Confronting todays very real and very vicious threats. Donald trump also condemns the u. S. Intelligence leaks in the Manchester Attack after uk Prime Minister theresa may raises her dissatisfaction in a brief chat at the nato meeting. Sterling hitting a twoweek low against the u. S. Tlar adollar a twomonth low after the party sees its lead reduced further in the election poll. Good morning. Glad youre with us once again on this friday morning. Its the end of the week. It is the friday before a long bank holiday. Many european markets are taking a bridge day. Volumes once again today are somewhat lower. We are seeing outperformance in the ftse 200. This has to do with the drop of sterling. This is on the back of the latest poll showing the lead of the conservatives against the stories down to just 5 . The cac 40 off by 0. 4 . Lets get back to the big story. Our headline today, that is, of course, the oil story. Oil prices continue to drop, thats having a negative impact on the oil stoc
Summertime good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt, sara eisen at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange chlgt market taking a breather after a strong week. Big tech of course setting record highs all week long led by f. A. N. G. Stocks as amazon continues to flirt with 1,000 a share. Nasdaq has only had three down days this month. Its on pace for fifth positive week in six. For more were joined by scale ventures partner kay mitchell here at post nine as well as Washington Crossing advisors Portfolio Manager chad morganlander. Guys, happy friday to you both. So much discussion, kate, about the nasdaq. Yeah. The gains, a multiple of what the other indices have done all month long, all yearlong. Exactly. And how painful this would be if it were reversed. Is that a risk . Well, its always a risk. These are getting pricey. I would say its interesting watching these companies. Theyre starting to establish by on a relative basis incredible dominance
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Courtney reagan who is in for sara today who is on assignment. Good morning. Good morning. Lets get straight to the market action. Rallies across the board. Record highs across the board yesterday as we said already. The dow, s p, the nasdaq, russell 2000, s mid caps and th dow all hitting fresh highs yesterday. Extraordinary stuff. Broadness of the rally. The dow called higher this morning by 42 points. S p by 3. Nasdaq by 3. 5 points. U. S. Equities doing well. We also saw equities in europe do well yesterday. Lets look at what the euro did over the last 48 hours or so. It moved very sharply. Initially going about a percent higher. When the decision from the ecb was announced, the market was focusing on the fact that the monthly size of purchases was reduced, there fourth euro rallying on the expectation, that meant stimulus was being withdrawn. About an hour later, when the press conference began, the euro fell sharply. About a percent and a half down for the day. That was when mari
Welcome to squawk alley. Jon fortt with mike kantoly at post 9. Kayla has the morning off. Jop jo jon . Lucky number 13 for the markets. The blue chips marching towards 20,000. In case you were counting, 42 days till donald trump becomes president. Will this trump bump lift all or hiding future risks . Joining us are Brian Jacobson and here at post nine john stoltz, oppenheimer asset managements chief investment strategist. Good friday morning. Good morning, jon. If im not mistaken, john, your projection a year ago for where the s p would be right now is right about where we are. What do you make of this trump rally . Was it going to happen anyway or is it worse off than you had expect smd. Our expectations had been that the s p 500 would cross 2,300 in 2016. But weve certainly gotten help from the election of donald trump. Theres nothing like projections of lower taxes, of reduction of regulation as well as prospects that were going see some significant infrastructure spent to get the