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Looking at the worst week in two years with all of the averages well see what happens today its been interesting to watch volatility to see whats going on meantime, lets take a look at whats happened overnight in asia the nikkei was closed for a national foundational day holiday in japan the hang sentence down over 0. 1 shanghai composite and stocks in south korea higher with the kospi at 1 . In early trading in europe, you can see things are in positive territory as well. Big gains. Gains of 1 or better across the board. In fact, the dax is up by 1. 9 right now. Then if you take a look at treasury yields, this is a big story. What kind of inflation do we see. The tenyear is yielding 2. 88 this week, were going to be getting inflation data cpi on wednesday and thats something that else to see if inflation is really out there. A couple big stories were watching before we get back to the markets. Vice president mike pence said the u. S. Is open to talks with north korea but will continue ....
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 bri ....
Stories were watching this morning starting with oil. Wti crude closing higher than brent yesterday. That was the first time of august 2010. Watch for Inventory Data. Well get that at 10 30 eastern time. And break in the last hour a new report coming up from opec predicting that oil will rise to 95 barrel but only in 24 years. Also on tap we get durables goods and personal income and spending and at 10 00 new home sales and Consumer Sentiment but some of the numbers came earlier when the Commerce Department released spend dag at a yesterday. We got november Consumer Spending rising. 3 last month. That came in line with forecasts. Also apple making it easier to nominate a director but there are restrictions. In a new filing that it put in with the sec the ....
Also, toyota talking about under the hood, keeping its top spot in auto sales rankings so far this year topping rivals gm and volkswagen. Japanese car sales topping 7. 4 million vehicles. Thats up. 1 from a year ago. Strong sales in the u. S. Offset slowdowns in thailand and china. Joe, whats going on in washington . In washington this week the redskins are probably dealing with what was a disappointing because they were ahead. They were ahead by two touchdowns right at the beginning of the second half and things went south quickly. So you only saw five minutes of the jets game. No, i know what happened. Congratulations. Thank you. Im not looking for congratulations really. Its been a long time. People are talking about 25 years since the joe montana beat when the bengals got and i asked my kids to watch. They were watching when Carson Palmers knee got blown out on the first play. They were watching last year when houston killed t ....