A big legal battle. All of that and more coming up on this hour of market now. Dagen howdy. Connell hey. What is going on . Dagen i just tweeted. I do not care about this royal birth. Connell well, whatever it is. We do have plenty to talk about. Dagen we always start with the markets. Top of the hour. What are you watching, nicole . Nicole watching the financials. We have seen great numbers. Stellar profit. We are seeing the dow up about nine points. You have the drug index, the retail index lower today. We have had three straight weeks of gains. Bowing is helping the dow along. It is now facing further testing. It has been, obviously, discovered it was not the lithium ion battery. Investigators will continue to follow the story. Back to you. Dagen thank you, nicole. Connell the big question is just how challenging and costly will this be for the company . Dagen lets bring in john lonski. You can look at the debt and what it means. Innovation is risky. That is what this situation with
and almost came all the way back, right, bill? anything can happen as we know in these next 60 minutes of trade. as it usually does. we ll talk about that and why that happens. the market also bracing for the start of earnings season. which kicks off on this program in an hour when dow component alcoa reports its first quarter numbers. ceo klaus kleinfeld will join us. listen for that and what he has to say coming up in a little bit. let s take a look at what the markets are up to right now. as we speak, the dow is back in the black. clearly see there in the chart it is up just by a smidgeon. we ll take what we can get. 14,570. the nasdaq has also pushed into the black as well. let s take a look at the numbers there. it s up by about seven points. the s&p 500 also is moving higher by about four points at 1557. some of the biggest market reversal swings have happened right here in the final hour of trading. we brought it to you in living color on friday, for example. esp