York stock exchange. Were going to start with the markets, ty. The nasdaq has had a great performance so far. We put that at the top of the board right now up 0. 6 of a . The dow is negative by about five points. The s p is up a quarter of a , the transports up about 50 points, and the russell to 00 up two thirds of a percent as well not a bad start for the week. There wasnt a lot of positive catalyst. Sometimes just we didnt have any negative catalyst. Thats enough just to move the market. I think we had some selling out of europe. We deli see that spike up . That was the european close. As europe closed, the market spiked up. Whats important here is the small cap, the russell 200, put up the board, the russell 2000 is leading. Look here, over the s p 500, that hasnt been story for a long time, and more importantly, sue, the right things are leading, internet content names, for example, so your zillows, pandoras, yelps, linkedin. Those are leading. Biotech, not only is biotech up. Its
The world. No Economic Data to speak of in the u. S. Earnings will be slim pickings. This will be after the bell. Ben bernanke speaking in dallas. I agree. Not a minor deal. Especially since he was more positive on the economy rack in january when he left. More overt like greenspan or pullback in the reticent . We will find out. , the recently ousted New York Times editor will address graduates at wake forrest college. Every reason to cancel. I do not know anything about the story. Every reason to cancel. She is looking for a job, too. Self branding here. Like i am sure every agent told her to cancel. We cannot cancel the data check. Really interesting over the weekend. Futures negative eight. Eurodollar does nothing. Hydrocarbons a bit elevated. The vix, good market. The yen valleys. Make it to 100 on yen. Stronger japanese yen. There is the indian rupee up. Indonesian moment there. Going to the indonesian rupee. Weakness. India nine percent inflation. There is the enthusiasm. A long
Eastern time, italian unemployment 37year high and more signs of euro zone reflation. Shopper trak out with the first wide scale read on the Holiday Shopping season and its a mixed picture for november and december, instore foot traffic at the nations retailers fell 14. 6 compared to the year prior but instore sales grew at 2. 7 . Slightly hopper than what shoppertrak had forecast. The main reason for the traffic plunge they say is that. Shoers are making fewer store visits than in the past because most window shopping and browsing is done online ahead of time, so the shoppers that are making the Shopping Trips are going with intended purchases in mind. Black friday was indeed the strongest day for brick and mortar retailers both for sales and traffic. Then there was a large lull until the lastminute panic kicked in. The week ending december 28th accounted for four of the top ten sales and traffic days for the entire Holiday Season. When it comes to categories shoppertrak says electron
The country became the first in the world in which more than 20 million vehicles sold in any given year. As you know, production in the rather, are at 16 million. China has three times as many as americans. 20 million vehicles in a single year is staggering. Lets move to economic data. We will have jobless claims they. At 9 45, the comfort index will give us an idea of what is going on in the economy. German Industrial Production is a good economic data. That is a back shop. We are entering earnings season. We have Family Dollar and supervalu. After the bell, we will have alcoa. We look at stocks, bonds, commodities. 18. 38 on the s p 500. The euro was weaker yesterday. A rebound today. Nymex crude slides down. We will talk to vince later on about inflation and deflation. On to the two year yield windows week canada become a big deal for you . Currency is already a big deal. 1. 08. Is that ken dryden was talking about how parity is making canadian teams competitive again. . 63 dollar.
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