About five points. Looking here it is actually interesting to see where we are. The dow going negative earlier. China suggesting it could add more stimulus and metal stocks, but Energy Stocks are following as oil is falling. Lets take a look at the s p year to date. We are looking for a loss for the year right now at least. We are down by about two and one third percent with eight trading days left. The index has finished higher in the past three years but we are at least for now on track to break that. Alix we typically see what people call a santa claus rally into the end of the year. At looks like right now we are not on track for that. Your denny research coming out with that us saying that a yearend rally for the s p is actually in doubt. We do have eight trading days left this year and the s p has only done that in the last eight days of the year just five times since the year 1928. In that time, the last eight days of the s p were positive, and it was negative 72 times, 83 . Let
Rise. Less concerned about as may have acquisition. Overpaying. A lot of the shareholders who own fox are shareholders in time warner. So while you want to high bid for time warner, you dont want fox to overpay if you own both of these stocks. People were expecting strong numbers out of time warner to so it could profits case. How is this for a good morning for you . Stocks down just before those earnings come out. And at the same time, rupert has a history of overpaying, right . When you look at the write down that he took on the wall street journal, but ultimately financially he paid a lot of money for it. So shareholders are going to go along with that. Theres a comment in the newspaper this morning which is the new and improved Rupert Murdoch that hes learned his lessons from prior battles. I doubt it. He had less power. He would love to do that. The shareholders couldnt call a meeting earlier, that this was going be something that would drag out over the course of the year. Into t
They bring it up through 2013 and 2014. The aftertax profit is up with a quarter of a billion euros better. This year is at 10 and the market really likes it. These guys are going for the customers in the next couple of years and 27 of that is families and they have been a critical part of the strategy. There are reports in the journal that julius may face lighter financial penalties in the United States of america. This is in remarks to undeclared accounts. There was a fine levied against them and they got vodafone trading and are they considering the Public Offering . The shares are off. They have sales and customers. The stock is up. Huge momentum. Lets turn to the markets. It seems to be where the spike and momentum is coming from. The question is, are you a dollar bowl . Bull . They talk about it being nearly there and not quite there. They get up and running and they go back. The richmond fed space today and spoke today and said the door is open. The question is, are you a dollar
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What, if you feel better later, you can read some of my stuff. Tag team. Youll owe me if i read this for you. Why did you do the back of your hand . Oh, you were doing the fist pump. You know why we do that . Germs. You dont care about germs. No, for you. The ecb decision is expected around 7 45 eastern. All these comments are going to be important for mario draghi. Hell host the News Conference about 47 minutes later. You think about what will it do to the euro versus the dollar versus the yen, what about, we always talk about why our tenyear is where it is. Germany, theyre even lower over there. You think about how impactful the recession in europe from a couple years ago and how much it impacted what our fed did here and what our economy does. Its a big trading partner. We may have but for the first time maybe theyd be moving in a different direction. Its important for us. I dont like to give them that much importance. I think our economy, were the strongest. Today for a little whil