It is 6 00 a. M. Here on the east coast. It is thursday, april 18th, and welcome to fox friends live from new york. Take a look. The shocking propalestinian protest happening on new york city streets just off of Columbia Universitys campus last night. [cheers] steve this was on the same day the Ivy League President faced her day of reckoning on capitol hill. How did she do . We will tell you in 60 seconds. Brian media laughing off the possibility of impartial jury as trumps hush money trial resumes today. Yeah, i hate trump. But i could be impartial. I know you are excited but dont cheer too loud. We need you to get picked for jury duty. [laughter] ainsley plus the coast guard saves the day. Look at this video capturing a pregnant woman on a News Ship Being airlifted from the middle of the atlantic. Lawrence look at all those guys. Fox friends begins right now and remember, mornings are better with friends. You got to see this. Fox news alert. Propalestinian protests raging into the ni
U. S. Equity futures this hour, lets show you whats going on, suggesting a flat open s p opening lower 1 1 2 points, the dow slightly lower and the nasdaq lower by four overnight in asia, quiet session around the world, generally. Hang seng higher over 1. 5 , but t shanghai was lower european equities. The dax is higher by 0. 25 france and the ftse slightly lower. Italys higher by a third and spain is lower by 0. 25 . Their yields are backing up over there once again that has resumed take a look at crude wtis lower by 20 cents, a decline of 0. 5 , 44. 15. If youd like crude delivered in august pepsico just out with Quarterly Results. Sara eisen has the numbers 10 cents above on earnings, i see, sara. Sure looks like a big beat. Eps 1. 50, versus the 1. 40 expected it includes a 6cent gain from a sale, but its an estimate, so its unclear whether that factored into the analyst forecast, but either way, a beat on the profit line, a beat on revenues as well for pepsico, 15. 7 billion. The
Second. He would come in so high. He believes his number. Not everyone else im surprised that the average stayed below 200. I am too. Given how hot the number was. Its not a one to one correlation. Every other signal on jobs indicates that the market has gotten stronger and stronger for jobs. This 8 30 number we say how big it is. This one actually does [ overlapping talking ]. The futures are looking at 100 odds that the fed raises rates. If you get a weaker than expected number will they still feel like they can go ahead humor me today and go for 450 or something. We just want to see the tweet from trump. You would want that for the american humor you for the purposes of tweeting. It would be fun to watch drudge put boom and have a picture of him. That would be fun. Would you prefer so that you can Say Something negative that less americans get put to work for whatever reno they get put to work. For whatever reason, were hoping for a big number. For other reasons like the last eight
Trading, youre already going to see that things are fixed there as well. The dax is higher as well as the cac. Ftse relatively flat. The tenyear note. Yesterday the yield was settled in, back above 2. 4 . This morning still sitting at 2. 416. If you check out crude oil prices, which were slightly higher yesterday, this morning wti is up 28 cents to 4. 65. Couple big stories to watch this morning. British Prime Minister theresa may triggering a brexit. Signing a letter to invoke article 50. The letter with be land delivered to the European Council president in one hour from now. Todays actions mark the start of official divorce talks between the eu and the uk. Wilfred frost will join us at the bottom of the hour to talk to us more about brexit. Fed impending home sales come out at 10 00 a. M. Charlie evans, Eric Rosengren and John Williams will start to speak later today. Well watch for that. In an interview on cnbc yesterday, which hopefully you did not miss, because we told you not to
Because air temperatures are in the mid30s and pavement temperatures are still warm. Id mainly look for any light snow on elevated surfaces. However, visibility could be reduced at times because of the gusty winds and scattered snow showers that will last all day. Winds will gust to 40mph. Highs will be in the mid to lower 30s. Fridays highs only hit the mid30s with mostly cloudy skies and the potential for flurries during the day. Temperatures rise quickly this weekend to the upper 40s on saturday and the low60s on sunday. Both days will be dry and on the breezy side. Rain chances return late sunday night into breaking news concerning the va hospital in cincinnati. The va has taken action against two senior officials here following a federal investigation. Investigation. Network director jack hetrick has submitted his retirement. That. After officials proposed hetrick be removed as the agencys highestranking official in ohio, indiana and michigan. Barbara temeck, the hospitals acting