm payrolls. Look at the construction numbers. The reason i bring that back to the for this morning is that the bank of england Deputy Governor is warning that we need to be vigilant and ready to act in terms of the high prices. This is all going to build toward the view that the u. K. Moved towards taking edge off the market. The dollar is trading a bit higher through the morning session. He ever just feel things were going to go your way . Lets look at the equity market. Slightly lower opening, anna. Final purchasing managers index. Xpected to come in at 53. 3 the unemployment numbers in the eurozone to come in around 11. 9 . Enzy friday. Bayer up one quarter of a percent, miserable. Thats if we have fresh prices coming through on the feet are not. T