500 infotech index up 48 , and the energy index was the least best performer. It still was up, though, which tells you how much these markets were looking for good news. The second best performer, Consumer Discretionary in the s p 500. That includes home depot to amazon, ebay, even general motors, so really across the board, it was a good year. For more on the markets more broadly, we are joined by ing head ofvey, global debt and rate strategy. We widened the curve with a bit of steepening going on. To what do you attribute that . Been a really interesting move. We were inverted six months ago. Happened is the fed has cut 75 basis points. Theyve injected a mountain of liquidity into the system, and theres been a real change in sentiment in the sense that six months ago, we were genuinely concerned about a recession in the u. S. Next year. Have beenerns significantly downsized. Theres still trimming this uncertainty, and we so have a very flat curve. If you look at the twostens, it is n
Qualcomm up 8. 5 on a better earning quarter. Down 26 . No improvements throughout the session. Whoalked to the ceo earlier seems to not be worried but analysts on the street are calling out the unit. Airbnb, google not placing it as high in the search results and saying there is a lot of uncertainty ahead for expedia. Year is up by30 nine basis points right now. Were seeing a similar move over in the United States as these are substantial moves in the back end of the bond market. We are also getting several moves of the 10 year. The 30 year, absolutely i watering. As you can see, a nine basis points selloff here in europe in germany. The pound has been under pressure as well, two members of the governing council in the United Kingdom voting for a rate cut. Trading higher. We await news from the white house, confirmation possibly that we do have the potential for a rollback of tariffs if we do get this deal done. Nothing yet. Lets talk about what has been happening in the u k. Governor