That gives you a better indication of where trading would be if we were to open here look at the treasury market. Weve been watching that closely too joe did anyone else see 5. 7 and say, oh, it is not nine . I had the same reaction i saw the etfs, i actually thought, occasion. 5. 6 or 5. 7, which is just crazy. We keep trying to figure out where is the bottom. Look at the 10year note yield of 1. 15 a week ago, you were looking at below. 7 . The moves we have seen have been pretty phenomenal. The government is stepping up its efforts to pass a massive stimulus many are betting on whether it will be big enough the Federal Reserve is pulling out its own tools. We have huge Team Coverage of these major stories. Getting over to eamon. Starting with you in washington. Good morning. It was just 24 hours ago we were talking about the idea that american politics has really changed. Every 24hour news cycle, it is different. And now embracing the idea of sending 1,000 checks to just about every
Crude Oil Last Week which hit the highest interday wti up to 63. 72 an barrel ice brent crude is up to 69. 49. Gold hit a nearly fourmonth high last week posting its eighth straight positive session on friday. Longest daily winning streak since june of 2019 right now gold price is up another 1. 75 to 1,579. 60 an ounce. Our top story, tensions with iran escalating over the weekend. Eamon javers has the latest from washington good morning. Good morning, joe the iranians were vowing revenge over the weekend the administration took to television to explain its decision to kill that iranian general who was in iraq last week and to offer an explanation for what its plan is Going Forward. Mike pompeo said the administration is prepared and ready to handle anything that the iranians respond with. Heres what he said. If the American People should know that we have prepared for this, that we are ready well talk cultural that our responses are lawful and the president will take every action nece
Expected to be signed tomorrow headlines injecting uncertainty on existing tariffs and after hittinga new alltime high, apple is now the biggest drag on the dow. Well have much more on why later in the show. We are up 50 points on the dow steve grasso with us for the full hour. Steve, todays session yo yoing. The bottom line though is the deal should be signed tomorrow and the rest of it we kind of knew. It seems like the market is looking for a reason to sell off. You have bulls that want a better entry point, bears that want to push it down and any headline that allows them to do that, theyre going to roll with its about china today i think its going to be about earnings coming up if you really look at where we are in the s p, the 3300 level is pivotal and if you look at earnings, if we fall short, the market will tank and thats a big word tank is a big word. Its a big worry when you say wheres the market going or where do i think its going, i think it will be legitimate to say a 7 t
Historically it may end up being more and more of an an oration that his experience was the whole yield curve Interest Rate environment. We had a misery index back then where you add unemployment and inflation together. It was up in the low 20s. We may never see that again i hope we never see that again unless we do if we do, that means something is very wrong. A man and his moment can you imagine a fed being so taking really the world on in terms of im going to break the back of inflation, i dont care what happens to go to 21. 5 on the prime. What year is it now, 2019. He dies at a pretty old age. 92 years old. 92 years old and struggling to get to 2 because he harnessed or vanquished it so effectively when he did. He will be remembered. He was a very tall man and nice man. I know you spent some time with him. He was on the show a lot he was. The same day, you are dealing with cookie monster or what was it, oscar the grouch you are oscar the grouch. The puppetear behind big bird passe
It is time for a wealth tax in america ive heard there are some billionaires who doesnt support this plan. Theville ville ification of billionaires makes no sense to me she probably thinks more about cataclysmic change to the Economic System as opposed to tinkering. Lloyd blankfein responded on twitter. I can watch that over and over again where were you when you first saw that i was kind of brushing my teeth in the morning where i normally watch the channel i was surprised and flattered to think that i could play such an Important Role in the president ial campaign. Were you angry . No, i wasnt angry. Im a little bit staggered that it gotten to this point of kind of name calling. How provocative was my statement that i would tinker with the Financial System and i wouldnt explode it and that becomes in this kind of polarized world, thats a very radical statement to say you wouldnt blow up the best financial and Economic System in the world. Let me read from your tweet, if i may you say