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2.145% overnightin asia, look at what s been happening. you can see the nikkei closed down by a quarter of a percentage point the hang seng off by 1.2%. the shanghai was flat. let s look at what s happening in the european markets in early trading. at this point there are red arrows across the board there as well biggest decliner is the cac, which is down by 1%. the ftse and dax are off by 0.8% when it comes to currencies. you will see right now the dollar is up across the board. euro at 1.1163 crude oil prices which were down 3.7% yesterday, the lowest settlement we ve seen since november 14th, you can see this morning down once again. another 11 cents to 44.62. we want to bring you an update on the terrible shooting that took place yesterday. republican congressman steve scalise is in critical condition this morning after he was shot by a gunman yesterday. squawk was on while this happened the congressman was shot in the hip, underwent surgery at medstar washingto ....
single day for tax reform for the gop so far i am brian sullivan. at a national association of manufacturers summit in washington, d.c., 30 minutes ago, vice-president pence talked about tax reform and called for a 15% corporate tax rate we are waiting a few minutes for house speaker, paul ryan he will give a major speech on tax reform and outline what he wants to do and when he believes he can get it done after that, he will sit down with us right here on cnbc to talk everything taxes, both from individual to corporation tax reforms. michelle, a bringing day ig day. i m michelle caruso cab rrea the yields on bonds have hit 2.748% snap and twitter taking a hit after facebook announced instagram now has 250 million daily active users let s listen to house speaker, paul ryan right now as he begins his speech thank you so much, buddy appreciate it. afternoon, everybody how are you doing? great to see you thanks for coming out today. appreciate it. welcome to d.c hi, ....
half hour from now it looks likes the s&p may be down ever so slightly. european markets were in the red last time i look thank you for spain and for italy, maybe one day we ll even get a look at the bond market. the ten-year note yield is important right now, particularly given that 2.14. wow. wasn t it supposed to be a 3.14 yes, i think they were talking around june, at least 3. not the case a big story we re going to talk a good deal more about is oil. let s get to our road map and start you out with some stocks oracle, shares are up sharply on earnings we ll look at what s moving that stock. later, by the way we ll have an sclouf on interview with mark hurd they want to take a major stake in american airlines, what is that all about? smoke em peace pipe? we ll try to figure that out to the best we can by the way, what as to yim cramer and homer simpson have in common adobe s ceo shows us. he s game. he s got a demo of its newest product. i want ....
we have second half strategies coming up for you. vertex, activism, blizzard, and within resorts are among the winners in the stock market today. good gains that s just showing you today s gains there. foot locker, devon energy, and kroger are some of the bigger losers we always try to discern larger trends from looking at the individual stocks. the kroger story we know well. for sure. what s old is new again we ll get you details on a firm s turn around plan. you may have heard berkshire hathaway is now the largest share holder in bank of america. but that s not the only company where warren buffet is the top shareholder. i love that story, he bought the preferred. they raised the dividend he converted and now he made $12 billion in the process. you have to hand it to hill when everyone was panicking, he stepped in and made so many deals. buy low that s how that works. let s get to the market. so far the nasdaq is up more than 14% while both the dow and the ....
the economy are most at risk if there is a trade war. and companies warning last month s global cyber attack is actually having an impact on their financials we ve got the details on which companies are being hit. meanwhile, can a superhero save the summer box office season in the new superman movie is out today we ll tell you what s riding on that film and an analyst who says exposure to movies is a risk for some media companies. we ll tell you which ones. spider-man versus wonder woman and the fight for the box office. so far so far wonder woman go the is dominating big-time this summer and our not surprised? no, about time we had a female superhero start with stocks moving higher on the back of today s jobs number. the junes job report may have come in much stronger than expected but the federal reserve is expressing some concerns about wage growth right now. ylan mui, another super woman. the fed flagged the problem in the monetary policy r ....