With first word news. Vonnie we are following breaking news out of mali this morning. None man attacking the Radisson Blu Hotel in the capital of bamako. Rumor is that there are 170 hostages. The Army Commander tells the ap that 20 of the captives have been freed. Until bloomberg there are u. S. , french, and the hotel. Ps in two malian citizens and one french citizen are dead. Here are the latest of elements from paris. Nearly one week after the attacks there, a third body found in a department that was rated two days ago. The body of an unidentified woman. The suspected ringleader of last weeks attacks was killed in the raid. The European Union is being urged to implement security measures that were passed earlier this year. ,nd the oldest mosque in France Services are canceled because of security worries. We are also hearing this morning from the german interior ministry, a spokesman commenting in berlin, saying one of the attack suspects came through germany. The senate has not ind
Rising. We are not getting the volume yet. I am looking at the volumes, 4 below the 10day average. A surge at thee close with the expectations of futures contracts. The s p of one half of 1 . The dow is leading in percentage terms, up 6 10 of 1 helped by nike and United Health, the biggest contributors to the game after nike announced a 2for1 stock split and a buyback. Theyre bouncing back after yesterdays decline that it may pull back from its Affordable Care act coverage exposure. It was ae analyst say buying opportunity. Susquehanna says they do not think this will be a material event for united house. The dow is turning positive for the year to date. Not by very much, just of a 100ths of ajust 8 percent. We have positive numbers from retailers. It seems like it is give and take. Somethingre might be said for people coming in because they are so battered. The outside gains may be because they have been down so much. Abercrombie is showing evidence that its turnaround is finally star
Dudley this morning. Nike taking shareholder friendly steps, upping the dividend. That stock moving high. More on the inversion rules, actions laid out by the treasury department. Does not appear they will derail the pfizerallergan deal. And abercrombie, foot locker, ross stores beat. And a day after square and match go public, both stocks moving higher, but two delayed ipos pull because of Unfavorable Market conditions. First up, French Special forces went into mali in west africa just two years ago to try to clean things up after jihadists had taken control of the northern part of the country. Michelle carusocabrera is in paris this morning with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning. That is exactly why the hostage situation in mali is such huge news here in france, especially in the wake of what happened one week ago. So that situation is ongoing. We have gotten a statement from the hotel group, the brussels base company that operates the radisson blu saying there are 124
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Calling on ministers meeting in brussels to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. Air france shares take flight after Goldman Sachs raises the price target on the stock. This despite bracing for a fall out from the paris terror attacks. These events will have an impact. We have more cancellation of bookings than new bookings but we still have new bookings. Shares in nike are on a run after a 2 for 1 stock split in a 12 billion buy back program. Good morning its friday and were one hour into the trading session. Lets see how european markets are responding to that and were seeing fairly flat reaction right now. Were seeing the stoxx 600 down just a fraction. Down just a couple of points or so. Were, in fact, close to session lows but at the start of the session we actually did continue yesterdays gains. Were close to three month highs for the European Equity markets. Bigger impact in the eurodollar pairing because were close to session lows for the euro dollar. As you can see, 106.