U. S. Equity futures at this hour have been a bit weak in the for the morning. You know what . Just the dow futures. That might have something to do with what becky is going to tell you about. The s p is actually up a point. The nasdaq is up about four. The nasdaq had some rough sledding lately. The dow is the index down today. Down about 21 points. Crude prices coming off a loss of about 5 . Wti posting the lowest close since november. Joe, i ae lewd eluded to it. Its sitting there at one price, then a totally different price. You think it has to do with the world we live in now . Absolutely. At 11 20 p. M. , oil is trading 45. 25 and the next hour 43. 76. How does that happen . Were the world is chasing alpha, when the quantitative models see an opportunity, which they see in oil, thats where all the activity is. It wasnt an overweight trader with fat fingers . No, and not pure fundamentals. Fundamentals are deteriorating for oil. It is seeing the opportunity, lowvol world. You go ar
He act add loan. House Speaker Paul Ryan speaking out on the shootings on the house floor early this morning. We are all stunned by the events last night in dallas. Our hearts are with the Dallas Police department and our hearts are with the victims. Authorities have identified three wounded Dallas Transit Police officers as omar cannon, Misti Mcbride and jesus retana. The family of the man killed by Louisiana Police put out a statement saying they reject the reprehenceable acts of violence against the Dallas Police officers. And attorney general Loretta Lynch will make a statement on the dallas shootings at 11 30 a. M. Eastern time. And well have more updates throughout the day and as the situation warrants. Back downtown to you guys. Thanks so much. And the jobs report is helping the jobs report today. 287,000 jobs added last month. All major indices on that news now made up their losses from before the brexit vote and only took two weeks to make a round trip. Lets bring in barry jam
And obviously with the russians most feared and are most the ukraineout is gravitating to the west more than it already has, meaning becoming part of the european union, or nato. Ussia will be proxies the separatist will sustain their influence in the ukraine in that manner. Mr. Quigley do you see the status remaining the way it is everything there is renewed conflict at different times, but no dramatic change recently it is . Obviously there is renewed conflict at different times, but no dramatic change recently. Mr. Clapper i think they will maintain the status quo, but there are incidents occurring on the line that has been drawn the of the minsk agreement based on upstart separatists that the russians do not control. John, do you want to add to that . John there has been some movement with the minsk agreement, but are have been shortcomings. Your characteristic characterization of a frozen conflict there are questions about how the russians will extricate themselves from this, whic
In europe. And then finally a quick look at crude before we get to a couple of the big stories of the morning. Wti at 46. 57. That would have been a good move around the 40 handle couple of days ago. Here are the big stories were watching today. Amazon crushing earnings estimate, posting most profitable quarter ever. We asked yesterday are they still sewing . Or starting to reap . Looks like the reaping has been. Cloud computing business. I thought they sold books. No. They have changed apparently. Side things. Other things in the last few years. Helped the Online Retail giant pull off the beat and stock took off. Jeff bezos net worth went up estimated 6 billion dollars based on how much stock he owns. And other stocks on the move this morning as we check into earnings central. Pandora reporting a wider First Quarter loss. Although it wasnt as bad as analysts expect. The streaming Music Service is raising full year outlook thanks to higher ad sales. And baidu fell to lowest level. Chin
Forth questions about where we are headed on this yield. Mark graham sends me a note every day reminding me hes been calling for 2 before we see Something Like 2 or 2. 5 . Check on out was been happening tt dollar. The dollar is up against the euro, 1 is. 2596. Gold prices at r at this hour, 1,206. 10 an ounce. Coffee, futures jumping to a twoyear high. Andrew, over to you. The ebola situation, North Carolina drugmaker kumerick is providing an intrimtal drug to a patient being treated in dallas. This is with the approval of the patient. Meg has been covering this story from the start. Meg. Good morning, appeared rue. First, news coming from the u. S. Government about what its looking to do to prevent further passengers coming into the United States from the affected countries with ebola. President obama yesterday afternoon saying the u. S. Is looking at strengthening passenger screening, both out of the effected west african countries and into the United States. Two additional passenge