the micex is slightly down today. what is the message that the micex is telling us right now?> what i hear that everybody is bearish on russia, maybe i am thinking at some point it will be time to buy. positioning is actually quite heavy on the british side right now. i would not be aggressively bearish on the ruble anymore. a technicalg to be turnaround at some point. >> you're a contrarian when it comes to positioning come argue? >> as we know, technical factors have a huge impact on markets. look at what is going on in the eurozone. those are many technical moves. we see that kind of fencing on the amateur market side. >> just a few weeks ago you said your post on the stocks are particularly are you optimistic, --ras any areas that you is only seeing is, it now that investors are comfortable coming back to emerging markets after difficult times. positioning is very light. some other assets in some of the markets are starting to look overstretched. emerging markets are benefiting from that. >> was a message from china over saideekend? president xi we need to adopt this new n

the micex is just up .10%. a number of individual stocks worth looking at, credit suisse is currently down 2.5%. press reports that u.s. authorities are going to put pressure on the suisse bank to plead guilty in the ongoing tax dispute according to the newspaper. washington is asking for a guilty plea to claims that the bank helped tax money. bmps is down 6% today. finally shares in the bank are up a percent offering rights to a 500 million capital euro increase. we'll show you where we stand, we have a fascinating move on the treasuries. ten-year treasury yield, 2.58%. we have been at three-month lows with the yield of 2.57%. payroll reports on friday. remember, 288,000 created in the unemployment round down to 6.3%. yields did rise five basis points, but ukraine issues and geo politics overshadowing the gains in the unemployment report and we have a rather big threatening on the treasury yield. keep your eyes on that. and it is worth pointing out, spanish yields here are below the 3% yield down to the 3% mar

already today, that some of the perhaps misplaced euphoria that we saw yesterday has the rally of the micexeen tempered today. we saw the ruble dropping today for the first time in four days and the ukrainian currency also going down. and in the same way that investors are not so sure what prudent is top -- putin is talking about, we have seen some wariness on the half -- on the part of western governments. before putin said he was going to be testing his military forces, he had a german envoy saying, yesterday's message was great and maybe we don't have to go forward with sanctions. but after what he said today, i think governments are really deeds, whoa, let's match with words before we pull back on our sanctions or any other policies. >> you covered the congressional hearing this morning with the senior state department officials and the treasury. what was their message? >> that was their main message in the beginning. we have the secretary of state and other saying that what he is saying is fine, but we will judge him by his actions. and there was more talk about electoral sanctions. --

the micex in russia down 0.5%. what exactly are we going to get from this report?or 215,000 jobs to be created from 192,000, which is what we got in march. the unemployment rate, that's forecast to dip down to 6.6% from the march jobless rate of 6.7. now we'd also seen an average, of course, over the last three months of 177,000 jobs. we'll see what the new average will be, of course, coming up over the next three months. but there is an expectation that the pace of hiring will pick up. all weekend on cnbc we've been asking our guests for their predictions for this number. >> more than likely that nonfarm payroll number will come in better than people expect. the expectations are around 200 to 225. the whisper on the street and on the floor was 275 to 300. >> we are due a good headline report. actually, last month's report was excellent on the household survey side. and that might bleed through to the establishment survey this time. so i wouldn't bet against it. >> joining us with more from washington, d.c., financial reporter at "the washington post," a cnbc contr

and the micex in russia is up 2.3%. the left party triumphing in elections today.d the 500 euro rights on friday helping it out. and the pirelli is doing great striking an agreement to open over 200 retail outlets. the two companies also agreed over rubber production. the german government says it will hold on to its stake in the german lender until at least 2016 in hopes it will give a more favorable price for the stock. this all according to the spiegel with berlin taking a cut during the financial crisis. >>> and the spanish energy company repsol up 1.5% today to look to get board approval to distribute 1.3 billion shareholders in the form of a dividend. this is according to reports with them holding their monthly meeting on wednesday. so how does that playout to peripheral yields? remember, we were down on the lows since the formation of the euro. very much up after seeing yields up to 3.2 over the last few weeks. back down to that level helped with the election results. the yield in france is high er yielding 1.24%. the currency markets, the euro/dollar is dow

you can see the micex is down by 6 points. you're not seeing even worse gains than you might have been doing otherwise. oil prices right now are down 24 cents, they're still above $100. the dollar today, if you want wato take a look, euro is at 1.3941. dallas/yen is at 1010.75. they're up about $3 this morning but still below 1300 at 1, 291.902 291.90. >>> ford shares moving higher on that news. also in the auto world, a case of good news and bad news for automaker toyota. it's reporting a record profit for the fiscal year that just ended march 31st. it also became the first automaker to sell more than 100 million vehicles in one year. however, toyota's also saying it sees profit dropping 2.4% for the current fiscal year which would put it below analyst estimates. currency fluctuations which helped toyota the last year are expected to have a negative impact this time around. >> you're still sick? >> how long did it take you? >> i still cough at night. it was over a month. >> when the voice was gone it was a dry, painful thing.