We start off with autos. Very bleak picture for auto sales in the month of may. Numbers tanking across the board. Gm and ford falling hard today. What are the dismal may numbers signaling . Autos, trouble. Autos have been a huge driver of gdp growth since 2009. Cash for clunkers. Then subprime loans exploding. Now, mike jackson was on cnbc back in january. Hes the ceo of auto nation, the largest car dealer. He said back in january that things were slowing down. Whats interesting is the automakers, they increased production. So now we have an inventory problem. We have almost three times as many cars in inventory as are being sold. At that level, thats the last time we saw that level was back in 2008. And that generally signals the peak of an auto cycle. We talked about the peak, but as that comes down and you start to see ford and gm start to take some production offline, if this really is peak auto, thats going to start hitting unemployment, thats going to start hitting gdp growth and
Dow is up 25 points. S p is up by 2. Nasdaq up by close to 7. Overnight in asia, better than expected Economic Data coming out of japan. Factory output rising. 1 gain to the nikkei up by 166 points. If you take a look at early trading and european markets youll see at this point thing, relatively flat. Red arrows across the board. None of these major averages down by even 0. 2 . A race looking at how european average, up on asia. They read articles like that. They dont last long in these websites. No, they dont. I guess thats the same way with print. Were going to talk about the top stories. Do you like a fourday week where you have a friday off or a fourday week definitely a monday. Its pay it forward, right . Pay it forward. You dont do anything for the friday off of the foreday week. But were youve put in five last week and get three off. Its already tuesday, everybody. Monday is gone. Its better. Its better. Among our top stories this morning, price of crude and the only markets we
First we start off with the market, stocks surging today, posting their best gains since midmarch. Rallying by more than 1 . Heres what was really interesting. Stocks rallied along with the dollar, along with crude, while we watch bonds sell off. Are we finally breaking out of the range and it is now time to finally give up that bear suit . Biggest bear on the desk, b. K. Oh, me . You and your bear suit. First of all the answer is absolutely not. Primarily because b. K. s not in the habit of buying into a major Monetary Policy mistake. If the fed raises rates, its going to be a huge problem. This is a one day event. We were down the other day. Weve gone nowhere. The one thing i will say that concerns me from the bearish side is everybody seems to be bearish at this point in time. You could get this fomo rally. Thats the one thing that concerns me. Beyond that, nothings changed fundamentally. We had horrible industrial numbers today. The dollar is rising. If the fed raises rates, the do
Markets. The market closing at another high. A move thats got everyone scratching their head. Earliee today, howard hudnick, brought up what could be the reason why. Its a riskon world. If im going to retire some day, ive got to make some money, what am i going to buy. Im going to buy stocks. And he might be on to something. In fact, take a look at this chart, courtesy of bank of america. The number of people over the age of 65 is growing. And growing fast. Thats the orange line there. Could it be that in a world with no yield, there is no alternative to stocks. Brian kelly, the biggest bear listen, thats my biggest fear. Everybodys worried about the market falling apart. My fear is we get some kind of a meltup. It looks like were starting to have that. That chart that we just showed there of people getting older, to me that ultimately is the biggest bearish case for the markets. Ultimately the people are going to retire, start drawing that income. But between here and there, maybe tha
Nasdaq up by close to 20. Overnight in asia, the nikkei up by 0. 6 . The shanghai deposit was flat. In europe, some of the early trading, youre seeing those positive gains are continuing here the dax is the biggest gainer of the major averages up by 1. 7 . The ftse is up 0. 6 . They finally decided if the economy is is not going to get better, at least we got glory. You almost heard both messages from yellen. The economy is doing okay. She wants something to confirm in one number, i dont think one month would confirm. July, like 20 now. I think its still on the table. We also want to see what happens with brexit. For eight years its been look. The economy hasnt really been getting any better but we got the free money. Weve got the low rates. Lets buy stocks. That still works. There no alternative to move, right . Yeah. There is some corporate news. Some corporate news, not so great news for yahoo this morning. Verizon going to submit a bit of only around 3 billion. The wall street jour