winner istucky derby the favorite to win the preakness. we will get his odds of becoming the first triple crown winner since 1978. ♪ pimm: good afternoon i am pimm fox here with betty liu. let's take a look at the markets at this moment. 18, down by six points. following after a rise this week, kreuz do -- crude down. those disappointing numbers, consumer sentiment that was also some reasons you saw the yields come down. you could see that they are in coming off ofnow some of the highs we saw for the greenback. the euro is stronger here against the dollar, and that overall weakness based on some of those economic numbers. pimm: a big rally in the euro-dollar. get a look at some of the stories. it is official, russia's economy has had its first decline in almost six years. they shrank 1.9% in the first quarter, better than all of the survey. in a bloomberg the forecast that the economy will slump for three quarters, growth stalled last year after the united faith and western european nations imposed sanctions because of fighting in ukraine.