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The dow was up by 1. 7 . Gains, thats the 13th triple digit gain so far this year. The nasdaq is up by 1. 2 . Were definitely seeing the turnaround from mondays selloff , Consumer Confidence came in earlier this morning at the 10 00 a. M. Mark. Markets are following whats happening with oil, oil is on the boil, rising. Crude is up i 5. 13 . Oil rallied by 9. 5 . It had been down 30 year to date. As of today, its down by about 14 . In saudi arabia, the kingdom saying they will potentially consider cutbacks in oil supply. The state look at the terminal right now. S p,t to show you how the the s p energy sector, and the vti crude are moving in tandem. At 10 00 a. M. , that Consumer Confidence number came in. Oil rose in the green, the s p 500 energy index also rose. Buoyed the s p index all by itself. Everything is all up today. David interestingly, gold also rally today. Rallyyoud think it was you think it would go the way, but remember, while we are seeing a bump in equities, what happe
Fu. The numbers i am looking at here, in addition to earnings per share, if the efficiency ratio, a weight of measure cost at the percentage of revenue. Most like wells fargo disappointed. The ratio for the quarter of 59 , higher than what it wanted to be. You wanted to be a lower number. The company forecasted it would be in the range of 59 . Certainly a higherend of what had and his edit. Wells fargo is the biggest Mortgage Originator in the United States and is heavily tilt the tour that. Whatever market share trend that indicates would be indicative. In terms of other numbers, the average loans up about 4 in the Fourth Quarter and net income for the time in terms of how it is trading we see shares trading lower given it to ms. Earlier this morning. It is higher than yesterday positive close. I will continue to go through the numbers. Right now, 102 is right in line. The efficiency ratio mrs. Thank you. I look at other top stories. A collapse in commodity today. It fell the most in
It is a great number. We get a number like this, a big revision upward to 5 . The dark cloud all year has really been been the bond market. 10year yields hovering 2 . We dipped below two a couple times. That makes investors a little concerned. The problem is not here but in europe. High yield keeps anchor on our yield. There were dark clouds in this. Durable goods still a problem. I have some questions about aircraft manufacturers. I think well hear more from some of the other guests on that. Rich talk about that in terms of what were seeing on exports. Dollar is weakening. Strength in europe. Klaus, what does it mean on this one . What does it mean about exports . Do we have to worry on that front . I would be concerned of a little bit of a headwind in some areas of the world. Asia slowing down a little bit. I think that will affect exports but i still think that consumer demand growing is a good thing. Domestic demand grows, overall i think well see strong growth going forward. Rich
Environment today. Earth day started in 1970 making today its 45th birthday and attention sky gazers out there, aprils top meteor shower is here. Expected to peak before dawn today and again tomorrow. This is debris from comet thatcher. This could be the best part. No special equipment is even needed to see them. Just hope there arent too many clouds out there. Climate change. Earth day is not a climate day. I celebrate it. You should celebrate the earth. But are you sure the meteors arent related to the warming . You know the earthquakes from fracking i can sort of you know, i dont know enough about it but i could sort of see how that makes sense. Its a lot more sense than 100 of an increase causing all of these different things. Were going to celebrate it. We needed the earth. Are you an earth mother . Youre down to earth. A little crunchy. Youre not like a tevas. Every once in awhile i wear those out. Why is a shoe company trying to buy mylan. No that would be teva. So teva you were