u.s. equity futures at this hour have been a bit weak in the for the morning. you know what? just the dow futures. that might have something to do with what becky is going to tell you about. the s&p is actually up a point. the nasdaq is up about four. the nasdaq had some rough sledding lately. the dow is the index down today. down about 21 points. crude prices coming off a loss of about 5%. wti posting the lowest close since november. joe, i ae lewd eluded to it. it s sitting there at one price, then a totally different price. you think it has to do with the world we live in now? absolutely. at 11:20 p.m., oil is trading 45.25 and the next hour 43.76. how does that happen? we re the world is chasing alpha, when the quantitative models see an opportunity, which they see in oil, that s where all the activity is. it wasn t an overweight trader with fat fingers? no, and not pure fundamentals. fundamentals are deteriorating for oil. it is seeing the opportunity, low-vo
i m sara eisen. and i m wilfred frost. good morning to you from me as well. and happy friday. let s have a look at u.s. futures. sharp declines. over 1% in the dow. expected to open slightly positively. essentially we are flat in the pre market but called higher by 4 points. and the s&p by 1 and the nasdaq by about 17 points. let s look at the 10 year treasure note. yields ranging around 1.7 and 1 .9 over the last three weeks. china s central bank fixing its currency t yuan higher. in fact at the sharpest pace since 2005 when china removed its peg to the u.s. dollar. there have been huge swings in currency all week long led by yesterday s massive jump in the yen. how did i miss that? a 3% move in the yen. bank of japan s surprise decision to do nothing and leave the monetary policy unchanged. and of course the big importance is the chinese currency s depreciation in the beginning of the year that was spooking markets and it s gone the other way and that is calming. th
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