We saw the major indexes all down. European markets, yeah, kind of a down show there too, as you might have expected. Well call it what 1 more or less when you average it all together. As for tenyear note yield here in the states had a recent high yesterday i believe in yield 1. 81. And there is all important crude and brent both below 50. Lets get to our road map this morning. And it begins with jeff bezos making headlines at that code conference. Were going to have much more on his future at amazon, the retail stores, donald trump. Yeah. Plus a new month in the markets after that may rally. Stocks as you saw starting in the red. And a deal this morning, not that large a deal but an interesting one, salesforce buying a Software Company 2. 8 billion total price tag, had a lot of cash. Marc benioff going to join jim right here this morning. I will at least get to say hello to the bearded master, im hoping. Lets get to carl in california at the code conference where jeff bezos was making
The cac in france up by better than 1 . Ftse higher as well, 0. 7 . Crude oil prices raiding near sevenmonth highs. Check this out up another 1 to 49. 07. Getting back to 50 a barrel. The gains that came yesterday, showed that u. S. Crude stocks dropped by 5. 1 million barrels. Double than what was expected. Well get the eia figures later today. Lets get you to other big stories. St. Louis fed president jim bullard saying june rate hike isnt set in stone. Arguing that labor data suggests its time to pull the trigger. Obviously, weve tried to be dat datadependent. I dont think theres any reason to prejudge the june meeting. We can wait until we get to the meeting and judge the data there. I think on the issue of press conferences we have made many moves over the years without press conferences so i think we could make a move without a press conference in it this circumstance. As for the risk of brexit and the chance that the uk could vote the uk vote could give the fed some pause, bulla