Just in the last 30 minutes or so here as we see these stories unfold as the gang on power lunch talked about. You have not only conflicts brewing with north korea, triang gulated with china, but syria with russia. On the ground there in palm beach. Things growing by the hour here as we prepare for the summit between president xi and trump, yes . That is correct, and cannot be overstated, bill. We are watching as the first family descends the stairs at the airport nearby in west palm beach, arriving more than an hour after the chinese president and his wife arrived. Greeted by secretary of state tillerson. Interesting that the chinese president received by the secretary of state and not the president himself. Safe to say this is a tense relationship. Both sietsz ades prepared for a difficult meeting where potentially the chinese side comes with specific things it wants to see over the next four years while the trump team is said to look for tactical wins despite the fact that they have
T overnight in asia, it was a mixed session. Japan was lower, maybe due to strength in the yen it was off by 1 . The hang seng higher by 1 . South korea was higher as well. Europe positive as well, but not by much. Look at crude oil, wti, i just saw 52 53. 71. Higher by a half percent. Brent at 56. 65, nat dgas above bucks. Here. Heres whats going on this morning. Gold prices jumped more than 1. 5 during yesterdays session, bringing the yeartodate gain above 10 . Look at this hour right now. Well show you whats going on. You know, its up. It continues to rise. Looks like its close to a oneyear high. Continues to speak to whats happening. Thats also on the concerns of tenyear treasury, moving back below 2. 30. Gold tends to perform well in a deflationary environment. Which most investors dont understand. I dont understand that, but its supposed to be an inflation hedge. Its the reserve currency in a deflating world. I think the big story is oil. Oil saved the s p over the last couple of
Points, nasdaq declined. 52 . For staters, lets stipulate that anything can change beginning tomorrow, when we have the official kickoff for earnings season as citi group and jpmorgan report their earnings. You have to understand that we have had many bullish moves over the market in the last 36 years, but every big move, every move that had really any impact, always had the bank as one of the major leadership groups, the banks are really the reason that the trump trade had such power. Jpmorgan stock rocketed from 67 at the time of the election, up to 73. These are huge almost unprecedented moves and they have been rolled back rather substantially in the last month. The first part of the bank rally was pretty easy to figure out. Going into the election season, pretty much everybody thought Hillary Clinton would in. She wasnt what anyone would call a pro banking candidate. So i think the defeat of the democrats in november, was responsible for at least half the movement back. Add presid
The u. S. Stocks set to surge at the open. A hectic agenda on capitol hill with President Trumps 100 day milestone looming. Taxes, health care and avoiding a Government Shutdown all on tap. Robot warnings. Alibabas jack ma is predicting that robots will make many irrelevant. And first up though, global rallies in place a day after the first round of the french president ial election. Macron and le pen set to square off in a runoff may 7. Shutting out frances traditional ruling parties. Polls show macron as favorite to defeat the antieu le pen in second round and win the presidency. These polls, jim, somewhere 6436. Some argue this was one of the best outcomes the market could have hoped for. It is, but i wanted to distinguish between them and us. I think that we should not go up as much as they did. They had a lot more at stake. I think were going to quickly revert to what has controlled us which is oil. Which is already sinking. The Interest Rates which need to go higher. And our earn
Especially after a day like today, where the dow roared 232 points. The s p surged. 61 and the nasdaq ended at an alltime high. I think stocks are going higher not because of politics, but because earnings are much better than expected and the alternatives, bonds, gold, real estate seem very expensive to me. Still after this extraordinary twoday move, i want to tackle head on the notion that the nasdaq is overheated. Because the index blasted through the 6,000 level. And whenever we blast through new numbers, it causes instant soul searching. When we took out the 5,000 level, before unceremoniously diving thousands of points and wiping out a whole generation of investors. Could that happen again . Im not going to dodge this conversation, but i will say that you look at the two sets of stock, the nasdaq of 2000, versus the nasdaq 2017. The stocks that took us to 5,000 turned out to be incredibly expensive on an earnings basis, or just plain worthless. The best way to compare stocks on a