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Im tyler mathisen. On wall street, it was the first threeday win streak for stocks this year. But we begin tonight with the battle between Silicon Valley and the federal government. Apple will fight a court order to help the fbi unlock an iphone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The decision sets up a legal showdown between the Worlds Largest publicly traded company and federal Law Enforcement. One side citing privacy, the other national security. Eamon javers has more on this escalati...

Im tyler mathisen. On wall street, it was the first threeday win streak for stocks this year. But we begin tonight with the battle between Silicon Valley and the federal government. Apple will fight a court order to help the fbi unlock an iphone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The decision sets up a legal showdown between the Worlds Largest publicly traded company and federal Law Enforcement. One side citing privacy, the other national security. Eamon javers has more on this escalati...

Tom a swing back to rates and what were looking at. Youre aware the United States has a jobs report tomorrow. We call it super friday. Francine only the most important piece of Economic Data probably in the world apart from china if we see a slowdown. A little bit of news from retail sales. The e. C. B. Is meeting march 10. Increasing some 2 . Put that against the weaker than expected inflation and some pretty dire Economic Service data from the u. K. Tom the german yields, we will get to that a...

Than 1 . That is quite a turnaround, isnt it . The dollar has been a focal point as well. It broke right through that 200 day moving average, volume picked up as well. The big winner happens to be energy, correlated to commodity prices, but speaks to that risk on scene. In terms of the vix, as risk came on, the volatility subsided. The vix at its lowest level so far this year. Paralleled the vix 2013. The biggest loser was banks, could not hold on to any kind of gains. No bank ended in the green...

The back story to me, the bank of japan couple of weeks ago, mario draghi, and those her bombshell announcements. Point, as Steve Stanley said, the fed will need to stand up and punched the markets in the mouth, and tell them to stop bullying them because every time they told him to do something, the markets have a reaction. We have that in january and now all that has passed. Scarlet and the fed has a dual mandate, all in placement and price stability. With the labor market approaching of full ...

Have looking for. Even as we do have lower trading volumes. This is the lowest volume of the year. If you look around asset we have conflicting testimony from janet yellen herself. Some other fed speakers more recently with a little bit more of a hawkish stance emphasizing the april could be on the table for a cut. The market is not buying it. We have rates lower. The two year yield is at 0. 8 4 . , theu look at currencies rates are going to go higher. The dollar is a little bit lower versus the...

Around a thousand dollars a year. And some very detailed microdata that ive seen on Household Spending patterns aggests that there may be linkage, as you would expect, from reduced amounts that people pay at the pump to other spending, like eating out, restaurant meals and other things. The aggregate data, you know, is spending isg and not as strong as it could be given the decline. And of course, on the other side, it may be that it will take a while and it is something that will slowly strengt...

His tightest range of the whole year. We actually thought low volume. A lot people are waiting for the jobless report tomorrow. Sawy the whole month, we it really come down, for the most since october. Over the whole month, the risk of the volatility really decreasing overall. It seems like quite a trend. Us to wrapping up the First Quarter of the year in what a quarter it was. I want to start your with the nasdaq in particular, because it started off the year falling below its moving average. B...

We are up around the highs of the session, with the nasdaq leading the gains today. Energylook at the imac, taking over the top spot. Care, thelth pfizerallergan deal being canceled, both of those stocks were up and we are seeing Ripple Effect speculation about where we could see further consolidation in the health care industries. Discretionary and tech stocks are trading higher as well. This is the energy portion of the equation. Weeks inventory reports showing an unexpected draw down in inven...

All three major averages down with the nasdaq leading, now down by mother 1 . It all has to do with concern over global growth. And to rotation of the fed minutes. The upside is that maybe with dovish representation of the fed minutes. The averages are now may be giving up their gains or getting closer to it. The yen has really been the big market story of the day. It continues to push higher to its level since october 2014 versus the u. S. Dollar. 1. 0 108. We have to look at options trading on...