Volatility. If folks as we kick off the final hour of trade, weve got the dow adding 430 points of losses to yesterdays 240point drop. S p is down 47. Weve got the nasdaq lower by 194. Russell 2000 down 44 points. That is the worst percentage drop here of all of the majors, more than 2 down. And we show the vix . Weve got to look at the vix, because right now, as you see, youve got the volatility index up 7. 7 right now which means we have seen a 2day move that began sort of later in the session, and weve got that, i believe its about 13 higher over the past 48 hours. Right now were at 14. 71, still historically very low. Headline number two, the stock stories shaking the markets most, humana is the worst performer on the s p. Right now weve got it tanking about 13 . Updated word from the government that the new 2025 reimbursement rates for Medicare Advantage payments will remain unchanged at 3. 7 despite massive pressure from the sectors lobby is. Humana, which has the most exposure t
Equities. We will comedo, back to this in a second while we fix this. Vonnie i will check u. S. Markets first because we are 90 minutes into the trading day. The dow is up. 25 . The s p up. 1 and the nasdaq tax reform helping the. S. Profit outlook david from mainstay capital think the trading weve been seeing this year is equivalent to euphoria. Perhaps this wont end well. Theyre interesting when we contrast this to a great chart we have in the bloomberg. We are looking at the number of death without a 5 pullback or greater. We are looking at the number of without a 5 pullback or greater. The s p 500 in blue. We are looking at the number of days without a 5 pullback. We are on day 295. Week,eek, it was last it was day 292. You have to go back to 1965. One of the bestperforming sectors on the day helping the record high, the financial sectors. Citigroup and bank of america higher. We have regional banks higher. Behind this trend, not surprisingly, yields. The 10 year yield is up five b
Europes largely flat, same for the 10year as revised q2 gdp is largely in line. It is all about the fed today. Janet yellen speaking in jackson hole. 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. And right here, you will hear from former fed governors randy crosser in, fred mishkin and former and current vice chair of the Federal Reserve Stanley Fischer at 11 00 a. M. Eastern time in reaction to Janet Yellens speech. To our man on the ground Steve Liesman, good morning, steve. Cant get over the dress. The clothes. Thats all right. Its were waiting at about an hour now less than an hour now for Janet Yellens much anticipated speech, but in the meantime weve had really interesting fed speak this morning right here on cnbc. Most of the fed folks were talking to see rates going up. Not willing to be necessarily nailed down to a timetable but Loretta Mester did say just about a half hour ago, that she sees the u. S. Economy improving enough for the fed to raise rates. I think well have some strengthening in th
US equities finished lower, pulling back from a rally that briefly drove the Dow Jones to a record high. A number of hawkish Fed speakers suggested that the Fed is in no rush to cut interest rates. This saw US bond yields increase. The US dollar also advanced.