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Points higher right now. The s p 500 looking to open little over four points higher lets show you what happened over night in asia as well maybe were pushing a little bit i was going to say, i thought it would be the opposite situation but the hang sang off little over 1 almost 1. 5 . Shanghai composite down. European equities as well right now. We see whats going on there there you have green arrows across the board finally the number that Alan Greenspan says he likes to look at, treasury yields. Show you where things stand. Thats a sad i look at all those things its a sad commentary on our life. I dont know if its sad. Sad that its the first thing i do oh, to see before coffee, before brushing my teeth, before anything. Yeah. Shaving shaving any way, developing story this morning, over the british ship that was seized by Iranian Revolutionary guards last week, iran r ....
Give us a sense of the area. Its a very strange vibe on the streets here admittedly. People are having a bit of difficult time just remember images that we saw come out last night and its the first time that weve seen in the protest already mass attackers coming after protestors and they were beating them pretty savagity with a baton. And it really added a bit of a new dimension to a pretty fast that until now, weve been watching over the past seven weeks and been surprised by the momentum it sustained and surprised the fact that carrie lamb is continuing to maintain ground. David carrie lamb denied the attackers on the protesters came from the government. Is there a sense that the government is behind the attacks . They did really attack the protesters. You know, that would all be speculation at this point. She and the Police Commissioner had a very somber press conference that came out with a lot of officials. And they real ....
A lot of japan looking at hong kong and taiwan the performers across asia though hong kong is really, really ushing it. Lets shift gears away from the equity markets and look at what is happening across currency. Mostly a dollar up, moderate gain. The taiwan dollar here, part of this group pulling back against the dollar. Another tepid set of inflation reports out of each country. 46. 60. Weaker against the u. S. Dollar. If you look at the aussie dollar that is i think up for a fifth or sixth straight day ell above u. S. 60 or 70 cents. Commodities, with oil prices you can see ticking up further looking at maybe 80 cents higher compared to the cut off here though the iron ore prices youll want to watch very closely. Look at the contracts in singapore on the way up. Relatively its a decent session so far. Fplgs were good with that. We are moving ahead to the abe decision at 12 30 hong kong time. It is the end of an era in australia as governor glen stevens holds his final policy meeting ....
Home builders a few areas in the market that are bouncing back today, this afternoon. How long does it last . They look very different from when you were doing World Wide Exchange this morning. Correct. Futures were down 150. Why are we showing you Richard Cordray because 185 million from wells fargo after employees reportedly created false accounts to receive compensation incentives. That man, the head of the bureau will join us on a first on cnbc interview. And we will have a very special guest here at the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Meat. Meat loaf will be joining us to discuss his new album and the changing music business with headlines today on pandora. His first album came out still sells 200,000 albums a year. It is still selling out. He was on celebrity apprentice. Donald trump. Lets just look at ....