But the hang seng and kospi reopened after the Lunar New Year holiday. South korea down 3 . Shanghai remains closed until the end of the week. Meanwhile, the dollar falling below 112 yen for the First Time Since late 2014. The level of the dollar and the spread between Interest Rates, the did you see the ten year . Its 162. Hard to believe that we are back there. Its sliding by tremendous amounts, by the day. I mean, it was at, i dont know, its like ten basis points lower today than it was yesterday on this prospect of negative rates. Do you really think that she was going to satisfy on the markets yesterday . No. Going into it she was never going to get what people fully wanted. No way. There were some people who wanted her to completely capitulate and walk back from the move in december. Not only did she not do that, she said we have no plans to cut rates again. But theres also nothing that she could have said to asewage the market. She could have said well do more qe and the market
A barrel. Up a gain three quarters of one percent. Our road map today starts with netflix. Shares down big this morning thanks to weak guidance. What Ceo Reed Hastings had to say about the companys earnings. Goldman sachs ceo blaming the challenging operator environment for less than stellar earnings. What you need to know from that report coming up. Also dig into earnings from dow components Johnson Johnson and United Health care. Lets begin with netflix. Shares are falling in the premarket despite Quarterly Results that beat the street. The company issuing weaker than expected subscriber guidance for the Current Quarter especially on the international front. Meantime ibm out with q 1 results. Jim, lets start with netflix. You said last night you expected downgrades to come, low and behold you have seven firms this morning at least cutting their price targets. Many reaffirming their positions as buys, but taking their price targets down. You had bob on last night. That was fantastic a
Yellen, bernanke, volcker and greenspan speaking at an event last night. Hank paulson coming out swinging against actions his former agencies took on former tax inversions. Shares of gas down big after reporting march was a challenging month for the retailer. Well look in on the state of retail. Just days after the Treasury Department announced new rules which had the effect of breaking apparent the giant deal under which pfizer was acquiring allergan, hank paulson was on squawk box and said Companies Need to pay their fair share when it comes to taxes but also criticized the Treasury Department. Were a nation of laws and rules. You cant change the rules you shouldnt be changing the rules after the facts and changing them and changing them and changing them again. That is something that ian reed, the ceo of pfizer said in an oped yesterday and something that brent saunders, the ceo of allergan said on this set a few days back. Theres been across of criticism at treasurys move and seems
People thought. The worst market overall was there, unfrozen that you can get a sense of things. Theres a look at europe. Again, the losses not particularly substantial given that move down in crude. In asia is where things were a bit tougher overnight, japan in particular with that stronger yen suffered a more than 3 decline. Lets get back here and start with our road map. And where does it start . Well, where youd expect, oil prices are down after the failed doha deal. Were going to take you there live and bring you the latest. Morgan stanley shares getting a boost from what was a better than expected quarter this morning, although not great. Well give you everything you need to know about that report. And we are also live with pepsis cfo, hugh johnston. Were going to talk about this companys earnings plus his new seat on twitters board of directors. All right. Lets start with oil. You were talking of course the squawk gang about it is its the key to this market im going to say this
8 . S p futures are down by 5 points below fair value. Dow futures are down 36. The nasdaq off by 7. Also take a look at what is happening in the early trading in europe right now. Red arrows there as well but these are a modest decline at this point. The cac is down by. 25 and that is the biggest decliner among the latest averages there. Overnight in asia, the nikkei dropping by more than 3 . Looks like shanghai and hang seng were down 1. 4 . Some of the reasons for japans biggest decline, the major exporters there suspending production after two earthquakes on kyus huru killing at least 4 people and rescue efforts are still underway. 246 people were killed and more than 2500 injured after an earthquake rocked Ecuadors Pacific coast on saturday. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed. Officials say there have been more than 160 aftershocks just since saturday night. In other global news, the lower house of Brazils Congress voting last night to impeach the countrys president , dilma rous