[ music playing thursday and today we are taking you back with the top songs of 2017. This is decpacito and i did read it. I must apologize for that i know this next Market Information pretty much off by heart, the dow is hire by about 30 points s p up by half napgs up by 7. 6 points yesterday we had very slight gains. Volume wasnt terrible, 65 to 70 of the 50day moving average a. Little high than you might expect on this holidayshortened week for the quarter we look for the month around the quarter looking strong still despite softness in the last couple trading sessions. Lets have a look at the tenyear treasury note, Consumer Confidence slightly disappoint it wasnt the yield cup flattened again or anything like that the yen is going on. Yesterday, we saw the footsie december out performance compared to the other two indices. Its up 4 for the month of december its playing catch up to the main indices in europe, which have double returns, for the year the footsie 100 does not. Ill pric
Thought could be catalyst for that, judge. Of course the march 1st and then m. Welcome back to the march 15th. Were coming up on march 15th. Halftime report. Just want to tie up the health were not seeing a lot of fear. Care conversation we were having because you guys are buying weve seen minor, you know, these stocks. This is one of the sectors whatever,. 2 ,. 4 selloffs. Thats along the lines of what i ive been underweight at think were going to get. Least market weight for now. Mylan is a new name for me. A softening rather than just an eight times earnings. Off to the races continuation of got crushed. We know why. That rally. We talk about the warning epipen issues. Signs, whether its the dollar, i think thats behind them. They had a meeting last week. The numbers are redisked. Its a fed meeting looming. Im wonders, steph, if you think they talked about getting to 6 the fed actually does hike rates in earnings power. Ceo was was on the network on next week, what happens to the th
The rate story that has wall street talking this hour. Pete, slower loan growth across the board for the banks. As the tenyear continues to come down, the banks were almost all negative. Youve had a little reversal but the market cant do anything. And everybody is looking at the 10year and obviously for a last while weve had this thing correlated. I think the impressive part is theres actually still even growth. Because of the fact weve seen some of these numbers moving where they were, yesterday i said on the show i wouldnt even be i think theyre going to have something to balance it out. Well, they did. The Trading Volumes and what they have done with trading is absolutely spectacular. You took and its really, really impressive. At citi its up 19 . Jpmorgan is up 17 year over year. So there is that balancing act but loan growth is what everybody was focused on. And yet the banks today are flat as a group. I think the biggest story in the market is rates. As the 10year goes down to 2.
And the story everybody is talking about. It is about a date with comedian aziz ansari. And it sparked a massive debate across the country. Does it damage the me too movement . Were going to begin this morning with the one and only steve bannon, possibly ready to tell all, or Robert Mueller wants him to. The former white house chief strategist reportedly ready to share what he knows to special counsel mueller in the russia investigation. And that is not all. Bannon also faces two subpoenas one day after he told house investigators the white house instructed him to not answer questions related to his tenure as a top adviser to President Trump. And youre in luck, i have an Incredible Team here to break all of it down, starting with my friend kristen wielker, live at the white house. Kristen, you and your team have exclusive info about steve bannon. Reporter thats right, steph. According to a source familiar with the matter, last tuesday fbi agents went to the home of steve bannon to serv
He did address the troops for about 20 minutes. I think what we need to find out next here we have a little bit coming out from reports from reuters, as well. Number one, the president is not going to withdraw from iraq. Thats something he said they are going to stay there. He thinks the world will come around and the rest of the International Community to his decision to withdraw the 2,000 troops from syria. He said that the current or soon to be acting secretary of defense will be there for some time. The president s next stop is going to be the air base in germany about five hours away on the plane. So far the head lines, president making an unannounced trip to iraq. Stay with us if you will. I want to bring in hally jackson. What can you tell us about the trip . Significant moment for President Trump given he had come under fire for not having visited troops. At this point in his presidency barack obama had been to afghanistan. A couple of things to note here. The president is goin