Abandoning another investment at a loss Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning, welcome im Courtney Reagan in this morning for Brian Sullivan live pictures from the top of the rock currently 56 degrees in new york it will get up to 60 degrees 15 days until christmas. Hope those ice skaters are prepared there at 30 rock. Lets get you a check on futures. Blue chips coming off their first downed day in three sessions pointed down to an open lower by 120 points we have a number of hours before the bell sounds. S p 500 down about 12 and nasdaq off about 36 points at this moment looking at the treasury market the 10year has been around 1. 8 right now. Thats where we remain food, 1. 842 the twoyear is at 1. 87. In asia, we have a mixed picture, the any kay lower and hang seng down 0. 2 . Shanghai composite positive and the kospi up about half a percent. Among todays top stories, lets take a look at auto sales in china, falling for a 17th straight month in the month of november down
This is what i am looking at. Most in europe give us the action today. Chinese exports seemed to be underscoring the resilience of the global recovery. We are also looking at crude, claiming climbing above 51 and record climbing above 51 a barrel. Bitcoin at a record. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra European Central Bank Officials are considering cutting monthly bond buying by a half, starting in january. The program may be kept active for at least nine months. They said reducing quantitive easing for 30 230 billion euros a month is a feasible 30 billion euros a month is a feasible option. The president of the atlanta fed sees says he is not sure the fomc will raise rates in december. This quantifies a strengthening inflation. I think there is much more to learn about what is happening in terms of inflation dynamic. I would say that inflation is starting to pick up. Chinas overseas shipments rose from a year earlier, narrowly missing estimates. Imports rose. That resul
Was made in washington and there are limitations this morning. I am having trouble extrapolating this. We have great guests to do this in surveillance. I have a quote from john dean, from another time and place. Guy lets talk about these markets, figure out what is going on because we are starting to see a little bit of a sense of concerns in assets. Tom this is macrons chart, with the vix still under 10. 92. And there is the euroyen. Is the riskrally, on trade still there . Guy i want to start with the two year, which we are starting to see move. We are at 133 this morning. Are we starting to talk seriously about two hikes from the fed . U. S. Futures on the s p, starting to flip a little bit. The bloomberg pound Index Trading at highs. Tom i just heard matt miller and berlin talk about the lack of reaction. I did this chart for stephanie, just for stephanie. Here is the inflationadjusted dow, back to world war ii, back to 1947. The red circle on the left is the massacre of another ti
Shanghai composite down by a third of a percent. In europe, already seeing that there are some advances there with the dax up by 0. 9 . Cac in france up by 0. . Ftse up 0. 6 . Watching treasury prices. Tenyear yield on the treasury hit another two week low. We have been keeping an eye on crude oil prices. Yesterday down by nearly 3 , settled at 44. 67. This morning a gain of 20 cents to 44. 87. In political news, a stop gap spending bill that would prevent a Government Shutdown this weekend has stalled in the senate. A number of democrats voted against the measure because it does not provide money to fix Drinking Water problems in flint, michigan. Some republicans opposed the bill because of lack of zika funding, and oversight of the internet. Senate leaders said they would exemplmroplore an alternative. And John Williams argues the u. S. Economy can hahnal a rate hike, its hard to justify rates being so low. Williams addressed fears that a hike would cause volatility. He said an easy
Welcome to countdown. It has gone 6 a. M. In london. Lets talk about the fed and what they did and did not do and with the did two markets. No change in interestrate from the Federal Reserve. That was generally expected although there was that risk it would flag. The dollar index fell and it is still weak. The dollar index down by. 3 of a percent in the trading session. The feds inaction has weighed on the greenback this year, that is the subtitle that goes along with this chart showing how the dollar has fallen and is having trouble making any headway of toward the feds inaction and weighing on the dollar. There was some hawkishness around the shortterm trajectory. Youll see expectations of a hike in december have been pushed up to above 61 . Asian markets have responded to the no change decision from the no change decision. Up shy of 1 . The fed did cut back on its expectations for hikes in 2017. Bringing that down from three to two. That was seen as fairly dovish and equity markets