Market might dry up on them. Semiconductor issues, financial issues, could way on them could expand, global slowdown. Get consumer durables involved in that. Those sensitive to the economy involved in that. All of sudden, before you know it, katybarthedoor. The psychological indicator, the vix, that is flashpoint how people are feeling. That is jumping in excess up 33 earlier. Up 23 right now. Were keeping an eye on that as sentiment, what people are feeling about the market. They are feeling a little nervous. Numbers out of the Services Sector slid to a threeyear low. The reason i mentioned even the Services Sector, it at least is following in this report, a fourth straight month, downward trend, still expanding but at a slower rate. That is happening with the manufacturing sector. Twin sluggishness is weighing on these markets. Typically would pounce on negative news, being good for Interest Rates coming down. That is indeed happening. 10year note 1. 75 . Normally that would be a sal
, Gary Kaltbaum and well the president is firing off this tweet, china dropped the price of their currency to an almost historic low, its called currency manipulation. Are you listening, Federal Reserve . This is a major violation, which will greatly weaken china over time. Wall street not liking that tweet at all today, but how much of a beating could markets take . What do you think . Look, i think they can go lower. Look weve had a good year already. Markets were up in the 20s. They were due, and theres some issues out there that have to be addressed. I ask myself questions every day why is the 30 year bond germany trading negatively. Why . Aways the economy there is sink ing and if germany is sink ing europe is. Same with japan. I think Economic Growth is slowing down and the market sees it and what happened on thursday with the pivot from the president really donald trump trick and i must tell you the dow is down about 1,450 points since, apple is down 115 billion of wealth since,
Basic resources lead heavy losses with the sector on track for its biggest twoday fall in over three years autos shift into reverse chipmakers feel the heat with apple supplier ams sharply lower as fears rise that the new tariffs could pit the iphonemakers suite of products. And the german tenyear yield goes to an allnew low after its counterpart drops to its lowest level since 2016. Good morning. The trade truce is off President Trump blamed a lack of progress for the decision to impose a 10 levy on 3 300 billion worth of chinese goods coming this september. This sent shockwaves throughout Global Markets we saw wall street heavily in the red yesterday and that continued overnight. This is the picture for europe every single one of the majors in europe is trading heavily negative today ftse 100 down 1. 7 basic resources and some miners there dragging the oil sector as well xetra dax down 2. 3 . Again, you would imagine all of the exportsensitive sectors are impacted here. Cac 40 down 2
President. Road map begins with stocks moving lower ahead of the open, investors digesting trade war fears, latest jobs numbers, the uncertainty about the feds next moves. Trump tariff threats, the president promising to tax the hell out of china until a trade deal is reached. Oil prices recovering after the worst trading day in four years. Both exxon and chevron moving higher after reporting Quarterly Results this morning. Along with inline results for july, payroll gains were revised downward for both may and june the Unemployment Rate held steady at 3. 7 for a second straight month wage growth 3. 2 from a year ago, but manufacturing weak, year to date average 8k, works 22k last year and santelli pointed out, manufacturing work hours, the lowest since 2011. We know where this is all coming from. Were continuing to get a tale of two economies. Overall a healthy job report, came in line, better participation, better wage growth, a lot to be encouraged about, but there are pockets of we
Appetite reverses the trend weve seen of late joining us, steven weis, managing partner of weis managing partners. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. I like the no tie look. I do that on a friday. Hes, i guess, getting the positive sentiment going here. Absolutely. Even though its only tuesday. When you look at whats really leading the s p higher today, its tech stocks its the Semiconductor Names what do you think right now . So, i own smash which is semiindex, ctf i owned it coming in today, bought more immediately when the news hit its not something i typically do i sold some in the last halfhour. Im not sure this momentum is going to continue. Its highly volatile, and when you have profits and positions that arent core positions, take them, be happy look at where the market is. The market is no further than where it was actually, its lower than where it was. Go back a year and a half, its basically flat core positions you dont necessarily touch unless the fundamentals chan