Markets and whether its that disappointing pmi number in china overnight or that north korean news. Investors are in a sell first mood yet again today. Stocks dropping right from the get go. Remaining under pressure. You see now the dow is down some 200 points. 1. 25 . Each of the major averages under significant pressure today. Dr. Jay, i go to you first. I mean, people are making a big deal about north korea and the impact that ago on the market. The nuclears test, stooefb just tweeted out a great chart about it. People should take a look and see what the reaction has been after north korea has tested nukes. Nonetheless, people did perhaps china and whats more interesting to me, scott, is earnings. The earnings season just about promised. That is far more of a driver than a one day event like were seeing right here. In other words, fed and the north korea both full of bluster. Not going to matter. Trok at the 20year or the 30year rates. Take a look at tenyear rates. Kevin oleary, you
Here. Our next guest is very exciting to have him join us on the stage. Uri and i talked a little bit about a. I. Elons not a fan, uri is. Either way, the future is here. So please welcome to the stage dr. John kelly from ibm and our moderator, alex wilhelm. Okay. So were going to try to be different today. Were going to do a live demo which i props you works this morning promise you works this morning. Well see. What were about to see and why do we care . Well, alex, what youre about to see is something that no one else has ever seen other than people deep in my research labs. Many of you remember watson, the Artificial Intelligence machine, on the game of jeopardy. At the time it was an open domain, question and answer system at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence. Fast forward to today, what youre going to see is watson has ingested all of wikipedia and not only answers questions, but reasons over that and form opinions on any subject. Okay. Lets, so the tech guys can make it t
The way, lets look at how theyre doing. Theyre up. 9 . Lets look at the s p 500. There is the number on the s p. Down 23 points. Thats more than a 1 slide after hitting records, as you probably recall or maybe you dont, earlier this week folks. The euro getting closer to parody with the dollar. There is the euro. Down today. 108. Just takes 1. 08. Remember it was just weeks ago, mandy, that it was well below 2 . Thats absolutely right. Okay. Were also watching oil. Were only 90 minutes away from the close. It will be at 2 30 p. M. Eastern. In the second hour of power lunch well bring that number to you. The market is oelg off after the better than expected february jobs report. What has investors word . Lets bring in Burns Mckinney, Portfolio Manager at andrew maury, he is Portfolio Manager of the morning star five star rated aston lmcg small cap growth. Good to see you. Really feels like the market is having a bit of a tantrum here wrush know the jobs resetting the fed clock, and the
A man is in the hospital after another man pushed him in front of a muni train in san francisco. We have the report on what happened. Tara. And how he got out of the way. Reporter the man who fell in front of the train was able to scramble out quick hi. This happened at the civic center stage. It serves. Bart and muni. And this incident happened. 9 00. Right on the platform and two men were fighting. And one pushed the other in front of the track. And the on coming train. He was able to pull himself off the tracks and lifethreatening injuries. Police are still looking for him. It is not known where the two men. And they shut down the area. And muni trains ran on the inbound side until service resumed. We will be sure to let you know more. This may provide the clues they need. Back to you, pam. In santa rosa, a 6yearold child is being treated for livethreatening injuries after being hit by a car. This is at Petaluma Hill road and breezeway at 9 30. A 67yearold man pulled over and is coo
Honoring the life of ron smith. Id like to make a motion that we close the Board Meeting out in the memory of ron smith who passed awe last time he was a senior vice chair of the Central California where he coordinated grassroots activities with the hospital and worked closely with the Community Leaders and throughout california for the last 28 years. I personally have come to know ron in the past years as much of my colleagues have. He will be missed he was a joyful smiley man who were a bow toy. I consider ron to be a dear friend and he will be sorely missed. The second item id like to introduce is the hearing requester inform the transbay loop. This project is extremely important for sfmta to serve the growing neighborhood of the mission bay and essential part of the central subway alignment mta is getting ready to finalize their construction for the loop it will be done in june 2014 and im calling for a hearing request to get an update it will begin at the end of the 2014 and be co