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Now leading the way down. apple one of the leading losers on the dow today. about 3%. american express another financial down 2%. so if investors are worried about president trump and the pro growth plan here, they re ditching the so called riskier assets like stocks and heading right into safety plays. like gold. gold prices up 23 bucks. up for a fifth straight session today. you all have interest rates coming down as investors snap up government securities. so that s something that s gonna protect investors. melissa: no doubt you re making some of our viewers nervous when you see something like apple which a lot of people hold, might have in their 401k. should folks start looking at that stuff, in your opinion? here s the deal. the market has come so far so fast. healthy consolidation. you ve got volume trading right at the one month average. so this is how they re characterizing an ordinarily selloff. ....
We got as low as 99 points or 98 points lower. these final two hours, as you were pointing out, this is the time to really watch? it is. because you get book squaring and hedges that start to take to the other side of the position that they ve got. you ve got lots of people that don t want to go into tonight with an open book. they don t want to have a position that is open. so they will close it out or they will hedge against it. and then finally, you ve got high frequency volume trading. look at the dow 30 at the moment. a couple of hours ago we had a row of green at the top. now we ve only got intel. one. which is green. apple has given back all of the gains it saw during the course of the day. we ve still got the where is microsoft? microsoft is right there. microsoft has definitely turned during the last couple of hours and 3m has come up. it s fascinating to see what is happening in this market. may i hit pause with you for a quick second? ....
choreographed affair, as we were expecting from north korea, very similar to what we saw 17 years ago for the funeral of kim il-sun. we saw the procession. coffin going through the streets of pyongyang, 40 kilometers was the procession. and along those snow-laden streets, there were tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of mourners who had come out to pay their last respects. this was a lot of emotion. we did see at the front of these crowds a lot of wailing and weeping and beating of chests. although further back in the crowds, there were some more passive looking people paying their respects. so this is as it was expected. kim jong-un obviously now called the supreme leader according to state media was also front and center. zain? will anything change in north korea under kim jong-un? this is what everyone would like to know. at this point, the consensus appears to be that nothing will change in the near term. what we did see today was kim jong-un walking ....
And with the situation now, it can happen again at any time because the administration looked into it. it was not a fat finger, it was high volume trading coming out of chicago . you have a primary exchange like the new york stock exchange and fragmented markets. you have 50 other exchanges . dark pool and secondary markets and new york stock exchange they lowed trading down. hey, weight a second. this is not right. manage is wrong. they are still scouting orders. but high volume trading kept going. eight stocks that went to a penny apple 240 to 200 in what felt leak a minute. it is devastating and hard for investors to digest . this can happen again at any time. you don t have anything to stop it. history is always a lesson and we are looking at what is going on in greece. ....