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[inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thank you so much for coming out this afternoon. My name is davis shoulders. Im part of the event staff. Politics and prose, and its her honor just on behalf of the staff and the owners to welcome here for this event for brad snyder and his book house of truth a washington political salon and the foundations of american liberalism. A fe housekeeping notes i want to cover right before we get started. If you will take this time to silence any cell phones or noisemaking devices so we dont have any unnecessary interruptions during the event. I will also mention if you are a regular come sometimes you know we ask you to put up the chairs. We will have an event following this one so after the event is over you can just leave the chairs as they are. We are honored to have cspans booktv who comes out to many of our events, so this is being recorded. But as a part of that we would really like to have come up whenever you ask a question because it will b
45. 88 for wti. So still talk about the possibility whether or not it is going to 50. Brent is 47. 53. Natural gas is 208. Janet yellen wont completely rule out negative rates but the fed chair also saying that the tool would need a lot more study before it could be used in the United States. Our comments coming in response to written questions from a congressman following her testimony on capitol hill. And Jeffrey Gundlach telling an investor web cast he sees some hawkish rebellion showing up. He calls yellen the biggest dove. 50 chance of only one more rate hike this year. He can see the s p going to 1600. On todays economic agenda couple of things coming up. April retail sales and the producer pricing index both out. Sales expected to rebound after a decline in march. Then were going to get may Consumer Sentiment and march business innervate ris. Retailers have had some problems this week. I heard. You missed a lot here. Did you see some of the people we had on this week . I heard.
Good morning and welcome to World Wide Exchange. Oon cnbc. Im sara eisen. Good morning from me as well. Lets check in on the global markets. U. S. Equity futures after a mixed session yesterday that actually managed to close positive. Looks like the gains continue this morning. It is a busy day in terms of kbhik data and earnings. Dow futures up 48. S p up 5. Nasdaq futures up 31. As for the 10year treasury note yield, it is fed day. Day two of the decision. Well expect that in the 2 00 p. M. Hour. No news conference, but of course traders will be pursing the statement the 10year treasury yield sitting prefed, 1. 57. Still very low. Stimulus talk from japan today. Check out the japanese yen which is falling. Pre pressured on more expectations of further easing. This comes among reports japan the government will unveil 265 billion of stimulus in a passage. The move according to the reports is an effort by shinzo abe to reflate and stimulate the economy. Though the amount the japanese go
A barrel. And you have to go back to november so when weve seen prices like this. If you went to bed early donald trump declared himself the presumptive gop nominee. After winning all five states yesterday by huge margins. I use the analogy of the boxer. You dont have to wait around for the decision when the boxer knocks out the other boxer. So that is what is it is. Hillary clinton beating Bernie Sanders in pennsylvania, maryland, delaware and connecticut. Bernie sanders winning rhode island. Sanders is showing no sign of dropping out. Well have more on the race coming up in a few minutes. Corporate news. Comcast reportedly in talks to buy dream works for more than 3 billion. The price represents a big premium over the current market cap. Comcast parent of course of cnbc has enjoyed success with animated films. The Company Reports earnings before the opening today. Well bring them to you. Dream box is behind shrek and kung fu panda. The company has been on the block for quite some tim