It was ok. Thank you for watching the video of all of our snow. The poor guy in his car. It had a happy ending. That is not on the morning brief. Overnight, stocks are down. That is led by emerging markets. The chinese reported a Service Report that disappointed. Concern there about slowing Economic Growth. Here at 10 00, on the economic front, we have ism and factory orders. We have the jobs report on friday. And janet yellen is set to be confirmed by the u. S. Senate. I know that you love burgers after the bell, we will have sonic earnings. Get started on a busy week. Lets do a data check. Futures are flat. Tenyear year yield, we are where we were three percent. Lets go to the chart. Here is the great bull market. The s p 500 has been correction free. What kind of volatility will we see into the new year . The backdrop of that, chairman yellen will greet us tomorrow morning. That would be the idea of the balance sheet. It is a template over all of this mess. All of economics. We are
Deadline to sign up for the Affordable Care act. Also opening day for major league baseball. Turbine four opening days because youre the dodgers play the diamondbacks in australia. April 10 is openingday. They, by train and car. Back in the day. From florida. Is that like pennsylvania 65000 . Were going back a few. What if we got here . Data check. Boring first quarter, but sometimes i can be good. Futures up 7. Hydrocarbons elevated. They just wont go down. Ruble, foreignexchange, the dow not bad. Gold under 1300. The ruble after the festivities over the weekend with secretary john kerry and foreign minister lavrov, this is the putin vote. There is a stronger russian ruble for Vladimir Putin this morning. Lets get to the front page. We will pick up where you left off, which is russia. Russia is gradually withdrawing troops from the border with ukraine according to afp, which cites a spokesman in the defense ministry. John kerry earlier had demanded a withdrawal. He said this was a pre
Well and it is the Bloomberg Consumer comfort index at 10 00. Fed had had, so apple of days ago. We also had the Kansas City Manufacturing number. Why do they do regional numbers . If you add them up, you get it picture of the country as a whole. We are federalists. Before the bell, best buy, scarlet fu will break that. Hewlette bell, the gap, and packard and obama is speaking in cooperstown today. Thats because the orioles are in first place. Lets do a data check. Equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities. The equity markets have a surge. Weaker and nymex crude is elevated bigtime. Vxx shows under 12. The euro dollar is so important. There is iron ore. In shanghai. I have no idea what the number means but iron ore is cheap. This is the volatility in the market. It is gone. This is the 25 year average. Over the lastgst five years and down we go bearing down to a new complacency. This is the conundrum. Thank you Central Banks and janet yellen yesterday saying considerable . We are mo
Hour, if you take a look, youll see right now they are indicated higher. Theyll open up by about 32 points. Plus, take a look at oil pries this morning. Youll see at least right now theyre trading down slightly, down by about 42 cents. Youre looking at wti trading above 106. Right now, 106. 48. On todays agenda, the may consumer Housing Starts coming up and the fomc begins a twoday policy meeting. Andrew, over to you. Thank you, becky. I feel whippinded. People that have not done this dont realize the feeling that you can have. Where youre running and then you have to talk. Really bad idea. And i will say 90 seconds ago, none of us were on set. I always move a little slow. Its frightening, too, because you have to key breathing. Its a real panic. Thanks for putting that out there. We were laughing so hard. Anyway i was trying. I was trying to use the natural breaks. You can take your time coming back. Relax. Well continue that in just a second. Lets get you caught up with some of the c
8 30 a. M. , Consumer Price index, do we have inflation . Thats why the fed is meeting today. With the fed meeting, it folds into one. Over the summer, where will inflation trend . Also, we will get a lot of Building Permits and construction, etc. I like eggs and sausage. Where did that come from . I am looking at the teleprompter. Earnings today. Evans. I like mine sunnyside up. President obama will be in new york city downtown. Dont even think about going there. It will be at Anna Wintours house. A bunch of Upper East Side steps. Stiffs. The village is already bad enough for traffic. That is your brief brief this morning. Lets do a data check. There is a big churn with futures up. 106. 48. De is at it is watching the news out of iraq. The twoyear yield migrates up and this is a big story. 0. 50 would be news. Lets go to the mac monitor. Here is the poverty rate for the nation. Go. Up we this is the feeling of a lower poverty rate in the 1990s. Down to 11 and then we come back up. Thi