the eu wants to fast-track asylum decisions in greece and the wants of turkey. they are throwing another $3.4 billion, but it has watered down earlier assurances for turkey to join the eu. dilmaters are angry that rousseff has added luiz inacio da dilva to her cabinet. turning to the ncaa tournament, how many haveder entered in our bloomberg brackets. has comes the ivy league. yale upset baylor. it is their first appearance in the tournament since 1962. we saw a mixed session. the shanghai capping off its best week in june. month, the 10 year , stocks bouncing around a little bit. oil prices had been putting pressure on energy producers in europe. taking a u.s. feet taking a it means.s. futures, that we are now year today positive. this is the fastest recovery we have seen at the beginning of a year according to bloomberg data. there is a lot of debate over whether it is justified. pound weakness as well. not much change in the dollar versus the yen. we have been have a
the sessionk at highs. s&p 500 of by nearly 1%. dow up by .8%. nasdaq by .7%. we are digesting the news on better-than-expected u.s. consumer sentiment. as well as the expected surprise drawdown in the u.s. oil inventories on the order of about 5.9 million barrels last week. with all of this, let s look at the s&p year to date. take a look at this. s&puld like to have the year to date, if you can possibly get that up. up 1% on the intraday. i want to bring the year to date because we are .1% away from flipping into the green. it will be four years in a row of gains. 1% away from the positive december. if we do see that maybe we will see this rally. dox: so much of that had to with the surprise drawdown in u.s. oil inventories. we have seen oil and stocks someone moved together, energy stocks taking off. ramy: definitely in tandem. let s look at the nymex crude. the biggest jump in the past two days. 30 day of gains in a row. up by 3.7%. we saw the highest spike earlier when t
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