The hang seng was up about half percent. And the shanghai up about. 6 . The European Equity markets. This is the early trade. Relatively flat. The dax is flat. Cac is down less than. 2 . The ftsi up about a. 25 . And the italy index about 1. 5 . And spain just over 1 . And up about 0 30 cents. Brent up about 33 cents. Couple of big stories this morning. Bp reporting overnight. Quarterly profits dropping 80 . That topped expectations, oddly enough. The company says it now could cut Capital Spending further as a result. Ceo expecting prices to recover towards the end of the year as pruszers stop work on fields and demand strong returns. Also dupont is raising its full year guidance. The chemicals and seed producer planning to merge with dow chemical but last year regulators needed more time to review materials related to the deal. And today were expecting results from dow components 3m, numbers from Pharma Company eli lilly and hear from its chairman and ceo at 7 30 eastern time. And fac
Nearly paralyzed on which way to go. The dow fell a point the nasdaq up 18 and the s p by 4. Gold showed some strength up 17 dollars and oil gained 1. 03. Bank of america is changing its work rules. Following the death of an internreuters reports the rules involving days off for employees. And, United Airlines suffers a computer complication that left 1,500 flight grounded. Sources says it has to do with the Airlines Merger with continental. Phillip streible of rjo futures joins us now with what to expect from this trading day on this monday morning. Good morning to you phillip. Good morning to you. The market had a rather muted reaction to the jobs number on friday. Will we get any kind of reaction today . I think were gonna see the market start to move higher. I think that news is digested. A lot of people were scratching their heads all weekend. Thinking about how that number could come in at 74 thousand when most analysts were expecting 200 thousand. I think were gonna start to see
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