Housing market, Interest Rate rises are ultimately inevitable. As long as mark carney pulls a shoe with his commentary in a gradual, limited process, we feel the market can deal with that. And missouris governor calls in the National Guard after tear gas is used in ferguson to calm protests sparked by the shooting of a black teenager by police last week. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Very nice to see you this morning. Plenty going on on the geopolitical front, no much on the market front, but lets look at europe. Every one of those rose represents a tenth of the market. 95 of stocks are in the green with only a small smattering to the down side. The netnet is that the european euro stoxx 600 is 1. 1 to the up side. Is that to the detriment of the individual bond markets . Well look in a moment, but the xetra dax, which has been so hard hit on concerns about exposure to russia is the best performing of those major intercre
Keep in mind down about 3 from the alltime highs and today it is down by 27 points. Currently sitting down by 1. 4 . It is at session lows i do believe. As for the nasdaq, lets take a look at what it is up to. Off by 1. 7 , 76point loss. As for the small cap, russell 2000, little guys are doing it tough, as well. To the downside. Oneyear change is only down 10. 17 . Down 10 , that hit the alltime high in july, july 1st. It is down 10 from that high. Entering correction territory from the alltime high. Absolutely. There is that decline we have seen over the last few months in that. We want your thoughts on all of this and whats happening in the markets. Go online to our website cnbc. Com vote. Tell us if you think investors should be afraid of the markets this month of october. So far, of course, its not been pretty. Talk about it in the Closing Bell Exchange today. While you vote, we have contributor jack varucian, keith fitzgerald, jennifer vail, we have david cudlo and our own Rick S
Ill send it back to you. U. S. Stock futures indicating a higher open. October has actually ended up higher 50 times in the last 86 years. Oil a little higher, but still in the 98 range. Gas, he paid 2. 89 a gallon. Tencareer yield, 2. 49 . The strengthening u. S. Dollar has been and continues to be a bigger story. There is some chatter out there, guys. It could see parity. One to one euro slshl dollar. Weve been talking about this for a long time. At 1. 26, its already split quite a ways. Parity . That is a long way to go. We were there, but a long time ago. 50 pounds ago, actually, in my case. Gold is trying to hang on above 1200 bucks. Do you sit here in the afternoon in this seat . Yes, i do. How did you know . Because i watch you and i see youre messing with all the computers. Now i know who to plame. No, i need to raise them. No. Ing on, better. Were going to get to this mornings confirmed story. A confirmed ebola patient in texas. Meg, good morning. Good morning, andrew. A few d
Before the bell, well be hearing from retailers walmart and kohls. And the bulls are hoping todays earnings and Economic News can give stocks another boost. The dow snapped its threeday winning streak. Out to the futures this morning, youll see at this point there are some strong moves in a positive direct. Dow futures are up about 60 points above fair value. The s p 500 up by eight points, the nasdaq up by almost 20 points. While we were sleeping, asia closed mixed. Take a look at what happened with the nikkei. It was up another 1 . A lot of speculation out there that the Prime Minister shinzo abe may have decided to call an early election. Also thoughts that they would be putting off the planned hike in sales tax. If they put that off, that would be another positive for the economy. Industrial production rose therein than expected last month. Shanghai was down 0. 3 . Retail sales falling slightly below estimates. If you take an early look at whats been happening in europe, some stron
About 8 billion to banks at discounted rates. The goal is to allow the firms to relend the money to small businesses. Its been more than 24 hours since swiss Central Banks shocked the financial world. It abandoned its cap on the euro an were still learning about the fall out. Regulators around the world are looking for information about what happened and how some retail brokerages entered insolvency. It says the volatility left it with a negative equity balance and its trying to sure up its capital. Lets take a look at whats happening with the u. S. Equity futures this morning. The dow was down by triple digits yesterday. The dow was indicated down by 42 points. S p few turs down by 6 and the nasdaq down by over 28 points. Of course as weve seen what happens in these early hours is no indication of what would happen by the market close. No indication of what would happen by the market open. So true. A lot of volatility out there. It is. Corporate news this morning, heres our early stoc