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
Crude continues to fall. Some americans can watch for 2. 50 a gallon gas. Can halliburton defend its oil business . Retail sales better than expected. Nordstrom earnings beat. A number of downgrades to contend with this morning. A Richard Bransonbacked ipo at the nasdaq, Virgin America. Well have the first trade and interview with the ceo coming up. Oil the big story, below 74. Baker hughes confirming it is in preliminary merger talks with halliburton. The journal story said motivations behind the talks were unclear. I think we know what these boards are thinking. Justice department is very good when it comes to business to consumer. Theyll block a telco deal. Justice department has been tone deaf when it comes to the oil patch. They allowed Enterprise Partners to become a gigantic, basically own the natural gas liquids market. This would be farce if they let this deal through. The way you get halliburton to give you good prices to pit it against baker hughes. If at t were to merge wit
Will be feeling temperatures either at or below freezing, and that is without factoring in the windchill. And on top of the bitter cold temperatures, some areas are also getting their first look at snow weeks before the official start of winter. Don champion is here in new york city where a snow alert was issued last night, don . Reporter yeah. Good morning, annemarie. That alert was more of a precaution. We did not see many flakes here. It was mostly rain. There was some snow in the northeast, though. A little more than an inch fell north of new jersey. This is part of a storm system thats expected to be gone by the start of the morning commute here. A heavier coat of snow came down on the philadelphia suburbs less than a day after temperatures were in the 70s. In ohio highway travel became hazardous. Highway Road Conditions in cleveland led to several accidents and travel delays, and a flight made an Emergency Landing minutes after takeoff when it was struck by lightning. A different
By tonight much of the nation will be feeling temperatures either at or below freezing, and that is without factoring in the windchill. And on top of the bitter cold temperature, some areas are also getting their first look at snow weeks before the official start of winter. Don champion is here in new york city where a snow alert was issued last night, don . Reporter yeah. Good morning, annemarie. That alert was more of a precaution. We did not see in flakes here. There was some rain. There was some in the east. More than aninch fell north of new jersey. This is part of a system thats expected to be gone by the start of the morning commute here. A heavier coat of snow came down on the philadelphia suburbs in less than a day after temperatures were in the 70s. In ohio highway travel became hazardous. Highway Road Conditions in cleveland led to several road delays and a flight made an Emergency Landing minutes after takeoff when it was struck by lightning. A different storm system socked
Involving hospira. And terrible weather in the midwest. Its moving east fast. Some areas are getting hit as we speak. Look at the damage there. I said it once. Ill say it again. Its a big hour. Sue is out. Kayla is in at the nyse. If you think busy and summer dont belong in the same sentence, think again. Were gearing up for what is the busiest week of the summer for the markets. Avalanche of big cap earnings including pfizer, American Express and mobil on deck this week. And were talking g ining gdp,i and jobs. Bob pisani, Steve Liesman and chief International Correspondent Michelle Carusocabrera all here. 140 s p components on tap to report this week. What are we looking for . Thats 30 of the s p 500. Its the biggest week so far. What were doing right now, numbers are better than anticipated. Take a look at where we stand right now. Up 8. 3 on earnings. Thats the best since 2011. Second quarter there. Revenues, theyre getting better. We were only expecting 3 at the start of the quart