And welcome to power lunch. Stocks are holding into the green. We have the dow up 122 points. S p is up by about 11 right now. But take a look at the tenyear note, because the yield is 1. 72 , a rising dollar, rising yield continue to be themes in todays mark. Were seeing nice gains in financials. And Energy Stocks among the biggest winners on that index at this hour. Take a look at chesapeake, trance ocean, marathon oil, free port mcmoran in the green right now. Im michelle carusocabrera. Americas trade deficit widening in august as we imported more goods than we exported. Mortgage applications climbing 3 last week and that was driven mainly by refis. Justice Department Says they have arrested an nsa contractor accused of stealing classified materials. Well have much more on that story in just minutes during our live interview with the assistant attorney general john carlin coming up here on power lunch. In the meantime, were counting you down to the big september jobs report on frida
The german dax down nearly 3 today. Futures down sharply following yesterdays fed decision to stay pat on Interest Rates. Most fed policymakers are not ruling out a rate hike by the end of the year, four of them are forecasting an increase in 2016 or later. At yesterdays News Conference chair yellen outlined her case for holding off on a rate hike. Light of the heightened uncertainties abroad, and the slightly softer expected path for inflation, the committee judged it appropriate to wait for more evidence including some further improvement in the labor market to bolster its confidence that inflation will rise to 2 in the medium term. Jim, some video of you as the decision was coming across the screens. You were excited. Because you did not want them to hike. Now everyone is worried about what theyre calling the third mandate, somehow the rest of the world is driving our Monetary Policy. What i like about it, carl, its over with. We can focus on companies doing well and buy their stock