Of the s p 500. Just about a half a point higher. We are going to be hearing from travellers United Technologies verizon and many more out later this afternoon. Its all about tech. Beyond earnings here the other big stories were watching this morning in greece today the government submitted a bill needed to officially start talks in the rescue package. The Prime Minister has until tomorrow night to get the measures adopted in parliament. Increasing year over year last month but only slightly. This shows how a slowing economy is hurting Investor Confidence and in Corporate News out today, the ceo was stepping down. This comes after an independent investigation says he was aware the company was inflating his profits over a number of years. Ibms earnings top which normally happens but revenues fell for a 13th straight quarter. It had to be because of the stronger dollar. You dont get revenue drops of 13. 5 . I dont know what organically it was. The strong dollar continuing to weigh on the
In fact it closed down 30 bips. Big deal. And in fact, to try to preach a lot of fear mongering right now is a dangerous thing to do. Having said that, theres a lot of damage underneath the surface. Theres a lot of stocks today. We talked about how weve been printing many new 52week lows across the board. And Commodity Prices are telling you something. And clearly is this deflationary . Absolutely. Is this good for the consumer . I think absolutely. Does this mean that Global Growth is plummeting . I dont think so. So on some level there is a supply issue. On some level theres an asset issue. And i think thats how you have to look at it. But to say the stock market is very healthy right now because its only a couple err percent off the highs is not something i would say. The tlt outsize move up more than a . Xle on the s p 500. Thats not good. 2 1 4 in terms of tenyear yields. Thats been a pivot point for a while. Were somewhat significantly below that. I still think yields go lower. I
The horizon with energy experts. Plus, the drop in crude could be seeping into the Banking System of our neighbor to the north. The royal bank of canadas ceo joins us in a cnbc exclusive on the back of his companys earnings. Also ahead how much of what we see in the rally is the result of the fed trying to calm market volatility. Were live in jackson hole with the latest headlines. Dont forget, of course, the new york fed president , importantly, spoke today. He did. And markets are reacting. Lets get to full Team Coverage of these markets. Bob pisani tracking the moves here at the stock exchange. Courtney reagan over at the nasdaq. How do you feel going into the close today . Better than yesterday. I want to show you the dow. At this time yesterday, we were fading going into 3 00. That is not the case right now. Dow jones industrial average is essentially almost at the highs for the day. I think 16,100 right off the open. Were essentially there back to the highs for the day. The marke
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Change in order to grow American Cities. Are right everyone, if everyone could take their seats, we are ready to begin. So first let me thank lewis for , moderating the first panel. Jason and gracie. Again, just let me say how grateful i am to all of you here, and all the people who made this possible. You, going an tell across the country working on this, there are people everywhere who are conservative and who are interested in cities. And they have a lot of questions that have been asked thus far, and a lot of questions which are we are now going to ask. That as longll you as i have been following urbanism as a policy area, i have never seen such a commotion as on march 25, 2017, when a columnist dared to write in the new york times, break up the liberal city. We are fortunate here to have ross delta who has been engaging in a series of what he describes as implausible sometimes but perhaps insane always , interesting argument to really get our political and policy conversation goin