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Disaster insurance for your portfolio. Remember will the force be enough to save disney when it reports next week. The action begins right now. Lets get right to it. While stocks are at an all time highs, commodities are getting crushed. What does it say about the health of the dploebl economy and what does it mean for the markets right here. Dan, what do you think . It stuck out the last couple of weeks as the markets levitated near the prev all time highs near march 1st. The thing thats intere...

Sharply yesterday. Today a knock on gains, ftse mib leading higher in italy, 0. 89 . The german dax up 0. 3 . The ftse 100 up 0. 50 . Its maybe a focus on brazil, argentina coming into the discussion of late. Heres crude, up about 1 on wti, 49. 84. Brent up to 53 bucks. Nat gas up 0. 2 . The tenyear note at 2. 118 has moved up nicely. Now 2. 247. Youll take it in this kind of environment. And the dollar which has weakened substantially over the past couple of weeks hanging around 97 1 2. Its dow...

Ecb, comey, and the testimony, and the u. K. Election. Markets are less cautious in yesterday. We are seeing stocks rise for the first day in three. Most of these currencies falling against the dollar today. Sovereign bond yields rising. We will get to lots of corporate news. Opular,er, banco p santander agreeing to buy it for a nominal one euro after regulators determine that the lender was likely to fail. Santander raising about 7 Million Euros for a rights issue to bolster the balance sheet. ...

A massive Balance Sheet. Lets go to Steve Leishman, he has been deciphering what the fed is up to steve. Reporter hey, yes, the Federal Reserve hiked points to a quarter point of a ragege of one to onequarter of a percent, turning up the heat and ignoring readings its the First Time Since 2008 the feds number does not have a zero in front of it. Janet yellen says the moves are justified despite weak Inflation Numbers. All that we are doing in raising rates is moving, removing a bit of accommodat...

And investors totally shrugging it off. Especially when news came after a possible deal on taxes. Look at this, the dow will open way up about a half hour from know you and that will put it about what, 100 points, roughly 100 points away from the roughly alltime high. Janet yellen had something to do with the rally. Now look at this, too, amazon, the prime day sale ended early this morning on pace for a billion dollars worth of sales in 30 hours. The echo speaker, one of the top sellers, along w...

First things first, id like to welcome beth to the Manhattan Institute where shes recently become a fellow. Prior to joining us, she was a fellow at the Brookings Institution center on children and families, and before that she was a taffe economist staff economist at the president s council of economic advisers and worked extensively on Higher Education policy. Second, id like to welcome beth back to new york. Beth received her ph. D. In math excuse me, her b. A. In math and economics from cuny...

First things first, id like to welcome beth to the Manhattan Institute where shes recently become a fellow. Prior to joining us, she was a fellow at the Brookings Institution center on children and families, and before that she was a taffe economist staff economist at the president s council of economic advisers and worked extensively on Higher Education policy. Second, id like to welcome beth back to new york. Beth received her ph. D. In math excuse me, her b. A. In math and economics from cuny...

Good afternoon. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, for turning out on a cold, late fall day. I can assure you its going to be worth your time. Im daniel disalvo, an associate professor of Political Science at city college of new york and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute here its my pleasure today to introduce our speaker, beth akers. So first things first id like to welcome beth to the Manhattan Institute wishes result become a fellow. Prior to joining us she was a fellow at the Brookings...

Welcome with bei, everybody power lunch. Glad you could be with us on this rainy thursday. Im tyler mathisen. Stacks hi stocks higher today after yesterdays midday swoon. Heres a nice stat. Four dow stocks have gained more than 10 this year. Apple, boeing, visa and home depot. Those names are mixed in todays session. Twitter under some pressure on news that one of the companys founders, evan williams, is selling 30 of his shares. There you see that chart reacting, in part, to that news. Home bui...

Yields in u. S. And japan are at their lowest level since november. Is the rally over . And painting a picture. Revealing the strategy to sell off its Specialty Chemicals unit. Aksos ceo. K to matt a lot going on today but check out where futures are pointing right now after yesterday. We so markets around the globe come down. We have slight gains in cap futures, dax futures slightly lower but continental index is not doing much at all. Ftse futures down. 41 . Keep your eye on london markets bec...