Morning News

• Futures are flat this morning no direction at this point.

• Natural Gas inventories to be released this morning.

• Retail Sales numbers for March to be released today.

• March Import Price Index on the schedule for today.

• Weekly Jobless Claims will also be released today.

• April Consumer Sentiment will be out today.

• February Business inventories also to be released today.

• Google Inc. to launch Google Calender today. The program suppose to help you plan your day or days.

• The Home Depot to test selling auto-parts in some of it's stores in Florida.

• Bayer AG makes $20 billion takeover bid for Schering AG.

• SanDisk (SNDK) to join the S&P500

• Iran vowing to not back away from enrichment.

• Crude Oil pulling back a bit to $67.92 per barrel.

• Wholesale Gasoline now $2.06 per gallon.

• Natural Gas remains around $6.75 per unit.

• Gold down just a bit to $599.00 per ounce.

Budd Foxx