We see an interesting chart. Consumerhe u Michigan Confidence index. The point is, the middle class is less confident. The lower class. The middle class. We see a decline in expectations for the middle class around Consumer Confidence. Taking a look at the major averages to see what the reaction is to the Consumer Confidence number. The three major averages right around even, mainly unchanged. We do have a bit of breaking news on the news that potash and agrihim are in talks to merge. Potash and agrium are in talks to merge. Farmers are also making less purchases. A potential merger could be announced as early as next week. Now, lets take a look at apple. Shares are trading lower on news the company may be is facing a 14. 5 billion tax bill from the eu, plus interest. This after the European Commission said ireland is taxpleslashe bill. Gene munster thing he is unconcerned about this vonnie . Vonnie the stop only up slightly on the year. Going to be very interesting. A lot going on in
Coming up on thursday. David historic. Share thiset market check. Lets get you up to speed. Futures now higher this morning. S p 500 futures up about the exploits. Now futures up 33. A rally in the a rally in europe. Switch at the board to much longer dollar story on most of the crosses this morning. Dollar yen inching higher. Euro sterling, brexit spread, we will talk about that in about 10 minutes. At inches away from that 80 pence level on friday. Treasury yields up a basis point at 1. 78 . Lets get over to vonnie quinn for first world news. First word news. Vonnie more flights scheduled to leave the Brussels Airport a day after it reopened. Only three flights the parted yesterday. Flight schedule to the u. S. And africa today. Because of the damage caused by the attack, the airport can handle less than 20 of its normal passenger load. Investigators in europe say least what two members of the terrorist cell to the paris and brussels attacks are still at large. Officials tell the jou
Attacks on the trump family this morning. The new York Police Department fbi and secret Service Investigating a suspicious piece of mail containing white powder that was sent to eric trumps apartment less than 24 hours ago and the republican front runner warned about potential brides if he does not get the nomination. The hacker move anonymous against trump and his supporters. To show that we are very serious about stopping any proposed that by the fascist donald trump. We have attached a gift of sorts. Trump Social Security number, cell phone number and other details that might be able to assist you while independently investigating this. Maria Congressional Correspondent david drucker. Good morning to you. Your take away a mess this morning. Its kind of thing that happens in her major president ial candidate. Its happened to other politicians. Congressional members have had envelopes full of white powder email to their office. It happens. Maria it happens, but what do you think is to
At 9 55. There is a lot of blue chip stock, and i understand that. It is like a story. Looked ate we yesterday, that is the most offered the most awkward. It would break a window because it is that big. President obama speaking at the Global Health security. He is he has left new york, is back in washington. Ukraine allia, needing to talk energy. Finally, indias Prime Minister is going to make his First Official visit to the u. S. And he has a little summons as a background from a decade ago. What does he think, it is papers or i am told it can be delayed until after his visit. He is going to be meeting ge. S in the u. S. Pepsi, lets do a data check now. After the pullback yesterday, s p futures, 2000, we are looking at 1964 this morning. 1. 2745. Dollar out of the second screen, and well over 15. 6. Rent crude under 97 the one story this morning is gold as the ruble continues to weaken. This is a way cool chart. This is a quarterly chart back 20plus years, and this is the volatility o
Like indonesia closed higher. Road map goes like this, israel continues the ground offense with potential for significant operations. U. S. Officials concluded malaysia air flight shot down by Eastern Ukraine, by by whom is yet to be determine. Biggest oneday loss for the s p in three months. Stocks are trying to digest earnings from ge, google, and ibm as well as a 54 billion deal between abbvie and shire. A lot of news this morning. Israel continuing its ground offensive in gaza to stop rockets from militants. Benjamin netanyahu considering the pomt of widening the operation significantly in his words. We have a lot on the plate today, back at hq, hi, michelle. Reporter that annoyancement 1 a key issue this morning raising the level of uncertainty about the outcome of the situation in gaza. The Israeli Defense forces confirms to nbc news the ibf struck around 120 targets in the gaza strip since midnight. This is video released from last night. Idf says among them the targets are nine