Secretary of the treasurys oversight. Mr. Secretary this is your first appearance before the house after the tax cut and jobs act has been signed into law. On behalf of the majority we are grateful to you and the president for your leadership and to help make this act signed into law that is historic. After eight years of failed policy that led to the slowest and weakest recovery the economy is starting to take off and wages are growing. Consumer optimism abounds. Its ironic but predictable that equity markets would swoon over the prospects of highest Interest Rates and inflation associated with Economic Growth. Low Interest Rates may have benefited some on wall street but not helpful to main street. We knew the fed would face challenges when the economy took off. If youre listening, good luck chairman, you volunteer for the job. Today the economy is getting stronger due to policies of the Trump Administration. Averaging 3 growth unemployment is a 17 year low. Wages grew at the fastest
Meeting but it does seem hike this really is. He should have said really twice. Or at least three times maybe. This is it. Really really. This is like whackamole. Markets that go down they find a way and its a lot of times not what youre focussing on. Did you think once again well be 8 down . They have a plunge Protection Team like us but its not working at this point. Down 40 the market is over there in three weeks or four weeks. Still up 10 on the year. And 70 in the last 12 months. Its like the wild west. We shouldnt extrapolate everything over here from whats happening over there. But 180 points here or 8 there, maybe thats commensurate. Well wall street journal today, stocks plunged scarier than greece and thats written by the head of emerging markets and global macro at global stanley investment management. They make the point which is hotly debated in the market to what extent does the market crash in china have a Ripple Effect on the chinese economy and that has a Ripple Effect
Regulatory changes, but firms are also changing their own Risk Management practices in some sense in some cases in a more conservative direction. We have seen an increase in algorithmic and High Frequency trading. That may be leading to changes in market trading practices. In the Corporate Bond market there have been increased reporting requirements that may be reducing the desired sizes of trades. All of these factors could potentially account for whats going on but we have not yet been able to figure out what the contribution of each is or just how serious. The concern is while daytoday and normale time of most measures of liquidity seem to be roughly unchanged, there is a concern in stress situations it may be and weve seen some cases where its less available. In any market you need risk and liquidity, do you not . You dont have a market would you the . We need liquidity in markets. Maybe even highleveraged banks were exposed and providing high liquidity and vulnerable if liquidity
That conference. A lot of optimism there. And well discuss why hundreds of millions of dollars are going into Alzheimers Research it still may not be enough to make any real progress. Also along musk discussing the latest spacex rocket failure right now. Well bring you the latest headlines soon as we get them. We start with our closing bell exchange. The major averages are in record territory. Territory. Mr. Willis whats moving this market today . This is another one of those days where we are hitting singles. No home runs but enough to put us over the top for the s p and the nasdaq in record territory today. The big cap, particularly the nasdaq are the story. Inside that story, you need to take a look at some of the rotation that we are seeing. Still taking profits out of the russell 2000. Some of the Health Care Stocks seeing profittaking. We are seeing money rotate into the consumer discretionary, particularly the restaurants strong today. Chinese stocks trade here also showing stre
Washington app for updates. We want to turn to the weather and check in with chuck. Go say say that five times. Easy for you to say. Exactly. Warm day to be outside. Typical of late july in washington. Sun is out for now. There will be a chance for a couple of showers around this afternoon but fortunately we are not looking at much of a Severe Weather threat. Just a rumble or two of thunder cant be ruled out. Its up near pittsburgh and columbus right now, so it may bubble up a shower or two. Your rain chance is at 30 . Nothing locally on storm team 4 radar for now. Metro temperatures are warming into the 70s and low 80s. Upper 80s to right around 90 degrees. That 30 chance of a couple of showers coming our way, and if youre doing grilling later this afternoon, maybe a shower or two around. But i dont think you need to cancel that barbecue at all. Snoop new this morning, Prince Georges County police confirmled that two men were shot overnight. This happened around 1 30 in the morning. B