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Decline by a less than a percent for the hang seng and shanghai down a quarter percentage point. In early trading in europe, there are red arrows across the board. The dax is down by a tenth of a percent. Same thing with the ftse cac is down by slightly more than that. Declines also in italy and spain. Looking at crude oil prices, you will see that crude oil is up about 18 cents to 57. 74 lets look at the tenyear yesterday the tenyear topping 2. 4 well look at that in a bit. Here it comes. Yep 2. 455 . Slightly lower than yesterday, but still above 2. 4 this is past the point that Rick Santelli told us to watch for a breakout i read that all of the money not spent on its not true, but all the money not spent on taxes is going to Debt Services as rates go up yeah. Some of it will be. As rates go up, yeah. I was thinking about that this morning as they talk about the government f ....
Were closed for holidays. In the early trading in europe this morning, ahead of that final debate between the last two candidates in the french election, you can see the cac is off by a third of a percentage point. Ftse is also down. Crude Oil Yesterday down, and down once again as pumping in libya and the United States more than made up some of the cutbacks. We closed below 48 yesterday. Right now 48. 04. On todays agenda the fed concluding its twoday meeting with a statement at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. The central bank expected to hold rates steady. Investors looking for hints that the economy is on track for a rate increase in june. Another big earnings day ahead. We will hear from time warner and yum brandtbrands, after the close, facebook, tesla, aig and fitbit will report. Adp private payrolls at 8 15 this morning. Later services pmi and ism nonmanufacturing. We are just ....
Question. Not everyone believed it could actually happen, but a slow and steady move higher by the stock market has us still near record highs. A lot of figures think the president obaositive moan histo first half of the year is is as good as it is, the of the time,d half of the year continues higher. Recent history seems to validate that story line. According to market data and Research Firm kensho, since 1980, during the first year of a president ial term, the s p 500 is generally positive during the third quarter. And it is actually not had a losing Fourth Quarter during those time frames either. There is one sector in particular that many traders are keeping a very close eye on to set the tone for the rest of the year. The most important sector and it was las a wel is the financials. Financials will be the sector to watch. If you can get them working, particularly if there ....
By a fraction of a percent crude oil, this is the one weve been watching very, very closely. We have wti down by 1. 6 brent it down by 1. 5 . This is quite a rebound from the lows back in june. We are up by 12 from june 21st lows so staggering move in just a short amount of time weird. Weird to see the dow so strong and the nasdaq so weak thats been happening more the nasdaq had been stronger on a relative basis then the rotation happened. I dont know what it means. Maybe its healthy this is scary and not healthy. Maybe the meeting is good, but the reason for it frightening. The u. S. Requesting an emergency u. N. Security Council Meeting today after north korea tested an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The missile could put all of alaska, so mainland i dont know if you call that mainland, but pretty close late yesterday the u. S. Military said u. S. ....
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 ....