The dow is down nearly 1 . The nasdaq is back in positive territory. Apple is boosting the dow adding 150 points to a decline we would be seeing. Amazon and facebook arent in that index caterpillar, chevron, exxon mobile are driving the blue chips lower. Lets start with bob who will tell us what were seeing from earning season as a whole now that were a little more than halfway through. Bob. We have a little bit of a problem. Its great may have tech earnings are fantastic but theyre not enough to move the market really forward. You can see this today just look at the sectors of whats going on. You have technology up because apple is up. You have Consumer Discretionary up because amazon is up. Everything else, the other economy is having hard time. Tech earnings are even fantastic. We have this two tier economy thats going on. Its not a split between wall street and main street its just theres a two tier economy. One part is digital and thats the megacap tech and software and the Techno
Its currently sitting above 45. And the standoff, mandy. Standoff or standdown. Big one today. Still positive. Lets get right to the New York Stock Exchange and get filled in by bob pisani. Bob. We were hoping perhaps when you close wed see moves on the upside. Nothings happened. Lets take a look here. A couple of big headlines. We were there at the open. Thats where we are at the day. Vacuum volume is on the heavy side. No light august trading days in the last couple of days and the volatility has been rising in the last couple of days as well. The entire market is essentially down. The exception here is a small group of consumer stocks that are mildly on the up side. Lets not quibble. You see what i mean. Down 1 to 2 . Fear measures down a bit. What are the fear measures . Look at the gld. Gold treasures. Volatility, nice. 13 a few days ago. Now its 18. Id start paying a lot of attention when its 20. Its moving in that direction. Keep an eye on that. Weve had a lot of heavy volume. T
Talking about the closing bell. Welcome. Im kelly evans and the new york stock exchange. Im bill griffeth. Eight years ago today the s p hit its low point, 666. Discuss that for a while. Diabolical. The market of course has come a long way since then. The s p right now is around 2375. Well look at whats behind the pause going on now. Travel stocks are getting hit as President Trump signed a revised executive order temporarily banning travel into the u. S. From six countries. Snapping its win streak we have the first down day for the hot ipo of last week snap. We have more of whats behind that move today down 8 and 3 4 now. Td ameritrade clients have been selling for eight straight months. Well debate if this is the time to sell as the iphone 8 leaks trickle out. Havent even seen the 7 yet. Well talk about it coming up. Lets start with President Trump. Eamon is at the white house. Reporter this is a buttoned up white house in light of the signing of the executive order. The president si
Im sara eisen. And im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. And happy friday. Lets have a look at u. S. Futures. Sharp declines. Over 1 in the dow. Expected to open slightly positively. Essentially we are flat in the pre market but called higher by 4 points. And the s p by 1 and the nasdaq by about 17 points. Lets look at the 10 year treasure note. Yields ranging around 1. 7 and 1. 9 over the last three weeks. Chinas central bank fixing its currency t yuan higher. In fact at the sharpest pace since 2005 when china removed its peg to the u. S. Dollar. There have been huge swings in currency all week long led by yesterdays massive jump in the yen. How did i miss that . A 3 move in the yen. Bank of japans surprise decision to do nothing and leave the Monetary Policy unchanged. And of course the big importance is the chinese currencys depreciation in the beginning of the year that was spooking markets and its gone the other way and that is calming. The dollar index, dollar br
Through the morning as a storm approaches to start at 9 30 p. M. Tonight northern fringes of it massachusetts and New Hampshire there is little bit of rain and sleet showing up perhaps mixing going on just a couple of showers coming out ahead of the main system. The main event drives during the Morning Hours to 4 30 a. M. In the morning with the reins here watch what happens. Blue appears in the berkshires and northward into vermont and New Hampshire that are going to be places that pick up some sellable and probable snow people talk amount of the snow and how this impacts a patriots game coming up in a few minutes. Tracking the storm overnight wake up the fox 25 morning team. Jason heather and blair will have the latest on the weather and traffic conditions we get started at 6 00 a. M. Breaking news right now state Police Investigating bomb threats at schools across these threats happening from marblehead on the north shore the city of boston and down to the cape. Heres what we know t