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I'm Tim O'Brien. Every week on Crash Course, I'm going to bring listeners directly into the arenas where epic upheavals occur and

I'm going to explore the lessons we can learn when creativity and ambition collide

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And I'm Karen, Moscow.

U.S. Stock Index Futures, they are little changed now.

Let's go to the first word breaking news desk for today's morning call.

Here's Bill Maloney. Good morning, Bill.

Good morning, Karen, that's right. U.S. futures are quiet today.

Down futures currently higher by 9 points. S&P's are a little changed and Naza futures rise by 2.

The U.S. 10- year yield at 1.88 percent. And overnight in Asia,

Shanghai gained 2.2 percent, rose for a seventh day. While main European markets are trading

mixed this morning.

On the U.S. Economic Front at 8.30, Chicago Fed at 10 o'clock existing home sales

and at 1240, feds Lockhart speaks in Georgia.

In deal news, Marriott and Starwood site amended merger

packed.

Sherman Williams to acquire Valspar for 9.3 billion and IHS and market to

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