Backtracking on reopening plans. Wednesday, july 1. This is Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning welcome to july, if you will hard to believe but it is already july 1 time flies it feels like about 100 years. First day of the month, quarter, second half of the year. Dow futures are not giving us many direction the markets are about to give us the best three months in decades and cap off a fourmonth win streak if you are looking for historical comparisons, here is how history shapes out the dow with the best quarterly performance. Nasdaq best quarterly gains. A look at the small caps they dont want to be left behind russell 2000 up 5 best quarterly gain since First Quarter of 1991. Apple soars higher apache led higher by 200 . Congrats to elon musk, tesla leading the nasdaq 100 it more than doubled in three months despite plenty of tesla stock skeptics it crossed over the 2 billion market cape for a bit yesterday. Let us make sure this is all coming in context. The dow coming of
Bank of america hiking its yearend s p target to 4,600 it had been 4,300. Also ahead, sources are telling cnbc that apple and goldmansachs have been planning the launch of a stocktrading feature for the iphone project was shelved last year after the markets did turn south. Could have worked on it mitsubishi you worked on it yourself no, im just going to make up a series of things because thats exactly whats called for. Well get to it with kate rooney in a minute lets begin with the markets ahead of the fed decision later on today are you encouraged at all by some of the action this morning . Look, i think that if you dont have a if you dont have a rate hike, and he talks tough, everyones okay so, if he talks anything less than tough, then we go back to that scenario where theres that holy 13 you get when theyre done i think theres a perspective that longer, higher, whatever, take off the higher, maybe a little bit longer, but theres a sense that the dont worry, be happy s p target piec
The dow now down 4 . Nasdaq giving up 181 points. We have full team coverage. Bob pisani clocking the action at the stock exchange. Bertha coombs at the nasdaq and Jackie Deangelis at the nymex. Lets start with bob. Apple helping to turn things around. Emwas typical. The big plunge and recovery we saw all within 15 minutes. Apple opening down from thursdays lows. Recovering and testing it around 9 45. Let me show you intraday full screen of what the day looked like for apple. It doesnt do justice looking at the chart. Close was 105. 76 friday. Within less than a minute we went to 92. Down 13. At 9 45, the whole thing turned around. Ten minutes later, apple up at 102. By noon after the 11 30 close in europe, it was up 108. These are large moves. Its hard to describe how weird today is. We have two new highs at the new york stock exchange. 1239 new lows. Those are very weird numbers. We have 160 stocks advancing. We have roughly 3,000 declining. You get an idea. You dont see these number
Draghi said the ecb will keep as much stimulus as the eu economy needs. We have an exclusive interview minister,s finance Pier Carlo Padoan. In london, european stocks, little changed. One hour into the trading day, up marginally for the fourth consecutive day. Best run since september. We have had fresh threats from north korea, sending money into haven assets. The euro falling for a second day post the german election down to 1. 1813. Falling five basis points in the wake of the german election. Brent crude is just a low 60 a barrel, down by. 6 . Why we saw gains in the last 24 hours, turkey threatened to shut down curtis shipments shutdown kurdish shipments through its territory. There is no a seven dollar spread between the benchmarks. Greece willank of start stress tests to determine if they need fresh capital before the greek bailout program. The results of the test could be ready in early may. That comes as maria draghi said yesterday the single supervisory mechanism might hurt
Surprises. Thats how we started with jpmorgan. Premarket, futures, where are we . Points. Res now up 99 the big story in the last 20 minutes, a bit from jpmorgan, and upside surprise. That upside surprises what takes is higher come up by 2. 73 in the premarket. Couple of fx to a pairs for you. Some dollar strengthened the g 10 today. 13 . At wti, the output freeze meeting in the rumor mill and the rumor mill is in full swing. Crime organized profiteers have raided the offices of the Panama Papers law firm. The rainfall is the leak of millions of documents on tax havens set up for wealthy international clients. The attorney general searched other subsidiaries of the firm in panama and the firm has denied any wrongdoing. Some 3500 candidates mine for he 250 parliamentary seats assad said he and his wife cast their votes in the Assad Library in damascus. Vice president is drawing up plans to form a Transitional Government in brazil as dilma allegationsrpens that he is the leader of a coup