Far, up 8 . Check out whats happening this morning. Things have barely changed. The dow futures are up about 12 pokt. The nasdaq just under one point. If you havent woken up there is a full moon out right now. On todays squawk planner economic data. At 8 30 eastern, the earnings. The news in earnings big oil will be in focus. Among the names posting quarterly rults, exxonmobil and chevron. The weekly bag lyly Baker Hughes Rig count is a number of the rigs actively developing oil or natural gas in the United States and canada. We went up to 70 60 for a little while. Everybody came back in. People predicted that. They didnt need to get to 100. Isnt crude down . It is. 48. 52. They think we could be looking at a threehandle on wti because the fraccers have gotten so good. These what . Fraccers. Thats werdird. Theyve cut costs. They dont need oil prices to stay high. You say it it seems like just coming out of your youre normally so proper. These fraccers. You know what else is hard to say
Bill ackman taking 5. 5 in mondalez. Those subscribers worries that originated with disney. A trio of stocks tesla, Green Mountain and fitbit, hit hard. Our top stories are mondalez shares spiking. Bill ackman disclosing that 5. 5 billion shake in cadbury. They welcome Pershing Square as investors and will continue to focus on executing our strategy as we look at another sector where mass sick consolidation is the play. We have been through airlines and health care. Now, it is food. We can remember that nelson felts has a 2. 9 stake. I have to turn to you, david, with more than 10 being held by you. I have to expect that. Thats got to be the expectation in terms of the play for ackman jim. You and i have talked behind the scenes about what it was going to be. I have been chasing this for some time as many have. I have probably put on alert more bankers than we know about. I thought, what could it be what could it be . I dont think any of us would have expected it would be mondelez. The
Our unity cannot be shattered by evil. Gospel of john reminds us there is no greater love than to lay down ones life for a friend. The memory of those who display the ultimate expression of love in this unimaginable act of hate will never fade. Their examples will serve as an eternal reminder that the american spirit cannot and will not ever be broken. Train to the latest on the shooting in the search for a motive or may not. Despite strategy, strong day for stock prices. All the major indices closed at record levels yesterday and jeans this morning as well. Features up 30 points on the dow industrial. They look a european indices. German is closed for holiday. As you can see up fractionally moving. The nikkei average in the hang seng green at the other markets were closed for a holiday. Equifax is the former ceo said to be grilled by lawmakers later today as he outlines the response to the recent attack. Also, millions of more americans may have been affected. Fox business premiere li
Target, prices refusing to budget in march. Haidi chinas oil giants benefit from cruise gradual recovery. Opec says producers are unified in rebalancing the market. Rishaad the regions banks are starting to report earnings, so far reflecting a general upturn in the economy. Right, lets have a look at what has been going on today, dominated by currency markets to some extent with mario draghi beast. D as an elusive doing nothing to cement a vision that tapering will start when it comes to the Monetary Policy situation in europe. Suggestingindicates more power to move currency markets. We are looking ahead as well to data out of the united states, a first read of firstquarter gdp later today, as slew of japanese news as well. Haidi extraordinary Monetary Policy around the world. Take a look at this chart 5548, fed, boj, boe, ecb, starting to see that the versions, no surprise is from the boj or ecb, exitario draghi saying an is too early to talk about, things are going better and adjusti
Trump. My first takeaway is that donald trump is not the man sending off a lot of the tweets he fires off. Maybe the ones in the middle of the night, but not all the time. Ellen not all the time. Brad, who runs the data operations for the organization, for the trump company, i mean organization, campaign. He is doing some of the tweeting. Mr. Trump does some himself. But while he is on stage, if you have been wondering who mans the twitter buttons, it is brad. We introduce you to him in this story. Carol he is a big deal in the Trump Campaign, how did he get there . It is not the usual route. This is not a political strategist type. Ellen no, he is not a career politician. That is one of the interesting things about the story, it takes you behind the scenes. He works in san antonio, and somehow he was hired to do websites for the Trump Organization david on the street. On the cheap. For the trumprelated parities. Ellen on the cheap. And for some of the trump related charities. When it