Testing limit down down by 5 as far as they are allowed to trade down before the open the number to watch this morning is down 136 for the s p. We have touched those lows and bounced off. We are not far off dow futures are down by 4. 74 . Nasdaq down 4. 6 after the opening bell, there are other Circuit Breakers you with watching. They would be kicking in with trading halting over a period of time down 7 this morning if that were to happen, youd see a 15minute halt after trading started. Next is if markets dropped by 13 . Then the third level is after 20 . That would be a halt of trading for the day. We have not seen these tested since 1997 until the last week of trading thats what we are watching so closely. If you take a look at the treasury market, you see the 10year note is 0. 71 . We got back to. 8 or so yesterday. With the yield, i was hoping they would have sold off talking to folks yesterday worried about what looked like it was better than going and maybethere could be problems
There is all on very light futures. Oil stocks have been trading in nearly the same direction every day for the past month. Asia overnight. Were not being big moves. A fallout for that massive explosion in china continuing. Shanghai was up 0. 75 . We have some news to tell but. I cant believe this is real. Apple planning a big announcement in september. But the big question is whether we can expect more than an iphone in maces. The new speculation this time is about a car. I know weve talked about it before. But this is totally different now. The Guardian Newspaper reporting the company is building a selfdriving car. Its looking for locations to test it. The report says apple is further along than many suspected. If you read through the story, its real. Assuming the reporting is right, they talk about the location of where the offices are, the garages, all of the things that they tested and built out, the people that called on the record. Theres a guy on the record from one of these tr
Citing the president s words on the campaign trail. President trump is proposing budget cuts across the increase inor an defense spending. The state department would be cut by 28 . The Environmental Protection agency would be cut by 30 . The pentagon would be increased by 10 . Lindsey graham caused the cuts dead on arrival. The spread of populism, giving win. s party a big turning back a challenge by the antiislam Freedom Party. Wilders did worse than the polls. Redicted he proposed blocking immigration by muslims. In asia the China Central bank is in step with the Federal Reserve. The bank of china increased cost of borrowing in open Market Operations and on mediumterm lending. The central bank said the increases do not equate to interestrate hikes. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. , this isa cehic bloomberg. Equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, we saw great move off of the fed action, a more dovish tone. Co
If you look at the yen, to see how the markets are focusing up on all this, the dollar yen looks like its sitting at 101. 52. The nikkei up by about 2 on this. A lot of options that the bank of japan had. This is not one of the four major ones people were anticipating. A bit of a head scratcher. Jim can make make sense of it later on. I was listening to Worldwide Exchange driving in. Its a little wonky. Just trying to fix tenyear bond yields, but probably all about the yen. I dont know what to make of it. Heres the thing. This is the wall street journal saying yesterday stocks moved up based on it. The dow edged up as investors awaited policy decisions. The bank of japan is the big the bank of japan, for the hard core investors, this is the game. I will say, jim can clear some of this up, by not easing further, by not luring Interest Rates one more time, by saying they wont buy more in bonds, that may give our Federal Reserve room in terms of going ahead and pushing rates higher. Its b
Ipo, insiders with a chance to sell after the lockup expires. The stock down almost 40 this year. Can we make a crossborder deal . Germanys buyer acquiring mercks consumer business. The president of france throws a wrench or tries to in ges plan to try to buy alstom. Can hollande convince ge to sweeten the offer . Apple trading above 600 since 2012, push for upgrades, new products incoming, are we in for a sweet spot for apple shares . A crucial morts for general moto motors. Another engineer exits. Jim says now is the time to buy. It has been a long road for shares of apple. The stock closele above the 600 mark since october of 2012, comes two weeks after apple announced the seven for one stock split, better than expected numbers and expansion of the Buyback Program from 60 billion to 90 billion. The low, 388. The high 702. Closer to the 702 at 600. I think that tim cook listed on to carl icahn, he listed on to a lot of things a lot of people were saying and distilled it and recognize