you also are looking at the nasdaq, which was up yesterday by about 1 .5%, pushing it out of correction territory. right now it s only the russell 2,000 and the dow transports that are still 10% below 10% or more below the highs that they had seen from last year the s&p is 2744 is that significant six points below every analyst that comes on here 2,750 for the whole year. february. mid-february that could happen the first half of february. you could see some volatility, some ups and downs i know it could be anywhere they all paired their expectation from what we saw last year, and now we have a strong start to the 2018 they thought 3,000 then nope. never mind 2,750 in my view the market for 2018 seemed like it should be at 3,000 for the s&p, but now for 2019 just because of what s happened i now think the fair value is 2,750 they have no idea. there are metrics and models whatever it is market confound most people just like the weathermen
500. the nasdaq was up by 3% yesterday, a gain of 200 points. it logged its best day since october 25th you will see this morning the nasdaq indicated down by 44 points overnight in asia, markets all over the place nikkei ended up by 0.4%. the hang seng was off by 0.9%. the shanghai was down by 1.3% as we get ready for the g20 summit this weekend give me a 2 handle. i want a 2 handle on this next chart. i have not seen it yet have you seen it you re jumping ahead. we have european equities next i m waiting for the ten-year. all right we ll look at european markets they are higher. the big gainer is the ftse up by 0.6% the cac is up by 0.6%. the dax up by a quarter percent. the number that joe has been waiting for i don t think it s there. ten-year, 3.010 so close i was looking at that this morning. then i just happened to look down and see the yields across europe god, we have high yields really it s ten times the level of germany. i couldn t do the math on th
powerful pmis. the european manufacturing sector powers on with german and european pmis hitting a six-year high. good morning, everyone. we re back from a long weekend. we have plenty of data to get through. want to tell you about the eurozone factory activity hitting a six-year high in april. the eurozone final factory pmi is at 61.7. inflationary pressures stayed quite strong. let s tell you what the european markets are doing. we re higher to the tune of a quarter percent. euro/dollar at 1.0904. let s look at the european markets one by one. what we re seeing is that if we can swap on to the indices. we are broadly higher across the board. the cac 40 up by a quarter of a percent. ftse 100 up by two-thirds of a percent. the xetra dax inching higher to the tune of 10 points. let s get back to the bigger stories. ocado shares surging to the top of the stoxx 600 on reports of a tie up with marks and spencer. better than expected numbers are lifting aberdeen asset manageme
he d been behind bars for nearly two decades, lost his last appeal. maybe a nun could help him get into heaven but could she help him get out of prison? what she helped him do was get a lawyer and together they hunted for the truth. this is one case that kept me up at night for six years. he says, i know you re innocent. i know the guy who is committed this crime. tonight, will justice finally arrive? this is my wall of hope. everyone here has been unjustly convicted and freed. i m lester holt and this is dateline. here s josh mankiewicz. sing sing correctional facility. the maximum security prison in new york. this is the big house. home to some of the worst of the worst. killers, rapists, drug dealers. good morning. thank you. it is not where you d expect to find this gentle woman. in sing sing, they call me grandma. grandma is sister joanna khan, a nun. i began working at sing sing more than 12 years ago. this is the battle about general. gran
convicted and freed. i m lester holt and this is dateline. here s josh mankiewicz. sing sing correctional facility. the maximum security prison in new york. this is the big house. home to some of the worst of the worst. killers, rapists, drug dealers. good morning. thank you. it is not where you d expect to find this gentle woman. in sing sing, they call me grandma. grandma is sister joanna khan, a nun. i began working at sing sing more than 12 years ago. this is the battle about general. grandma volunteers at the prison. working with inmates in a she even teaches them chinese. through the years, grandma has helped dozens of men. but she says this inmate here on stage, a convicted killer, has changed her. he is just so brave. watching him all these years, i took such courage myself watching him. sister joanna remembers the first time she met this inmate. he was sitting alone eating. he said, my family send me 30 pounds of food. so i said, your family