After yesterdays strong rally following on the heels of wednesdays strong rally, were up about 1 on the dow. I dont like to talk about the dow but unless the s p stronger. China did all right. Shanghai up 1. 8 . Shenzhen up, and nikkei at a 3 gain. We were below 2 at one point on monday in the craziness, but now were hovering in the 1. 2. Crude had its best day in many years. Well above 40 again. Monday, we fell below 40. It has been, to say the least, a volatile week in many markets. Lets get to our road map this morning, and it starts with the last trading day of this wild week. The dow coming off its biggest twoday point gain ever, not percentage but point gain. Equity futures, slipping. Carl icahn has his next target. Why commodities . Why now . Well talk about a company weve talked a lot about and mr. Akahcarl icahn himself, and the takeover continues. Pa perrigo is saying were not interested. Ill have more on what to expect as the Companies Battle it out. Futures moving to the do
Lets go with Trace Gallagher with the latest announcements, put it all together altogether trace. The second accusers a woman name Meredith Watson who said this happened back in 2,000 undergraduates at Duke University and she claims at the time she share the account with several classmates who had apparently provided statements to authorities willing to back up that claim that her lawyer also says she shared the story with friends and a string of emails on facebook and if that is the case, it will clearly be significant social media footprint on the story. The woman calls this, excuse me, a premeditated aggressive assault. She is not offering details, but she says the details of her attack are similar to the one described by vanessa tyson. Remember that is the first accuser. In that case tyson said they were at a Dnc Convention in boston in 2004, and that fairfax asked tyson to go back to get documents and begin kissing. The consensual, and then, she alleges he put his hand behind her