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Washington correspondent, peter cook and john kerrys diplomatic trip to ukraine. Our peace efforts yielding any results so far . Right now, he might be more of a side player in all of this. Hes not the only foreign visitor trying to forge a medic solution. At this hour, german chancellor Angela Merkel and the french president are in kiev and they brought with them a new ceasefire initiative. They did not provide details on the proposal itself. They had next to moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin directly who has offered up his own peace plan. This is their response and this will be Angela Merke...

Before the bell, well be hearing from retailers walmart and kohls. And the bulls are hoping todays earnings and Economic News can give stocks another boost. The dow snapped its threeday winning streak. Out to the futures this morning, youll see at this point there are some strong moves in a positive direct. Dow futures are up about 60 points above fair value. The s p 500 up by eight points, the nasdaq up by almost 20 points. While we were sleeping, asia closed mixed. Take a look at what happened with the nikkei. It was up another 1 . A lot of speculation out there that the Prime Minister shinz...

Look at the other markets as well. Weve got the nasdaq, the russell, and dow transports for everybody to keep an eye on. The nasdaq having a great session, um 1. 25 . Good enough to puck it back at 5,043 for the level the. The russell, the small caps doing pretty well, up almost 1 or 11 points. The transports are lagging a bit, up half a percent. They have suffered this year, especially, coming back a lit there will. In the midst of all this real action, there was a seemingly phony bid for avon. Halted shares of the cosmetic maker. More on that story later. What a crazy story that was midday a...

Here are the top stories were watching ahead of the opening bell. Informatics is now the biggest leveraged buyout of the year. From europe and the canadian pension plan Plan Investment board are buying the company for 5. 3 billion dollars. This has been a target of activist management elliott managed activist target for elliott management. Drillers idled oil rigs for the 17th straightway 17th street we. Rand paul running for president 2016. He officially kicked off the campaign in louisville. Another story we have been watching this afternoon, the lights are coming back in defeat. They briefly...

At Andrews Air Force base. In order to meet the debt ceiling. President clinton did at first but the democrats in 1993 and that it again with republicans in 1995. There were seven of these negotiations during bush 41. The reason the debt ceiling is therefore is for the power of the purse. Thats it and youre supposed to have negotiations leading up to it. I think its just slightly inappropriate to say i voted against it but now you guys have to vote for it without negotiating with me. There we go. I will bring it back to the distinction between appropriations and spending versus the debt limit....