Pasani. For a year, it was oil, dow. Last couple trading sessions weve seen them maybe move in a different direction. Is this something people are talking about on the floor . Yes. Its encouraging that the s p is near the highs of the day with oil generally down for most of the day. There are four things worrying the world. One of them of course is oil. Weve had word that russia and saudi arabia may be agreeing on limiting production. Thats certainly a production freeze. But thats a high level discussion. The other thing is china. The pboc defending the yawn saying unlikely we are going to do serious devaluations. Thats the other thing worrying the world. The third thing is bank in europe and bcd draghi saying they are going to do whatever it takes. Deutsche bank may do some buying back. Thats the third one. Finally, the fed. Nobody said anything at the fed but basically were implying right now no hikes for the rest of the year. So big movements overall. How are traders taking the boun
Lets take a look at the numbers there for you. The dow is currently off by 266 points. The s p is down by 41 and the nasdaq, look at that, a 2. 6 drop, 125 points being shed off the nasdaq. All three are now in correction territory. Lets get more on the trading action on the floor of the stock exchange. Its a pretty ugly day, it really feels like the market is having a lot of difficulty finding its footing. A number of different factors at work. You had the weaker close over in europe. You also had the disappointing Industrial Production or industrial profit numbers out of china today. Add to that the weakness, the continued weakness in the commodity space. Oil is down. Hasnt broken through that 44 level but youre also seeing weakness in zinc and copper, et cetera, and gold today. All of that is keeping pressure on the markets. The s p also breaking below that 1900 level. People were watching that. Right now were watching the russell as well below that 1100 number as well. One of the r
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