A much overdue look at the cyclical rally and the reopening story in general the v rally that a lot of people have been hoping for has been inverted theres an inverted v thats actually been happening. Lets start with Energy Stocks marathon, mro. Marathon was 6 at the start of the month. It goes to 9 and back to 6. This is essentially an inverted v. Hess looks the same way. If you look at general electric, it goes from 6 to 9, i believe, and goes back down again to essentially 6 and change, same situation, a v there caterpillar looks the same way united airlines, we watched with our mouth open it goes from 30 to 50 and back into the 30 range, all of this in a few weeks the market cap of citi group goes to 60 and back essentially to 48 thats what im talking about these inverted vs travel and les yoisure, 30 to. Youd think bond proxies would do well in this environment, but not today. They had a modest rise about 10 in the last few weeks, but even they werent safe. The market has voted it
Thanks. The dow giving up its early gains. All three of the major averages are lower. Bob has more on these markets. Bob. Were threatening to go positive here late in the day. I want to show you though were down a bit, the sector lee leadership is still intact russell 2000, another good bay banks stronger and retail keeps going up i keep getting asked about this retail rally were seeing. We get these nice moves every day and some of the retailers, the macys, they are still 50 off of are they were in february these gains, yes, they are there but still big, big declines. New highs, were not seeing a lot of expansion waiting for break out is not really happening e bay and paypal, winnebego hit a new high thats interesting here. Lets talk about whats moving the market remember the buckets we keep talking about. The important thing is the reopening is still going well. The recent economic reports, the ism, the stimulus. Were hearing more from the ecb, more from u. S. , more from japan. Ther
Ministers questions. It is always a little different, the pmqs ahead of the budget. He has vacated the chair for the Deputy Speaker. She will be going through some of the notices ahead ofjeremy hunt, the chancellor, delivering his Budget Statement. He will take to his feet shortly and will probably speak for about an hour shortly and will probably speak for Aboutan Hourand shortly and will probably speak for about an hour and then it will be the turn of the leader of the opposition, keir starmer to respond. We will take both of those live and uninterrupted and we will then have reaction from the Chief Secretary to the treasury, laura trott, part of the treasury, laura trott, part of the Treasury Team and her shadow for labour. Here isjeremy hunt. Madam Deputy Speaker, as we mourn the loss of life in israel and gaza, the loss of life in israel and gaza, the Prime Minister reminded us of the Prime Minister reminded us of the need the Fight Extremism and heal divisions. I start today by r
Today. Down by 1. 5 . Well dig into that over the next two hours. We begin with the banks. Dan warner is a banking analyst at morning star. Great to have with you us. Dan . I dont understand why one would be invested in banks right now unless you simply wanted to preserve or lose capital. Give me the bull case. The bull case is that if you with the strong economy, with the low cost and positive thats we, have were still seeing strong loan growth. I think i mean there are headwinds. But for longer term, i think you still want to be in banks. The fed will raise rates at some point. It always seems like the last few meetings when he some excuse or some reason at the last minute why they havent raise the rates whether its geopolitical or a jobs report. They will raise rates. I dont i dont think its going to be quite maybe you may see one before the lection. I think that lection may have smim pact on the timing of the rate increases. I would look for it more december or thereafter. So i thi
We want to begin with bob who covers twitter. Bob, you with me . Its good to have you as always. You follow this as closely as anybody does. What do you make of the speculation around this company . The stock has had a pretty good run from 14 to 19 and change. Is a take out becoming more likely. We dont think theres any take out possibilities in 2016. I think they want to see those things they want to do resonate. Jack has only been there for a year almost and the board is new. I think they fully support jack. I think you have to get through those changes and if youre on current trend which have been getting worse in 2017 you could see a take out on the that point. That meshes with what im hearing today as i talk to people. Im told that jack and the board still think that they can unlock value, that theyre not ready to sell, but at the same time they would be realistic if they got an offer. The last thing they want is to pull a jerry yang and get an offer and turn it down and two years