There. The price going up a little bit and the yield coming down ever so slowly. Road map this morning starts with the historic day for the eu. U. S. Markets as you just say are mixed at the premarket. The uk formally begins brexit negotiations to which britains Prime Minister said theres no turning back. Plus, betting on robots. The largest money manager blackrock changes the ways it picks stocks. And President Trump expected to sign a bill that clears the way for providers, your isp providers, to sell your browsing history. Well, one day after the dow snapped the eight session losing streak and the s p posted the best daily pormdz erformance in weeks, history is being made in uk. Theresa may has triggered the twoyear process or what could be the proyear process of britains depart chur from the eu. And this is how theyll approach trade. We will no longer be members of the single market. We are going to make sure we are going to make sure that we can strike trade agreements with countr
Weaker, but the shanghai composite was up by about 0. 2 . In europe in the early trading, at least right now youll see there are green arrows across the board, being led by the dax in germany, which is up by 0. 7 . Also, take a look at crude oil prices. Right now it looks like wti is up by about 2 , but youre still looking at it just above 37. Story of the morning, story of the day, story of the year. Big wins for donald trump and Hillary Clinton in yesterdays primaries. John kasich winning ohio. Marco rubio dropping it out of the race. Joining us now for the hour, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. , currently with Morgan Stanley. And republican strategist joe watkins. Before we get to them, lets get to john harwood, who has not slept, i bet, with a recap of last nights results. John . Andrew, very big night for Hillary Clinton. She went a long way toward snuffing out the challenge from Bernie Sanders a week after that surprise defeat in michigan. She won four out of five c
Jobless claims. That comes in at 8 30 eastern time. First time filers are seeing falling to 295,000. Also, cbs and dish network are locked in a fierce battle with a deadline of 7 00 p. M. Tonight. If an agreement isnt reached today, cbs is ready to pull its channels from dish in some of the nation aes biggest markets. Andrew. Thanks, becky. Here is whats going on. Disney boosting its annual dividend by 34 to 1. 15 a share. That company posting a record profit and revenues for the last four years now. The stock is up more than 20 just this year alone. Best buy is now selling a struggling China Business to a five star to a domestic real estate farm there. The retailer says it wants to focus on its north american operations. Terms of that deal not disclosed. And aeropostale plans to cut some stores. That Company Offering a weak forecast for the current holiday quarter. And earnings beating the street. That Company Offering a weaker fullyear outlook. Staying on the retail theme, pbh warnin
Units. The shares of hp are jumping up over 6 in the premarket. John thwart is joining us this morning. And i said to john, should meg whitman have done this three years ago . I was going to ask either one of you experts, when was the first time that it was positive or suggested that hp should split into a combination of businesses . I think its ten years, isnt it . Well, they actually did turn into a combination of businesses 15 years ago in 1999. Agilent is getting ready to split off, too. But heres there looking around, what do i do . How about splitting the company into two . It seems like old is new, new is old. When she first came to the company, they had positive guys. And he said no. Her predecessor in the ceo seat wanted to sell the pc business off entirely. They couldnt find a buyer at the price that they wanted. Lenovo was rumored to be sniffing around and ended up picking up she said they were staying together definitivety at that point, right . At that point but that was e
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