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U. S. Dollar versus the Canadian Dollar. Again, all of the things that have been happening with that potential trade war. Tariffs being slapped on canadian lumber. We will talk more about that in a moment. Take a look at what happened in the asian markets. The nikkei ended up by 1 . The hang seng market was up, too, up by a third of a percent. There are green arrows for most of the major markets. The cac in france is indicated up 0. 25 . The dak x is is slightly lower. If you look at crude oil prices, wti is trading below 50 a barrel. Its up 13 cents, but wti for the june contract at 49. 36. A...

Especially after a day like today, where the dow roared 232 points. The s p surged. 61 and the nasdaq ended at an alltime high. I think stocks are going higher not because of politics, but because earnings are much better than expected and the alternatives, bonds, gold, real estate seem very expensive to me. Still after this extraordinary twoday move, i want to tackle head on the notion that the nasdaq is overheated. Because the index blasted through the 6,000 level. And whenever we blast through new numbers, it causes instant soul searching. When we took out the 5,000 level, before unceremoni...

You can see kind of a mixed bag. Didnt give me italy or spain, normally i get italy or spain when im on the desk here. Theres germany, france and the ftse of course which is the only one in the green. Tenyear note yield, there it is. 1. 738 is where we stand. Crude of course had the nice move and helped some of those oil related Energy Related companies of late. Lets call it down a little bit as you see but still above 50. Our road map this morning starts with microsoft shares. They are set to hit an alltime high after strong earnings on a quarter that was boosted by what they are doing in the...

Thats precisely where i want to start my game plan for next week, with a potential deal, namely at t buying time warner, something that david faber said could happen as soon as monday morning. Judging by the huge leap in time warner stock, its entirely possible this monumental possibly 80 billion deal could be announced 48 hours from now. That might be followed by another expected deal, qualcomm potentially buying nxp for 110. If these deals occur it will be a wild monday that might distract us from the biggest earnings week of the year. They could send ve cbs as well as all the Semiconductor ...

1997, down 1. 75 . So the selloff in bond market has been real. The 30year yield back above 3 . 10year at 2. 30. The fiveyear, 1. 7, and twoyear at 1. 035 . The nikkei closed higher by a half percent. European equities at this hour, lower. Not by a whole lot. Except for italy and spain, off by more than 1 . Crude prices are mixed. Lower by 7 cents for wti. Look at the dollar, which is stronger once again against the euro and the yen. 14year high for the dollar index. 1. 06 is what the euro will cost you. You will get 110 yen for every dollar. Reuters is reporting this morning that chinese poli...