carla harris is with us today. carla: good morning, and welcome.re going to get a little bit of first word news first. offirst up, it may be a test the trunk movement when republican voters cast their ballots in four states today. show whether ted cruz, marco rubio, or john kasich have picked up any momentum. hillary clinton's also lead does double also leads by digits in michigan. the european union is getting turkey on a deal to stem the flow of migrants. any agreement will take time to work. meantime, opponents of the campaign against merkel's open door policy. the white house is unhappy after benjamin netanyahu canceled a trip to washington. the u.s. was surprised to learn through media reports that netanyahu canceled. global news powered by our 2400 journalists in 150 news bureaus around the world. matt: i'm just looking at oil right now. . big spike up we are gaining on crude. keep your eye on that. oil and the equity markets have been really well correlated with the exception of yesterday. futures. we could break that correlation down. about

the other guys, i can't tell you. >> morgan stanley's vice chair of wealth management carla harris willbusiness. president obama aupon tppointed the chair on the national women's business council. >>> one-third of all businesses in this country are owned by women, and women are taking up ownership of businesses at a much more rapid rate than men. from d.c., carla harris, who president obama appointed chair of the nwbc, also vice chair of global wealth management at morgan stanley where she worked now for almost 30 years. welcome to you. good morning. >> good morning, simon. >> the headlines here are pretty impressive. >> yes, we are very pleased to talk about the research that we'll release today at the white house. there are now 10 million businesses owned by women in this country which we believe is a tipping point. more importantly, simon, that represents $1.4 trillion and 8 million jobs. some of the other data that has come out of this research also tells us it's been meteoric rise of veteran women owned businesses, less than 100,000 in 2002, now almost 400,000. also impressively th