Useless . Congress back to work and a lot on the table tax refor, Harvey Relief and fast approaching debt ceiling. Will anything get done every building after Hurricane Harvey how much is it going to cost well ask a ceo of u. S. Concrete im Brian Sullivan power lunch begins right now welcome to power lunch, september is off to a shaky start. Stocks are at session lows, posting the biggest one day tumble since august. In the wake of the saber rattling, the dow plunging more than 200 points and oil soaring hitting the highest level in almost two weeks, gold hitting its highest level of the year as well United Technology down more than 3 , remember its a big yield deal news of the day agreed for 20 billion insmed, more than doubling, positive data on the experimental lung cancer drug. Tyler . Thank you very much good day, welcome. We are going to begin where all of the action is for us, and that is the markets. North koreas latest bomb test reverberating through the markets right now, tak
Power lunch starts right now and welcome to power lunch, im Michelle Carusocabrera despite ges drag, although were watching to see if it goes positive, major averages are hitting record highs again dow, s p 500 on track for their sixth straight week of gains check out some of the movers the Home Builders are higher, the etf that tracks them, itb, trading at a more than tenyear high on pace for its eighth consecutive weekly gain. P mp p g down 8 . Paypal rallying on its earnings beat brian . Thank you very much big day for the markets, big day for the markets really they say everything is bigger in texas including todays power lunch because guess what, were back in houston and with the billion dollar buyer, himself, hanging out with his new toeam, the houston rockets. 2 billion buyer of the rockets. Going to join us for the next couple hours we have great guests we got the mayor on, might get a visit from cp iii and james harden, and the man many consider to be the best Hedge Fund Trade
Got to get back in time here is what else is happening at this hour, its a good time to buy a house, if you can find one for sale. Mortgage rates hitting the lowest level since november. The 30year fix now 3. 95 , but housing inventory, the number of homes for sale, remains very low in some cities. The home of the little blue box is giving investors a gift. Tiffany boosting its Quarterly Dividend by 11 and more departures at ford. This time its Global Product Development chief is leaving. Becky, thank you very much. Folks, stop me if you heard this one before its another recordsetting day for your investments. Were in the middle of a sixday win streak propelling yet you heard scott and melissa say i but ill say it again the s p 500 and nasdaq hitting new highs. The dow not far behind. Check this out, the nasdaq is now up 16 of 19 trading days so far this month. That is putting it on pace to have the most up days versus down days of any month since all the way back in september of 1996.
From bloombergs u. S. And asian headquarters. Im Ramy Inocencio in new york just after 7 00 a am. Yvonne it is just after 7 00 p. M. In hong kong. Im yvonne man. The tech earnings this week will be the big focus with alphabet kicking things off. Ramy i was trying to get ahold of what was moving the markets today but there really wasnt anything but it was earnings. Well get to that in a little bit. Yvonne yeah. It was good it seemed like, in line with expectations at google earnings but just not enough to really convince investors to get too excited about given the run we have seen on the stock already. Lets look at how things are playing out in the asia pacific. It was the Oil Companies that were in focus and kind of offset in tech yesterday. Flat day so far. To australia things could get a little more interesting. Oil being a bump higher overnight with the saudis promising deep cuts to crude exports next month. Shipments capped at 6. 6 Million Barrels a day as we see more analysts say
Im Michelle Caruso cabrera. The dow and nasdaq and s p 500 hitting alltime highs. The dow in particular has been unstoppable, on the longest winning streak since july. Up to the eighth straight trading session. Commodities are always volatile. Check out nat gas down 9 . Its been warm in the northeast. Huge part of the nation has been warm. Take a look at that. A decline of 29 for nat gas. Dont see that very often, tyler. Michelle, thank you very much. Because you can never have too many lunches, welcome to power lunch. Im tyler mathisen. We begin with this rally in the stock market. For that, lets go to bob pisani. Hi, bob. Hello, tyler. Happy tuesday, everybody. The important thing is this is a global rally. Its not just the s p 500. Not just new highs here. Germany hit a 52week high. Brazil hit a new high. Canada hit a new high. Some of this is on the commodity rally but theres a global rally going on, two powerful forces moving the stock markets around the world. The first one is th