The dow industrials up just a few points at the opening bell, 11, maybe, but look at that level. Back to 28,000. Modest small loss, small loss for the s p and also for the nasdaq. So look, everybody, sit back, you are going to watch financial history. History being made in hong kong, too. Sure looks like open rebellion. The street fighting has escalated. Police besieged one of the Main University campuses which they say was being used to make weapons. A Police Officer was hit by an arrow. Ominously, the Peoples Liberation army, chinese troops, in plain clothes, appeared on the streets on saturday. That was taken as a grave warning. Add all this up, it is beijing versus the people of hong kong, communism versus democracy. It is a bloody fight and it is not over. In the United States, the democrats want to remove this president from office because of a phone call. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart okay. Lets talk stock market, shall we . Dow closed in record territory friday, abov
Ten year 182 road map begins with the record one for stocks dow set to try to climb above 28 k at the open. S p in the midst of the biggest longest rally in two years executive shakeup at tmobile as ive been reporting for months now, john ledger is set to step down as ceo. Next year. The shares are moving lower ahead of the open. Fedex versus the New York Times. Fred smith challenging the papers publisher to a debate after its expose alleging the ship giant paid no taxes in 2018. Next hour, an interview you wont want to miss snap Ceo Evan Spiegel joins us exclusively. Lets start with jim and his big week in san francisco. Jim, the guys on squawk just asking you how you got out there so quickly after the eagles game last night. Well, philadelphia too has red eyes and my eyes are red from crying because the we had a chance to be able to really seal our fate and we sold it already in the wrong way. You want to come out here during dream force. Everybody who is anybody does come out and i
And we got better than expected manufacturing data here in the u. S. , but the imf did lower its Global Growth forecast joining us for the hour is steve grasso from Stuart Frankel you know, we hit these highs earlier in the session didnt hold on to it for very long what do you make of todays action we didnt hear about impeachment. We didnt hear about china trade, really. We havent heard much about a lot of things, but we did hear mostly about were earnings so the market wants to get back to something that they can look at and say, its binary. Either services it was a win, it was a beat, they got it higher or lower and were going to run with the market there. Not enough to make new highs, but were on our way there with earnings, i would guess. It is interesting to look at companies fundamentals, actually push the trade headlines aside just a bit still hopeful, perhaps but let the day be run by earnings its true everybody has been run by macro lately so twothirds of all stocks trade with
S p is now down 2. 25 the nasdaq is off by 40 points that happened after news that we heard from beijing that well tell you about in a moment Interest Rates are a huge part of the market story. Yesterday we saw the inversion of the twoyear and the tenyear yield. So shortterm bonds are paying more than longterm bonds. Historically this is considered a recession warning sign check this out the 30year bond this morning is now yielding below 2 . This is the first time in history weve seen the 30year below 2 1. 99 . Tenyear is yielding 1. 557 . The twoyear is yielding 1. 54 lets look at what happened in markets overnight in asia. Things got a slower start there. The nikkei was down out of the gate it ended down by 1. 2 . In china, stocks are stronger. Shanghai is up by a quarter percent. The hang seng up by three quarters of a percent. In europe, there is active trading taking place, you are seeing some red arrows across the board. The biggest decliner of the three major averages would be t
First a check in on the market the dow lower by nearly 300 points moved low er perhaps by the fitc rating plus, some street talk around discover financial the company ceo resigning. That stock down more than 10 . Also, good news, bad news. The good, Warren Buffett adding a stake in the stock bad, home Builder Sentiment dropping sharply with rates over 7 . We begin with the warning from fitch the firm saying it may be forced to downgrade dozens of banks, big ones, including jp morgan chase, coming after recently downgrading the United States credit rating. For market reaction, lets bring in doug butler, director of research at Rockland Trust what has got fitchy feeling so well, i could rhyme but i wont. Ill also not go there. But again, fitch downgrading the banks, very core lair to what they just did. Its their really negative on the government and theyre taking this as a broad swath theyre saying the Banking Industry as a whole and greater problems which is why they would hit jp morga