With the smallcap stocks. Joe em stocks up over 1 . Not a dramatic outperformance but they have been over performing for quite a while. Scarlet lets dive deeper into the action with our market reporters. Abigail, what are you watching . Abigail not participating in the risk on rally and record highs, bitcoin. 15 day chart, down 14 out of the last 15 days. However, today it appears as though bitcoin is maybe trying to stage a rally. Below 7000 as the technical side suggested for quite some time. Trying to hang on by a thread. This is a multiweek decline. In the context of a weekly chart. Over the past few years, a beautiful uptrend for the most part. ,here is the bitcoin bubble 20,000, then going below about 4000. Right now, hitting down over the past couple of years, right around 6400. If these levels can hold, maybe we see a brief bounce back higher. These levels suggest maybe we go down to that average below 5000. The longterm message is bullish for bitcoin. Nearterm chop. Taylor i w
High for the day. We should not get too complacent. We have continued to see swings. If you look at the gains, they are pretty broadbased. Only energy is lower. That has been the Weakest Group throughout the day. Utilities recovering as we see a little bit of a back up and yields today. Tech shares also strongs. Also strong. If you take a look at the weekly performance, we are setting up for the best week for stocks overall in quite some time. For tech specifically, and the xlk, it could be the best week going back to 2011 with a 5 gain this week. That would be even bigger if you counted the rally which began last friday. Cisco is helping lead the technology gains. That company is trading at a 17year high. The company came up with revenue that rose for the first time in eight quarters. The forecast was also positive and the company said revenue in the current period will climb as much as 5 . We have seen other companies and related businesses also on the rise. On the call today, the ce
1. 25 . Still a mixed picture here as we continue to see these swing back and forth from the major averages. Look at the s p 500 on an intraday basis, and stocks open lower, and of rising to the highs of the session around 11 15 or so, and have been shopping around for the rest of the day. Some of it it appears where the equity markets were getting this were from the bond markets to some degree, particularly around 1 00 p. M. That is when we got the results of the latest bond auction in the u. S. A 10 year option, 24 billion worth. The weakest result we have seen in five months time. After the auction, we saw yields go to the highs of the session. That is not to say that every move and take in this equity and rally has been pushed around by the bond market, but investors are watching what is going on in bonds to some degree. Also, we are watching what is happening with oil. We see a for data klein in oil prices that amounts to the worst that we have seen in more than six months. You se
Statement the fed held back from changing its line on the balance of risks. A number of Committee Meetings were edging in that direction. What did they do . It seems a compromise here. They do not change the balance of the risk statement but they add that word further a couple of times in the statement. That change was explicitly in the context of the brightening outlook that fomc officials have for growth in 2018. Said they agreed to update the characterization of the expectation for the evolution of the federal funds rate in the postmeeting statement to point to further gradual increases. It appears this was a half step by the committee in january. Ok. Towards signaling a quicker pace of increases but a half step. Lisa thank you so much for that. U. S. Markets close in two hours. We are getting so much reaction and bond markets to the fed meeting minutes. Lets get a check on where stocks are trading. Taylor we are seeing highs of the day. Gains accelerate going into the meeting. We w
Seeing across Asset Classes that are seeing the stocks lower. It is the biggest oneday goinge for the s p 500 back to august. We saw that earlier in the week as well, and we are also seeing simultaneous at least 1 decline for each of the major averages. This has become increasingly uncommon until the past week or so, when we see volatility returned to the market. Scarlet mentioned what has happened on the week as well. As well,500 down and you have to go back to february 2016, or depending on the lowest today, maybe even january 2016 to find this kind of magnitude of a drop. It is being felt in a lot of different ways in the market today. We are watching media stocks among the groups that are selling off today. Are both trading lower, Discovery Communications as well. Analyst who covers media was on bloomberg earlier, and he says he believes the cbs ceo is reluctant to go ahead with some sort of combination between cbs and viacom, something that has been talked about recently. In other