The Market On Wednesday

  Good morning it is 48 degrees and cloudy here in the Upper Hudson Valley, the forecast predicts a mostly cloudy day with temperatures in the high 50s this afternoon. Looks like we're in for temperatures in the 50s and 60s with plenty of rain over the next week.

  At 9:10 a.m. DOW futures are +38 and the price of oil per barrel is up. The market is poised to open moderately higher.

  Jon Ossoff almost got over the finish line last night. There will be in a final election for the Georgia Congressional slot in June. Hopefully he can gain a few more points and win. Notice that Bill O and FOX are in end of the road talks. As I never listened to the guy, it's meaningless to me. The only time I paid any attention to him is when his misery nonsense seeped out beyond his miserable show and made some sort of noise in the media. At that point I simply think of him as a hopeless windbag.

CNN: Bank earnings; Pound hangover; French election thriller by Ivana Kottasova

The French presidential election is heating up ahead of a first round vote on Sunday. Four leading candidates are fighting for two spots in a runoff scheduled for May 7.