Less than we were initially this morning. All three major averages taking a hit, but the nasdaq only down. 25 at this time. You still have banks that are the worst performers here. Industrials and Consumer Staples also on that list. Still seeing some weakness along the large cap banks. Take you look at energy, only down. 1 . We have seen a turnaround in oil come a very dramatic turnaround in oil prices. Higher after we got weekly inventory reports that showed a building inventories. Crude a drawdown in inventories. That is what is pushing oil to that turnaround. Follow rightstocks along with it, even though stocks are still lower. In is in yellow, stocks white. They are moving pretty much in tandem as we do tend to see. Ive shown this chart on almost a daily basis. If you look on the other side of the coin, the socalled safety assets, you are seeing them give up some of the gains today. Gold has per those gains to 1. 4 . The same has happened in the bond market. If you look at the 10 y
Julie it was triggered after we got Economic Data out of china. We saw it spread around the globe. Commodities got on board as well. All of that contributes. You will see what im talking about. Its bumping along your the bottom. Its not as low as we were when the s p fell 1 . We have seen something of a tracking of oil prices. Nonetheless, directionally both of them are taking a step lower at the same time. Oil prices are up 3 . There was an attempt at a rally in oil, but it could not be sustained. Energy shares are the worst performers, down 3 . Some of the recent winners. Those of the losing losers again. They helped lead a recent rally and now they are gone again. Financials are competing. Alix you have a draw into the treasury market. Everywhere. Here and look at the 10 year note in the united states. We see the yield go down to 1. 82 . The 30 year is interesting to look at if you look around the globe. Investors want safety right now. That has been happening all your long. The que
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Off the session lows, giving up all of the gains that we saw earlier. The turnaround started around 10 30 when the u. S. Crude inventory numbers came out. It has been up and down for the markets. The s p 500 is in the negative down. 25 . It was positive for most of the day. The dow is raising its positive number, up about. 10 . Of s p 500 p materials are the biggest leader, up i 3. 3 . This is because of talks of the potential merger between dow and dewpoint. The biggest percent gainers. Energy is higher, number two. Up by about 1. 5 . Utilities are up by. 5 . Let me get rid of the appointment reminder. Lets take a look at crude, it is trading lower right now. Down by. 3 . It spiked at 10 30. That was when the crude data numbers came out showing inventory fell by 3. 6 Million Barrels a week. Yesterday, we saw oil hit lows not seen since february, 2009. We are on track to continue the decline. Alix the huge built in distal it 5 Million Barrels . This is a different capacity. You also me
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