Weak so far. The dow and s p 500 even with those losses on wednesday are on pace for the best week in five nasdaq with the biggest week in seven weeks. In morngs ding dow futures up b5 points, s p up by 3, and the nasdaq up by 6 overnight in asia, the nikkei ended up just slightly. Up by 27 points. The hang seng by a half percentage point in europe this morning, with some of the early trading, it looks like the dax is up by 0. 3 the cac in france up bay half percentage point stocks are slightly weaker in london, but italian and spanish stocks are in the green. Also look at crude oil prices. Crude jumping on wednesday by 2. 1 , setting a 2. 5year high. It was sitting at 58. 02. This morning were up again, 63 cents higher to 58. 65. A couple of corporate stories were watching Teva Pharmaceuticals will lay off thousands of employees in israel and the United States they will be reportedly sending termination letters to 10 of its 10,000 employees earlier this month we heard teva said it wou
There. The cac in france down by close to 1 . In italy the ftse was down by 2. 19 . The dax is off by just ov over. 60 . Also, well check out crude oil prices today. Crude oil after a big rebound you can see is down by 1. 25 . Wti for july, that is a new contract, is now trading at 47. 81. Okay. We have a big top story to talk about this morning. A potential deal, jer m bayer o a deal valued at 62 billion to buy monsanto. Lets talk to bayers ceo about th this, werner baumann, your decision came about how . Monsanto received a private offer from us. It was out in the open and we want to explain to the public and to shareholders what the content of the offer is and why it is so attractive to shareholders. Should we be taking your public stance as one where there are private negotiations are taking place, or should we take you going public to educate the public on what is going on and to put pressure on monsanto . Well, we are early days at this point in time. And we have submitted our of
Daughter sherri and the ceo and leader of viacom Phillippe Dauman. This morning he has filed a lawsuit just moments ago along with George Abrams in the massachusetts probate and family Court Challenging changes purportedly made to the trust arrangements by an attorney claiming to represent mr. Redstone. In a legal complaint, these two gentlemen, mr. Dauman and mr. Abrams who again have been removed from the trust that oversees the stake in National Amusements that in turn controls viacom and cbs, they are going to the court saying they want immediate judicial relief and a court ruling to invalidate the purported removal of them by mr. Redstone as trustees of the trust and also invalidate the removal as well as directors of National Amusements. They would assume then want him, that is mr. Redstone, to be deemed potentially incompetent and not able to make decisions. And very harshly worded language, guys, that accompanies this lawsuit. In a press release i just received Phillippe Dauman
His murder spree, they say, began more than a week ago today. They say it came to an end here in a cabin that went up in flames. Gunfire in the mountains two hours east of los angeles. The statewide manhunt for fugitive Christopher Dorner took its dramatic, final turn on big bear mountain. We have the suspect holed up in a cabin. Reporter cornered inside a burning cabin, San Bernardino sheriff says this is where they believe the former l. A. Police officer and cop killer came to his end. We believe he is still inside the cabin, yes. Reporter there has been no sign of dorner since his burntout truck had been found six days ago. Incredibly, just across the street from the sheriffs command post, sites of multiple media briefings. Two women who arrived to clean the Vacation Rental stumbled on to dorner. He tied them up, then stole their car. The first was a purple nissan, which he ultimately appeared to have been driving too fast, lost control of the vehicle, crashed it, carjacked the seco
Vote. The families of newtown deserve a vote. As House Speaker john boehner explains in an exclusive interview why he feels the president doesnt have the guts to stand up to his own party. And rough landing. A small plane carrying a family, including a 7monthold baby, crash lands in a field of snow and its caught on camera. And, incredibly, everyone escaped without serious injury, today, wednesday, february 13th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to a special edition of today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie in washington, d. C. We will, of course, matt, have complete coverage of the president s state of the Union Address and the republican response in a moment. But first i know that scene in big bear lake, california, remains very active this morning, matt. Yeah. Its been very busy there. Investigators spent the night at what