Jonathan ferro and lisa abramovitz. Tom i saw him on a cruise, what a great turnout on the cruise. Catherine greifeld joins us this morning. She is here and she will explain white piquant is popping by bitcoin is popping she will explain why bitcoin is popping. Yields are up. Things are little better but i walk in and i look at the bloomberg terminal, 8. 04 on the bankrate 30 year mortgage and we are subtly solidly in a percent 8 . Lisa we have seen this incredible fluctuation, 20 basis points in a couple days in the long end of the yield curve and people say volatility cannot continue or can it. They are forgetting the levels. It causes a different reality for people financing the nuts and bolts of their businesses and their lives. Tom Economic Analysis with bramo. The media wants to go, they going to die. Microsoft was like a charm. If this is exactly what we were to see, microsoft is on target. Lisa the fact that you had two but he lives comprising 10 of the entire s p index coming
Consumer price data as well as retail sales ecodata. Noon, federal fed president Patrick Harker gives an Economic Outlook street speech. 12 45, the president has his annual physical exam at Walter Reed Military Center. Emma chandra has the first word news. Emma lets get you caught up on the headlines. The United Nations calls President Trumps remarks about immigrants shocking and shameful. He is said to have used foul language speaking to lawmakers about why the u. S. Accepted immigrants from haiti and africa but not places like norway. President trump will not say whether or not he has spoken with kim jongun. He refused to comment but says he probably has a very Good Relationship with the dictator. A germany, there is preliminary agreement and four months of political stalemate. According to people familiar with the discussion, chancellor Angela Merkel and the Democratic Party have attempted to form a new government, using more government involvement in education and changes to Health
Shrink the feds Balance Sheet. David . David were goined by mr. Campbell who covers banks for bloomberg and alice williams. She was a banker for Morgan Stanley and u. B. S. Lets start with the numbers because they broke 15 minutes ago now. Theyre basically up across the board according to estimates and last year. Mr. Campbell thats right. Really what this is about is the expense story. It looks like thats our initial read, noninterest expenses are lower than analysts had expected so bank of america did better on that. Credit cost provisions are ower than analysts expected. Thats a good story. People may have questions on Revenue Growth. Bank of america came up short on Net Interest Income with Interest Rates rising a bit during the quarter. Theres interest there. Bond trade chg was going to be there were a lot of good expectations for bond trading this quarter. Bank of america came in short on that. David focus on the trading because it came in low. As you point out the Fourth Quarter
Jonathan coming up on this program, we had an important conversation with jeff currie. That is all coming up a little bit later. Softer,a little bit negative four points on the s p 500. A marginal move to the downside. Follows thats as yields lower by a basis point. The euro down a dollar six cents. It will lower by about 0. 1 . David Major Development in washington just sense since yesterday. We are joined by kevin up on capitol hill right now. Start with the Health Care Plan. Ryan House Speaker paul finally unveiling his plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care act. It will keep some key parts of obamacare preexisting conditions in providing health care to folks. That said, the story line is whether or not chief Party Members will fall in line with this. It could be the battle the first battle that Speaker Paul Ryan will have to battle to keep his party in line. The House Freedom caucus is already speaking out against this including some tea party g roups. They cannot advance the
Were decoupling 2. 27 . 30year at 3 . Fiveyear at 2. 6. And i go through all of those to highlight the yield is steepening and continues to do so. Global yields, this is getting interesting. Italian tenyear, 2. 21 . Its moved 18 basis points in a day. You see the biggest weekly rise, oneweek rise for the italian, german and french tenyear yield, we have seen it happen the highest in years. How long . 30 years. But all the strategists said probably five years four or five years ago we were wait iin. Here we are. What was happening the entire time that rates were not going up . We were sub2 . We were stuck in the muck, basically. The greatest thing, i mean, to see the stock market hitting new highs while rates are surging, if youre at zero on rates and sooner or later you have to normalize, if rising rates are going to move into financial assets, you have a problem with stocks going down. Unless you decouple. Rates are going up for good reason, then the stocks go up at the same time. You