S p up s p up and the dow indicated up look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei opened up in europe where there is active trading, youll see green ar owes across the board. The ftse was up more than half a percent. Youll see at least the 10year is yielding 1. 8 big news, weworks board now weighing two competing Financial Rescue offers. Expected to accept an offer from softbank to take a controlling stake in the company the decision could come as err will early as today the are rescue package from sofk to buy up to 3 billion in shares held by other investors they would also put together 5 billion in loans sources say theyll pay the founder adam neumann up hundreds of millions to leave you are paying him twice. Hes the only one who has made money on this deal. Meanwhile, theyll begin layoffs almost immediately of almost 2,000 people. One of the reasons they delayed the layoffs is they couldnt afford the severance youll wait here for adam neumann to go home im told that will ke
Here the dow fell 300 points on word of the attack, but we are modulating slightly. Treasury yields and crude as well oil prices in just a moment. Tenyear note at 4. 58 the expected run to safety. The question is is this performative to show we are retaliating. The reaction in the commodities market the initial reaction was steep and then we pared the gains. Crude is 82. 57 the story is in brent which surged above 90 a barrel. Were back below the level right now. As for gold, 2 2,395 that is unchanged. Bitcoin had the same reaction as we saw over the weekend with the initial strikes from iran. We had bitcoin now higher at 2. 4 64,882 as we await the halving which is expected over the weekend. Lets get a live report from raf sanchez in tel aviv. Raf, good morning. Reporter melissa, andrew, good morning for a week, the world has been waiting to see how israel would respond to the barrage of the iranian drones and missiles. We have an answer this morning and it doesnt appear at this momen
Meeting. Policy announcement coming up at 2 00. In global news chinese stocks rallying overnight. This morning snapping the threeday losing streak. The shanghai composite closing up 3. 5 . Big growth. In europe greeces stock market will not be reopened today as some had expected. The exchange is waiting for an okay from the ecb and government decree. Thats 6 or 700 points. Huge. Stocks to watch this morning, twitter earnings and revenue are both above estimates but it was the Monthly Average user number and it grew at its slowest pace since it was public and that is accounting for a pretty substantial selloff today. 32. I dont know the last time it was there. Jack dorsey this weird beard, calls this unacceptable. Have you seen the beard hes sporting . I have. Its like does the not pass by mirrors . People dont talk. He has a lot of yes people. Yeah it looks good. Yeah, it looks good. I like that egg yolk. Right here. More of his comments and reaction from analysts in just a few minutes
Good morning. A warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Good morning. Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Always good to be about your side. Lovely to have you with us. U. S. Futures, interesting picture now if youre waking up. A mixed open were calling for the dow up 24 points. Nasdaq up 5. After surpassing 6,000 for the first time ever. S p 500 basically flat on the day. Keep in mind markets did rally yesterday. The dow posting its second consecutive day up 200 points. Intraday the dow ticked above 21,000. So far a positive week for equities, today the trump tax plan will be in focus. Will there be a reduction from 35 to 15 . The other big question what does that mean for the federal deficit . Will it go up if the plan is not revenue neutral . Lets look at the tenyear treasury note. Yielding around 2. 325 . The other thing to take away from markets yesterday. 9 out of 11 sectors were positive led by materials. It was broad and the performance was better than e
Weve seen since the election. The nasdaq is indicated up by 8. 5 points. Well talk to the nasdaqs ceo later this morning. Look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei was up by 1. 1 . Markets in china also closed higher with the hang seng up by a half percentage point. In europe this morning, in the early trading thats taking place, you can see things are relatively flat. Across the board. The ftse, the cac, and the dax all sitting within points of where they closed yet. Its been a big couple of days for markets there. Pepsico just out with earnings. The number is a core earnings of 94 cents a share. That Beat Estimates by two cents. Revenue also coming in a little above expectations. Talking about what happened with this quarter, she said they achieved solid Revenue Growth in the First Quarter, underpinned by global volume growth. Despite what she calls a challenging food and Beverage Industry thats been trading conditions in north america and continued volatility in developing