let's check on the nasdaq you come up 1.6%. nasdaq at 4845.ig story, brazil's largest party abandoning president dilma rousseff. let's check in with julie hyman on a check of results stock markets. big news. julie: and this was big for her to come just weeks before she is facing an impeachment vote, so now that this party is no longer with her, it could potentially make it more likely. as we have seen all along throughout this potential impeachment saga, on any glimmer of her being removed from power we have seen stocks rally. that has happened once again today with the brazilian stock index of about .8%, although it has come down off its highs of the session to some degree. itsvespa is said to have best month since 1999. you see this 20% rally we have seen in brazilian stocks. particular, petrobras, is when we have been tracking closely because rousseff is closely linked with of company, or had been in the past, and that is one of the allegations of corruption, it has to do with her relationship with that company. .7%can see that stock is up

nasdaq futures on 22."fbn:am" come your first look at morning markets and breaking news. ♪ nicole: break-in is this morning. super tuesday to burnout. donald trump and john kasich battling for votes in ohio. bistate premise up for grabs. i am nicole petallides. lauren: i am lauren simonetti. 700 delegates as bernie sanders hopes to cut into hillary clinton played at the latest from the campaign trail. the focus is on central bank of japan central bank of japan hold a knife and a action meeting overnight. the federal reserve expected to check u.s. stock market futures after a high close yesterday. dow futures climbed back 75, s&p futures to attend. lauren: stocks. lauren: saxon japan edged lower after a gloomy picture of the third-largest economy. the nikkei down seven tenths of 1%. that's in china edging higher. nicole: after falling 3.4%, was check poker despairing this moment. not 2.5% losing 90 cents. lauren: russian president vladimir putin orders the military to withdraw from syria. we'll have reactio

the nasdaq in positive territory, if only bear to -- if only barely.n a relatively quiet day for the nasdaq, but for the quarter we are at the end of the quarter in the end of the month, not so much. the nasdaq without as much as 60% but has largely recovered after its february low. one important sector to the --daq that is still down biotech. down about 23%. it will be interesting to see whether the sector can cover and compete with the nasdaq overall. apple in particular got the best theh -- best boost on month. the court did drop its case against apple. analysts appear to be getting a little constructive here. morgan stanley said they thought the current quarter is tracking ahead. just yesterday, shares were upgraded to outperform. more of a bullish stance. drag this month, far quarter, this year, by and no international. investors are concerned about this ceo coming from valeant. here we are at the end of the quarter. any surprises from last month? abigail: yahoo! top performer for the month and the year. often percent to month really part of a a r

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s&p futures down 4, nasdaq down 10. you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news. lauren: welcome back, 5:15 a.m. in new york this thursday morning. let's get you caught up on what's happening now. republican presidential candidates continue to battle it out in wisconsin primary. new poll shows senator ted cruz leading the race there. heavy storms with tornadoes striking in north eastern okay -- oklahoma, a large area of tulsa with heavy damage. would you go to chipotle for a hamburger, better burger to open plan restaurant. still trying to bounce back from ugly e. coli outbreak and other health issues that started last year. checking u.s. stock market futures after few days of gains. nasdaq giving up about 10, with that, nicole, we are looking at a down market. nicole: all right. unbound delegates can make free free-for-all campaign. here is fox news chief correspondent james. >> fox news can now call to associated press, donald trump has won louisiana. >> because of the rules by which the pe

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even so the nasdaq is down 5% year-to-date.eason for that underperformance of tech and biotech names, while waiting for those names such as amazon, microsoft, and apple, the top is facebook. today shares of facebook are moderately higher with the firm saying that first quarter is incrementally positive beauty spending treads are positive, ad formats of you'd be helping facebook. facebook is up 4% on the year. the big internet names outperforming those stocks and the nasdaq itself, ironically the worst point boost, point drag i should say is amazon, down 15%. a tale of two cities among those names. some bio see there are techs soaring today. abigail: we are not talking about penny stocks. gw pharma has doubled a $2 billion market cap on the companies key marijuana drug, met a primary endpoint for late stage study. a biotech company apparently has a similar marijuana drug, gwding up, soaring more than at this point on the close. so much,hank you abigail doolittle at the nasdaq. speaking of tech stocks, they have rallied by the en

the dow, nasdaq and all the small caps as you can see, dow higher by 29. s&p, flat, lower by two points, nasdaq higher by six points. russell down by nearly five points. energy, oil on a major slide. iran's action -- wti is lower by 4%. 1.

the nasdaq is gaining. lannett the nasdaq with the latest, we are seeing some gains. holding onto a lot of momentum today. >> it has been a roller coaster. the nasdaq is higher by about 1%. significantly early this afternoon. now hire again, all this being held -- helped by tech, especially apple. iphone estimates have bottomed and he believes year-over-year compares are more favorable and that the stock could get a boost from the upcoming launch of the iphone seven later this year. applengraded shares of ahead of the big drop, saying at that time, it appeared to be too high purity was right there. a new upside to his price target. creating a little bit of that saysr coaster, an analyst nothing specific here. we have biotech slagging overall. one pressure ongoing is an ginseng regeneron's drug restricts upon his own. could cause the stop to go down. one that already slid by about 40% from last year's peak. >> you mentioned apple and regeneron obviously having an impact. any week percentage movers that caught your attention? >> lululemon shares are soaring top estimate

dow futures up 56, nasdaq up over 19.at earning market and breaking news. ♪ when you think about success, what does it look like? is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student? is it one day giving your daughter the opportunity she deserves? is it finally witnessing all the artistic wonders of the natural world? whatever your definition of success is, helping you pursue it, is ours. t-i-a-a. which allergyeees. bees? eese. trees? eese. xerox helps hospitals use electronic health records so doctors provide more personalized care. cheese? cheese! patient care can work better. with xerox. that's it. how was your commute? good. yours? good. xerox real time analytics make transit systems run more smoothly... and morning chitchat... less interesting. transportation can work better. with xerox. nicole: the battle between the superior is topping the box office. donna just is making a big debut with more than $170 million in north america. that is the sixth best opening of all time. the warner bros. film cos

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and let's also get to the nasdaq. 1.6% is the percentage gain. nasdaq at 4736.ime for the bloomberg business flash, a look at the biggest business stores in his right now. shares of greenberg partners are higher today after they announced a sales dan and fourth-quarter profits that beat estimates. it is another bright spot for the chairman, whose main hedge fund was up more than 3% this year through february after slumping 20% in 2015. global sales falling a little more than 1% with volkswagen still being heard by the diesel emissions scandal. sales were higher in europe but he was not enough to offset declines in europe, china -- offset the kinds in china, u.s., and south america. a software, he has been testing autonomous vehicles on the streets of san francisco. the 40-person firm was founded just three years ago. the purchase price not disclosed. that is your business flash update. drinks, the tinny beat of the caribbean island steel drums -- you know what we are talking but could welcome to the island paradise brought you by carnival cruise ships. they are

nasdaq futures gaining 13.:am," your first look at morning market in breaking news. ♪ nicole: newcomer to the box office this weekend. collision had taken the number two spot with $29 million to the worst opening weekend for the diverging series yet. the third installment is down 44% from its previous two films. beating out all of the newcomers once again with disney's utopia, the number one film brought in $30 million this weekend bringing its thomistic total to just over $200 million. the faith-based bill miracles from having to do number three spot of $59 rounding out the top 510 cloverfield lane 12.5 million get full with 8 million. right now i like a u.s. stock market futures at this monday morning host monday morning has to futures higher by 41 points. nasdaq futures intend. nicole: oil down 44 cents. thirty-nine dollars a barrel. lauren: the latest in the world of sports. march madness action last night was a real barn burner between texas a&m and northern iowa. texas a&m overcame a 12-point deficit. les

abigail doolittle at the nasdaq.ad, we are following the breaking news on apple. 17 tech companies have filed an amicus in support of apple agains. more next. ♪ bonnie: breaking news. , twitter and ago 16 other technology companies filed amicus in support of apple in their fight against the fbi. they include red it, airbnb, square, linkedin. bloomberg's matt larson is in to .ell us thank you for joining us. companiesgroup of that are decent sized. thiskind of impact will have on magistrates anywhere? if nothing else, i think the bread of companies starting to weigh in could influence the magistrate judge in considering the ramifications of a ruling in this case. it demonstrates its not just a case at impacts apple and apple's concerns but it is a broader industry perspective. there are software developers, weighingnufacturers in. cisco, intel, microsoft have expressed they are likely to weigh in as well. you are really seeing a broad part of the tech industry expressing concern over the precedent that could be set by

nasdaq futures up 5.5.e watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning market in breaking news. ♪ >> the only guy right now in the race of his life that had a strong principled conservative is recommended to congress in our nation through the area of reform that will continue our greatness in rays history of in later levels of the country. translate that was jeb bush's brother neil why he's throwing support behind texas senator ted cruz for president. we are looking at u.s. stock market futures this moment. dow futures up earlier highest alert that there is a dow futures at 33 and s&p futures up 3.5. lauren: oil prices up-to-date with the court is $37.2. this conflict in the oil market. oil production increase will go through and optimism in the u.s. will tell fall back a little bit. amazon steps onto the runway with their very first daily live show. style code live airs daily for free on amazon.com. the fashion show will showcase the customers want to buy on amazon's website. until now, amazon has reserved

s&p one, nasdaq down to. north korean leader makes a thread ordering his military on standby for nuclear strikes at any time. nicole: a chinese company might be the biggest operator of movie theaters in the u.s. lauren: 5:01 a.m. in new york on friday march 4th. welcome to "fbn:am" come here to "fbn:am," your first look at today's markets, the latest breaking news and what to expect the day ahead. nicole: a red-hot debate last night in detroit. residential candidate facing off in their 11th debate in the race and the gop nomination. senator marco rubio and ted cruz intensified their attacks on the front runner donald trump. >> donald trump has knocked everybody with personal attacks. he's done so to people sitting on the stage today. is today. is a good candidate on the day. if anyone deserves a donald trump. >> look at those hands. are they small hands? and he referred to my hands if they are small something else must be small. i guarantee you that's no problem. b. mike i don't think the people of america ar

dragging on the nasdaq are travel related stocks in the wake of the brussels tragedy. 4%. pariso, shares are above attack levels last year. when we look at the last six months, we see a lot of volatility. this has to do with some of the competitive pressures the company is fighting. the company has been fighting a negative growth cycle that perry gold thinks priceline is best and maintains an overweight rating. american airlines is one of the worst percentage performers, down about 7%. very interesting is the fact that george ferguson says this has very little to do with the brussels tragedy. he thinks it has to do with rising wages, fighting for share in dallas and the possibility of slowing growth in major latin american companies. this suggests american airlines could slide back down into a trading range formed over the last year. betty: what about winners in the travel space? america and is up on a report the company is looking to sell a part of itself and that that they may be approaching potential suitors. betty: how much more pressure melissa meyer stand? the latest

nasdaq biotech index is down about 7% this week.ts the biotech market could take another like lower. it could put bearish pressure once again on the nasdaq itself. one of the worst performers in the biotech sector -- in fact the nasdaq 100 today's and no international. the stock is plummeting once again, down more than 30% on the week. the implied guidance and the first quarter, this stock is now down more than 50% year to date with the potential turnaround completely out of sight. scarlet: thank you so much, abigail doolittle. let's check on the first word news. mark crumpton has more from the news desk. a federal judge has suspended the nomination of lula da silva as brazilian president dilma rousseff's chief of staff. bureauomberg sÃo paulo chief jointly with the latest. this is one that has had reverberations around the world. tell us, what happened during mr. lula's swearing-in ceremony? julia: he had a tumultuous swearing-in ceremony. a lot of people were chanting "there will be no coup." outside and all around the country you

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nasdaq up nine. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. ♪ nicole: let's take a look at u.s. stock index futures a dow futures up for 83, s&p futures at five. lauren: oil prices trading below $40 a barrel. 39.97. a meeting next month with the major oil producers. ten dollars. lauren: let's take a look at the latest in the world of sports. march madness is back and it's no different. plenty of upsets. joining in the fun with 65.65. the defense was the star of the show. normally averaging 15 points apiece but were held to a combined 28 points which faces miami in the next round. add to the list of upsets estate to down 68-62. the bulldogs shot 67%. the pirates missed all 10 of his three. the game goes in the books have been upset. they were favored in practice by one point. the biggest bracket buster mr. little rock. they took down purdue. the trojans came back down 13 to three minutes left in regulation to tie the game for the fourth overtime. little rock will f

the nasdaq of about .2%. -- the nasdaq up about .2%. s&p mostly the unchanged., theg close of trading coming up after the break. ♪ david: markets close in 10 minutes time. julie hyman at the markets desk with your latest check. julie: still not much changed. looks like the dow will not have that eight-day winning streak that it was poised for earlier. the dow in the s&p have both turned a little bit lower. the nasdaq a little bit higher , of course, that began with the bombings in brussels. we have seen still resilience in the market, despite this little bit of a downturn. it is not much of one. the s&p come over the course of the day, a relatively tight trading range. we are once again seeing low-volume on the major averages. a couple of stock movers and wanted to highlight -- staples is the best performer in the s&p 500. that's because there is a hearing going on yesterday and today. the federal trade commission trying to get this merger delayed, trying to get more time to sort of examine it. it looks like i'm according to our analysts, that the company has ma

the dow and nasdaq not doing much. some decliners in biotech weighing down the nasdaq. after the check inventory report that size larger than estimated build in inventories. a couple of things going on. we saw a large drop because the build last week was so big. that means we did see a declining build in inventories. there still remains this optimism in the oil market that the drop we have seen in production will lead to a -- declinesurprise in supplies. then there is the technical bounce. in terms of what is contributing most to gains in the s&p 500, we've got a combination of some of the oil movers like chevron and exxon that have been rising as well as big cap tech stocks contributing to some of the gains. all of this money going into stocks. we are seeing some of the safety trade money flowing out. we see someds, selling in treasuries and gold as well as in the japanese yen. mark: stocks in europe rising for the first day in three. we are playing the draghi wait and see game. the german power utility not rising, falling by 3.7%. biggest annuals loss today and wrote

best day of the year for the nasdaq. dow futures down 34-point. nasdaq futures down about four. nicole: botching commodity so closely, hovering right now around these levels. 33.70 for a .74 john close to 2% of gold is unchanged. nicole: -- lauren: the company has staked its of "the wall street journal." if the government can invent intellectual property that does not exist in order to invade the lawful products, there's no limiting legal principles. yesterday congressional testimony fbi or james comite admitted for the first time there was a mistake made when the agency has a password on the terrorists i got account changed. he said the action made it more difficult to get a backup of the iphone. his agency wants a chance to get into the phone. the sin. >> i hear folks talk about peace in that doors did i not see it this way. there's already a door and iphone. essentially we are asking apple to take the car dog away and picked the lock. nicole: did new york judge cannot force apple to hack the phone of the local drug trailer and that could influence the california case. >> we a

abigail doolittle is live at the nasdaq.il: after some volatility this morning, it appears the nasdaq will finish higher. but it is difficult to know. losses --ering its paring its losses, making for a little bit of the green. in terms of biotech, it may be down less than it was before. news lateter yesterday hit that a new medicare pilot campaign will be lost -- will be launched changing the way medicare part b is reimbursed. this biotech giant is down 5%, pretty remarkable, considering it is not company specific news and points to the idea whether there is a macro question as to whether investors will be spooked while of this like they were last summer when politicians raise concerns run high drug prices. that sparked the worst biotech bear market since 2000. a bigger question could be whether this leads to the nasdaq overall. vonnie: but we are still in the green. abigail: some of the big tech names are all trading higher, but the runaway winner today is blue buffalo pet products. the stock is up more than 20% and could b

the nasdaq is on his track for the second straight day of declines. >> right now we have the nasdaq nearion laws, unless you're is a monster rally into the close. have a look like we will two-day losing streak for the nasdaq, a reversal from yesterday. piotr traded higher. -- biotech was trading higher. interestingly, all 10 of the top 10.2 drags in the nasdaq 100 year to date are either big tech or biotech. a continuing theme to keep an eye on. relative selling, we're talking about the big names, amgen, regeneron, alexi. there does not seem to be in a new fundamental news. i reached out to our biotech analyst, who said that he saw after a couple of good days, or could be some retalix -- there could be some reflex volatility. sure that the biotech bear market is over. we could see more selling ahead. >> thank you. fascinating. securities and exchange commission still has a number of regulations and projects in the works, but aim to boost stability and enhance the overall structure of equity markets. today erik schatzker spoke exclusively with mary jo white about the progress she has made

the s&p 500 and nasdaq falling today. some headlines on the economy right now, consumer borrowing was down last month. credit card debt down $1.1 million. total credit of $10.5 billion. a lot of the increase accounted , includinging college tuition and auto lending. not a market moving number but one worth mentioning. the dow jones is faring the best. the nasdaq is down .3%. large-cap tech shares continued to struggle here. microsoft, apple, facebook, amazon all falling today. not any big catalyst. we had a note on apple that was somewhat negative, cutting the price target. time, we had a goldman sachs call that was positive on apple. declining, it looks like, because of some commentary from analysts at itg. not optimistic on subscriber additions for this year. some defenders have said it is really an international story now, not necessarily a domestic story. nonetheless, share declines have been accelerating along with large-cap technology. , one of the worst performers in the s&p, down 3.7%. thellout from nomura, analys

lots of up arrows, dow futures up 89, s&p up 10, nasdaq up 26.you think about success, what does it look like? is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student? is it one day giving your daughter the opportunity she deserves? is it finally witnessing all the artistic wonders of the natural world? whatever your definition of success is, helping you pursue it, is ours. t-i-a-a. nicole: lots of up arrows in asia and europe, the ftse up 1.5%, the cac quarante up 1.7%. janet yellen talked about a go slow process for rate hikes boosting equities, dow futures up 94, s&p up 11 after the highest close of the year yesterday. commodities have up arrows after selling off. oil today is up $.63. john kasich's interview with maria bartiroma coming up on "mornings with maria". maria: good morning. i am maria bartiroma, it is march dirtyth. top stories at 6 am on the east coast, it is a free for all on the republican side of the presidential race, candidates gearing up for tuesday's primary in wisconsin but they are all backing down from thei

the nasdaq is down a couple of percent for the year so far.e are expected to open down today, though not quite enough to eradicate those around about 1% of gains for the s&p and dow so far this quarter. we're expected to open down today by about 20 points for the dow. a quick look at europe. europe of course for the quarter much more negative still, to the tune of about 7% for the dax. only a percent or two for the ftse 100. we're declining further today. the french index down 1%. germany down half a percent. quick look at asia as well, where the performance so far this quarter has been more mixed. we've seen the yen down sharply. the shanghai comp recovered more recently. the nikkei is down 0.7% today, adding to around 10% or 11%. sf >> we started this show on the first trading day of january. triple-digit moves, sharp swings to the downside. we thought we were bringing bad luck to the global markets. in fact, it was the worst start to a year ever for markets. at one point, the dow was down 11%. then mid-february, it shot back up. march has b

s&p and nasdaq futures and nasdaq features such as today. we have janet yellen speaking for the economic club in new york at 11:30 a.m. eastern time. nicole. nicole: turning now to the campaign trail. republican presidential campaigning. the state has 42 delegates as donald trump is getting support in rural parts of wisconsin and the so-called doctrine forces plan to spend millions of dollars on ads to try to stop and reset the race. but berman has the latest from wisconsin. reporter: one of the last things they want to do is talk about whether they have enough money left. john said members for city that mandamus can't then. they said monday it is reallocating advertising money out of some districts and was confident to others. the majority of us in the primary next week are awarded by congressional district. kasich insisted the change in strategy doesn't mean he's running out of cash. >> we put our resources where we had the best chance. we are not going to spend money in places where we think they won't be great. we are competing traveling

nasdaq, 2.7%, 122 points. biggest gainers, the financials, look at these gains by the major banks. we had decent economic reports out this mothrning and the fedel reserve will say if the economy is doing well, maybe we do start raising interest rates and that's what the banks want to happen,er go, 5% gain for these banks across the board. >> for a sector has been the worst performer. super tuesday is here and by this time tomorrow the race for the white house could look a little different. john harwood is at cnbc headquarters. >> they call it super tuesday because the race goes national tonight. as you see from this map, 12 states on the board. largely in the south but include minnesota, massachusetts and vermont. polls suggest hillary clinton is poised for a big night against bernie sanders, so big she's focusing lesson him than on donald trump, ripping the republican front-runner's failure to condemn the kkk. >> i was very disappointed that he did not disavow what appears to be support from david duke and from the ku klux klan. that is exactly the kind of statement that should be

and the nasdaq leading the indices, up 2.5%.n capitol hill, fbi director director comey: still testifying -- fbi director comey still testifying. we are still awaiting testimony from apple general counsel bruce sewell. the stock has been climbing all day. apple is up 3.7%, along with other stocks in the s&p 500. it is time for the bloomberg business flahs. -- business flash. honeywell is no longer willing to do business with united technologies. there are antitrust concerns. u.s. sales declined for the fourth straight month. the german automaker is having trouble attracting customers after the cheating scandal. dreamworks ceo jeffrey katzenberg says his company would be interested in combining with paramount if they could find a financial partner to back the deal. his companyays doesn't need a merger partner. and tv investments in recent years are beginning to bear fruit. one reason behind today's market rally is u.s. manufacturing in february. it did shrink, but less than forecast. stabilization may be in the works. even if the

abigail doolittle has more live from the nasdaq. looking at are small gain for the nasdaq.he fourth straight back-to-back red to green reserves -- reversal. the nasdaq could have its first five-day winning streak since april of 2015. helping the nasdaq is the biotech sector. it is up sharply. dragging is big tech, including apple, amazon, and microsoft. vonnie: any notable name down? netflix. shares down from a bearish search. -- we spoke to paul sweeney. he says if the company misses its net weight, the momentum stock that trade-off of the subscriber numbers, netflix did trading to embarrass that cross. that suggests sellers are lurking and waiting to take netflix lower. vonnie: thank you. coming back to europe, greece is still the world. the finished finance minister is toing the imf and ministers -- he spoke with bloomberg tv in brussels. is thee frank, the imf one pushing for the harder line in the european commission seems to be more lenient. the key is to find a solution with the upcoming weeks to months, so we are not in a similar situation of crisis as last summer.

nasdaq teachers hired by eight team. nicole: in asia the cautious tone may tags listed stocks in the shanghai composite index up 1.2%. but in japan, the nikkei dropped one quarter of 1%. lauren: a stunning rally in oil prices shot up almost 6% yesterday in hopes of opec reduction cuts. oil is coming up close to $40 a barrel. $39.55 a pound. nicole: president of a mistake or the supreme court has to d. woo lawmakers feared maybe just a waste of time? nicole: march madness is underway today. who made the final cut for the tournament. nicole: 5:01 a.m. in new york. thursday, march 17th. happy st. patrick's day. welcome to "fbn:am," the latest breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. lauren: we are in green. candidates head into the west ahead of next tuesday's contest. the artist left primaries in arizona and caucuses of march 22nd. democrats still caucuses in idaho. donald trump will claim significant victories in tuesday's primaries. he was senator bradley talking about potentially running against front runner

get her assessment of the s&p 500 and the nasdaq. while the market has gotten less volatile and crazy of late we know things could go haywire at any moment. right? we know that. in an environment where emotions are running high the charts could make a good touch stone. fund mentals are all over the place. last time we checked in was january 26. s&p 500 was higher. she said the rally wouldn't have staying power. after it ran out of steam she predicted the average would go lower. sure enough the s&p made a peak on february 1. after the next ten days trading it plunged down 110 points and still one more brutal sell-off. the real low for the market came on february 11 when the s&p 500 there was a tweet that same day telling people to watch for a tradeable low. we have to find out how she made the call. look at the weekly chart of the s&p 500. on february 11, you can see when everything turned around and the key benchmark started roaring higher borode n didn't know for sure the market would bottom but there were signals suggesting we were

the nasdaq is very optimistic, looking forward.y have a strong pipeline and applications this year that are double those of last year as apparently many of these companies and their advisors are waiting for singles to go public. ofnie: is there some kind market gauge that companies use as a determination of whether to go public or hold off? >> i spoke to a spokesman from the nasdaq and he says what these companies and advisers watch is the fear index. about 20, they hold off but below that level. , they become a little more comfortable another signal the nasdaq looks for is the return of these companies to the road, and the nasdaq remains confident and optimistic about the second quarter and second half on ipo market -- activity. the wave of cost cutting in silicon valley and raises the issue of volatility for venture capital. for a look at how these are responding, let's ringback a fourth -- 40 year cross career adventure -- venture capital. there is something to the eluate in correction in startups last year, but still, bc firms

nasdaq pulling back 24.nd here is a look at commodities, oil ran up almost 10% last week, gasoline prices ran up as well. 36.40 as gold pulls back a dollar 50. we are going to turn it to mornings with maria and we say good morning to you, maria bartiromo. >> maria: it is monday march seventh. with me fox business network dagen mcdowell, the wall street journal john and maverick national morgan ortagus. hillary clinton and bernie sanders clashing at last night's democratic debate. sparks flying over the bailout. watch. >> he voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry. i think that's a pretty big difference. [cheers and applause] >> well, if you are talking about the wall street bailout where some of your friends destroyed this economy -- >> you know. >> excuse me, i'm talking. >> maria: clinton won in louisiana. lots to talk about this weekend. 100 of her emails the government has deemed classified. what that means that she never put government at risk. splitting wins over the weekend. put

look at nasdaq show. david: wow. melissa: look at that action on percentage basis. 3%. 128 points. david: gold higher but not too much. oil settling at the highest level in eight months. phil flynn of price futures group, fox business contributor joins me now from the cme. so, phil, oil was trading down until about 11:00 a.m. this morning eastern time. we saw this huge spike up. what happened at 11:00 a.m. to turn it around? >> well there was two things. the main thing a report out of the russian oil minister that basically said, hey, most oil countries have an agreement to freeze production and we're going on

nasdaq futures down 29.he context is that we have been seeing a rebound in markets from the february lows. the s&p up about 10%. half the sectors including energy are in the green for 2016. wti having another good week. closing above $35 a barrel last week. today the gains continue. 36.53. we are above $36 a barrel on brent, marching towards $40 a barrel. nat gas continues to be under pressure. the euro is weakening ahead of draghi later this week, that's considered a highlight of the week. on thursday expected to ease further, the euro is deline icl. dollar under pressure against the japanese yen. something to watch. the british pound is getting hit again. >> a mario draghi press conference is always the highlight of the week. >> true. >> i look forward to that on thursday. >>> nancy reagan is being remembered today for her strength, her intelligence and as a woman who changed the role of the first lady. >> across the country, nancy reagan was honored and remembered. president and mrs. obama said they are f

abigail doolittle is live at the nasdaq with the latest.il: we have a big selloff here at the nasdaq and the selling accelerating all day. that winning streak will be snapped unless there is a monster rally in the next few minutes. biotech, driven by gilead sciences, the the stock is down over a patent for a hepatitis c drug. merck says gilead owes 10% of its sales in the form of a royalty on this drug. thegilead is appealing decision and says it will only have a 5% effect on the stock. percentage standpoint, seagate technology is the worst as ubs has lowered numbers citing numbers in the desktop and commercial business segment. one analyst has reduced his price target to $24 a share and is reiterating his selling with the stock down and some investors are clearly taking it seriously. betty: what about other tech companies and play today? watchingwe have been google as they announced the platform cloud event. the street really wants to know how serious google is about its move into the cloud. whoached out to an analyst seems more impressed

dow up 107, nasdaq up 32.ole: the shanghai composite index fell nearly 4% before ending with an up arrow gain of 1.6%. after gaining 3% yesterday, oil prices continuing to rise. 33.87 '-end-single-quote. the justice department releases the final batch of hillary clinton's e-mails. or rather lunch telling fox news there is no deadline for the clinton e-mail investigation two and vs vi and apple had to capitol hill to fight about unlocking an iphone used by terrorists after apple and the keycorp berlin and new york. we will have latest developments. nicole: candidates return to the top of the -- brady agrees to new two-year contract. good morning. 5:23 a.m. here in new york. it is super tuesday, march 1st welcome to fbi and a.m., your first like a today's news of the latest breaking is similar to expect the day ahead. nicole: white house hopefuls making the final push or both on super tuesday. republicans voted in 11 states. 600 delegates up for grab your democrats a word with 862 delegates. make sure to stay wi

the nasdaq by about 20. of course, also rebounding from a couple of soft days of trade after, of course, a nice bounce the previous couple of weeks. today marks the seventh anniversary of the current bull market, even if it hasn't always felt like one lately. check out these returns. the dow up 159%. the s&p, 193%. and the nasdaq 266%. we'll have much more on u.s. stocks in just a minute. >> and whether we're still in this bull market. but first, let's get you up to speed on the trading action overnight in asia. chinese shares dropping on renewed concerns about the economy over there. the chinese currency weakened, and the chinese stock market broke its five-day winning streak. japan's nikkei closed lower by almost 1%. a stronger yen hitting some of japan's biggest exporters. the currency there has been strengthening on the back of risk aversion. keep an eye on that into the u.s. session. >> the u.s. dollar more broadly, softest level since mid-february. now to early european trade. let's have a quick look.

the nasdaq is turning higher, holding the index back.ower on downgrade from bernstein. he thinks the first quarter resorts could be at risk. the second consensus appears to be high. this could pressure the stock. the sentiment is stick -- shared by deutsche bank. the company is likely to get the lower end of the first quarter guidance that was lowered in january on concerns around china. this causes intel to trade into a parish cross. suggested theyve could see some downside head. mark: the nasdaq is trying to turn green for the year. what is continuing to weigh on it? abigail: one stock. amazon. this is the worst performer year to date. from, it's jason oppenheimer. he has taken his price target down. he's taken a cloud revenues by 4%. he believes amazon will reduce in the face of competitive pressures from google. this is the reason the stock is the worst point greg and the nasdaq this year. it's down 20%. is atabigail doolittle the nasdaq. we are an hour away from the apple event. willie the smaller iphone have a smaller price tag? we

nasdaq futures up 41. we start the month, it looks like, on a high note after february closed lower. the dow did manage to close higher for the month. we'll see what happens. oil is higher after a strong finish for asian stocks overnight. >> indeed. a super tuesday perhaps for markets as well as politics. in washington news today, clarence thomas breaks his silence for the first time in a decade. the supreme court justice spoke during oral arguments on monday. he asked ten questions in a case over banning someone with a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction from owning a gun. he has said he doesn't need to ask questions, as he relies on written briefs in a case. >> that was big news yesterday when he spoke up. well, stop me if you've heard this one before. the royal caribbean's anthem of seas cruise ship will cut its latest trip two days short because of a severe storm forecast. it's the same ship that actually sailed into an atlantic storm early february, forcing passengers to stay in their rooms for 1

nasdaq futures down 1% or 40 points.e: checking out key commodities watching oil this morning pulling back or to 3 cents currently at $37.57 a barrel as gold gains over $10 at $12.75 a troy ounce. lauren: a look at the world for its boys. peyton manning got a little emotional yesterday as he said i to playing football. >> well, i fought the good fight. i finished my football racing after 18 years, it is time. god bless all of you and god bless football. lauren: mammon is unsure of what he will do next, but he will certainly spend time with family while he figures it out. maria sharapova had an announcement yesterday she did not retire. >> i received a letter from the atf that i had failed a drug test at the history about them. i did fail the test and i take full responsibility for it. lauren: sharapova had been taking it legally for the last decade, but if it became illegal to tour will change this year. sharapova will be provisionally suspended march 12th as begins. nike has put a hold on its ties with the tennis star u

the nasdaq for this month is up by 6.83%.re definitely pairing the losses we saw from the cross equities, down 7.8% in january. the last time we had a good market performance for the nasdaq was back in october, 2015. five months since we have seen a good rally. let's take a look at what's happening with some individual stocks right now. first off to the nasdaq's top two. 1.8%,rising, up by nearly rallying to a three-month high after an upgrade. they are also increasing their 12 month price target by $10. they say sales growth is up 18% in the past year. afteroft up by 6/10 of 1% the microsoft build conference with the ceo'. there is an interesting split that is happening; elsewhere shares and amazon shares are saying, with amazon that home services rose every month by about 20% since last year. this includes services like home gutter cleaning, tv wall mounting, and repairs. on the flipside, facebook and netflix are going the other way. 5%.ebook is down by 1.2 they did hit a record high on tuesday so we could be seeing some pr