Quote, took proportion gnat measures in selfdefense under article 51 of the un charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack. President trump tweeted, all is well, missiles launches from two military bases a sassessment of casualties and damages taking place now. So far, all is well. I will be making a statement tomorrow morning, meaning this morning. We are awaiting word when to expect that statement from the president. Stock futures initially sank with the dow pointing to more than 400point loss today. Futures have paired those losses now dow futures down a few points even with those declines, the dow only down by six points. Along with the nasdaq and s p. S p was down over 50 points overnight. Right now, you are looking at positive territory for both of those. Whip saw action in crude oil oil for wti up to 63. 02. Gold prices briefly touched 1,600 overnight you are going to see 1,582. 5. The boeing 737800, not a max, crashed in iran yesterday the jet went down moments afte
Sector is feeling some pain from trade. Lets check markets because we are to have a negative Market Impact overnight. Given the heightened geopolitical tensions, we saw the 10year yield dropped. Were back to 1. 81 right now and rising once more. Treasuries selling despite that manufacturing data. We have the s p 500 down 0. 7 . The only sector that is positive is energy. Not that strange when you think oil prices are a few bucks higher. The dollar index is close to 97. The yen is stronger. Most currencies are weaker versus the u. S. Dollar, which is acting as a safe haven. Gold as to point to well because you can see gold is up another 1. 2 . We are close to the 1515 mark. Crude 63. 60. We are off of session highs. Rent trading 68. 81. Big reactions on the treasury markets. Isn is significantly weaker. Stocksxx 600, european are down. Airline stocks are suffering the most. Risk off toassic geopolitical events in the middle east kind of day for these markets. Just day two of 2020. Vonni
This year, last friday, that round of risk off. It underperformed. That is true today. Over the last two days, down 2. 8 , the worst in more than a month. Investors not buying that area. One factor that could be at play, valuation. In blue, looking at the forward pe on the s p 500. Coming out of the financial crisis in 2009, we see suppressed levels for both. Over the past five years, lets call it 14 to 16 times. A pe on thee had s p 500 of about 8. 4 times. Unable to get back to that level. Last week hitting 20 times forward earningss, coming off of that level. It may suggest there could be a little bit of a coolingoff ahead given the frothy trading action. Renita i am looking at an big reduce her. The last timeshares had fallen this much was back in september. Big prices at the lowest for the season and at least a decade. They recently lost one of their major southeastern customers. All around, bad right now. Shut downans to older, less functioning, less efficient plants to defend th
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Frontiers for that sector in the new decade and facebook being called the new cigarettes for our society by the founder of salesforce. Com his critical take on the social media giant as Worldwide Exchange begins right nowe to exchange im dierdre bosa in for Brian Sullivan the second to last day of 2019, take a look at stock futures right now pretty much flat they are on track for a block buster year as i mentioned the s p on track for potentially its best year in two decades if it can squeeze out gains of nearly 30 . 29. 6 is the gain that we are looking at dow jones and the nasdaq also on track for a record year. Moving on to the bond market, the yield on the tenyear note currently 1. 912 lets go worldwide now in asia, markets were mixed in the last two days of the years investors awaiting updates on the trade deal and increasing tensions with north korea. Japan wrapping up its final trading day of 2019, down slightly, but the nikkei, that was up 18 for the year and what a turn around