Well ut dow posting its biggest oneday gain since early february. All ten s p 500 groups are higher with Energy Leading the way. Weve got bob pasani on the nyse floor, dominik right here at hq. What can key Technical Levels and josh lipton on the very tough month for tech. Bob, you first. Blastoff around the globe this week. China from the outset ended near the highs. Germany starts early today. U. S. Starts at 9 30 eastern time. Theres a pat he were here. Global buying. You can blame it on comments from the peoples bank of china officials. Whatever. Theres the s p futures. We actually gapped up twice. Once at 330 when europe opened and once at 9 30 when we opened. Were at the highs for the day. In terms of sectors, i have been of the opinion that we are seeing some end of the month rejiggering since the beginning of last week. Were seeing it again today. The biggest losers for the quarter are Energy Financials utilities, and industrials. Those are the only four sectors down on the qua
Stand. The s p and dow both down more than 2 in march. As for the full quarter, the dow is down 0. 6 . It is a short but busy week. The always important jobs report is due on friday morning and even though the markets will be closed well be here on squawk box, at least joe will bringing you the numbers for the jobs report. Well also be getting personal income and spending at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time today and spending home sales at 10 00. United health right out of the gate at 6 00 is announcing that it is acquiring catamaran ct rx for 61. 50 a share in cash. And that is not i dont know what that quote youre seeing right there is because this is going to move sharply higher i think, United Health probably can write a check that wont bounce on the deal is to be net earnings by 30 cents a share for United Health by next year. By 2016. Lets see, the company is also making some other comments and a firm 6. 25 a share for 2015. The croweo of a catamaran will become the new ceo for pharmacy b
Scientists track them and discover a kind of feline frankenstein. Good evening. We begin with that wall of wind howling across the country tonight. Millions of americans bracing for the impact, everything from stalled trains and planes to tornadoes. And here is the map. An area from the Florida Panhandle to new york, under a Severe Weather warning. Abcs Steve Osunsami is outside atlanta tonight in adairsville, georgia, where one powerful tornado has already torn through town. Reporter an hour north of atlanta, an amazing picture, the sky was falling. Weve got debris flying to the left and center of this system. The sirens have been going off here. The wind is kicking up, along with the rain. Again, a funnel crossing the interstate here in adairsville. Reporter witnesses here say the tornado was on the ground, churning through homes, Office Buildings and factories for more than 20 minutes. Scientists think it was an ef2 or greater, with wind speeds more than 125 miles an hour. Please ta
Scientists track them and discover a kind of feline frankenstein. Good evening. We begin with that wall of wind howling across the country tonight. Millions of americans bracing for the impact, everything from stalled trains and planes to tornadoes. And here is the map. An area from the Florida Panhandle to new york, under a Severe Weather warning. Abcs Steve Osunsami is outside atlanta tonight in adairsville, georgia, where one powerful tornado has already torn through town. Reporter an hour north of atlanta, an amazing picture, the sky was falling. Weve got debris flying to the left and center of this system. The sirens have been going off here. The wind is kicking up, along with the rain. Again, a funnel crossing the interstate here in adairsville. Reporter witnesses here say the tornado was on the ground, churning through homes, Office Buildings and factories for more than 20 minutes. Scientists think it was an ef2 or greater, with wind speeds more than 125 miles an hour. Please ta
Preemptive strike to protect itself. Martha raddatz, abc news, washington. Thats important. Early reports sort of were, were suggesting that perhaps israel was getting involved in the inner workings of the syrian war. That now we know is not necessarily the case. Nobody wants to touch that. But in terms of getting too deeply involved. Even the u. S. Has been very kind of wary about how deeply theyre going to get involved in this. The real issue, if assad loses control and those weapons he has get into the wrong hand thats when the situation turns much more grave, much more serious, potentially volatile and that could be the turning point that would draw the u. S. More deeply into syria if the weapons, chemical ones get into the hand of the radical groups. Keeping an eye on that for sure. In brazil, talk about pointing the finger. The owner of the nightclub where more than 230 people were killed in a horrifying fire, is blaming the whole country for the tragedy. Fire swept through the k