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Fedticipation. Looking ahead to tomorrow and what people can expect. Valeant shares are down big this morning after disappointing results. And its mega tuesday with five major primaries taking place across the country. Well go live to one of the most important states hitting the polls today. First up, retail sales down 0. 1 last month, in line with expectations, january sales revised downward from 0. 2 to 0. 4 down. Producer price is down 0. 2 in february. Unchanged if you strip out food and ene...

Months in five years. What a reversal to open up just over 100 points. Now lets move on to whats happening overseas, particularly the atlantic sea. The german franks and the ftse. The 10year treasury note, lets take a look at that. Yielding 1. 83 . Not a big move there. Crude oil, man, up one day, down the next. We had a drop yesterday. Now were up 2. 5 . 39. 15. Crude oil kind of stuck in that 35 to 40 range now for a couple of months. Something to be concerned about. Our roadmap begins today w...

Now is probably benefiting around 1,000 a year, and some very detailed microdata that i have seen on Household Spending patterns suggest there may be a link, as you would expect from reduce reduced amounts that people pay at the pump to overspending like eating out for restaurant meals and other things, but the aggregate data, you know, is not as strong spending is not as strong as it could be given the decline. And, of course on the other sigh we are it may be that it will take a while and its ...

December. The road map begins with the markets climbing back. Dow and s p back for the year. Oil with a 4 handle. The bidding war for starwood. The hotel change taking a higher offer from chinese anbang. Now marriott has five days to respond. As twitter hits an anniversary, jack dorsey says where the company goes from here. The bidding war in process for starwood. The company that had reached a deal to be acquired by marriott some time ago for 0. 9 shares of marriott and 2 bucks per share, and a...

Were unusually quiet, with the average moving a fraction of a percent. Volume at yeartodate lows. Is this the ultimate bull bear showdown ahead of the jobs report tomorrow . Is this the calm before the storm . Guy . I say absolutely yes. I think weve been pretty consistent with this. I think the markets going to continue to rally. I think it rallies tomorrow regardless of whatever number comes out at 8 30. I do think theres a chance we touch 20, 25. I think were going to fail there. A couple of ...

Cutting the number of rate hikes it expects this year in half. What that means for the markets. Shares of fedex are up on earnings and company taking a shot at amazon on its call yesterday. Plus jim cramer spoke to target ceo about competing with amazon. How hes positioning his company against jeff bezos. First up something that would have been nun thinkable. Dow and s p down 1 for the year after the fed reduced the number of rate hikes it expect this year from four to two. Futures moving lower....

Dime. There is a lot to get to this morning, jim. What do you want to tackle first . I think we have to first just talk about the fact that this is the overwhelming day. People are going to be making judgments and theyre too quick. People already decided to hate verizon and hate travelers. I think the most important this evening im seeing is the continued increase in oil, which is driving stocks, and a return to something we havent seen in a long time, which is if you dont do as badly as we worr...

People thought. The worst market overall was there, unfrozen that you can get a sense of things. Theres a look at europe. Again, the losses not particularly substantial given that move down in crude. In asia is where things were a bit tougher overnight, japan in particular with that stronger yen suffered a more than 3 decline. Lets get back here and start with our road map. And where does it start . Well, where youd expect, oil prices are down after the failed doha deal. Were going to take you t...

Us down. Everything is cyclically oriented so it is a risk off tenor to the markets. It is there where amazon lives and not in information technology. The best and worst performers today in terms of index point contributions to the s p 500, we have amazon, on the upside of 9 after recording Record Net Income and part of the because of the strength of its web services division. Gileads hepatitis c drugs came in lower. Some of the best performers related to earnings, monster beverage being because...

S p reclaims 2100 a lot to look at including coke and yahoo. Europes relatively mixed, oil is lower as the kuwaiti oil strike has now ended. But first up intel announcing plans to cut up to 12,000 jobs, about 11 of the work force, weaker demand for pcs ask that exclusive coming up in just a couple of moments. As we said we brought in jon fortt to lead this interesting quarter and interesting plans now for the future. Its really interesting, carl, because we just saw ibm report a quarter where th...