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Putting their money today. a ten-year treasury note. a lot of borrowing rates including home equity loans, home mortgage loans are pegged to it. it hit 1.6% today. that is the lowest it's been and close to four years. it's betting on the part of investors in general that as paltry as that yield is, it sure beats losing your hide in the market. let's ask teddy outside the new york stock exchange. what do you make of that? interest rates are sliding. they feel the federal reserve will help by cutting rates at least a couple more times now. what do you think? >> well, of course, we don't know. th...

Price. that help financial stocks. it affects borrowing rates, making it harder for companies to make money on interest they charge on loans or credit cards. jpmorgan chase shares dropped 4%. american express and goldman sachs lost 3%. quite a day on wall street yesterday. >> indeed. it's the meeting that could make or break the trump-kim summit in singapore. secretary of state mike pompeo sitting down today or tomorrow in new york with kim yong chol, one of north korea's highest ranking officials and a former spy chief. let's bring in cnn's nic robertson live from seoul. >> reporter: not on...

Goods. that caught investors offguard. remember just ten days ago, treasury secretary mnuchin said a trade war with china was on hold. both events sparked volatility. wall street's fear gauge spiked nearly 31%. investors fled to so-called safe havens. they went into the bond market. so the ten-year treasury yield slipped down, fell to 2.77%. yields move opposite to price. that hurt financial stocks. falling yields affect borrowing rates making it harder for companies to make interest on loans and credit cards. that's why you saw jpmorgan chase shares drop 4%. american express and goldman sachs...

Wages to go higher. we saw wages increase at the fastest pace since the recession, since eight years ago. sec cli going from 2.5% growth to 2.9% growth. this is a strong jobs report. 200,000 jobs created in january. that's a strong start to 2018 and an improvement since december. unemployment holding steady at 4.1%. that's a 17-year low as well. wall street, though, not viewing this report as good. wall street seeing this as a good news/bad news situation because the way wall street sees it as, the economy is heeding up as we see wages move up as well. what that will do is cause the fed possib...

Gains from texdots, 96% of investors think it will happen at next week's fed meeting. that will be the fourth hike since the financial crisis, so what will it mean for your wallet? higher borrowing rates or things like credit cards, and loans, right now loans averaging 4% nationwide. verizon's deal with yahoo! will close next week and lay off 2100 employees in the process. yahoo! approved the $4 billion deal. the company will shed 15% of the combined employees. yahoo! has already endured many rounds of job cuts, firing about 46% of its work force in the past few years. a lot of things going ...