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Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen. Happy friday. Good morning to you from me as well. Im wilfred frost. Its new music friday. Were kicking off with some brandnew katy perry. Would you guess thats katie merry . Katy perry. Got to see her once. You did . Dow is up almost 50 points this morning. S p up 3. Nasdaq up 11 after a solid rally on wall street yesterday. As for the tenyear treasury note yield back to selling off with higher yields. Weve seen that over the past session. Springing back from what was a multi week low we saw earlier in the week. Back above 2. 41 on the ten...

Have received 50 more pay. And the widely anticipated movie 50 shades of grey hitting the silver screen. Already breaking Box Office Records in europe. Could have a big valentines day weekend. Universal is part of the comcast family. In the meantime lets go to michelle with a check on the markets at this hour. Yeah lets take a look at the u. S. Futures following yesterdays 100 point gain on the dow and the nasdaq at a 15 year high. Strength in europe feeding into the u. S. The numbers suggest the dow would open higher by 33 points we want to bring your attention to the european markets. Theyre...

Up lets get you up to speed on the markets. U. S. Equity futures are suggesting a positive open and implied open of 70 points for the dow and s p nearly 9 and for the nasdaq a little more than 24 points. Right where we were yesterday before the retail sales report. Heres the other big stories were watching today. Two economic reports due at 8 30 eastern. Well hear from kohls before the bell and this afternoon watch for nordstrom among others and in Corporate News General Electric is going to sell its commercial finance business. This is part of the plan to spin off most of ge capital. The busi...

Renowned authors Chang-rae Lee and Antoine Wilson shared their work and insights in the two-day literary festival.

Our new Fall issue includes an excerpt from Bei Dao’s book-length poem Sidetracks, translated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang. In Sidetracks, Bei Dao reflects on his turn to making ink-dot paintings like the one here. In April 2012, while with his family on a beach in Hong Kong, Bei Dao suffered a stroke that […]