Despite recent highprofile stumbles. We head to the auction house for the most expensive sweater of all time, the vintage green cardigan of the late musician kurt cobain. Lets get into some of these burning issues. With me are jason kelly, annie massa, and our other guest. Black rock increasingly catering to this shift toward private markets. How is blackrock positioning itself . Even the black rock is an indexing giant, they have moved toward investment. One cornerstone of that has been their attempt to raise this longterm private capital fund which they are targeting 12 billion in fundraising for. Lisa how successful have they been . As of april, only 2. 75 billion committed. They have a long way to go before they reach that goal, but they announce their First Investment over the fall. Lisa Erik Schatzker recently sat down with the black rock head of equities. Take a listen. I think we may see Companies Stay private for longer as a result of the availability of that capital, as a res
Expected job report from the fed. Were going to talk a lot about that this morning. In the meantime, take a look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei was up a quarter of a percentage point. Markets higher in china too with the shanghai up. 60 . Hang sang putting in a similar gain. If you take a look at whats happening in the early trading in europe, things are mixed at this point. Dax is up a third of a percent. Cac is up just under. 20 . Ftse is down. 20 and check out crude oil price this is morning, up 1 settling in just under 45 for wti. Among stop stories. 65 billion transaction bayer hiking offer for monsanto to 127. 50 a share. Up from 125 offer. Monsanto acknowledging the latest offer. Calling the discussions con struckive. Have been in talk since may. Bayer believes acquiring the seed maker would position the firm to help farmers produce for a larger population. Well have a lot more on the potential deal in just a couple minutes with an analyst. Other news, volkswagen
With several Tulsa-area legislative races to be decided entirely or substantially by the June 18 primaries, the Tulsa County Republican Party has scheduled a series of candidate debates.
The 285 filers were the fewest in more than a decade, and even that number is likely to drop some this coming week because of withdrawals and contests of candidacy.