You look at the gains here, the dow is up almost 7 since february 11th. The s p 500 up more than 8 in that same time frame and the nasdaq is up 10. 5 since february 11th. Do you sell into the rally . David joins us. You have a bullish tendency, but i think you believe that the upside is limited here. Yeah, absolutely limited. We talked about it last night in the show. Essentially this is a fearbased trade. People underpositioned on the long side that are fearing a lot of the meetings coming up over the next several weebks. A meeting in china kicks off today. Most importantly the ecb given draghis comments about potential additional stimulus, so i look at it and say under positioned, getting long, fear of it running away from them, but most importantly, there is a big fear, big fear about being short. So all these, you know, stocks and sectors that have underperformed have been completely negative, biased on sentiment trades, youre seeing that risk come off and seeing a tremendous amoun
Was down slightly. The shanghai composite was up slightly. Also take a look at oil prices. Wti up slightly. 34. 72. A little later this morning, were going to watch for natural gas Inventory Data due out at 10 30 eastern time. Gas prices are trading around the lowest levels in 17 years. Couple big stories were watching this morning. Just hours after the u. N. Security council slapped new sanctions on north korea, south korea is now accusing the north of a new provocation. South Koreas Defense Ministry saying north korea fired several shortrange projectiles into the sea. The sanctions on pyongyang are the toughest in 20 years and came in reaction to the norths recent Nuclear Tests and longrange rocket launch. Its also a very busy day for economics. A lot to talk about. Jobless claims out at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. Thats expected to hold steady around 270,000. Also at 8 30, were going to get Fourth Quarter productivity, which is expected to be revised slightly lower with forecasts for a
Unsolicited stakeover bid led by anbang insurance group. Well give you the latest. United airlines ceo back to work today but the activists are not cutting him slack. Whats ahead for munoz and the airline at large. Starwood is up sharply in premarket trading. They received a takeover proposal from chinas anbang insurance. Its worth about 75 a share in cash. The board of starwood says it is not changing its recommendation at this point and supports the companys planned merger with marriott, but they have a waiver from marriott that will allow them to negotiate until thursday. People familiar with the situation indicate the hope is they can hammer out a definitive agreement with anbang insurance, which has chris flowers, former investment banker people may have known. And primivera, not an old Italian Restaurant on the west side, but a large private equity firm in china. Some of these names may be unfamiliar, but the 76 a share all cash offer and that 5. 50 is a significant premium over
Facebook shows thousands of developers. Sand target investors and in focus. First messenger which just last week announced accelerating growth to 900 million monthly users. Facebook is expected to make it easier to chat with users and invite them to easily make transactions all about leaving messenger. Ahead of the event drop box announced its sbi grating into messenger. Part of facebooks plan to allow people to do many things on their phones without ever leaving the app. Days after announcing features for live video and new prominens on the app we expect new technology and premium content. Analyst calling video a core focus area and opportunity Going Forward and third oculus to hear about ways to develop content for the platform and more ways facebook is sbi grating oculus into the rest of the social network. All three of these areas represent opportunities to tap into new Revenue Streams and well be listening for news about new add formats and new measurement tools. Mark zuckerberg t
Energy was the best performer. Initial jobless claims moving up a little bit but theres no direction to come with tomorrows jobs number. The dow was up 85 points, so that slide was a bit dramatic. Volume was terribly light, this time of day, it was a very light day. Oliver if you look at stocks, a few things jump out. Look intoe a deeper what is going on, few things have popped out. Alibaba andclose to you have a few other measures if you look at what happened with financials and look at what is happening in terms of their momentum, the 200 day moving average, they have been down there for two days. Of the s p. Part you have to keep that in mind. Index. Ut the volatility if you look at the curve, it is interesting to see how futures are priced in. Spot realized volatility. A reflection to give you an idea of what people can expect on the road. Alix and thats not the only sector testing that level. Definitely something to key in on. Im looking at the bond markets two different indicator