Individual investors, because i think theyre opportunities. Weve heard a lot lately about the tax on the highfrequence traders place on the market, with the runahead tactics, taking your stock, marking it up, and selling it back to you. Ive compared these parasites to mosquitos, which i thought was toxic enough. Thank heavens someone from the brokage industry has final taken up the torch, none other than charles schwab, who seized my mosquito insinuation and raises it, by calling highfrequency trading a cancer on the system, thats abedded by hungry and greedy stock exchanges. I applaud his interest in the debate and hope others follow. I certainly dont mean to diminish the arguments against the pickpockets, which is what schwab calls them, but i want to talk about making some dollars now, not losing fractions of pennies to manipulation. I want to talk about opportunities that develop when a vacuum of buy owners occurs, not just the ephemeral orders of highfrequence trace, but actually
Commitments on Financial Assistance should not be caught up in bureaucratic hurdles here. A timelye to flow in way. As my chairman talks about, the market plan was not only about funding, it was also about active Technical Assistance. When we met with the government there, they welcomed largescale infusion of Human Resources in the country on all the major reform issues. They looked to the United States for expertise. They looked to the Diaspora Community for its expertise. They looked at the europeans, particularly poland, for its expertise. Poland is engage in constitutional reform issues as well. Service reform, after all of these issues, having Technical Assistance on a large scale embedded in ministries, and governments, offices, and civil Civil Society this is all welcome. We believe that International Engagement is critical at this time. Onto anothere topic, and that is russia. I had an executive in my office this morning i will not name the name or the company because i do not
Prices are accelerating in february. Another line you want to watch capital, canceling their Investor Forum next month. That is the first note of tension. Were sorter figuring it out. You see this percolating out. Orders rising as well. There is another positive number. That is a positive number. As far as you go news, the bank of england that is coming out at 7 00 rid then we get ecb. You want to watch the 8 30 press conference. Kicking off jobs, we have the initial jobless claims that 8 30 today. We have the jobs number tomorrow. Also, the bloomberg comfort index. I told you the morning brief not so brief. Breaking news that scarlet will have in a moment. Lets look at the data check. Stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. Uphill markets not moving because of the news in crimea at the moment. Hydrocarbons come down off of three days ago highprice s. Risk. N shows let ruble shows the story me get to that. Here is the weaker ruble. Pressure intervening to sustain the ruble, but nonethe
Again, more fundamentals. Earnings palooza comes your way with at t, young branum brands. Amgen and gilead. Well have the information first. The analysis, the market reaction, everything you need to know coming up on the closing bell today. Also, should you be allowed to accumulate stock in a company you know will be a takeover target . Some say thats what bill ackman did. The former head of the securities and Exchange Commission harley pitt weighs in exclusively about whether or not its legal. Very thorny, controversial issue. Heres the numbers and all that we have for you right now. The dow, as you see, rallied from the getgo. European markets reopened today after the easter holiday. And they were in a buying mood as well. The european markets were higher this morning. The dow up 96 points off the high. We need to get to 576 for the previous alltime high. So as you said, were about 31 points away right now. Nasdaq up 45 points. Once again, the strongest of the major averages with a g
December 2007. The best gauge for fear in the motorcycles, the cbo volatility index plummeted last week. If you look this morning to see where things stand, youll see u. S. Equity futures are indicated just slightly lower. Right now, dow futures down about 35 points. Same story in europe. If you look at the early trading there, youll see a slight pullback across most of these markets. The cac is off. 3. 5 . Major asian markets overnight, things barely budged with the hang seng and shanghai was slightly higher and the nikkei was down by about. 8 . Andrew. And werings season officially begins after the bell tomorrow. Thats when alcoa will be posting First Quarter results. Earnings are expected to rise. Lets get a quick check on the weeks economic calendar. A quiet start today. Tomorrow, well be getting the Nfib Small Business sentiment survey. Were going to get the Consumer Credit and on thursday, weekly jobless claims and wholesale trade and finally on friday, International Trade and im