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Why we are waiting, i want to go to julie hyman. We are seeing a lot of steep selling in the markets today. Following on the heels of the after the happened fed raised Interest Rates for the first time in a long time. All averages are lower by at least 1 or more. 500, 16 above the 10 day average as we see expiration of futures contracts. Two of the biggest drags individually on the major averages today are disney and apple. Disney, despite the star wars hullabaloo is being downgraded. Company is overpaying for sports rights. Apple his been on downtrend, setting up for a negative month rate there has been analyst commentary that iphone sales may come in worse than estimated. Be is still setting up for a positive week, interestingly enough. It is still higher by 4 10 of a percent on the week, largely because of the run up to the fed Interest Rate increase. I want to mention Something Else we are watching today is crude oil, which has had a wild roller coaster today. Rising as the dollar
That is totally not the case with sell offs which is why we need to plunge into them on a case by case basis. Take this one. Y dont we set the clock back until early last evening. Pretty much at the same time that the new york jets were busy being eliminated by the Buffalo Bills in an afternoon game that mirrored the devastation of the bulls on this, the worst opening day for the dow since 2008. Yep. Early sunday evening the futures would signal that we are going to rally at the opening. Why . Because we remain in crazy town where Higher Oil Prices translate into higher stock prices. Again, you k kw i think thats ridiculous. Especially because oil was rallying off on actual issue involving a war between the saudis and the iranians. It could end up bottling irans future production. And d stroyed it and makesesense that oil could go higher and then it all broke loosz in china. Trading down 7 . So sellers overwhelm the chinese stock market in an obvious attempt to beat t e breakers and th
Need to plunge into them on a case by case basis. Take this one. Why dont we set the clock back until early last evening. Pretty much at the same time that the new york jets were busy being eliminated by the Buffalo Bills in an afternoon game that mirrored the devastation of the bulls on this, the worst opening day for the dow since 2008. Yep. Early sunday evening the futures would signal that we are going to rally at the opening. Why . Because we remain in crazy town where Higher Oil Prices translate into higher stock prices. Again, you know i think thats ridiculous. Especially because oil was rallying off on actual issue involving a war between the saudis and the iranians. It could end up bottling irans future production. Let crude go higher. That oil could go higher and then it all broke loosz in china. Trading down 7 . So sellers overwhelm the chinese stock market in an obvious attempt to beat the breakers and that selling triggered the halt. Call it a selffulfilling prophesy. Now
Yeah, its not so bad this morning because we dont have the strong winds that weve had recently but, yeah, its still definitely cold. Take a look at satellite. We are looking at plenty of sunshine coming up over the horizon later on this morning and its going to stay with us pretty much all day long because High Pressure is in control. Temperatures right now, though, are controlling us. 21 degrees right now in philadelphia. Just 14 degrees in allentown. 13 in trenton. 12 in reading and weve improved to 8 degrees in millville, how about that, 16 degrees in wilmington. Not much wind, though, so we dont have to worry about wind chills. As if those temperatures arent cold enough without the wind though, right. 22 degrees by 8 oclock so through the morning rush its still going to be pretty uncomfortable. Noon up to 34 and then by 3 oclock, looks like well be about nine or 10 degrees milder this afternoon than we were in most areas yesterday. Light winds, lots of sun and a high of 40 degrees