i m sara eisen. i m wilfred frost. very good morning to you from me as well. before we check in on the markets, four big international stories we re watching. china getting hit with a credit gown grade overnight. we have the latest market reaction. the uk upping its security threat level to critical following monday night s terror attack. opec about to kick off a meeting in vienna. president trump is at the vatican this hour after meeting with pope francis. more on all of those big stories straight ahead. first let s check in on the markets this morning. u.s. equity futures after a mini gain yesterday for stocks. s&p closed higher by 0.2%, following a trend of fractional moves, mostly higher. looks like futures are indicated higher again. dow futures up 12. s&p up 2.5. nasdaq futures up 11 points a bit of a defensive tone to yesterday s dane wigain. the ten-year hovering around the 2.28 level. a bit of buying of treasuries, saw that yesterday. the economic reports have be
121 points and s&p declined .5% and nasdaq advanced. lots of people rang the register after four sessions of positive action yet we still saw two huge winners emerge. starbucks up $5.48 and honeywell up $3. this matters. i m a gigantic believer that a ceo can determine how well the company does by leadership and execution. pete carroll from the seahawks and bill belichick can take their places where no one else has gone. that s what they have done. these two companies delivered superior quarters, such great quarters that you know to many other in their leagues, you have to sit back and marvel. i sure wouldn t want to compete against these guys. think of the coach when you consider buying or selling a stock, as you hear later when a call out a couple of suboptimal performers. let s talk about the game plan for next week starting with the microsoft. the new ceo, i like this guy, in a position to make more changes, more to the cloud and bring out the value of skype and xbox and
line for q-2 and the second half of last year was the strongest since 2003 and europe is trading much better than the nikkei would have suggested. our roadmap begins with the market. stocks are set to open in the green this morning after the major indices fell more than 1% in trading yesterday. the good gdp number helping sentiment after the economy grew as we said by 3.2%. speaking of green, shares of facebook are soaring after sales and profit topped estimates thanks to a major increase in mobile ads. profit for the year totaled $1.5 billion compared to $53 million in 2012 and what a difference two years makes. google is selling motorola to lenovo for just under $3 billion. just a couple years after buying the company for about $12.5 billion. but we ll begin with the markets. futures are pointing to a higher open after yesterday s selloff on the gdp reports and claims and the economy is growing 3.2% in the last quarter shrugging off the effects of the government shutdown an
research senior research economist michelle mire and we ll talk through everything that s been happening through jobs and what to expect. but first, there is a developing story. an earthquake off the northeast coast of japan triggered a tsunami warning. the warning has been lifted, but it was a 7.3 quake. so far no reports of any injuries or damage. it was for the same area devastated by an earthquake and tsunami back in march of last year. we will continue to bring you any developments. in the meantime, steve has some of the morning s top other stories. let s start with the markets. asian stocks rallying to 2012 highs overnight. the nikkei edging lower after hitting a se hitting hitting a seven month closing high yesterday. european trading, shares seem to be fwllat. bundesbank announced it had cut its growth outlook for the country. in the u.s., the nasdaq snapped its losing streak yesterday with its first gain in five days. the dow was on pace for its third straight week
do we pay too much attention to apple? do we pay too much attention to the fiscal cliff at the expense of everything else? averages once again around the flat line with the dow up 15 points, nasdaq rising .530%. we talk about how the transports fare well, or how i like the new honeywell application. where you should buy the aig over the dip. it s fun for us to puzzle over the strength of hewlett packard. deckers down $3 because of the warm weather impact on uggs. is that what s behind coach today? that s what i regard as productive use of my time. but unfortunately, that s not the case for many of you and in many ways, it s not what you need to hear. in fact all those issues i just mentioned aren t even mildly important compared to the big stories we battle every day. first let s tackle the fiscal cliff. i m beginning to hear a ton of blowback about how we talk about it way too much. jim, give it a rest, will you? i m getting feedbck how our rise above campaign is stillborn b