Jumping. Wait until you see whats happening on the ground in iowa. Meanwhile, though we begin with the markets and those 1 gains or thereabouts. Lets get the trading action. Bob is live at the new york stock exchange, Bertha Coombs following the movers at nasdaq. Bob, you go first. Another big story on the floor today is avon. Whats going on with that one . We just had a wild morning here. This post was filled with almost 100 traders. They have halted three times on whats called a volatility halt. That is for unusual trading action. Apparently there was an erroneous and false report that they may have had a takeover offer. Now, were trying to sort all of this out. Again, it appears that it was erroneous and false but the important thing is that three times the stock was halted. The company did not make a clear statement down here so absent that, it couldnt be halted because the company had a statement to make. It could only be halted because we had circumstance breakers kick in as a re
He says the q1 data was, quote, notably weak. The march picture march jobs numbers brought the jobs picture, quote, down to earth. Now, he does talk about this issue, was it partially explained by trance tore factors, we dont know yet but lower gas prices havent as expected boosted consumer spending. He says net exports are down as a result of the strong dollar and manufacturing has softened considerably. He does see growth picking up in later quarters but he says the evidence of that is not yet in the numbers. I guess ill throw back to tyler or mandy right now but this is a bit of a change in my opinion from a guy who was talking pretty confidently about june to september now saying you know what we need to wait and see a little bit. Steve, thank you very much. Mandy and i are both here by the way, welcome everybody to power lunch. Lets go down to dom and see if theres Market Reaction from these remarks. Youre not seeing a whole bunch of reaction but the dow industrials still here off
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