Opec supply cuts will tighten the market. It is labor day in the United States and canada, the regular band is out for the holiday and ive taken over for the interim period. A little bit of visibility of what is open. What we know is currently offline are the cash, u. S. Equities and theres also no cash u. S. Treasuries. Many firming up by 1 5 of 1 . The folks at jp morgan and Goldman Sachs making an argument around the story. In terms of valuations those are looking stretched. International equities more attractive. The twoyear german bunds with the country selling 5. 5 billion euros of twoyear government bonds thats coming up at the beginning of this month. A weaker greenback and then brent crude hovering short of 99 a barrel. Lets set the scene with assets in china. China builder shares surging with the nation boosting property support. Shares advancing 8. 7 . Weve taken the real estate index after the country cut down payments for homebuyers and encouraged lenders to lower rates on
Down. You can see the nasdaq down more than a ercent. Not such great action, either, in sectors, sara, with an echo of yesterday as well. Where energy and maybe staples were the only green arrows. Today its energy and utilities. The tenyear yield is back to 43, which is the cycle high. The data we got this morning, also not helpful. Better news for the economy, services came in a little bit stronger. But bad news for investors that are cheering on the whole disinflation story, because services, a key part of whats hot in this economy, could mean that inflation a little bit stickier than we think. And prices paid inside that Services Number also comes in a little bit hotter. Not ideal data for the markets. Well get the beige book later, which summarizes all the different districts across the country and gives a lot of color around inflation in services, like restaurants and theaters and hospitality. Usually a good read well watch that at 2 00. Our next guest, meantime, does expect a mom
Apple. Lets check in on the markets and tech is the laggard of choice. The nasdaq 100, down 1 10 of 1 and we know stocks sometimes struggled in the face of raising bond yields. A look at the 10year yield pushing to 2007 highest so we are anticipating strong data we have seen out of the u. S. The macro picture looks better and that means ultimately, what that means for the federal reserve. We are looking at crine shares. China itself trying to stimulate it economy and the u. S. Are trying to impede its technological knowhow. Lets look at the individual areas of risk assets we like to focus on. With bitcoin, we have had a wild ride. His larry fink is larry fink on the side of bitcoin . Certainly. It looks like he moved to a place of solace and an area to be seen as safety and that is what seems to be talked about with the head of backlog head of blackrock. Ed there is a lot in the new cycle that is pushing individual stocks. Lucid ev maker saw it production drop 30 and casting doubt abou
And Anglo American is agreeing to split or selloff some of the company as they fend off a takeover from bhp. Round two. The single post from the Roaring Kitty social media account reignites the craze with the gamestop losing almost 1 billion in a single the session. All right. Where are we with the market picture today . We are pretty much flat waiting for the cpi data from the United States with the ppi, of course, anticipated this morning. That will be another key focus and normally getting the ppi data before the cpi data from the United States as well way indicates we will work out the pce data very soon. It is a lot of the Economic Data markets are focusing on although you have a host of earnings numbers still to really go through even out of europe as we have been speaking about rheinmetall. We have bayer with earnings and hanover re with numbers out this morning. We have a lot in europe and the tech stocks from the asia region which we are looking at with tencent and baidu and j
Session. Now things, if you can believe it, they arent as a bad as they were earlier in the session. The dow was down 706 points at its low, now down 442. The s p 500, its falling by 31 at the moment. The nasdaq is recovering somewhat from its low of 368 points, now down close to 134. And the russell 2000 is down by 17 points. Of course, those are the small caps, really not great with the Interest Rate outlook from the fed with todays gdp report. And that e do klein set in motion decline showed that the economy grew much slower than expected and that inflation remains persistent adding to fierce over Interest Rates and stagflation. Plus, Jpmorgan Ceo Jamie Dimon pouring more fuel on the fire, this morning he expressed serious doubts about the likelihood of a soft landing. I look at the range of possible outcomes, you can have that soft landing, im a little more worried that it may not be so soft, and inflation may not quite go away. The odds of a soft landing, the market kind of prices