But we begin with another tough day on wall street stocks hitting the skids as yields head south just adding to wall streets wall of worry wp Goldman Sachs, morgan stanley, ubs, bank of america all out with new notes raising the red flag on trade tensions hitting the market so what do we make of all this the sort of, i dont know, stuttering in the markets based on trade its interesting that youre getting some of the macro folks around the street starting to become a little more concerned when in fact i do think that weve seen bond yields telling us something very dramatic 164 we closed on the 10year dollar holding in. But i think the concern around the rest of the world truly that were seeing major contraction, a couple of pmis weve had over the last couple of weeks weve got regional fed surveys this week weve got a cpi number in the states which i do think the fed will be closely watching to at least give them something to follow through behind in terms of inflation or lack thereof gi
Welcome. Everybody has a bad day now and again, and some more than others. The same is true for stocks, and this was quite a week. Ongoing fears over a trade war with china sent stocks ler. The nasdaq and the s p 500 were off more than 3 this week. The nasdaq, just about 4 . It w the worst week of the year for those indexes and the better than you marked the second worst for 2019. As for today, the dow lost p nts to 26,485. The nasdaq dropped 107eand s p was off 21. Actually, a trade dl was reached today, one that will help the nations farmers. While it wasnt exactly the deal that wall street has been waiting for, Kayla Tausche tells us it is connected to the tensions with china. Reporter frularated with the of progress in china talks, President Trump went roosevelt room to announce a deal with europe, boosting agr y p of supporters. My administration is standing up for our farmers and rancher like never before. We are protecting our farmers. We are doing it in my ways, including with
Data out this morning was up slightly joining us for the entire hour is from ariel investments, pushing back against the earnings theme youre feeling good . Id say im better than the market is feeling. I think the market is looking for soft earnings, maybe 3 decline in earnings. Were hoping that we might get a positive number, but not as bad as the markets think lets drill down on all of the big stories. Lets start with you, bob. All three major indices at new highs. And let me show you, a nice group of Retail Stocks hitting new highs. Walmart, home depot, dow tjx, autozone. A small group of Consumer Staples breaking out to new highs. Proctor and gamble, colgate, starbucks a 52 week high for them the Payment Systems, mastercard, visa, visa the biggest gainer of the year up 36 . They have been on fire recently. Finally one last point, the vix down to 12 and change. This is sitting right near the lows for the year. Obviously august is a slower part of the year, but even so, a pretty low
Joining us is lindsay bell i hear you, i think earnings seeing the twoweek bounce in the market, whats happening with expectations . We are seeing second half earnings, especially the Third Quarter numbers come down a little bit this is going to be after a Second Quarter where we see a decline of 1. 4 . Thats the expectation as we all know, earnings coming in better than expected. I would expect flat to up slightly in the Second Quarter but it is all about guidance as it always is because these tariffs the numbers havent been accounted for in the second half. Broad come a wakeup call it was. Theyre expecting 500 billion of imports to be tariffed by the end of the year so we wouldnt be surprised to see more companies to do that with us for the first hour of the story. Kayla tausche has the latest, meg terrell with the latest and phil lebeau at the Paris Air Show kayla . Theres hearing under way, a last roadblock to President Trump putting those new tariffs in place on the remaining chin
Generally, theres not a concern over murals on secondary areas providing their reversible and certain requirements are met according to most preservation practice, we thought this made sense tsenseto include this as s well. So that concludesmy short comments. If you have any comments, happy to ands them an answer them. If youre readopting this, instead of coming back to you in 2020, now were coming back to you in the spring or early summer of 2021. Thank you. Any member of the public wish to comment . Anything further . I move to adopt or approve this delegation. Second. Thank you, commissioners. On that motion, then, to approve the delegation amendment . roll call . So moved and the motion passes unanimously 60. Best of luck, victim. Were adjourned. [gavel]. Chair fewer good afternoon. The meeting will come to order. This is may 17, 2019, regular meeting of the local Agency Formation commission. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the local Agency Formation commission. I am joined by comm