earnings. disney, groupon, potbelly. i have never been in one. the sandwiches are keller. killer. they are not exactly the healthiest. road trip. let s do a road trip right now. equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. futures, -3. euro is weaker. to 98.43 four nymex crude. on to the next screen. the vix. the ruble i am watching carefully. 35.79. that is a weaker ruble over the next few days. let s go to the ruble a look at the putin litmus paper. here is the angst. weaker ruble. then they do better. they reverse. 80% of the better news. in other words, your dollar buys more rubles. strengthening dollar, weakening ruble. that is a big deal. of troops.g we have not been talking about it. we have been talking about the middle east. gaza, iraq. that brings us to our front page. the newspapers and the webpages. let s give you an update. a 72 hour cease-fire begins in gaza. this is the latest attempt after four weeks of fighting. israel has pulled out all of its t
to meet president obama at the white house at 2:40 five this afternoon. the symbolism is huge. quite yesterday, markets dead let s go onto the second screen. it is a vanilla board. this is the treatment as we go to the white house. we don t know the time yet of any announcements or press moments out of the white house. here s the russian currency. here s that new bout of weakness in the russian ruble and it just stays weaker as russia intervenes to try to support it. pre-k s just so viewers know, this is a long-term chart. 20 years. you can see how significant the weakness is. remember the way these are quoted, this is the number of rubles per dollar. this is 9098. you can see the scale and scope of the disaster. that is the actor up from geopolitics. we scour the papers this wednesday morning and the webpages looking for what you need to know. breaking news because the this is bloomberg malaysian airlines press conferences taking place right surveillance. now.