Sides of the atlantic. 1 , tech00 up 4 10 of doing the heavy lifting. The stoxx 600 up 6 10 of 1 . Euro weakness today. It started before the durable goods number and the news out of berlin. Weakness in the russian ruble. Isssure from belarus increasing on moscow and the ruble is taking it harder as a result. Keep an eye on japan. There is a press conference with it is friday and fascinating to see where we go. European stocks lagging their american peers. This anlysts calling opportunity to shift investments from the United States to hear in europe. Will that happen or will that be missed . Scarlet it is kind of happening right now, and europe looks appealing because it is a diversification away from the u. S. Which is crowded, high devaluation, and trading highs. There is stimulus coming in europe, 27 member nations able to agree on more public spending , in contrast to what we have seen in the u. S. Fund flows for the biggest equity etf in the u. S. Got the itt since january, and si
Hold onto a recent rebound and global stocks head for a second week of losses. The European Union is giving Boris Johnson until the end of the month to back down on his controversial brexit bill. Cable holds at 1. 28. And citigroup names jane fraser ceo, making her the first woman to run a major wall street bank. She faces the challenge that alluded her predecessors, boosting the banks profitability in line with its rivals. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Lets take a look at where futures are pointing here on the dax, ftse, and euro stoxx 50. Futures all pointing down, although slightly lowered right now, with ftse futures off by about 0. 3 . Take a look at u. S. Futures quickly after the drops we saw yesterday, almost 2 drops. We have a bouncing futures bounce in futures. Anna lets have a look at some data out of the u. K. We are getting monthly gdp data. The u. K. Economy growing by 6. 6 in july. It is almost in line with the estimate of 6. 7 . No su
Correction from the march lows. Joining us is a chief market technician. Nasdaq, what is the level that we stabilize at . That is a great question. I think rather than looking at the levels, i think it is more about duration. We need more than one or two days of selling to alleviate the excess that we have built up over the last few months. Anybody who has been following the markets, equities seemingly have grind it higher every single day, so there is a lot of excess, a lot of exuberance built into the market. A a day or so of the selling pressure is not going to alleviate that. Where we kindbove of should be, are we . I guess it is the question people are trying to understand. We did push up aggressively, steadily though, but it has taken us above the 50, 100 and 200 Day Moving Averages. We are starting out to get back down to levels closer to the 50 Day Moving Average. How important is that going to be as a level we need to Pay Attention to . The 100 and 200 are still a ways away. T
A lot of folks thinking it was over and done. Ck upof those sto sharply. Nothing is changed for these companies. What is changing as investors saying we have gone too far, too fast, so now we are seeing a pullback. Again,take a look at the we are seeing a pullback. If it is a fearful look for stocks, you can see those haven assets rallying. The point wisely yesterday. What is going on with softbank . There is a Financial Times report that what triggered this is they went big and some options on big tex. Abigail that is an interesting point. I do not know if it has to do with softbank, but theres been a lot of unusual options activity where you have folks buying shortterm call options. That is expiring this week, next week, betting that after the huge move up, the nasdaq up 80 from the march lows come after that it will go even higher. Some thinking that is not so stable. What we think because of all this is it is technical selling down to the 50 Day Moving Average. If the 50 Day Moving
Weaker byh pound is 9 10 of 1 . Picture withig tina fordham, avonhurst partner and head of Global Political strategies. She joins us from london. States we are 57 days away from the election and still no stimulus insight, even though the senate is back. It does not look like the president and democrats are ao any page that would be considered similao similar. Where do we go from here . Tina i think another round of stimulus should be a foregone conclusion. This haggling we are seeing, Congress Just back from recess, is what you would expect to see. Each side wants to see they are driving a hard bargain. Look at the language used by the two different sides. Republicans say the president wants nothing more then to write checks for american families. Democrats say the stimulus is not just skinny, it is emaciated. But we are going to get there because we have to. Ands a political imperative not just an election year, but with an election coming days nobody wants to pull the plug. Vonnie it