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there s an me in team. always has been. well, i m happy to be here. you re fired up. if you re up at 4:00 a.m., you might as well get fired up. why not. if you put in that what time did the alarm go off? 4:05. so you i m a 3 handle. me, too. you say you can do this. you did it once. try five out of five. i can barely do this. 52 out of 52. you re a stud. i say it all the time. we have a big market day. good to have you here. a check of u.s. equity futures. this is what we ve been matching all morning long. this could be the biggest move in the markets. about a half percent move or so. this would be on the s&p 500. that would be the biggest one-day move. we ve been 0.3. the dow looking to lose 100 points at the open. the nasdaq looking to lose 24 points at the open. the volatility index is surging this morning. that s an interesting turn of events. up by 11.25%, almost 12 at this moment. action in asia, big development. here is long eem ....
president s report that he said in a memo to comey to let flynn go. and the fbi director reportedly kept a paper trail that said the president asked him to end the probe into flynn. it hasn t happened so far, but will trump s troubles crack this market? the u.s. markets are pointing to a large decline at the open. shares of target jumping in the premarket. the retailer blowing past some earnings expectations. our top story of the morning is trump versus comey. now confirmed by nbc news a memo by fired fbi director comey claiming that the president urged him to drop the investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn. let s get to eamon javers who is outside the white house with the very latest. hey, eamon. good morning. marine one has landed on the south lawn to take the president away. he s leaving to go to the coast guard academy where he ll give the commencement address later today and that will give aides a respite of the intense news flow, s ....
the rally s sales. we only need a gain of about eight points for a new high. we re already up 60, and that s even off the highs of the day here, kelly. that s right. so, we re sitting at 17,120 on the dow. there are reverberations from yellen s remarks, particularly in biotech, down today. that may speak all more to the strength we re seeing across the broader market here. obviously, keeping an eye on the big names involved in the mega deal you mentioned, we should note right off the bat, shares of fox are down almost 4%. shares of time warner are surging today. cnbc first to report that rupert murdoch s 21st century fox is trying to buy the company, even though time warner is saying no. murdoch is apparently pressing. we will speak with former universal chairman bob wright, who knows all the players involved here, about how this might play out. will murdoch add to his empire? how much could it cost him when all is said and done? and does it make sense in this envir ....
the crimean referendum, of course, is this weekend. the roadmap begins with continuing global concerns led by china and ukraine. have the markets looking at a modestly higher open this after the major averages logged their worst day since february 3 period. general motors is firing back that air bag failure in recalled vehicles resulted in more than 300 deaths. target admitting it did not take immediate action after security software originally alerted the company to malicious activity after the data breach. and mark zuckerberg calls president obama to complain about the government s surveillance programs. first up, though, thursday, the 13, was bad luck for the bulls as worries about a slowdown in china and rising tension between ukraine and russia helped spark a market selloff. all 30 components finishing in the red. and the s&p has fallen to negative territory for the year and the nasdaq posting a decline for the fifth time in six sessions. the s&p has only h ....
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