Switch shares up about 24 this afternoon. Well look at whether that treasury move could help juice the market for ipos coming up. Meanwhile, the new blade runner sequel hits theaters this weekend were going to look at whether this film can revitalize the struggling box office. Lot of fingers crossed in hollywood here as they bring Harrison Ford back one more time. Well see. Good luck. Hope it works. Lets begin today with a jobs report, though. Eyeopening number hs this morning. Our senior economics reports Steve Liesman joins us from austin with a breakdown of those numbers. Steve . Reporter yeah, bill, you had to cast your eyes down on this number here. But whats happening right now is people are really throwing out the weak number on the top line and looking to the details of the report and they find strength here. Let me show you what theyre talking about here the top line number minus 33,000 quite a bit below the 80,000 estimate you have the revisions to the prior months which were
Mixed week right now, youre looking at the dow on pace for its eighth consecutive weekly gain as kevin was talking about. Hard to find down days the s p 500 is hovering around break even if it does end in the positive territory, it would be its eighth consecutive weekly gain nasdaq on track for its sixth week of gains. Dow futures indicated up by 30 points nasdaq indicated to open up by 20 points. S p fight pictuutures indicate 0 1. 5 this morning the hang seng ended up by 0. 3 in korea, the kospi with you up by close to a half percentage point. In shanghai, down by a third of a percentage point in europe, you will see it looks like things are relatively flat. France, you couldnt get much flatter than it stands the dax is up by 0. 3 . The ftse up by 0. 25 we will get to the gop tax plan and jay powell in a moment, a couple other big stories President Trumps twitter account was temporarily dark last night the company says that a exiter employee accidentally deactivated the account on hi
We do say good morning on this friday. Im kendis gibson. And im linda lopez in for diane macedo. We begin with President Trumps second day in france as he downplays differences with the french president. We do want to take a live picture. You can see the french president at the arc de triomphe for bastille day or french holiday national celebrations. President trump is there with macron reviewing the troops as well. The two leaders who clashed over Climate Change say that shouldnt stop them from working together on other things. Meanwhile, the controversy over donald trump yans meeting with a russian lawyer is hanging over his fathers trip. Abcs janai norman has the latest. Reporter President Donald Trump making friends in france, invited to celebrate bastille day by french president emmanuel macron, but controversy following close by. Trump unable to shake the meeting between his inner circle and the woman his son was told was a russian government lawyer. My son is a wonderful young m
Good morning from me as well. Lets get you up to speed on the wall street action. A nice day for wall street. 1 gains in all three indices. Apple another one of the factors, its carrying through asian trade and helping futures. 16 points on the dow and 1. 5 points on the nasdaq. The s p up by eight points. Lets have a look at the chart of the day. Oil on supply discussions. Eia saying share output is expected to drop in june for an eighth consecutive month. And also fires burning around the canadian oil supplies of Fort Mcmurray up again. Up ten basis points but the big move came yesterday with up 3. 3 . Settling at its highest since the 3rd of november. And today a high of 47. 85. Oil prices remarkably strong. Inching towards that 50 a barrel. Its helping markets everywhere. Take a look at asia over night. We did see a gain after the nikkei went to a oneweek low. Also saw gains in hong kong with shanghai comp did close lower by 0. 25 . Gary fink of black hawk make something warnings.
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