Care about, theyre destroying. You cant have it both ways. A city wide curfew starts tonight at 10 00 p. M. Baltimore city schools have been cancelled and several area businesses are telling their employees to stay home. We will have a live report from baltimore later this hour. Behave businesswe have business stories to tell you about. Well be getting pfizer murick,s by tomurick murick,s by Bristol Myers and well be hearing from twitter, go pro, kraft food and others. A twoday meeting an announcement due out tomorrow afternoon. The index in april Consumer Confidence numbers well get those this morning. In global news greeces Prime Minister is confident about an early deal after sidelining the outspoken finance minister that infuriated partners but if the talks fail the Prime Minister would have to resort to a referendum. In stocks to watch today, apple is going to be sharply higher in after hours trading after erngsarnings stopped revenue. A lot of that had to do with china. The compa
At Country Music awards more than 70,000 fans back the at t stadium in texas. That broke the guinness book of World Records for the most attendance at a live award show. She took home three awards. Luke bryan won the entertainer of the year award that is voted on by fans. Lets get you up to speed in the markets. Check out the futures board. This morning, the futures actually indicated up by triple digits. The dow looking at a gain of 120 points. S p futures up 12 points and nasdaq up by 23. Weve got a couple of other big stories. Earnings central, Morgan Stanley tops the company set to post Quarterly Results this morning. Ibm reports this afternoon. 59 s p 500 companies have posted earning so far and Thompson Reuters have reported 75 have topped profit expectations. Thats the good news. But different story emerging on the revenue side. Only 46 of companies have topped estimates on the top line there. And in the big global story this morning, china, the central bank there cutting the re
Then, now i can move over here, there is sue, the it fed, decision time, one hour away and where does america stand on job creation . Its critical, obviously, to the fed and to the economy. Adp number out this morning, not so great. Lets check in with you at the nyse. Youre absolutely right, and we will get to that but we want to start, ty, with the fireworks on capitol hill as Kathleen Sebelius goes before the house energy and commerce committee. Bertha coombs is on the case on capitol hill. Over to you, bertha. Sue, the hearing lasting more than three and a half hours and members of congress usually a little more def ren shall to a cab meth member but they did hit secretary Kathleen Sebelius hard on a number of issues. She started out by apologizing and taking responsibility for the website nurse and its improving every day. Clearly there have not been enough but she said none of the contractors who said they raised red flags said the problems warranted delaying the october 1st rollo
Weve been in a very tight trading range pretty much all day long. All right, sue. Lets talk a little bit more about what we might expect. As we get prepared for this press conference. You know, the market is going to be i think dissecting almost every word at the News Conference. I think the News Conference is where most of the news if there is news made will be made, ty, because theyre going to be parsing her language, her body language, and Steve Liesman is going to be there. And hes probably going to get one of the first questions. Steve steve . Lets go up to you and see what you expect to hear from miss yellen. We cant count on that, sue. You just take your question when youre called. You raise your hand and youre either in or youre out here. But this is an important day here, the beginning of the yellen era. This is the term when the economy and the rates are supposed to normalize. Heres on the yellen agenda. End qe. Reduce the Balance Sheet sometime after that. Begin heightening
Right now they suggest the dow would open lower by 20 points. The s p will open lower by 4. And the nasdaq opening lower as well. Who is the big star for the week . You said we have a big star for the week and showed those people. They were on tuesday, wednesday and thursday. Who is the big star of the week . The week ahead. Who is on today for the big star for the week . Michelle carusa cabrera. Oh, got it. I thought that sam zell was on today. And we have the guy from wall street journal. Thats cool. I thought it was the guy who sang that song but thats jerry raferdi. Will you stop for a second. Jerry raferdi on baker street. If you dont let me finish my theres a punchline there. I didnt get it, either. No one did because no one got to hear it. A federal judge refrained from issuing an emergency order that would impart millions of General Motors cars recalled for defective ignition switches linked to 13 deaths. The judge needs more time to study briefs submitted by attorneys for two