Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Headlines. Fang with all the headlines in the greens, apple, amazon, netflix up 1. 5 . Tech remains hot, hot, hot. Still to come, definitely coming on todays show, coronavirus cases climb and states continue to rethink their opening plans. Well speak with fed chair James Bullard, what it means for the economy. Shares of Taylor Morrison posted record sales well speak to the ceo about whats driving the strength in the housing mark up a third of the percent. Lets start focusing on the big stories. Mike santoli tracking the markets, meg tirrell with the rising case count and courtney watching flags in the Retail Sector mike, lets kick things off with you. Market idling right here, holding above the flat line for the moment it seems like stealth pullback consolidation weve had last few weeks, s p 500, talking about a summer trading range this is what we had last summer. It looked like that on a narrow basis. Scares in both directions. Were not there in terms of prolonged sideways action. Th
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The charge and treasury yields surge as markets are at record all time closing high territory for the major averages joining us for the hour, stephanie link good afternoon to you. Today is what trade headlines that push us higher but with that rise in yields is improving sentiment. Three thing its trade and obviously the roll backs on tariffs. Potentially. Well have to see how that works out. Earnings earnings are better. 2 better than expected. Not great. Flattish overall but next year even though numbers have come down still looking at 10 Earnings Growth. Maybe the story is Third Quarter, Fourth Quarter is trough in earnings and most important to me what is driving the risk on trade is Global Growth stability if you look at german factory orders, you look at german pmi services yesterday, you look at italys pmis, they are not great but stabilizing. Thats causing yields to rise and with it the cyclicals sector big final hour here thanks for being with us lets drill down on the other b
Washington many. But it is stronger than expected much more on china coming up in a few minutes. European equities, again, sliding in the last few hours. Germany basically flat were taking that to 3 decimal points here. France, uk, spain slightly negative, italy essentially flat as well. Finally treasury yields, the tenyear hovering right around 1. 7 1. 69 is where we have it right now. So certainly something that investors are watching. Yeah. You have yields slipping again a little bit this morning, but were off the lows of last week, which briefly dipped below 1. 6 on the tenyear. Thats encouraging yields had such a big effect on equities as we all know. I think on europe the interesting thing to note this morning is that were not seeing a gap up again in terms of the spread of italian over german yields and talk about the potential new election coming up hong kong, is down 9. 5 , shanghai down 5. 5 it is weighing more on the shanghai market. We saw that elevation escalation of conce