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279 points looking at the treadsrys the 10year is at 0. 77 . That is nuts especially when you start to look at where we were a handful of months when people were talking about a 3 as rates go down cheaper this is such a panic move. Is it forecasting a Global Movement the problem is that everyone was worried that stocks were overvalued the problem is there is no way of gauging what the effects are. Everyone at this desk could have started throwing stocks at the wall people are going for safety and quality. These are panic moves im not sure it is unwarranted people will sell off first and panic later. Theyll say im looking out for a year or two or three thats probably what well reassure now can stocks bounce off the previous lows of 12 i think the market has to recalibrate to digest the lower yield and the market sitting across the table, stocks dont often bottom on a friday but the fact that everyone thought they werent going to b ....
98 of the stocks to the downside s p 3,000, 10year yield at 1. 25 if you were right on this move, thats a really logical place to say, fine, let me cash in a little bit i think thats what we saw this morning. Not to guild d lily, but we were almost 1,000 points caterpillar has had a spurt in the last few minutes 3m has been positive merck and pfizer im not saying anything is turning around but some people are buying here. The problem is the information vacuum here. The old saying, you cant trade on fundamentals, trade on the technicals the problem is we cant trade on the fundamentals because we dont know what the earnings in the p e ratio should be right now. We saw that with the dispute with goldman going to zero percent Earnings Growth for 2020 then technical, everyone was saying were watching the 200day moving average, we went through that just after the open its hard to trade on fundamentals right now, hard to trade on the te ....
Saying. We are getting headlines out of the iea. It depends on what is happening in the middle east given what has happened in iran and the last 15 days. The International Energy agency saying the oil supply is a vulnerable as middle east tensions flare up. Ieas always good to see the thinking. You can see the brent. Stocks are gaining 0. 4 . We are we have to see and i will show you later that we have a tight range when it comes to treasuries and dollar pound. Significant one because there is more bets that the bank of england will cut rates in january i believe january 30. Coming up, we hear from the chief executive of allianz. Something you do not want to miss. That is coming up a little bit later. Lets get to first word news. Viviana we begin here in the u. S. , the house of representatives sending two articles of impeachment. It is the first step to begin Donald Trumps< ....
Stories. We begin with the elections in taiwan. The president won a landslide majority, seen as a rejection of beijings push for one country, two systems. Joining me from taipei is stephen engle. Walk us through the significance of the vote over the weekend. Stephen it was quite significant. Now that she has that landslide victory and the mandate for another four years, theres three big questions. How will china handle another four years of a thorn in their side, the policies of taiwan and her proindependence minded policies that really resonated with the electorate . More than 8 million votes, a record here in taiwan. The hong kong protests really resonated with the electorate, of ahat led to a rebuffing push for closer economic ties. The question is what is the future of the Opposition Party that got routed . Theyve lost four of the last six president ial elections, and they need a you voice for the longer eat for the younger ....