Dow advancing 47 points. S p gained. 52 . But the nasdaq jumped. 9 . Hallelujah with todays strength its important to note that the nasdaq and s p both finished the month of february at record highs. Something i regard as quite simply amazing given all the woe and worry that we endlessly hear about. What fueled todays rally . Its actually a complex formula of emotion and Empirical Data ware widespread sense of negativity gets proven wrong and remember, why we like stocks shines brightly. Smashing the allencompassing gloom. The house of pleasure lets start with the setup. We get data from all sorts of places the census bureau, bureau of statistics, bank of st. Lou, s p global, commerce department. Often these figures dont mean a hill of beans but periodically when the fed is in play they can mean everything. Especially if you know that the fed cares about some pieces of data more than others. Right now the fed is very much in play. Weve been getting some hot Economic Data of late. They
With our rulses to suspend trading because we wanted to make sure that nyse stocks wouldnt be negatively impacted. Trading on platforms other than the floor was uneffected and despite the halt nyse consolidated volume which captures trading across all platforms was heavier than normal due to the Global Market sell off. Speaking of stocks lets check on how todays session is shaping up. U. S. Equity futures looking for a bounce back after the big sell off yesterday. Dow futures implied with an open plus 150 points. Heres big stories were watching today at this hour. Well start with china. Beijing taking drastic steps to prop up its market there. Along todays move banning shareholders with large stakes in listed firms from selling. It closed up nearly 6 . Elsewhere, south korea rates overnight but did have the countrys Economic Growth forecast. And then of course have to keep updating you on the situation in greece. Meantime germanys Central Bank Warns that greek solvency should not be in
The markets are rebalancing. Lets see if the traders wind up agreing. Chinese leader is going to maralago in florida. Oining us now is kevin cirelli. Kevin last week he was tweeting it would be a difficult meeting and then he tweets there will be a lot of great things coming out. Here is he headed . Kevin north korea saying if china wont handle north korea then the u. S. Will have to do it alone. Two things, National Security as well as trade policy are the top two items on the agenda for the summit in florida for later this week. Of course President Trump has tough talk for china on the campaign trail saying they were currency manipulators and saying they havent gone that far yet in his administration but did of course last week call for the reviews and executive orders with Foreign Countries to see which countries are taking advantage of the United States, whether or not china makes that list remains to be seen. David kevin, give us the perspective from the president s view, what is
Big change of pace. What would a strong swimmer do here . Thats what im trying to think. See, you cant outswim the currents. Not even phelps could match some of these twists and turns. That doesnt mean we cant figure things out together. You and me. Spot the patterns. Come to the conclusions. Conclusions that make sense given the fact that there are so many rotations going on even midday. And multiple winning ones of with got xp we have to go back in history. Lets start with what happened one week ago today. Most traders and investors presumed because of the polling that Hillary Clinton would win the presidency. They made a host of big, big bets on hillary betting that she would win. Mostly wagers that a Clinton Administration would be an extension of the obama administration. Gridlock, not so hot growth. Which somehow we were convinced we liked. Faster than a stalled economy because the economy will stay stalled, right. Not so fast they draw government scrutiny like banks that are doi
We know a lot more people are purchasing their items with plastic. That helps greg that helps the south. They get paid a little bit every time, so when they get back plastic swipe. The forwardlooking encouraging for investors. That is interesting was Time Warner Cable because on the metrics, everything looks great. Earnings per share beating analysts estimates. Plenty of cash being generated by Time Warner Cable, people like their dividend stocks right now. The question here is why did the companys Subscriber Base start falling . This is something were seeing quite a bit from Time Warner Cable. It is not the most loves company. A lot of customers complaining about the service, yet these eddie cash flow has attracted the catch the interest of Charter Communications. We talk about things that might be happening with netflix and so on and people not really using stable Cable Services for all the channels that they can see. I wonder if we are starting to see this with Time Warner Cable . Y