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Donald trump calling for an investigation into chinas import taxes just moments ago on cnbc. Also, Bernie Sanders saying hes proud Goldman Sachs thinks hes dangerous for wall street. And what jack dorsey says about investors lack of confidence in squares stock right now and why hes not worried about the short sellers. But well start with the markets. We mentioned draghi expanding their qe program to 80 billion euros a month, consulting the refi rate, cutting the marginal lending rate, the deposi...

Sen. Sanders it is what i said was in response to what she has been saying. Washington post headline, clinton questions whether sanders is qualified to be president. I thought it was appropriate to respond. Charlie is it tit for tat . Is that what this campaign should be about . Sen. Sanders no. Ive tried to run an issue oriented campaign. They want to hear about what ideas we have to improve their lives, not just attacking each other every day but what i do have to say. If were getting attacked...

Im sara eisen. And im wilfred frost. Were following breaking news out of europe. Just within the last hour or so, explosions at the main airport in brussels leaving several people dead and an unknown number of people hurt. Airport Officials Say two explosions occurred and passengers are being advised to stay away. The facility has been closed. The blasts come four days after the capture of Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in last years paris attack. Dow jones is quoting a u. S. Official as saying the b...

Waiting for apple, the fed. Stocks are bouncing around in a very tight range. They opened higher, then they went lower. Now they are trading. S p is the leader. Earnings still remain in focus. Individual stocks moving on that rather than the entire market. Apple could change that. Eae a look for the latest on on the s p 500. The s p is orange for this current quarter. Im comparing it to energy and financials. We have already seen some of the countries in these Industries Report but not the major...

It has pushed the dow and s p even higher. The nasdaq also gaining ground and paring its losses for the year. A combination of factors, including earnings, including a commodity led rally as well. The s p 500 has been gaining strength pretty steadily throughout the day. You see right now it is up half a percent. And that is at the highs of the session. Early bouncing around, it has continued to gain. We have been watching the fix during this recent rally. Traitors in our option segment have been...

We had estimated a decline of 0. 1 . When you look at Central Banks, it is the specter of disinflation and it looks like mario draghi may have to address this. Euro area economy, we also get gdp figures. It was a little better than estimated. Gdp better than expected in the First Quarter. Vonnie we are not getting much of a Market Reaction yet. Stocks were lower in the first few hours of trading. The cac 40 down about 1. 4 . The euro also not seeing a huge reaction. People haveguess been led to ...

Japan, marginally lower, korea marginally higher. Overall trading, youll see right now looks like things are looking up across the board. Dax and cac up by 1 . Take a look at the price of crude oil. Last week, crude oil was down by 2. 50. This morning, around 36. 76. Andrew. Weve got a cub ouple of bi news stories. Alaska air officially going to buy virgin and they beat out jetblue. Well talk more about this transaction throughout the rest of the show. Its a big price war. Its a loss for jetblue...

About the fact that theres too Much Negative for the banks right now. Suddenly you start to see it and start to push back in these and then jamie comes in on what he does on the earnings call. It was not great, but it was much better than everybody anticipated because they knew how bad january and february were. That improvement did add to the the earnings and you look at this and nothing great here and year after year and then the bar was set so low because of the bad couple of months that by m...

Wednesday night, the mondelez sale was for quote, rebalancing as the position crew outsized come paired to other holdings like valeant that dropped in value. That sparked wild speculation about whether he might have gotten a margin call or something else. I reached out to him this morning for comment and to give him the opportunity to set the record straight on the current state of his firm. Ackman telling me we dont use margin leverage. Never have and never will. Others speculated he might be p...

Me as well. Lets have a look at u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Decent day yesterday around about 1 in gains for the main markets sparked by big gains for oil prices. Were looking at gains once again today. Almost triple digit for the dow. 85 points in the green are u. S. Dow futures. The s p called higher by 11 points. The nasdaq by 32 points. Lets have a look at the yield on the ten year. Weve come away from that 1. 7 level we hit last thursday. Were close to 1. 8 . So risk sentiment has ju...