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Pointing upward the wall street journal is calling the last four months a melt up and thats what it looks like. Dow up by 83 points. S p 500 looking to open 12 points higher. Treasury yields as well. Were at. 572. Theres a mix of what theyre thinking and what the equity markets think, right melissa okay we have a we will work on the audio and hopefully get that a busy week ahead. A twoday fed meeting with a policy announcement. No major change is expected. That will tell you that but investors will watch for clues about what the central bank might do next and then on the corporate front earnings season kicks into overdrive 167 of the s p 500 companies will report. Well hear from 12 dow components and among the names likely to get a lot of attention, apple, amazon, boeing, mcdonalds, 3m, exxon and many others. This is if you like earnings, if youre excited by earnings this is going to be a big week. So far this season we heard from 128 of the s p 500 companies so well more than double t
And joe santoli. Joe and andrew are off today with the storm and everything going on, thank you for being here it was one nasty storm. It did a number when you think about businesses dealing with a lack of power, it is like the plague coming down well start this morning with the markets. Nasdaq with the fifth straight positive day up 22 for the year to date. Pretty good day for the dow and s p. S p indicated up close to 20 points the dow up close to 200 points and the nasdaq up as well. The treasury story has been incredible yesterday, the 10year note at a record low this morning, the yield is at. 526 it seems the context is the same, which is the dollar weaker you see that downward pressure foreign treasuries can buy our equity yield we have bond yields below inflation. That means huge tech stocks that means gold and bonds b. What are the implications for this market and the companion market corporate wise, you have earnings better than give uptype forecast analysts could have a good
Giving a lot of insight well be bringing you results apple, amazon, alphabet and facebook all report their earnings coincidence those four Companies Make up about 16 of the s p 500. Worth about 5 trillion combined and come a day after the heated antitrust hearing. Wolf, this is a good read in for you. For sure. There was meant to be three of those. Facebook got moved from yesterday to today after that hearing. After the close, we are waiting for two economic reports it is thursday, that means weekly jobless claims. Another 1. 4 million filed for the first time last week the first read on Second Quarter gdp. The economy likely contracted by 34. 7 . Both jobless and gdp due at 8 30 eastern time you look at those numbers down 34. 7 from the estimate we know it, weve been hearing from companies and what has been happening. Thats a lot of news to digest ahead of all of these reports. You are watching futures under a little pressure. Lets look at where things stand now. Dow down 206 points,
Today. Tech stocks continue to lag. Lets get to bob for more on todays Market Action. Bob. Hello, melissa. Were near the highs for the day but have not been able to get into positive territory. Sec cyclicals tend to lead banks are having a pretty good week strong trading revenues. Jpmorgan, same thing there important thing here is banks tend to drop in the week of their first earnings report. Thats when jpmorgan reports this week not so bank of america strong you saw there kbe, theres a bank index almost up 5 for the week banks have been terrible under performers megacap, theyre down this week. Some of them are down. Amazon is down about 6 for the week apple is flattish. Most of the others are down 2, 3, 4 . How about netflix, which is a faang name out there its been all over the place 500 to 570 back down to 500 the important thing here Social Security moved in a 5 range today. Lot of volume. Three times normal volume. Thats typical for netflix well get the earnings soon here finally