Im Courtney Reagan here in for sara im dominic chu in for wilfred frost. Wilfred had a great fundraiser last night hes out in london best wishing to him. Lets check the Global Markets this morning the futures are pointing us to a slightly lower open for the dow jones as well as the s p 500 the nasdaq for now is holding on to an implied slight gain if we were to open here. This is after we had a down day yesterday across the board for the broader indices. The dow, the s p and the russell 2000 broke sixday winning streaks. The nasdaq was down for the second straight session. Look at the tenyear weve been hapaying attention to this, 2. 888, very close to getting to 2. 9 again. Lets look at asian equities. That picture, if you look at where they are, basically a green picture for the most part. The south korean posi itykospi half percent the hang seng, up 1. 81 . The nikkei up by a quarter percent. Lets look at the action in europe things are Getting Started over there now. We are seeing a
Good morning a warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. Great to have you back at headquarters its great to be back lovely to be alongside you thank you lets quick off with that big breaking deal news comcast making a 31 billion cash offer for british broadc t broadcaster sky. Sky shares shooting higher on the news sky up to 1,332. The bid price was 1,250. For most of the last year or so since the fox deal for sky had beenagreed, it traded below that bid price on expectations that regulators could block the deal now there may not be regulatory hurdles, but also now a bid war. Comcast lower in the premarket comcasts bid does rival the current offer from fox well have much more on the breaking story straight ahead. Great analysis and guests coming up throughout the show. Lets check Global Markets following yesterdays big rally. It was a strong start to the week with the dow gaining 1. 5 futures indicating a higher open for the dow which is up 18 points in the
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Dow down 37 points and the s p nudging back up towards the flat line at 2066 and change and nasdaq in Percentage Points the big lieutenantser, down twothirds of a point. Seven of the sectors are low for the year including staples, i. T. , financial, industrials, utilities and energy rounding out the bottom of the pack. Both down more than 9 year to date. Oil getting hit hard again today before staging a bit of a comeback. There you see its got modest losses right now. West texas intermediate at 51. 97. Ice brent crude at 56. 43, down 11 cents or about a fifth of 1 . And then ty yield falling enough that were starting to hear about lower mortgage rates. The tenyear right now earning 2. 221 . Euro Group Leaders meantime emergeing from a crucial summit on greece about one hour ago. The result nothing, according to reuters. Another meeting set for tomorrow. The eurozone summit is under way now. Yields meantime skyrocketing on the greek twoyear bond at 49. 5 . The etf that tracks greece all
Im Morgan Brennan in for sara eisen great to have you with us lets get straight to the latest on harvey in a few moments, first a check of global markets. In an extraordinary turnaround. Yesterday at this time, we saw dow futures down 150 points, p in the end they ended up 56 points higher. That turnaround coming a half hour after the open in terms of the most pronounced fashion, Consumer Confidence came in, but the main reason is that that realization that the north Korean Missile test did not affect things much we got that turnaround and its continuing today the dow higher by 45 points. The nasdaq by 15 tenyear treasury note fell below 2. 1 were back above 2. 1, but the net fall in yields yesterday did weigh on bank stocks turning to the rest of the world, that similar dynamic we saw playing out in u. S. Equitie yesterday playing out today in the asian markets which closed mostly higher. The nikkei up 0. 8 the hang seng, that was up more than 1 . The shanghai composite closing about