karen tso joins us with an update on that >> good morning to you both.il price thes spiked on monday by 4%. if there's a link between the attacks on israel and iran that could impact shipments of iranian oil in the park. there was a view we could get to a surplus position in oil by the first quarter next year. that was challenged slightly yesterday. morning session, we're seeing a reverse of that. we've got a modest dip in the oil price. that said, gas heene oline pric the u.s. climbed on monday we're well up on the 3$3.20 that we started on the year chevron was asked to halt production on a large natural gas platform in the mediterranean sea because of security concerns. >> and karen, while we have you, there's optimistic news about inflation in the u.s what can you tell us about the outlook from the federal reserve? >> there are hopes now that in three weeks time the central bank may hold steady on interest rates. we've seen the treasury closing in on 5% the central bank saying that could be doing some of the work for the fed in terms of bringing it ba

karen tso joins us to tell us what's happening at linkedin talk about the irony here. >> certainly there is some irony, isn't it. this is a platform people use to post their cvs, let people know they're available for work and connect with future job opportunities >> but this is the second wave of job cuts this year. linkedin is owned by the tech giant microsoft. we've seen a slow down in hiring impacting this segment of the economy. they have announced this through a memo that there would be almost 700 job cuts, the bulk coming from engineering, a red hot area of the technology universe engineering jobs will go but also some finance and d hume reasonhuman resource job it's trying to hit goals and microsoft announced in january large-scale cuts so this is in addition to some of those announcements it does suggest that technology is still managing its costs at this point linkedin, they will try to ramp up hiring in other areas, india for instance there is hiring, but it just happens to be elsewhere like india. >>> still to come, robin williams' beloved character ala aladdin is back on the