>> what weech side wants from the summit ahead wall street pointing to a lower open, but it follows a glitch overnight that halted all futures trading. you're going to find out what happened fed chair jay powell heading back to capitol hill today for a second round of congressional testimony. another big brexit vote today in the u.k. as we are nearly just one month away from the deadline of the e.u.-u.k. leaving the e.u. >> your disaster due juror 48 million reasons why oprah may be upset today on this

wednesday, february 27th, as worldwide exchange begins right now. good morning, and good evening. i'm brian sullivan thank you for joining us right here a live look at hanoi, vietnam, where president trump will soon meet with kim jong un, eamon javers here's a look at the early market action. stock futures indicated. the dow is likely to drop at the open.

>> hang seng down just under -- well, we'll call it flat why not? be generous. on the european markets as well. we are seeing declines across the board down .3% in most of the major market averages well, your big story is the same one that it was yesterday where are this follows his appearance yesterday before the senate banking committee. let's now bring in david nelson, chief strategist at bell point asset management i think what powell did, they pointed to overseas, and that was really the biggest risk for the market you look at china. their manufacturing sectors in

economic contraction europe is a rolling revolution from one country to the next germany is on the cusp of a recession. you have brexit coming up. right now that geosynchronous growth has morphed into the united states as the best house on the wlok. >> we were terrified of a slowdown 60 days ago suddenly everything is great the best start do a year since 1987 what flipped >> well, the world hasn't flipped, but the fed has flipped. that rhetoric -- >> the dofz have flown >> they have completely changed course to his credit, he understood what we saw last year. that was a policy mistake. >> he being jay powell >> jay powell made policy mistake. he reversed course, and that's unusual for the fed. they usually slow acting and they saw they made a mistake, and i applaud them for that. >> what was the mistake? >> certainly raising the interest rates in the face of no inflation.

>> does that tell you we're in a strong market? if the fed threatens or moves the punch bowl slightly away and the markets fall like they did in december, is that a healthy market >> not as healthy as if we consist for the 4% to 5% interest rates i think even warren buffett said on this network, if rates stay low or anywhere near where they are right now, stocks are cheap. >> this has been one of the strongest economies in over a decade if we can't with stand 3% or 4% on the fed funds u funds rate -- >> look around the world we're not the only game on the planet we don't live in a vac you'll. interest rates around the world are very, very low you push our rates up on the long end here. with rates there in germany, we're -- that's still good sovereign paper. they're going to come over here to buy our debt, and it helps put a lid on --

>> it is a global market that's why the show is called worldwide exchange finish my sentence for me. the biggest risk to the market to our viewers' money is >> overseas. >> where >> slowdown. >> it's a big world. if europe remains slow, you have brexit coming up officially, it has to hit the top and bottom line of u.s. companies here i think we're doing astoundingly well in the face of that thank you very much. we appreciate it new this morning, president trump tweeting about fee at and chrysler he says the company "will be adding more than 6,500 jobs in michigan, the detroit area, doubling its hourly work force as part of a $4.5 billion investment thank you, fiat chrysler they're all koong back to the u.s. it's where the action is

the president's tweet comes a day after fiat chrysler announce plans for a big expansion in michigan, and that stock unchanged right now. glienchts your top skorpt story. shares of ww that is the company formerly known as weight watchers, and that stock may be your disaster due juror. let's find out why courtney reagan with more. >> ww reporting disappointing fourth quarter results and a weak outlook for this year as it continues to shift from a dieting company to a wellness brand. that's all part of the changing name, too, from weight watchers to ww. adjusted earnings falling well short of estimates revenues were also shy of expectations the company is predicting sales of about 1.4 billion in 2019 that's below analyst forecasts of 1.6 billion dollars ceo mindy grossman says, "while we are proud of our accomplishments in 2018, we have a soft start to 2019 given our winter campaign, did not recruit as expected, we've been focused on improving member

trends ww shares tumbling more than 30%, and they are down more than 70% over the past year that move impacting the fortunes of the company's most high profile shareholders oprah winfrey is one her investment has lost $50 million, at least on paper winfrey owns 8% of the company or 5.4 million shares according to recent sec feeling. weight watchers, ww, doubling down it plans to tap winfrey, who is a board member and spokesperson, to play a central role in new television and digital marketing campaigns this spring. change, brian, sometimes can be hard >> yes stock looking decidedly unwell this morning courtney reagan, we'll see you in a few minutes thank you very much. we are just getting started on a very busy wednesday up next, more on the high stakes sitdown on the big trump-kim summit in hanoi. you are now just 31 days away from brexit, but will british lawmakers hit the pausz button

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tengs have been rising between the new -- two new nuclear armed nations after 40 indian troops were killed last kweek in a suicide blast on india's side of kashmir. we're going to continue to follow this developing story and bring you more as we get it. also happening right now, we are just hours away from president trump's big meeting with north korean dictator kim jong un. what would it take for trump to claim victory from the summit? let's bring in aemon who is live in the yeet e vietnamese capital. >> president trump has been busy in the overnight east coast hours here in hanoi, vietnam, today. he had lunch arks i five-course meal with the president of vietnam, and during the course of that event, he gave us a sense of what his thinking is going into this meeting later today. >> i look forward to the meeting tonight. it's chairman kim and hopefully it's going to be successful. we'll see what happens he wants to do something great also, and i think it he wants to

do something that would be on par, if you look at what he has done in a short time he can do it in a very, very rapid time >> the president suggesting in a tweet here that observers outside the white house don't really have any sense of what he is focused on here in vietnam. the president saying all false reporting guessing on my intentions with resident to north korea. kim jong un and i will try very hard to work something out on denuclearization, and then making north korea an economic powerhouse i believe that china, russia, japan, and south korea will be very helpful the president also participating in overseeing some trade deals while he is in town. a couple of deals with the vietname vietnam ese totaling 100 boeing 737 jets and 215 ge joint venture engines. bam boo airways will buy ten boeing jets in veem naum airlines is going to buy $100

million in services and technology from saber corporation. anticipation here is hanoi is really growing >> i note from your tweets, there's been maybe some issues with the white house press corps and north korea. how much access is the western press being given to kim jong un if at all? >> well, we haven't been able to see much of kim jong un directly some of the western white house reporters were actually scheduled to stay right in the same hotel the malea hotel where kim jong un is staying. unceremoniously, the white house press pool was woted out of that

hotel. some of the reporters who are staying there are allowed to continue to stay at the hotel, but the press filed a working place where the press gathers to do its reporting, that's been kicked out, and reporters had to scramble across the city after weeks and weeks of planning for this summit. they're scrambling to find new places to work. >> what would it take for president trump to claim a victory from this sum snit. >> i think you're already seeing the recasting of expectations, and you have begun to hear it over the last few weeks. i mean, let's be clear there's been nine rounds of u.n.

sanctions on north korea dating back to 2006 there's still evidence of sanctions evasion, and there's still sanction that is have been tacked on to north korea over the last few months even after the singapore summit i think this is very much going to be cast as a continuation of singapore, but the whole denuclearization topic is one that the north koreans, i mean, there's evidence they're still building out their nuclear weapons program, albeit not testing it like they were in 2017 i think you're going to see a bit of a change in the rhetoric from denuclearization to a potential situation similar to what iran had where if they make limited steps, they'll see easing of sanctions because that's really what they want to begin to happen. >> the maximum pressure campaign unlike any program before, the business community isn't clambering to enter the north korean market.

there was actually a penalty >> it's totally banned, and there's been fines against companies found to have north korean labor in the supply chain just a few weeks ago there's still issues, and it's not that there's pressure from a lobbying campaign to re-enter the market i think the north koreans are going to try and come away with some degree of deal similar to the iran deal for clear verifiable progress for sanctions relief. >> does that show you that north korea is slowly trying to open up >> i think they found an opportunity to legitimatize a regime that's long been viewed as that true isolationist government, as that isolationist

regime >> his grandfather was his father, and now it's him >> there's still widespread evidence of human rights violations this is nothing that the a victory -- it casts them on an even keel with the united states president >> is it a mistake >> i don't think it's a mistake, but i think it's just the expectation management i mean, denuclear glags, and we've talked about this before you don't spend 40 years trying to build up a nuclear weapons portfolio to just give it up without some sort of real carrot there hasn't been a carrot that's been dangled in front of them yet the carrot initially was the meeting with the president in singapore. now what gets offered is the real mystery >> thank you for trying to help us unsolve that mystery because it is very tricky. daniel, thank you very much. bwc. zpliefrmts in the meantime, news out of europe, deal or no deal that is the big question today for u.k. lawmakers as the clock ticks towards next month's brexit deadline. willem marks live in london with more

willem >> thanks, brian a lot has changed since and you i spoke here yesterday in the u.k. theresa may making a statement to the house of commons behind me yesterday lunchtime. essentially saying there will not be an opportunity inside parliament for lawmakers to vote against no deal. that's the u.k. crashing out of the european union without any kind of agreement. also, a vote to potentially postpone the process by which they continue negotiations with brussels and, therefore, postpone the possibility of that no deal scenario this is something a lot of lawmakers have been calling for in recent months plitdically, domestically, shoo ez trying to push away some of the criticism she's getting from both her op nepts and members of her own party when it comes to the choices facing them. she's putting it back on their plate.

this continues to drive the british currency >> willem marks live in london thank you very much. one month ago. zpliefrmgt still ahead here, saudi arabia's oil minister responding to president trump's latest opec tweet. we'll give you his exclusive comments to cnbc's trade ahead, but, first, this morning's stocks to watch. a big pizza chain getting a nice pop this morning the who and the why next imagine traveling hassle-free with your golf clubs.

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of potential supply and decline, and inventories ballooned quickly and, therefore, we corrected course in a gradual and measured way to bring inventories to a reasonable level. u.s. production has peaked and continues to increase. we've seen an inventory overhang that could be destructive to the interest of consumers and producers. >> call he'd al fali speaking to me in riyadh earlier today he also indicated it is now increasingly likely that opec will look to extend that current production cut agreement that was agreed last year big news for the oil market. back over to you >> dan murphy in riyadh. thank you very much. up next, just who is america's most loved grocery store well, you think you may know, but you probably don't

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>> we are less than an hour away from president trump sitting down face-to-face with north korea's kim jong un. we will take you live to vietnam ahead. federal reserve chairman jerome powell back in the hot seat today on capitol hill he is testifying before the

house. we'll break down what you need to watch a new study shedding light on just how filthy your phone really is. put it down. wipe it off. worldwide exchange rolls on right now. >> receipts cannic it off in the aforementioned court any reagan in uggs. >> i'm cold. >> i'm cold. >> but i'm here. here's what's leading cnbc.com rieb futures trading has returned to normal following an hour's long technical glitch at the cme that halted all trading the cme is investigating what exactly what went wrong there. with the u.s. commerce department opening a new anti-dumping probe into steel

imports from china, canada, and mexico the investigation comes despite calls from many u.s. lawmakers and car companies to drop tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. jay powell is heading back to capitol hill today the federal reserve chair is testifying before the house financial services committee that hearing gets underway at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. brian, back to you >> courtney reagan, we'll see you in a few minutes thank you very much. let's go outside of the world of money and business. phillip has those. cohen is reportedly brigt a bombshell before the house oversight committee. a signed check from the trump organization connected to hush money allegations. cohen is expected to say that check was part of his reimbursement for the 130,000 dlarsz he paid to stormy daniels to stay silent about her alleged

affair with mr. trump in the weeks leading up to the election sflierjts now mitch mcclonl have to bring the measure to a vote within the next 18 days. ifle bill gets to the president's desk, mr. trump has vowed to veto it >> mandatory evacuations are underway in parts of northern california dozens of communities along the russian river in sonoma county are in the path of quickly rising floodwaters the river is expected to rise nearly 14 feet above its flood stage. amid heavy rainstorms and mudslides are also now becoming a concern there as well. >> phillip, thank you very much. stocks futures down about 94

points right now we're seeing right across the board on the s&p, nasdaq, and the dow. joining us now on set is seema shaw at principal global investors. good to see ow set welcome. >> thank you very much >> the last time you were on this fine program, you talked about how the drop in volt tilt may be a worrying sign well, all that's happened since then is volatility continues to fall, and the markets continue to go up are you more concerned now >> i mean, i think that what we've had is market expectations are still too positive we look back at since december what's happened is the market has rallied on the fed pivot that concerns me there is a build-up of potential move done once that market starts to really recognize what's going on >> were you pleased with jerome powell's testimony yesterday and what do you expect from him today? >> it was pleasing in that it

was the same message as previously the says issue will be really the communication has been flip-flopping both ways, which is what's been in the markets. the fact that powell was very straight forward, similar message to previously they're going to be patient, data-dependent, and that's a positive, and that's why there is minimal reaction to the market today it's going to be difficult to say where is this going e going, and i suspect there will be more conversation about the balance sheet and many further pushing on the international global economic scare. >> we talked about this yesterday. the bond market with a yield of 2.66% or whatever it is, seems to be telling us wrun u one story, but the stock market with its best start to a year since 1987 seems to be telling us a different story. what story do you believe? >> i think the bond market is telling you something that growth is -- they believe that growth is low. they're not too concerned about inflation, whereas equity markets has been ignoring that at some point once bond market

start to think that, okay, maybe inflation is starting to come through still but the economics is weak, that's where you could have the ek it quit market and bond market meeting with bond yields ridesing and equity markets starting to weaken, and that will be the worry there are places to be globally. i still believe that at a u.s. equities have further to run >> a little bit. >> not a lot a bit >> not a lot because i do believe those economics -- economic numbers are going to start impacting the equity market at some point, but the emeshlging market side is positive we are very i guess eager on the china side that there will be stabilization later this year, and that's working for em asia now, europe i know is a tough story. generally it's going to be higher quality stuff

same thing with credit if you are going to be in credit, be in the sake of investment for investment grade. >> we do not know if you are going to be a part of london -- or europe going forward in about a month's time how does brexit factor into all of this and your analysis? is it making it almost impossible to run economic models when you don't know if the u.k. is going to be a member of the e.u.? >> i think it's very difficult at the moment to invest in the u.k. simply because it's a binary situation you know, if we leave, there's going to be a major economic impact if we stay, we expect things to improve. on the global side it's important for the european story. i expect there to be a negative impact on the european economy, which is already very weak, and i think it's in a difficult and slightly dangerous position.

no deal brexit, bank of england forecast, minus an 8% dip in growth, that is significant. of course, that is going to have an impact being on the company that is operate in the u.k. that have a lot of their sales in the u.k. there is that impact certainly the repercussions of such a very significant move would be very, very notable. we still think there's very verks low risk, especially from the news that we've been getting the last few days. >> you think chinese equities may be a good buy here, if i heard you correctly. >> i do. i think that the stabilization is going to come through we've had something like 67 different stimulus measures since last june. now, stimulus works with a lag it doesn't happen overnight. same thing with the u.s. exactly what you would expect. they've had to change a lot of their policy making because they've seen some of it is less effective than the others. when you have confidence as row as it has been, and you have tax cuts, unfortunately, it's not

spent. it's just saved. they've had to pivot towards the credit and monetary easing measures i expect that stabilization to come through do i think it's going to be a big boom like we saw in 2016 absolutely not we still have to deleverage and still top of their minds they all have the huge leverage push with increasing debt. i think it's in term of assets first of all, have you to look at balance sheets. that's going to be the key thing going forward. it's not just about sectors or style. it has to be about strong balance sheets and wide profit margins. on top of that if we expect a slowdown but not a recession, and either way even if you think interest rates are going to go higher, they're not going to get one or two more hikes. in that situation, real assets and really real estate is going to be a great position >> great to see you on set thank you very much for coming in appreciate it. we are now res than one hour

away from president trump's meeting with north korean dictator kim jong un and those high level nuclear talks here's the question. could those talks in vietnam actually play a role in u.s.-china trade negotiations? eunice yoon has more on this side of the story. sfwliefrmgts state media also weighed in saying china has played a fundamental role in insuring that a second tweegt e meeting between kim and trump goes ahead now, president trump seems to believe that as well after the trade negotiations wrapped up in washington over the weekend, and

before he came here to hanoi president trump tweeted president xi of china has been very helpful in his support of my leading with kim jong un. now, because president trump has such a personal style of diplomaciy and continues to express his gratitude to president xi, here's a question that people have been asking will president trump feel that he owes president xi from the previous summit in singapore, president trump had decided to let off the hook the chinese telecom company, zte, who had been broken u.s. sakes at that time there was a widespread belief that president trump had decided to do that to give a favor to president xi and get xi to influence the progression for the singapore summit

it will feel like he had to make concessions at another very personal summit that's coming up on trade with president xi possibly in march. brian. >> how closely do you believe that president xi is watching this summit? i think president xi, not that i've given him a call or anything, is watching this process very closely president xi, i wish i could call him, but i don't think that i keep giving out his mobile phone number anyway, i am sure that president xi is watching this process very closely. china and north korea have been traditionally very close allies, and also, there's been a rumor going around that kim jong un after this whole meeting when he routes back through china to pyongyang is going to make a stop to see president xi and that wouldn'tbe too surprising given how important a relationship is in just a couple

of weeks ago kim jong un visited president xi as well just to underscore that even though it looks as though he might be getting closer to the americans, but he still has china in mind >> well, we know the chinese government watches cnbc closely. now maybe you will be getting a call thank you very much. tensions have been rising between the two nuclear armed nations after 40 indian troops were killed in a sbried w suicide blast in india's half of kashmir. we continue to follow this breaking story and give you more we have a lot more coming your way here on worldwide exchange coming up, major market optimism not one, not two, but three big reasons why you might want to be bullish right now.

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company. let's find out what you are going to be talking about today. it's time for the top trending stories. have you warmed up >> not yet you got to get -- >> we got to wake up 43 degrees fahrenheit. all right. what is trending today, courtney >> it's been a brutal few hours for oprah. say that five times fast >> her stake in weight watchers used to be called weight watchers is now ww fell by $48 million. shares of the company plummeting 30% after its earnings came up short and gave investors a weak 2019 outlook oprah owns about 8% of the company formerly known as weight watchers we know she's on the board they're undergoing a rebranding where, they just didn't sign up as many members as they thought they did

>> do you believe the push to wellness is urt hadding them because that's an overused term. >> dieting is no fun nobody wants to diet, right? i think it's sort of a different way to look at being healthier and have a healthier lifestyle i think change -- >> this is -- i love this story because i love lists >> love lists. sometimes i do something if it's not on the list, and i go back and write it down just so i can cross it off >> wow you're weird >> real weird. new surveys shedding light on america's favorite places to buy foos food. trader joes's coming in as the top rated supermarket, and also the highest overall retailer in the entire survey. >> costco and sam's club the big loser? wal-mart >> would you consider them a grocer >> absolutely. >> come on i know they've got grocery there. >> you know why? >> i wouldn't say wal-mart is a grocer >> it is the country's biggest grocer, and 56z% of wal-mart sales are food

actually, 56%. >> would you consider trader joe as a grocer. >> a lot of it is prepackaged food full of untraditional. >> trader joe's is the main grocer that i go to. it appears happens to be close to where i live. it is the main grocer. >> have you ever been in an h.e.b. >> i have -- >> do you know what it stands for? >> it's texas-based chain. they're big. they're like the publix of texas. >>ent do know much about that. >> trader joe's taking the top spot >> people love trader joe wres's >> they really do. what's the one item that never leaves your side it's also the most filthy. your phone >> a new study is showing that your smartphone is actually seven times dirtier than a toilet not only are we taking our phones with us to the bathroom, but we also take it to the kitchen, to the bedroom, offense desks. it's a big issue too

public transit they found out that the typical worker's desk, which is thoem your phone, 40 hours a week or more, possibly, has hundreds of times more bacteria per square inch than an office toilet seat. >> what is happening at many office desks >> our bathrooms are cleaned multiple times a day when is the ras time you wiped off your desk? >> you know many me. i'm a little weird i spray -- >> i'm pretty clean too, but a lot of people don't wipe off their desk i could see that germs build up over time i don't know about seven times dirtier than a toilet seat, but i get it >> i think what they call the lead would be don't lick your phone. >> don't lick your phone there are ways to clean it, but you have be to careful depending on what kind of phone you have

i take that phone and wipe it on my desk, and then i spread the germs to my dress. not super smart. >> if they're your germs, own them >> i think it makes your immune system stronger over time, right? >> we're going to find out courtney, thank you very much. >> thanks, brian let's get you back up to speed. we are seeing futures down right now. about 100 points joining us now is the director of global macroat fidelity investments. welcome. what do you want to hear what's the best case snako for the market from jerome powell today? >> i think we're already getting it the fed has pivoted. now even the balance sheet looks like it's going to go away maybe the balance sheet runoff ends at the end of the year, and now there's talk about the new sort of price level targeting or some variation of that where they're going to low inflation

to overshoot above 2% for as long as needed to compensate for the persistent undershoot we've seen i don't think there's anything new coming out today that would be a surprise to the markets >> yeah. you have three reasons why the market's narrative it is about to improve the federal reserve is one of those. what are the other two >> one of them is china. china -- you know, eve been waiting for months and months for the chinese reflags to happen because every two years january showed a record increase in agregate financing. even though there's a seasonal element to it, it's still a really big number, 4.6 trillion yuan maybe we're finally getting that pumping up of the chinese

econo economy. >> it's a bottom to match the v-shaped obama to match since december, and it's still early days, but it looks like maybe the erkz is starting to stabilize, and that means maybe in 2019 we'll get, you know, 5% earnings growth and then the hope is that we go back to 11. all of this is to say that the narrative, i think, is improving, and the -- it certainly explains why we've recovered about 75% of the dough cline from december. >> yeah. given that you believe that the market's snapback in january, then, is justified and is it fair given earnings expectations >> yeah. well, first of all, the 20%

decline should never have been a 20% decline. it should have been maybe 10% to 15%. there were circumstances, you know, a lack of liquidity, liquidation of krouted sort of momentum trades, so the fact that we have recovered a lot i think is in part due to the sentiment extreme, and, by the way, the sent meant extreme continues. in december investors were selling stocks at a rate of $89 billion a yoer, and you would think after an 18% rebound, that auto would have diminished they're now selling at a rate of $113 billion a year. people still hate this rally i think everyone is looking down the road and looking for the other shoe to fall, looking for that recession in 2020, and there are really no signs of it. i'm not surprised by the rebound. you know, whether we can continue on our track is a whole other story. i think the market at these levels makes sense here. >> always a pleasure to get your views and insight.

thank you. have a great day >> thank you coming up, we are going to take you back to vietnam president trump's motorcade is about to depart any moment for his high stakes heating with north korea's kim jong un. we are live in hanoi after this quick break.

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>> hundreds and hundreds of people rushed to those barric e barricades to get the closest possible viewing position to see the beast and the president drive by here in hanoi we're expecting three different events through the metrohall hotel. we expect to see an official greeting between president trump and kim jong un. we also expect to see a one-on-one meeting just with the two leaders there and their translateors, and then we expect to see a social dinner in which the leaders and snft highest level official wills have a meal together all of that in advance of the official summit events tomorrow. this is just sort of a photo op greeting, a one-on-one meeting where they will be able to discuss some of the key material that's on the table here between these two countries, and then what they're billing as a social dinner between the high level delegations. behind me vietnamese police

really doing a heck of a job clearing the streets getting those barricades back far away from the parade route, you about also allowing a lot of the tour is here, spectators, locals, and some of the media folks to get a good view of thismotorcade as it goes by in just a couple of minutes time, brian. >> just you is a your video on twitter. pretty cool. we've seen a lot of american flags on the streets here. we'll see what kind of reception president trump ace motorcade gets when it passes by here. i've seen people out with american flags, with signs welcoming the president. a lot of tourists here internationally as well as from the area here as well. just looking to get the best

possible view they can eamon, we'll see you all day long really interesting stuff thank you very much. >> that wraps it up for us here. wordwide exchange. squault "squawk box" picking up the coverage of the trump-kim summit your digestive system has billions of bacteria, but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself, with align probiotic. and try align gummies, with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health

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it's february 27th, like 2019. like "squawk box" begins right now. we are live from the nasdaq market site in times square. i'm becky quick. futures trading for u.s. stock markets, treasuries, and commodities were halted for efrl hours because of a technical fault at the cme group that problem lasted from roughly 7:340 p.m. until 10:45 p.m. eastern time the cme is investigating what went wrong in the meantime, though, you can see things are back up and running now. dow futures indicated down by 82 points s&p futures are down by just over 8.5 points. this does come after