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to 30. housing starts, building permits, they are expected to climb a little bit. industrial production is supposed to be up. at 10:00 a.m., the university of michigan confidence numbers. how my doing? these are important numbers today? if they are good, that can build on the idea that the jobs number was an aberration and that the economy is moving along. looking backwards, not forwards, we will be getting earnings. everybody watches ge as an economic oh other. at 7:15, they out last of the big angst. senator big banks. senator tom coburn of oklahoma will be leaving the senate. he is also on the banking committee overseeing the fed and on the intelligence committee. he is tied up in all of this nsa stuff. bonds, currencies commodities, when you look at them today, up, up, we go. 10-year yield continues to come coffee, delhi go. your goes nowhere the snake euro goes nowhere this week. sterling was weaker earlier on the economic data that mark the michael is ta ....
8:30 a.m., the all-important must pay attention cti. we are paying attention to the inflation rate. 945 a.m., bloomberg consumer comfort. doing what mortgage she s was that we have earnings before the bell. walmart and tom s favorite shoes crocs. after the bell, nordstrom, hewlett-packard, and groupon. rogers moment. it matches your iphone cover. they do. i have got my girl iphone cover here. it goes with my pink crocs. let s do a pink data check. we re looking at equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. futures negative two, yield comeback. there is a relaxation of from the tragedy we see in kiev, we $2.72. $2.68 back to nymex crude still elevated above $103. more in surveillance today. the ruble, two measurements dollar ruble and the ruble basket, which is a mix of euro and dollars. that is with the pros look out. $41 70 four cents. and there is nymex crude front and center with the ukrainian oil hub in the pipeline. here s a chargt on inflation. a core abl ....
earnings before the bell. happy st. patrick s day. some welsh. green beer later on this hour. i am a quarter irish. here is a headline. inflation and little but lower than expected. sir .7% 0.7%. let s do a did a check. and optimistic bounce off a tough week. 10 year yield goes nowhere. euro essentially goes nowhere. nymex crude is still under. vix, 14 to 18. yan is a little bit lower. the rubel goes nowhere. that is a headline. part of it back stories on commodities. here is copper, the ascension of china. there is the financial crisis. we have rolled over again in copper. why have we rolled over again? all of the volatility in china. financial trades really have nothing to do with actual supply and demand. copper, you secure it, are you unwinding that and have to sell it? some things are going down copper, but other things are going up. right. you have oil that has been moving with ukraine and russian issues. they are moving on the totally on fundamental. ....
and in pixar movies, a canceled tv series hits the big screen with some technical difficulties. we are kicking it off with what everyone is talking about, grimy of to separate from ukraine. ording to the elections crimea voting to separate from ukraine. according to elections officials, they voted yesterday, paving the way for annexation by russia. despite the ukraine leaders calling the vote in a legal officials said it fully met international norms. on the other side, ukraine s acting foreign minister spoke exclusively about the motives behind this referendum. it is a part of a bigger chaos, not only in crimea, but in the use turn ukraine the eastern ukraine. and it might be part of a bigger throughconnect russia the ukraine mainland. meanwhile, the u.n. announcing sanctions against russia this morning. european finance meters were in brussels at a meeting. what they have not done, and this is interesting, if they have not announced any economic sanctions. ther ....
let s tell it like it is. any damage whether intentional or not to europe s largest nuclear power plant or to any other nuclear facility in ukraine could spell catastrophe, not only for the immediate vicinity, for the region and beyond. brings new prime minister has promised to tackle the cost of living crisis. the white house has repeated calls for accountability for the killing of al jazeera journalist shireen abu akleh, but is not pushing for an independent investigation. on monday, the israeli military admitted she was likely killed by military gunfire in may. two people have died and thousands have been ordered to evacuate because of the wildfire in southern california. several buildings have been destroyed. the fire has been fueled by high temperatures and extremely dry conditions. one man was killed during a protest in the congo. people blocked the road and threw stones at you and staff. peacekeepers have not protected them according to demonstrators and they w ....