Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im Courtney Reagan. Im dominic chu weve had a huge run for the stock markets. We are seeing green on the screen for the u. S. Futures picture. Take a look at this. The dow will open up by about 130 plus points. The s p 500 by just around 14. The nasdaq also up by about 48, 49 points. A green picture yet gep. Take a look at the tenyear treasury note yield after a big week of inflation data the tenyear treasury note yield is moving slightly lower we are off of some of the highs we have seen as things stand, 2. 89 is where the u. S. Tenyear treasury note yield stand. We went above the 2. 9 mark over the last couple of days. A big focus in Interest Rates still. We are showing at least for right now some signs of stability. The tenyear hitting that highest market yesterday most asian markets are closed for the Chinese New Year japan, the market closed higher for the nikkei, 1. 19 . The bank of japan governor rea pointed for another fiveyear term
Welcome to power lunch, im contessa brewer. Another strong day for stocks as all three indices look for a winding streak the dow is up about 143 points, a slight pullback from where we were a half hour ago both the s p and nasdaq are on pace in more than six years and both indices up 5 health care the best performing sector today johnson johnson, pfizer, eli lilly among the big gainers. A couple beatendown names moving higher, ge back above 15 a share despite being hit with a shareholder lawsuit and snap is now up 50 so far in february. Three hours left in what has been a huge week for stocks. Bertha coombs is at the New York Stock Exchange bertha it has been quite a big week. Its been two weeks since we had that downturn starts and after consuming a lot of rocky road ice cream, today it feels like vanilla. If you look at the major averages in terms of where they are from their highs back at the end of january, the nasdaq here within 3 of its all time high in january as weve seen a big
Higher again, it has been a sharp rebound from the lows. Futures up 90 on the dow 36 on the nasdaq just under 10 on the s p 500 dow closed above 25,000 again yesterday. How about asia a check on the overnight session. China is closed, right, for the holiday . Yes, the Lunar New Year the Chinese Exchange was closed except for the nikkei you dont believe it until you read it in the teleprompter. I would believe him before the teleprompter did you do fast moneyfast mont night . No, there is no fast money. I knew that i watch around the clock. I do. European equities to check on those as well. Lets see how we are set up for the session here there is the nikkei in japan that was the lone market in asia great across the board for europe strongest gains on the periphery. Italy and spain up about. 08 the tenyear yield, just under 2. 9 there, you can see the rest. 30year, 3. 14, the fiveyear, 2. 639 we were eigall waiting for tt three and didnt get it. It went the other way. You listen to rick.
Delivering on all metrics that we had indicated and committed to, particularly on the eps commitment that we had of double digit growth at the same time, preparing the future in 2018, which comes as a mix of acceleration. After a slow start, we would accelerate in the second half. The second half is about 4 growth overall it is a significant improvement in edp, which closes the year nearly there in terms of growth. This is paving the way for an 18 year that will be the gradual acceleration that we need to meet our objectives in two years from now a different part of the world and the u. S. In your white wave acquisition, which was a huge acquisition for danone however, in north america, it was seen as negative when will you start seeing synergies from this acquisition . The year of 2017 has been, indeed, a very important one for us, paving the way for danone to lead the food revolution thats sweeping the whole country in which we sdecide we are going to be part of the group that is emb
We had the cognizant ceo on, hes one of the youngest ceos, 38 or 39 years old. This is one of the deals that i didnt realize cog anizant is a big as they are. They were there before but this changes the game because the systems that this company is buying puts together, we may use it, actually, its back technology between the payer and provider. So thats what the deal is. A nice little merger monday. Joe is looking at me like this is okay. Good job. Not interesting. This is what you want. You tell him you want breaking news. You want news at 6 01 in the morning. You want news. Okay. I dont recall trizetto being acquired. I have never heard of them before. Im sure you hadnt yet until you got this. I dont even know if i know apex well. You know apex. In the u. K. , thats where we were based originally. This company is based in colorado. And what in health care would or did they actually they actually do the Technology Service behind sort of the computers where you have the provider and t