Worldwide exchange. On cnbc. Europe may be on vacation, but were not. Im sara eisen. And im wilfred frost. They steal you away for one, but two hours today. Lets not make it a regular thing. Delighted to be here today. Lets have a look at u. S. Equity futures. Pointing to higher. Last week, we did snap a fiveweek win be streak for u. S. Stocks. Only about to the center or so for the main bosses here in the u. S. Today, were pointing to higher. The dow significantly up by triple digits, 102 points, s p by 11. And nasdaq by 28. Lets have a look at the tenyear note as well. Only 1 of declines in equities last week, but we did see quite a lot of yield compression. We saw the yield on the tenyear fall to around 1. 85 . At one point, we were at 1. 9 . Last week, a little bit riskoff. But largely a lot. An apparent suicide bomber killing at least 65 people, including women and children. Abreakaway faction of the taliban claiming responsibility. Crowd was christians. A spokesman said the attac
Of course, this is all a part of the process for donald trump to try to coalesce a part of the Republican Party as he mars towards marches towards 12 be 7 delegate 1237 delegates. About five members or so here in washington from congress have already supported donald trump. I can tell you congressman don marino, he will be one of them at this meeting. Everybody that we contact says there is no sort of guest list here for this trump event. A couple different entrances here, some very public where we are right now, where the media is, some private as well so these members of congress can either let it be known they will be here either when they enter or leave or try to just slip in and slip out and keep their support for trump potentially under wraps. Meantime, it is a busy day here in washington. Just about six, seven, eight, maybe ten blocks down the road, neil, is the Americanisrael Public Affairs Committee conference or aipac. Hillary clinton gave her speech just a little while ago,
Two attackers stabbed and shot people on a bus before one of those attackers was killed and the other captured. At about the same time, another attack at a bus stop in another part of the city. That killed at least one person before that attacker was shot and killed by the police. And the violence there in jerusalem continues today. Lets get to iran. That countrys parliament. The voter to support the nuclear deal. If you look closely in this video, youre going to see it in a moment. If you look closely, youll see members of the Iranian Parliament laughing and approving the deal. And selfinspections of Nuclear Facilities and gives them billions of dollars. More with that on our military strategist chris harmon, in ten minutes. They think they won. A tripledigit loss for the dow industrials. Were coming off seven straight gains. Of course, we ask the constant question, the dow closing at 171, will we hit 18k by the end of the year . Well answer the question, we promise. Look at twitter,
East and africa were disappointed. U. S. Saw the kleins of 4 u. S. Saw declines of 4 asia, middle east and africa saw declines of 4. 4 this read is not something investors would like to hear. If you look at the share price it is down by 1. 8 . Betty and it might go lower given these numbers. U. S. Sales down 4 . Incredible. Scarlet mcdonalds japans february same store sales fell 29 . A sense of the challenges mcdonalds faces. Mcdonalds had some issues in japan, particularly they could not sell french fries because of the port strike on the west coast. That gives you a sense of the difficulties in the asiapacific region. Betty and the difficulties for Steve Easterbrook as he takes the helm. Thank you, scarlet. Lets look at top stories. Europes central bank taking the first steps towards boosting price growth in the region. The ecb buying german and italian bonds. Those insecurities and french notes are being bought. A part of quantitative easing. Officials saying the new greek plan to a
Microsoft or starbucks because these stocks exploded higher today on better than expected earnings and last i looked those are pretty darn important big stocks and they propel the averages with the dow gaining 23 points and nasdaq falling. 71 . Why dont we do this . Lets stop it with the woeful earnings and start taking advantage of the opportunities where ever we can find them. We kick things off in the most important Earnings Report of all. Thats apple which announces its quarter after the close next monday. Well be out in San Francisco. Well be like apple central. Just in case youre watching the show for the first time let me say i believe in owning apple not trading it. Owning not trading. As long as am remains cheaper than the average stock and s p 500. As long as it continues to have the beautiful Balance Sheet with a huge dividend big buy back. As long as ceo tim cook and company keep creating breathtaking products im not changing my view. Im not counting the number of phones or