Proctor, utx, merck and more. Nikkei had a sixmonth high of a weaker yen. Oil inventories after the bell. Case schiller home prices up 5. 3. Out of road map begins with major blue chips reporting earnings from cat to gm, due paupt and visa. Under armour shares are down double digits, despite a betterthanexpected number. And the latest regulatory issues surrounding at ts merger with time warner. Netflixs Reed Hastings weighing in on the deal. First up, among the dow components out with results this morning, caterpillar beats on the bottom line, misses on revenue, cuts their fullyear guidance saying most of its end markets remaining challenged. And then proctors results are above consensus. Thursday on squawk on the street sara eisen will have an exclusive with p g Ceo David Taylor coming into the job. Says that this quarter marks what he called a good start for the fiscal year, jim. This is a remarkable morning because you see two Companies Like Procter Gamble and dupont putting up 3 or
Of lock towns throughout the city. Traffic wasnt as bad as i expected. A lot of people took head of the warnings to stay clear of the area. First lets get to the markets. Check out the futures this morning. Youll see big gain across the board. Right now it looks like the dow futures are up by 250 points. The s p futures up by 24 and the nasdaq up by 52 points. She said it would likely be appropriate to raise rates if near zero in her words sometime later this year. The understanding we had when she spoke last week after taking q and a and stuff it seemed like a very dovish excuse at that point. Markets have sold out since then but yesterday it sounded like it was full speed ahead and they would like to raise this year. We never know cause and effect because everybody has different opinions. It looked to us like they had big down days. That would have been a switch from the markets rallying every time we heard that would have been a switch. I can think of what youve been saying. But i h
Our panel on the history of terrorism, new avenues of research. So we areroundtable, each going to speak for five to 10 minutes, somewhat informally. We will talk about specific aspects of our research. Introducer,ator and i will be the most general in my comments. Of timewill have a lot i am anticipating over an hour to talk amongst ourselves and to take questions and comments and feedback from you this a fully, experiential, interactive exercise as we proceed. My name is randy law, i am a russian and soviet historian by , but i have been working in the field of terrorism for a decade or more. The project that brought us together is an edited volume done by the routledge history of terrorism. Large reference work that i was interested in putting together as something that would be comprehensive. That would read as a cohesive book, not just a collection of articles. During the writing of it, contributors share their chapters with each other, there was a good bit of dialogue back and fo
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