About, right . Probably most concerned about german policy makers. In other words, not the ones at the central bank. Its mario draghi saying to the european governments, its up to you. You have to take the ball here. Meanwhile, in the u. S. The deficit is down below 3 of the gdp. Well go into the crucial final hour of trade. The dow down 319 points. At the low it was down about 345. The s p down 38 points today. Weve taken out obviously yesterdays lows. Now at 1930 and change. The nasdaq composite is down almost 1. 9 . Thats down 2 1 3 . 1071. Weve also been watching oil which today closed at a twoyear low. The price of wti crude here in for delivery around 85 a barrel. Now i see it at 84. In the electronic trading it continues lower. You know from the electronic trading figures, the futures, that we can follow oil is in a bear market. Down 20 from its highs just this summer. So talking about that. Keeping an eye on Interest Rates. Lets get to it now in our closing bell exchange. Joini
Month, what of the everyone is talking about 192,000 jobs were added in march, schiavo economist forecast. The employment rate 6. 7 , Holding Steady with last month. Sounds pretty good. Maybe we can get a little more context . This is probably the most boring jobs report that we have had in a long time. Everything came in as expected. Like most boring. That actually got my attention. Can we read a little more to these numbers . The best news was the Unemployment Rate not going down. More people think the economy is getting better, think they can find jobs, and so theyre going out and looking for work. That tells you at least admit we are on the track disease among improvement as the year goes on. The weather setback was not as much as people that, but we are back on track. Can we get some perspective on the u. S. And global economy, maybe from some of the biggest names in economics who might just be meeting in italy on a beautiful coastal backdrop . There is an improvement in the job m
and almost came all the way back, right, bill? anything can happen as we know in these next 60 minutes of trade. as it usually does. we ll talk about that and why that happens. the market also bracing for the start of earnings season. which kicks off on this program in an hour when dow component alcoa reports its first quarter numbers. ceo klaus kleinfeld will join us. listen for that and what he has to say coming up in a little bit. let s take a look at what the markets are up to right now. as we speak, the dow is back in the black. clearly see there in the chart it is up just by a smidgeon. we ll take what we can get. 14,570. the nasdaq has also pushed into the black as well. let s take a look at the numbers there. it s up by about seven points. the s&p 500 also is moving higher by about four points at 1557. some of the biggest market reversal swings have happened right here in the final hour of trading. we brought it to you in living color on friday, for example. esp