Morning News

• Futures are pointing to a flat open this morning.

• Alcoa set to kick off the begginning of first quarter earnings season when the company reports after the bell today.

• General Motors reportedly stock-piling auto parts in fears of a Delphi walkout.

• Walt Disney Co. set to begin offering some of it's popular ABC programs on the internet for free.

• Harley Davidson Inc. opens first dealership in China over this past weekend.

• FedEx Freight to raise general service rate by nearly 6% begginning on April 24th.

• Wal-Mart making some noise with it's desire to get into the banking bussiness.

• The Lundberg Survey shows gas prices went up 17 cents on average nationwide over the past two weeks.

• Crude Oil is up again this morning to $68.08 per barrel.

• Wholesale gasoline has reached $2.00 per gallon.

• Natural gas remains below $6.80 per unit.

• Gold reaching that $600.00 per ounce again.

Budd Foxx