Parents i told them that if you do not send your daughters to school, then the enemy wins. I told them not to give into darkness. In so many ways, in so many ways, the afghan people, and especially afghan women and girls have fought back against that darkness. We mentioned earlier that 8. 3 million young people are in school today and nearly 40 are girls. Women and girls who have gained access to health care do not want to see a return to high mortality rates. The young women who fought for their education and health now want jobs that utilize their skills and will allow them to contribute to afghan society. One example of that is a woman i met a couple of years ago, an entrepreneurial woman from western afghanistan. I came to know her over the past several years just because she traveled to the United States, but because she came to northeastern pennsylvania where i live. She met with folks in a lot of different places, including northeastern pennsylvania. To say that people have been
The japanese economy posted a record current deficit for december. As for europe, heres a look at the major averages in early trading. These are green arrows with modest advances. The cac is up by 10 points and the ftse is up by 5 points. Well go to Ross Westgate in a minute in london, but for now well go to andrew with the top corporate headlines. Thank you, becky. Welcome back to you and joe from pebble beach. Heres whats going on this morning, a big battle shaping up between carl ikahn and a major proxy firm iss. It is now recommending shareholders vote against the Share Buyback proposal for apple. In a report iss says the apple board has returned the bulk of the u. S. Generated cash to shareholders by aggressive stock buybacks and dividends payouts. In light of these goodfaith efforts and its past stewardship has retu , the boards latitude should thought be con striblgted by a Shareholder Resolution that would micromanage the companys Capital Allocation process. This could pave the
Even the opening, putin, im not a big fan. Thats shocking, yeah. I am still into the notion of humanity. Put on a good show. The horses were really cool. You saw the market. We looked like we may open lower this morning. Take a look at tenyear. Do we have that . 2. 69, almost around 2. 7. Up a bit from earlier in the week, of course. But weve got unemployment number on friday. We ent went up. Europe, it is call it a mixed picture. Markets largely up. Asia was strong as well. And lets get to our road map here, back in the u. S. Of a. Futures, mixed after the indices turned in the best week of 2014, biggest gains thursday and friday since october. And anticahn over apple, Scott Stringer urging apple shareholders to vote against icahns Share Buyback proposal. Stringer will join us live here on the set later in the show. Mcdonalds reporting doesnt expect january sales for europe, asia, middle east, and africa, offsetting what was a sharp Monthly Sales decline in the United States. And yelp
Board. The hang seng was a very strong performer, up by 1. 78 . The shanghai and the kospi in korea posting gains. In early trading this morning, in europe youll see at this point the same story there. The dax in germany is up by 1. 25 . The ftse in london is up close to 1 . And the cac in france is higher by 0. 75 . The key for the Global Markets today is going to be janet yell. She is on her way to capitol hill for her first congressional testimony and Public Comments as chair of the Federal Reserve. Yellen is going to be appearing before the House Financial Services committee starting at 10 00 eastern time. Investors will be paying close attention to her comments on the health of the economy and plans for the extraordinary measures. This is a careful line shell have to walk here, talking about her concerns about the economy but at the same time explaining why she believes the taper has been the appropriate policy to this point. Andrew, back over to you. Thank you, becky. We have a l
Yet this morning but well see. That can change as you well know. Tenyear note yield, where are we . Yes, we are moving up yet again after yellens testimony yesterday, of course, going on for much of the day. In front of the House Financial Services committee. Europe did well. Europe so far looking pretty good as you can see there, of course, weve got the china trade numbers, bank of england also, by the way, raising its uk growth forecast. China certainly helping on the trade front, those numbers when they came out helped turn europe or continue a rally there. Right. Lets get to our roadmap this morning as well, of course, well be talking about markets. Starting off from their highest levels in more than two weeks the dow and the s p looking to extend the strongest fourday run since june of 2012 and december of 2011 respectively. Deere shares are higher in premarket. The company reporting earnings and revenues that beat expectations also citing what it says was effective cost cutting.