Market but bond market and this inversion of the yield curve. We can talk about what youre seeing, what people are telling you. The bottom line, if history is a judge this could mean recession is on the way. Reporter makes people so anxious, connell. Yields on two year treasurys rising above the yield on a 10year. First time since 2007. That date alone spook as lot of investors. The yield curve on shorter end, now as people call it inverted. The reason it makes so many people anxious, that means investors have less confident in the near term economy versus the long term economy. Normally if you loan money in this case to the government for a short period of time, you expect your principle plus a small payment, youre not loaning money for that long. If you lend money longer you expect a bigger pay back. That is the normal logic of the bond market. You get paid more for lending longer. When this pattern reverses like now, it signals a shift in the pattern, signals a problem for a lot of
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The road map begins with ibm, sales falling for the 13th straight quarter. Ibm not the only stock were reporting on this busy weeks this week. Mixed quarters for vz and united technologies. And facebook the company overtaking overtaking General Electric in market value. Ibm, sales down. Adjusted earnings did beat but the performance of the traditional and software dragging. Earnings hurt by the strong dollar. And they expected a slightly stronger currency impact. The cfo is calling the results a reflection of where we see longterm value in i. T. This will take some time. I think one of the things that happened that was wrong were ibm was that the stock ran in anticipation this would somehow be a breakout quarter. The cf so great. He made it clear it wasnt going to be a great quarter. I kept thinking what about what he said made him feel like this was the one. Software was not as long as id like. Backlog did grow. There were problems in brazil russia, india, china. I am not defending th
Nasdaq at 5,120. S p 5002,087 and the russell down almost a full percent. But we begin now with the big deal in health insurance. It is official. An them agreeing to buy cigna for 188 per share in cash and stock. An enterprised are value of 54 billion. Straight to bertha coombs. Combined anthem and sigma would unseat United Health to become the largest u. S. Health insurer with 150 billion in annual revenues. More than 50 million members covering nearly 1 in 5 americans. Anthems ceo joseph swedish aide mitts put admits putting the two big firms together will be challenging but with that scale they can generate operating savings and make them more affordable. It will improper our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and afford ability for our customers. But the anthem deal taken with aetnas proposed merger with humana would result in the big five insurers becoming the big three. One antitrust lawyer tell
Moving to the upside today rebounding beyond the major u. S. Indices oil is bouncing back. This is important. Its helping the market hire. This is after brent crudent entded in bear market territory. As for europe ftse ending up 0. 7 of a percent. In asia overnight, chinas selloff continues. Not as bad as the day before. And nikkei 225 hitting a twoweek low. Lets get to trading action here in the good old United States of america with bob pisani down on the floor of the nyse. Weve been do for an oversold bounce and it helps that earnings are better than anticipated today particularly in industrials. Look at the major sectors. Everything thats been a disaster this month is up today, which is the way it should be. Were due for a bounce in energy and materials and industrials. A lot of disappointments in earnings. Health care has been holding up. Thats on the upside. Watch the market leaders. Market leaders are internet stocks like google and Facebook Biotech stocks and banks. All of thos