joe kernin joins us live from new york. joe, there's so much stuff to talk about.ot a paint deal. we've got stuff in cuba. we've got javier aka xavier not going as far as what people expected. what's on your radar, joe? >> you would think that people from cincinnati would pick xavier, and go with or live with their team or die with their team. but not everyone has done. >> i'm playing to win, joe. >> playing to win? i took villanova last year. that was not that smart. but my question is, wilfred doesn't know -- he thinks that you have to kick a basketball around and you can't use your hands. why is he like second in the pool that we have? >> it just goes to show you that you don't need to know anything about it to pick the right teams. >> how am i doing? i think i'm doing pretty well? >> you're doing pretty well. >> did you will wilf, sara, honestly? >> honestly, he received help. >> from who? >> he has a lot of friends here. >> no, dom, dom, i was tied for second after saturday. and if it wasn't for that -- i didn't see that last night, i'm sick to my stomach read

joe kernin takes a look at what's coming up. good morning, joe. >> two days in a row. >> what? the thumbs up. maybe george stephanopoulos is going to write the next piece on hillary's chances, you know. he's so tough, man, really asks those tough questions of hillary. i agree, though, i think that the campaign should just coast. not worry about terry mcauliffe or any of this stuff. i would just coast from here on out. a shoo-in. >> joe, i was talking to one supporter of clinton he actually said the biggest threat she has for sanders continuing is energy. she needs to have holiday and relax. >> her biggest threat is herself, wilfred. you haven't lived in this country for the past 20 years. let's not go there. let's not go there. >> you could say the same thing about trump. both sides. >>> derek jeter is going to be on on a day where it looks like we may have a winning session again. when is the last time we had two decent days in a row. pretty good day yesterday. oil is. you. dollar continues to get stronger, down 1.11 again on the euro. but maybe this is the time where, you kno

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew sorkin.ing a look at equity futures, finally seeing positive direction for the bulls. dow futures up by 60 points. s&p up by 5, nasdaq up by 14 after the markets finished down once again yesterday. take a look overnight in asia, chinese stocks shaking off a high profile rejection from msci's emerging markets index.

joe kernin joins us with a look at what's coming up. joe, what do you got for us today?> i believe that while i was in the makeup chair, you may have been talking about brexit. wilfred. at least one eyebrow is raised, is it not? you've got my betting numbers today? because those still -- people that point to stay say those are still in favor. i keep seeing the polls. >> joe, they are, it's not just an eyebrow raise. it's an eyebrow very firmly raised it's firmly behind exit. remain is most likely but only 59%, the latest betting. >> did you say 59 or 69? >> 59. so it's getting very, very close. extraordinary momentum behind exit that remains still just ahead. and the pound is certainly responding to it. and european equities you'd have to say responding as well over the last trading session. they're down 6% over the last week. >> i saw a video, i won't go into the source, but it was a gentleman speaking about -- it was supposed to be taking place a year after the vote, when it's been a year of being back out of the eu. who -- have you seen this? who is the gentleman spea

that means the team is getting ready for "squawk box," joe kernin is in new york with a look at what's >> good morning, wilfred. we've got tim armstrong for almost two hours, i think. and definitely one of my clients is obsessed with yahoo! and what's going to happen with yahoo!. tim is now, kind of the guy, i guess at verizon, if that does become the eventual acquirer, i think that might come under auspices. i think they may be comfortable at verizon to handle the combined entity. we're going to talk to tim. i don't know how much he will say. is sara there, sara listening? >> yeah, of course. >> wilfred was at the correspondents dinner. tim armstrong was there. do you know who one of his guests he's bringing today, sara? >> i don't. >> jared leto. jared was at the white house correspondent dinner. i did not know he was going to be on the show. i needed to get a selfie with him. i don't know if you know this guy not only did he win an academy award for "dallas buyers club" he's been the front guy -- >> i've been a jared leto fan for my whole life? did you ever watch "my so-called life"

joe kernin joins us.morning. >> kudos to sara, you mentioned trump and sanders not being for free trade. and hillary clinton is against ttp now. >> yeah. >> she used to be for it. and that is -- the poor president is almost alone. he doesn't have -- if there's any chance for ttp, it's not coming from his party. might be abe to corral enough support on the republican side of things to do it. it's certainly not coming from his party from either sanders or hillary clinton. >> but it's become just a populist issue. >> yes. i hear afraid of trump, he's against free trade. it's hello -- you know, the other -- you don't have a candidate. you don't have a free trade candidate. >> i'm not afraid of anybody, joe. >> i'm afraid of everything. >> i do believe in the arguments that adam smith makes in the wealth of nations and free trade is definitely a good thing. >> it is, near term, there's dislocation, but it's easy to say it's going to be, you know, to people that are displaced and lose their jobs, it's like, you

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. the u.s.y futures after a down day for the markets yesterday where the dow was actually down by 140 points. you can see this morning, that trend is continuing. the dow futures down another triple digit loss. 114 points. s&p down by 16. nasdaq off by 33. overnight in asia, you can see there were red arrows there was5

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. check out the u.s.after three days off, it looks like investors are coming back eagerly. we're going to see green arrows. s&p up 8.5 point. and nasdaq up by 18. marks in hong kong and australia closed for the easter holiday. the nikkei rose by 0.7%. the kospi was flat. >>> a developing story out of pakistan, a suicide bomber killing at least 72 people

i'm kelly evans along with joe kernin and scott wapner. becky and joe are off.. and david novak will be our guest host. we'll talk to target chairman and ceo brian cornell. home depot co-founder to talk politics and later, we'll talk to chairman and ceo jamie dimon. in the meantime, let's get a check of markets. overnight, it's taken a turn for the worse.

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin.turning its focus back to oil prices as wti finally topped the $50 mark on supply concerns. you can see prices are sitting for wti at $50.82. brent actually sitting above that at $52 on the nose. we'll continue to watch this through the morning. in the meantime, let's also take a look at u.s. equity futures. once again, you're looking at green arrows. markets continue to march steadily high. dow futures up 18 points. s&p up by 1.5 and nasdaq

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin.s positive but she did not say when a rate hike will come. the s&p 500 closing at its highest level this year. all the way back to early november since we've seen a close like this. check out the u.s. equity futures at this hour. you're going to see at least right now in the early trading, we are looking at pod numbers once again.numbers continue to close higher. dow

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin.ng to start with the markets. take a look at the u.s. equity futures. if you'ring just waking up, is this something to behold. looks like the dow futures are up 180. they've been up as much as 200 points earlier this morning. this is coming after a week of gains across the board. you can see the s&p up by 21 point. nasdaq up by 51. overseas in asia, chinese stocks closing higher after beijing replaced the country's top securities regulator. this is why the viewer doesn't attempt to restore consumer confidence. nikkei up 0.9%. >>>

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. check out the u.s. expect futures.ingly up by 1% for the dow by the end of the day. the dow futures up by 10 points. s&p up by a point, nasdaq up by 7. check out what happened overnight in asia. you'll see that the nikkei was up 1% as well. similar gain for the hang peng. but the shanghai composite down by a quarter point. biggest gainer looks to be the ftse up by .75%.

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. let's check out the u.s.res at this hour, they are indicated higher. dow futures up by 52 points, s&p up by 6, nasdaq up by 12. yesterday, the dow was up by 130 points by the end of the day, s&p was up 12 points. let's take a look at what happened overnight in asia. the nikkei was up

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. it back from the snowy mountains of davos, switzerland, to some of the snowy streets of new york and new jersey. airports in new york, philadelphia and baltimore resuming limited on sunday, after the storm, some areas 3 feet of snow. close to 15,000 flights were cancelled as the major airlines plan to resume service throughout the region today. the nation's capital shut down. the storm also claimed the lives of 29 people. people killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, killed by heart attacks after shoveling and accidents on the roads. new jersey shores

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. we'll start with food prices.p. wti sitting at $5050. yesterday, crude oil was down slightly it was down 52 cents to $48.55. even with food prices down, energy sector was one of the strongest sectors were we watching. stocks up across the board. everything you see has increased. the u.s. food

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. take a look at u.s. you see that things are flat. dow futures up by four points, s&p up by one point. nasdaq up by 1.5. did comes after a down day in the markets it's been a whip saw of a week. overnight

joe kernin, back to you. >> john, i don't know, are you early? you got into gold yesterday. this is the time? >> yeah. well, i have already got some in the levered etf. basically 1,245. i know that's kind of a -- for me it's a line in the sand. i bought some called in those two as well, and as far as stocks, the dust or the nugget, you know, which are levered etf's, i traded those, but i'm out of them right now. i'm thinking 1,245 holds. >> wasn't it that long ago we had the bad jobs report that showed they weren't going to hike, and it went up to mid 1,300's. i remember i was going to buy some maple leaves just for the heck of it, and i missed it. i'm not buying it until it's 1,210 , dog gone it. thanks. hurricane matthew, meanwhile, moving up on the florida coast towards georgia and south carolina. chief meteorologist matt noyes joins us with the latest. >> joe, thank you very much. just want to give you a quick rundown with the latest. we kept you updated on the fact of the satellite shot. the storm is very, very impressive still. 120-mile-per-hour winds. category three s

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin.ta out of china showing the country's factory sector contracted for the sixth straight month in january. pmi coming in 49.4 that is slightly lower than what had been expected. most of the other indexes across asia finishing higher. nikkei up 2%. still getting a boost from the boj decision on friday to adopt those negative rates. u.s. equity futures at this hour

i'm andrew ross sorkin with joe kernin. becky quick is with warren buffett. >> take a look at u.s.tures at this hour. dow jones looks like it will open off 90 points. nasdaq looking to open down as well, down 45. s&p 500 looking down 12 points off. overseas in asia, japan's nikkei fell from 1%. hang seng

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. let's take a look at equity futures.ot green arrows. s&p up by 4. nasdaq up by 16 this comes after a week of gains for the marketing. the dow 1.6%. nasdaq up by 3%. overnight in asia, markets in china and hong kong were closed pour a public holiday. not much movement in

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin, andrew is off today. it's the final trading session of may. the dow is on track as joe mentioned for its fourth consecutive positive month. that would be its best streak since the five straight winning months that ended back in june 2014. six out of ten s&p sectors positive for the month. led by technology up by more than 5%. check out the month to date returns. dow up by 0.6%. that's a gain of 100 points. s&p is higher by 1.6%. nasdaq jumped by 3.3%. they're gains are safer. check it out, the bulls are in demand this

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. check out the u.s. expect futures. big day for the markets surprisingly up by 1% for the dow by the end of the day. the dow futures up by 10 points. s&p up by a point, nasdaq up by 7. check out what happened overnight in asia. you'll see that the nikkei was up 1% as well. similar gain for the hang peng. but the shanghai composite down by a quarter point. biggest gainer looks to be the ftse up by .75%. the dax in germany up by 0.25%. crude prices ended the day by 1.50. wti is up against another 16 cents to 47. 48. brent is down by three cents to 48.95. >>> earnings just out now from home depot. the dow component posted a profit of 1.44 a share was eight cents above expectations. revenue also beat analysts' forecasts. the company also raised its four-year guidance to $6.27 a share. we're going to dig through the report -- >> i'm digging. >> -- with an analyst at this point. the stock is looking really strong today. that should help the dow to some extent. since it is in the dow. and i believe that is an all-time high. al

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. take a look at u.s.quity futures right now. you see that things are flat. dow futures up by four points, s&p up by one point. nasdaq up by 1.5. did comes after a down day in the markets it's been a whip saw of a week. overnight in asia, check things out, you can see that japan, the nikkei was flat, too. the hang seng and shanghai deposit down, too. japan, the flat market there, japan avoiding a recession in the first quarter gdp expanding by an annualized 1.7%. much more than a 0.2 increase forecasters had predicted. take a look at what's happening in european equities, the modest dines for the dax, cac, ftse. down by 0.25%. take a look at crude oil price this morning, kruld is unchanged got all the way up to 48.31. brent crude is down six cents to 41.42. finally check out currency, across the board after comments from fed officials making it sound like june is actually a live meeting. we'll debate this. the euro is at 1.1266. the yen at 109.41. >>> we've got top stories including political news, bernie

he sat down with joe kernin, becky quick and andrew ross sorkin to discuss. >> the structure of the oil markets is completely different. the consumer has a lot more money in their pocket. this issue about are they spending it? jp morgan chase institute, we actually look at data of real accounts, real spending, debit cards, credit cards, people writing checks. it looks like they're getting the money. >> enp firms going back. >> no, it just changes the cash flows and the expenditures. $27 oil -- >> whatever you do, don't worry about jp morgan chase. they're not like high yield. we'll probably have to throw up $50 million in reserves. that's okay. it's not going to dent anything that we're doing. >> where is your prediction for where oil goes? you did double your loan loss provision in q4. >> if i could, i would have done more. but if i could, i would have put up another 3 or $4 million. i don't know. the forward curve of oil has traded at $40. i would tell you it's probably the best guess right there. >> over the years, i've asked you where jamie dimon puts his money. besides the stock th

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin.re is new data out of china showing the country's factory sector contracted for the sixth straight month in january. pmi coming in 49.4 that is slightly lower than what had been expected. most of the other indexes across asia finishing higher. nikkei up 2%. still getting a boost from the boj decision on friday to adopt those negative rates. u.s. equity futures at this hour had been trading a little weaker. you can see right now, the dow futures down 81 points. the nasdaq down by 24. s&p coming off the worst start to the year since 2009. the blue chip index dropping 5.5% to start 2016. the s&p index down 5%. nasdaq losing nearly 8%. >> okay. we got a couple of other big stories we're watching. here's what's going on. barclays and credit suisse is set to face charges that they misled investors in so-called dark pools. they're not used by investors until they're executed. also barclays will admit it broke the law and pay $70 million. credit suisse will pay a $60 million fine bus an additi

i'm kelly evans along with joe kernin and scott wapner. becky and joe are off.e'll have richard fisher who joins us in just a moment. and david novak will be our guest host. we'll talk to target chairman and ceo brian cornell. home depot co-founder to talk politics and later, we'll talk to chairman and ceo jamie dimon. in the meantime, let's get a check of markets. overnight, it's taken a turn for the worse. the dow jones future is opening lower by 51 points. s&p by 5, nasdaq giving up 14. weighing on the dow, of course, is disney. overnight in asia, the nikkei is managing to turn a little higher at the moment. the shanghai composite a little in the green. european equities, this one interesting to watch. a couple cross-currents to watch. german dax down 1%. france's cac, down almost 1%. and taking a look at crude, too. we got inventory numbers yesterday. after noon, we'll get more information this morning. wti, that looks down it's almost 1%. hovering a little bit over the $44 a barrel mark. brent for its part giving up about 0.5%. right around 45. a little hig

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. and we all made it back from the snowy mountains of davos, switzerland, to some of the snowy streets of new york and new jersey. airports in new york, philadelphia and baltimore resuming limited on sunday, after the storm, some areas 3 feet of snow. close to 15,000 flights were cancelled as the major airlines plan to resume service throughout the region today. the nation's capital shut down. the storm also claimed the lives of 29 people. people killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, killed by heart attacks after shoveling and accidents on the roads. new jersey shores getting battled. we'll have more on the weather woes coming up in a few minutes. >>> in the meantime, let's talk about what's going on at twitter. big corporate news. jack dorsey, biggest move since returning last year. heads of the company's product and engineering and human resources team are leaving. dorsey has confirmed the moves saying all four have chosen to leave. in a tweet, he says, all four will be taking some wel

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin.did see a selloff and things ended relatively flat. this is slight declines for averages. the futures are indicated higher with dow futures up by 58 points. s&p up by 7, nasdaq up by 14. overnight in asia, you'll see that the nikkei was down by almost 1%. that was a decline of 155 points. hang seng was slightly positive. the shanghai was down by 0.75%. check out early trade, you'll see green arrows. major gainers looks like france up 1.3%. italy is also up by 1.5%. take a look at crude oil prices this morning, things down by 14 cents 47. 94. >> fed speak holding attention. patrick harker joined the chorus. he argued that a june data rate height. who? that's who he is, patrick harker. the fed meets june 14th and 15th. harker not a voting fmoc member this year. so whether what he says matters, it's a bit of debate. >> do they care about the consensus around the taken. >> whoa, that is that's marine-like. >> yeah. tight. >> i got sheared. >> whoo! >> summer thing. >> acceexcept it rains e

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin, andrew is off today. ess what, tuesday, today, it's the final trading session of may. the dow is on track as joe mentioned for its fourth consecutive positive month. that would be its best streak since the five straight winning months that ended back in june 2014. six out of ten s&p sectors positive for the month. led by technology up by more than 5%. check out the month to date returns. dow up by 0.6%. that's a gain of 100 points. s&p is higher by 1.6%. nasdaq jumped by 3.3%. they're gains are safer. check it out, the bulls are in demand this morning. dow is up 25 points. s&p is up by 2. nasdaq up by close to 7. overnight in asia, better than expected economic data coming out of japan. factory output rising. 1% gain to the nikkei up by 166 points. if you take a look at early trading and european markets you'll see at this point thing, relatively flat. red arrows across the board. none of these major averages down by even 0.2%. >> a race looking at how european average, up on asia. they read articles like

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and drew ross sorkin. check out the u.s. equity futures. last week the dow was up by 2.3%. you can see green arrows. these are modest advances. the dak up 28 points. s&p is up by under a point. nasdaq but by 2.5. oil prices were up, ended the week below $40, you can see they're giving back today. down by 1.27%. brent is above $40 at $41.01. overseas, nikkei was closed. shanghai rose more than 2%. kospi closed out flat. right now the dax is up by 1.2%. the cac and ftse 100 each showing gains of .25% and italy up. >>> president obama is in cuba marks the first time a u.s. president has set foot there since calvin coolidge back in 1928. today he's going to sit down with his cuban counterpart, raul castro. the president is joined by officials and a host of ceos. we'll hear more from michelle caruso-cabre caruso-cabrera. >>> apple supposed to launch a smaller, cheaper iphone product. aimed at markets like china. plus a midsize ipad, new bands for the apple watch if you're into that kind of thing. we'll talk to usa's personal analyst at the botto

joe kernin. becky quick is off. she makes her way back from omaha what.ing a look at equity futures at this hour. dow looks like it opened up 122 points. nasdaq looking to open off 32.5 points and nasdaq as well down 14.5 points. in asia, interest rates to an all-time low of 1.5%. this is the rba's first policy citing lower inflation, subdued growth and uncertain growth. the aussie dollar is falling sharply on that news. australian stocks, on the other hand, rallying more than 2% on the news. in asia, japan's markets were closed for the constitution day holiday. china's manager's index shrinking to a 14-month -- for its 14th month coming in below forecasts. a bit of a mixed picture. shanghai compost up 2%. and hang seng almost the lower. >> all eyes on? >> yeah, go for it. >> moving forward, in pretty negative territory. and germany is lower than 2. ftse lower than 1%. italy and spain off by more than 2% perhaps because the eu trimming its 2016 growth forecast to 1.8% from 1.9%. it's 2017 growth forecast from 1.9 to 2%. also cut inflation forecasts despit

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew sorkin. taking a look at equity futures, finally seeing positive direction for the bulls. dow futures up by 60 points. s&p up by 5, nasdaq up by 14 after the markets finished down once again yesterday. take a look overnight in asia, chinese stocks shaking off a high profile rejection from msci's emerging markets index. the shanghai ended up 1.5%. in europe in this early hour, this has been our focus all week as concerns about the brexit rose. we've been looking at weakness in european stocks. you can see in early trading that most of these shares are up by 1%. dax up by 1%. ftse up close to that. take a look at crude prices. crude under pressure once again and again this morning. wti is below $48 a barrel. sitting at 47.95. brent sitting at 49.12. >> let's get you through the big stories we're watching today, it is another day and yet another survey on the brexit survey. coming from comres showing that the poll remain leads, in favor of the uk staying in the eu which is recovery from 55% repo

i'm joe kernin along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. the futures are looking pretty good.gan reported earnings that were not as bad as people thought. the expectation was much lower than what the company post td in terms of revenue and earnings per share and credit losses. now, on jpmorgan, bidding $50.75 after a $50.89 close. back up 2%. it is getting a pop with the dow up 104. jpmorgan after reporting $1.35 beating on the top and bottom line. joining us from memphis to break down the numbers. memphis was also where that crooked law firm was. marty moseley, director of bank and equity strategy from vining sparks. marty, how are you? it wasn't vining sparks. i know that. you looked at these numbers and were pleasantly surprised? >> yes. this is a perfect example of underpromising and overdelivering. when you look at net versus income, what you mentioned earlier, the rate hike in december was really advertised as being very minimal. the benefit was twice what we thought. the impact on january and february, the income was expected to be down, which it was compared to year ov

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. check out the u.s.quity futures after three days off, it looks like investors are coming back eagerly. we're going to see green arrows. s&p up 8.5 point. and nasdaq up by 18. marks in hong kong and australia closed for the easter holiday. the nikkei rose by 0.7%. the kospi was flat. >>> a developing story out of pakistan, a suicide bomber killing at least 72 people including many women and children at a park. a political faction of taliban claiming responsibility. the park was crowded with christians on an easter sunday outing. a spokesman said the attack deliberately targeted the christian community. many muslim among the dead as well. the explosion injured more than 300 people. >>> among today's top stories we had a couple of things. microsoft reportedly in preliminary talks with private equity firms to help finance a bid to buy yahoo!. this is according to several reports. executives from private equity firms approached microsoft to gauge its interests. after it's auctioning off its core business. mi

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. we'll start with food prices.ti going up. wti sitting at $5050. yesterday, crude oil was down slightly it was down 52 cents to $48.55. even with food prices down, energy sector was one of the strongest sectors were we watching. stocks up across the board. everything you see has increased. the u.s. food inventories fell by more than expected last week. separately flipping from july to august. you are seeing green arrows, the dow futures up by 24 points. we did see slight gains like this yesterday when the markets closed. s&p futures up by 2. nasdaq but by 2.5. if you check things occupy, the nikkei was down. the hang seng up, and shanghai up by 1%. ahead of that brexit vote, the dax up by 0.6%. the cac up by .30. >>> tesla offering to buy solar city. tesla would pay $26.50 to $28.50 a share. that's a 25% to 35% premium to tuesday's closing price. of course, solar city's stock has been down in a very big way this year. elon musk controls both of those companies. he's calling this deal a no-brainer that customers cou

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. check out equity futures.ow futures indicated up by 85 points this comes after a big rally yesterday for stocks. s&p up by 11.5. and the nasdaq up by 28 points above fair value. check out what happened overnight in asia. again, all of this started kind of yesterday with the european markets that really took off. you can see it followed up in japan with the nikkei up by 1.5%. the hang seng was up by 2.7%. it was just the shanghai composite with a decline of a quarter percentage point. in europe, once again, you'll see plenty of green arrows. the dax in germany up by 1.45%. the cac in france up by better than 1%. ftse higher as well, 0.7%. >>> crude oil prices raiding near seven-month highs. check this out up another 1% to 49.07. getting back to $50 a barrel. the gains that came yesterday, showed that u.s. crude stocks dropped by 5.1 million barrels. double than what was expected. we'll get the eia figures later today. >>> let's get you to other big stories. st. louis fed president jim bullard saying june rate h

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. chair janet yellen remains positive but she did not say when a rate hike will come. the s&p 500 closing at its highest level this year. all the way back to early november since we've seen a close like this. check out the u.s. equity futures at this hour. you're going to see at least right now in the early trading, we are looking at pod numbers once again.numbers continue to close higher. dow futures skated 67 points. nasdaq up by close to 20. overnight in asia, the nikkei up by 0.6%. the shanghai deposit was flat. in europe, some of the early trading, you're seeing those positive gains are continuing here the dax is the biggest gainer of the major averages up by 1.7%. the ftse is up 0.6%. >> they finally decided if the economy is is not going to get better, at least we got glory. >> you almost heard both messages from yellen. the economy is doing okay. >> she wants something to confirm in one number, i don't think one month would confirm. >> july, like 20% now. >> i think it's still o

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. let's take a look at equity futures.e've got green arrows. s&p up by 4. nasdaq up by 16 this comes after a week of gains for the marketing. the dow 1.6%. nasdaq up by 3%. overnight in asia, markets in china and hong kong were closed pour a public holiday. not much movement in other markets. japan, marginally lower, korea marginally higher. overall trading, you'll see right now looks like things are looking up across the board. dax and cac up by 1%. take a look at the price of crude oil. last week, crude oil was down by 2.50. this morning, around 36.76. andrew. >>> we've got a cub ouple of bi news stories. alaska air officially going to buy virgin and they beat out jetblue. we'll talk more about this transaction throughout the rest of the show. it's a big price war. it's a loss for jetblue. questions about the brand which we'll get to. whether alaska air whether it works if you will with virgin. also, questions about alaska air, people thought alaska air was a takeover target by delta. does this make them more likely to g

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin.e're going to start with the markets. take a look at the u.s. equity futures. if you'ring just waking up, is this something to behold. looks like the dow futures are up 180. they've been up as much as 200 points earlier this morning. this is coming after a week of gains across the board. you can see the s&p up by 21 point. nasdaq up by 51. overseas in asia, chinese stocks closing higher after beijing replaced the country's top securities regulator. this is why the viewer doesn't attempt to restore consumer confidence. nikkei up 0.9%. >>> lots of debate, david cameron has a referendum on eu membership set for june 23rd. ahead of that, a london mayor boris johnson will campaign to lead the eu. making him the most high profile supporter of the brexit. almost half back cameron's stay campaign. they're signing a letter backing him. the british pound falling sharply against the dollar. the biggest decline since 2010 and european equities at this hour, you're seeing green arrows across the bo

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. the u.s. equity futures after a down day for the markets yesterday where the dow was actually down by 140 points. you can see this morning, that trend is continuing. the dow futures down another triple digit loss. 114 points. s&p down by 16. nasdaq off by 33. overnight in asia, you can see there were red arrows there as well. the hang seng was down by 0.75 percentage points and australia down after the bank to bring interest rates lower. let's take a look at what happened in europe, you're going to see, at least in the early trading there, european markets for the most part are in the red. the dax down by 0.75%. so is the cac in france. the ftse is down by 1.3%. finally, a look at crude oil prices yesterday, they pulled back again down 1.13 to 43.65. wti is sitting in that same position at 43.51. >>> we're going to politics but first the top headlines this morning. the biggest one being this, takata expected to announce it is recalling 35 to 45 million more air bags in the united states. this

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin.nd the markets, turning its focus back to oil prices as wti finally topped the $50 mark on supply concerns. you can see prices are sitting for wti at $50.82. brent actually sitting above that at $52 on the nose. we'll continue to watch this through the morning. in the meantime, let's also take a look at u.s. equity futures. once again, you're looking at green arrows. markets continue to march steadily high. dow futures up 18 points. s&p up by 1.5 and nasdaq up by 4.5. nikkei up by 1%. markets in china slightly lower with the hang seng down. european equities this morning, they send to be following along with what you saw in the chinese markets. dax down by half percentage point. cac is up by 0.4. the really story that you want to be watching is what's happening with the bond markets. check out the german ten-year. it's now yielding 0.53%. yesterday -- >> 0.055. >> yeah, 0.055%. it closed yesterday at the lowest level in history, at 0.055%. >> weighted average, average yield, minus 0.05

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. take a look at u.s. equity futures.esterday, the market closed at three week lows. the s&p 500 the nasdaq had the lowest losing streak in four months. however not as bad as what we've seen in the overseas market. the dow futures down by 23 points. s&p down by 5.5. nasdaq down by almost 10. in europe, taking a look at early trading. weak tln weakness there. you did see the dax is down by 0.8%. losses by more than 1% in germany. the cac is down by 1.3%. take a look at the benchmark, ten-year german bund, turning negative, 0.013%. that comes after pressure on treasuries around the globe yesterday. you saw the u.s. ten-year, yelled was at its lowest level for sometimes since 2012. that was 1.6%. this morning, even lower, 1.586%. when you check out the 30-year, 2.58%. and the nasdaq bass down. and shanghai composite managed to hold on to gains, hang seng was down by 0.6%. crude oil looking to decline. wti. >>> and the brexit vote and the most recent polls, the latest yougov poll now giving the leave campaign a seven-point le

joe kernin, if you're listening, i drove this weekend and did my own gas.he lundberg survey said it's the lowest in 11 years. the cheapest in tulsa at $1.44 a gallon. highest in l.a. $2.62 a gallon. i paid $2.07. >> you pumped yourself? >> i did one full one in the state of new york and then one -- yeah. >>> let's get another check of the markets this morning. i know it's ready you may not be ready for more bad news but check this out. the futures are down over 200 points. sitting down below that, 196. nasdaq down by 65. a lot of this is come dprg whki europe. the dak crack is up 2.5%. we've been fairly tied to what happens in energy prices. this morning, wti down 2.3%. let's check out the ten-year yielding 1.84 for 6% last week. the yield has gone down over the weekend. 1.82% is where we stand right now. if you check out the dollar, the dollar against the euro, 1.115 it's down against the yen at 116.66. the gold prices on a tear lately. up another $19. $1,176 an ounce. it has been a tough year for stocks so far. technology bearing the brunt of the market.

i'm becky quick along with joe kernin and andrew ross sorkin. let's check out the u.s.quity futures at this hour, they are indicated higher. dow futures up by 52 points, s&p up by 6, nasdaq up by 12. yesterday, the dow was up by 130 points by the end of the day, s&p was up 12 points. let's take a look at what happened overnight in asia. the nikkei was up by 1.28%. the hang sentence by 0.75%. and hang seng slightly weaker. right now, things are flat, relatively flat across the board. you're looking at the dax, barely budged. the cac is slightly higher, wti was up for the second day in a row we've seen a gain of 7% over the last couple of sessions. going back to $48.96. >> these currency traders better know what they're doing. that better indicate they're going to stay. they better know what they're doing. >> right. >> but still, the polls are pretty even still. >> betting markets -- they bet that it breaks first day. when people get ready to do it, they think, oh, my god, what am i -- they get too nervous. >> they say they're going to be leaving and they don't. >> obviou

i'm andrew ross sorkin with joe kernin. becky quick is with warren buffett. >> take a look at u.s.quity futures at this hour. dow jones looks like it will open off 90 points. nasdaq looking to open down as well, down 45. s&p 500 looking down 12 points off. overseas in asia, japan's nikkei fell from 1%. hang seng 1%. and the shanghai cut its service requirement ratio by 0.5%. european equities at this hour. you're going to see, red arrows across the board with the dax down more than 1.5%. the cac up -- almost,.25%. >>> in corporate news, valeant ceo michael pearson returning from medical leave. shares of valeant trading right now, before the open this morning, you're going see actually, oddly perhaps even, marginally down about 1%. we should also tell you that jpmorgan fired the head of its government dead trading for failing to file. the two employees left in early january, but the reasons for their departure were not disclosed at the time. a resounding win we should tell you for hillary clinton in south carolina over the weekend. clinton beat democratic rival bernie sanders by 48%