The last 20 minutes or so. Nasdaq is down 33 and 3 quarters. Now these numbers coming after signs of the spread to have virus stabilized in hot spots. That led to strong rally yesterday. Here at the close yesterday, the dow gaining and s p entering bull market. U. S. Death toll topping 14,080 but there are signs that the spread is slowing in hot spots. The cdc issued guidelines to get to workers. The Trump Administration requesting 250 billion, democrats want additional 50 billion. Fed chair jay powell will be giving us an update on the economy and actions taken to combat the impact of the virus, thats today 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. More to expect from the fed. The today is a big day for oil. We are watching the contract right now. Its up almost 5 and a half percent. The investors are watching the opec meeting including saudi arabia and russia, can they come to an agreement . All rising on hopes of a deal to cut production and bring an end to the costly priced war. And then there was
Its the little saint nick. Its the little saint nick. Just a little bob sled. We call it old saint nick. Lauren Christmas Tree shining bright. Welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning, im cheryl casone. Lets take a look at money. It has been a big market day. Lauren new records on wall street, despite boeing shaving 100 points off the dow. All three major averages closing in record territory, the dow hitting the 16th record close of the year, gaining 10,000 points since President Trumps election. Cheryl with apple and microsoft hitting alltime highs, weve got a mixed bag today. Dow is down by 32, s p only down by 1 andahalf and nasdaq still higher. Remember, yeartodate the dow is up 21 , nasdaq up 32 yeartodate. It has been a great year for markets. Lauren and in asia, rally mode yesterday. Optimism on the trade deal helping the shanghai composite in particular, up 1 and a quarter percent. Cheryl chinas economy looking kind of strong. The brexit cloud is lifting. L
Things where its always on the horizon, were about to do it. I think they will do it. That will take a huge uncertainty out of the way, usmca, nafta 2, getting that out of the way. The other thing to avoid is a trade war with europe over auto parts and imports. With all the optimism, bank of america said 68 of managerses think the markets going to be good. Thats usually a bearish sign. Lauren i know. When everyone starts saying things are so good, mitch, you study this, you know the stock market, does that mean you should go in the other direction. Not necessarily. Think about what happened last year. We were worried about the fed raising rates. This year the fed lowered rates three times. The markets are sending them a message, saying we like lower rates. I think fed talk will be the thing to look at. I would look at corporate earnings next year. Baked into the market this year is the fact that next year will be a good year for earnings. Last year was a meh year for earnings. Lauren i
Concerns over production of the 737 max jet. And positive news on the housing front, as home builder confidence jumps to its highest level in two decades coming up next hour, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us to discuss trade and the economy. You do not want to miss that and with us for the whole first hour of theshow, dan nathan from risk reversal advisers. Dan, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Great to be here. More optimism on trade or whatever you want to put it down to is a lot of this news not already out there . Are you surprised to see ongoing rallies to new highs yet again at the end of the day, you like to see followthroughs. So friday, we had a muted react. A lot of investors expected some kind of surge, similar to what we had at the end of 2017 after the big tax cut. A lot of this was priced in. I think the continuation of last weeks rally into this week is obviously pretty establibullish. Also fairly seasonal as we are looking down the barrel of a week
President trump commenting on negotiations yesterday at the white house. They are also meeting, it actually be done before our meeting, i think we have a good chance of making a deal. I think they want to make a deal, they are losing, Many Companies are leaving because of tariffs, they dont want to pay tariffs. Dagen european trade going down on a different path, 4 billion in trade value, pasta, cheese, whiskey, metals and chemicals. Fixed Income Portfolio jack mcintyre, good to see you as always, what to make you look at fixed income, you look at the bond market, 10year close to 2 but the s p at new alltime high, who is right, because the fixed income market treasuries say slow do you know slowdown ahead . Believe it or not, they both can be right. For that to happen you need noninflationary growth because thats whats driving the fixedincome markets, obviously whats driving equity is the idea that hey, the fed is going to cut maybe 50 this month and weve got some growth, so as long as