From bloombergs u. S. And asian headquarters. Im Ramy Inocencio in new york just after 7 00 a am. Yvonne it is just after 7 00 p. M. In hong kong. Im yvonne man. The tech earnings this week will be the big focus with alphabet kicking things off. Ramy i was trying to get ahold of what was moving the markets today but there really wasnt anything but it was earnings. Well get to that in a little bit. Yvonne yeah. It was good it seemed like, in line with expectations at google earnings but just not enough to really convince investors to get too excited about given the run we have seen on the stock already. Lets look at how things are playing out in the asia pacific. It was the Oil Companies that were in focus and kind of offset in tech yesterday. Flat day so far. To australia things could get a little more interesting. Oil being a bump higher overnight with the saudis promising deep cuts to crude exports next month. Shipments capped at 6. 6 Million Barrels a day as we see more analysts say
As we saw volatile day for oil, bill, as well. One of the days where bad news was bad news. You could have argued once an upon you could have said bad news would mean that the fed would delay raising Interest Rates and the market rally on that. That didnt happen today. And you wonder if thats the kind of action we will see going into 2015 here if suddenly now bad news is bad news and vice versa. Volatility bill seems to be here to stay. Yes, maam. It is. Well talk about that. The volatility index is moving up as well today. Theres the dow up 120 as kayla was mentioning. Down about 99 points at the apex of the day. The low of the day. Now down 30 into the final hour of trading and the volatility index. Made a liar out of me. Down to 1831 and rather elevated level when you consider the rest of the market has been doing. S p down 5 points today to start the new year. And the nasdaq down 17 at 4719. Before we sta start our panel discussion, we want to hear from you at home. Log on the to c
Westside highway from where you are at headquarters. Well speak to barry diller later in the hour talking about iac and the many changes taking place in media. Late they are morning, ill be talking to Lesley Moonves the ceo of cbs which reported numbers after the bell that were better than expectations. Well keep an eye on that stock price. We look forward to all of that. See you back in a few. David, could you ask les, could you get those guys on thursday night to play better football . He highlights that like the first paragraph. Its teams you dont want to see and the over is like 12th. Yeah. They have had a little bit of trouble with competition thursday nights. They did note that jim. Obviously, always plenty to talk to him about including the Pacquiao Mayweather fight, including he was involved putting it together and now with the litigation no shortage of topics when it comes to mr. Moonves. Except csi brooklyn. We do not have that yet. Sumner redstone may have given you one, as
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