And the temperatures are rising a major heat wave set to hit the majority of the United States over the next few days here we are. Were keeping you calm, cool, collected and informed its friday, july 19th Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning welcome. Im Contessa Brewer in for Brian Sullivan stock futures right now are in the green. Implying an open of up 92 points the s p 500 is up about 6 points the nasdaq futures are up 41 it looks like the nasdaq, the dow, the s p, all on pace to break twoweek win streaks a decent day today could change those fortunes the major averages are less than a percent below theyre alltime record highs the bond market now, lets look at u. S. Treasuries, the twoyear yield at 1. 7 the fiveyear up at 1. 7. The tenyear up above 2 now lets go worldwide in asia, looking at overseas markets. The nikkei is up more than 2 . This is on talk about the fed rate cut and what anticipation lies in store. The hang seng up a percent shanghai up a percent as well
Interview with ceo of six flags chairman Jim Reid Anderson big show ahead in the brand new studio dagen, congratulations to us. J one of my paiflt views well one of you but radio city so a brand new desk and im wearing sweat pants. No youre not. I even have proper shoes on. Again it is like old bugs bunny cartoon with elmer fudd you have to have proper outfit or personality changes. Theres a camera over there so check out hot shoes all of the time. I didnt know that or make that mistake. This was amazing and i was out with friends last night in new york city on the Upper East Side five finance type people all say hello all big fans of you and you deserve this. Awesome congratulations. No it feels good. Just for those bigger guys i kind of like having the counter last tile i was here youre expose all the cay down you have to make sure your sues p suits fit just right. Were glad youre here focus on mummer this morning and get your take on what to expect former special counsel going befor
The cac is up and the footstsef. The yields something weve been watching closely ticking up a little more like it was yesterday and that was a big difference in yesterdays market rally compared to the risk on tone to the sector performance. Thanks for that if youre looking for a negative, we did come off the highs. A couple of offsets, but it was a more constructive. Were getting back. Ill tell you. I can tell you week ago whats a week ago when i was sitting in for melissa, everyone was bearish. Really . Monday was a big week. It was the s p 500 and nasdaq both down. But that had been after six straight five or six straight weeks, so everyone was bearish the guy from Morgan Stanley, very bearer . Oh, i remember. Swell see. Bo jo, ten more people backing him. He had powder all over his nose. Thats derailed his campaign. Really . Theyre down to ten candidates. Ten. Boris johnson will make the final two. Less than the democrats you know, watching what happens in italy and all these other
Action. Stocks are higher across the board at this hour as the s p 500 flirts with new alltime highs. If the index is up more than 39. 42 points at the close, that will notch its 17th record close of 2024. Ooh right now the s p 500 is up more than 1 , up better than 56 points. We shall see. We are tracking that index for the next hour. Now, this index getting a boost from oracle which is hitting a record high. A. I. Demand, charles just talking about it, powering strong cloud growth for oracle. As you can see, theres the stock, it is up almost 12 right now. And big tech is also helping to propel the nasdaq higher as a you can see on your screen by 221 points. At one point we were down 26 points on the nasdaq. What a reversal we have had in this session. Right now the techheavy index can on pace to snap. A 2day losing streak. Now to the dow jones industrials. As a you can see right now on your screen, another strong performance, up 272 points. At one point the dow in this session was do
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