Markets. Stocks mixed in premarket, dow looks to make historic thousandpoint gain in the month of february. Warren buffett announcing hes exiting an investment worth more than 3. 5 billion. Yeah. Which one . Well tell you. The ceo of monthdelez, sitting down with sara eisen. Talking about the state of the consumer later this hour. First up futures moving lower after the s p closed wednesdays session at a record high. January ppi fell. 8 showed unexpected decline of. 1 when you take out food and energy. Housing starts came in below forecast, down 2 last month. Markets waiting for the release of the fed minutes. A lot going on. Some of the macro data, jim, worryisome worrisome, singlefamily down 6. 7, the biggest drop since last january. Yeah. I think that these were surprising numbers. When i say surprising numbers i dont think you take action on them because they seem uneven. Housing starts weather. Its cold. Because if you look at housing etf, ever since horton announced that numbers
I want to know from Robert Seinfeld where wall street in new york will be in the next five years. Were going to start off with the morning brief. That news out of china. They have been inspecting a slowdown in. We have suggestions that were going to get contraction in chinese manufacturing. Europe is going the other way. Expansion is showing more than forecast. They are not out of the woods. Spanish unemployment comes in above 25 for the sixth month in a row. Actually, 26 . Not good news. Here in the United States, we should get better news. Jobless claims are out at 8 30. At 10 00, existing home sales. Is the momentum continuing . Earnings, before the bell lockheed martin, mcdonalds. Union pacific, after the bell, microsoft. A lot of interest. Will they say anything about their ceo search . The bad news out of china is driving the markets this morning. Were seeing markets down across the board. That is the case for u. S. Futures. They are down by five points. Bit forso leading to a tr