2. 293. Yes, this was the year when we were going to go higher in yield. No, its not. Spain, 2. 1. Yes, spain is 2. 1. I like to go through all of those. And germany, 0. 88. All right. Crude oil, which has been the key to this market, according to my buddy next to me here, the key. You can see right there we are above 80 on wti. We breached it earlier in the week. Were below it for a bit. 82. 48 right now. When goldman said it should go lower, they took it lower. Now its bounced back. That was the buy signal. Lets get to our road map this morning as well. It starts with those markets, starting from a position of strength ahead of the fed statement today. Widely expected to detail an end to current bond buying, otherwise known as qe. Facebook is lower in the premarket on declining revenue and growing expense worries. Not declining revenue. No, revenues were fabulous. Guidance, the guidance. Declining revenue is impossible at facebook. If they had declining revenue, that stock would be d
Retailer is struggliing as he says he cannot promise that things will get better. And big discounter offers stock at 21 euros per share. Good morning or good evening if youre in asia. We kick off with another set of data before the ecbs meeting tomorrow. Its the final pmis for may, final services pmi 53. 2. Its a tick down from the flash of 53. 5. It is still nevertheless the highest since june 2011. And it is higher. Aprils was 52. 1. The final composite pmi has come in at 53. 5, a tick down from 53. 9 which is the flash april 54. We did see of course the french number coming down just a little bit as well. The german private sector growing for the 13th straight month in may. Well break down that but of course another key bit of data ahead of the ecbs meeting tomorrow. Theyre widely expected to take action. How much, of course, is still to be decided as they will come back, euro dollar around the 1. 36 mark we were yesterday. Before that, though, lets talk about the g8. What was suppo
Stocks coming off their worst losses this year. Its february 5th, 2013 and squawk begins right now. Good morning, everybody. Ike becky quick along with Andrew Ross Sorkin. Joe kernen is off today so we are again joined by Steve Liesman. Also at the table with us this morning, our guest host is andy surel. Andrew just talked about the markets. Stocks ending at session lows yesterday. In fact, all ten s p sectors closed lower. Yet the bulls betting this is nothing more than a bull pac. But we will have a number of powerful investors for their thoughts throughout yao the morning. Jim oneill will join us in just a few minutes. Then in the next half hour, the man charged with making sdigs for how blackrock invests more than 1 trillion, the firms chief investment strategist, russ koesterich. Nouriel roubini will be joining us and were going to ask him for his current view of the world. In the following hour, buy and hold is the name of his game, barons capital ceo ron baron will be our speci
But at this point it has decided to shut trading all together. That happened after it had conversations with other u. S. Stock markets and with u. S. Regulators, including the sec. And this is the first weather related shut down since hurricane fwlor i cant back in 1985. The cme group is running its urk of usual futures session from 6 00 p. M. To 9 15 a. M. Eastern. You will be able to see the stock Index Futures throughout the morning. They are under pressure right now. Cme will be shutting down trading after that time. So depending on the impact of the storm, its possible the same scenario will be repeated this morning. Three companies have canceled earnings reports. Pfizer, nrg and entergy. The government still planning to release personal income and spending data at 8 30. The question is did they decide to shut down the electronic portion because the s sec and others said we dont know whether the system unto itself will work, or they did taest it back in march. And they were undete
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