Yesterday the s p turned positive for the month of june in the last minute of trading. Check it out, the s p sectors are positive year to date. If you take a look at all of them, most of them are positive. The tell kom leading the way. The worst part is the financials. Take a look at the treasury. Still sitting there. Yesterday we saw it at 11. 5. Today 1. 4. People are looking at this as a safe haven. Tell you whats happening overnight in asia. While some of you have been sleeping, things do look up there. Margely up. I dont want to get too excited about it. Lets swing over to European Equity futures. These are actually happening live as we speak. Dax, cac, ftse 100 up. Again. Marginal picture. Italy margely down. Currencies real quick. Im curious, okay. No, i know. Just stable. Im thinking when do you plan the trip . I think a trip should be in order . He had gotten from hilton saying 30 off sell there. Already sending off ems. 30 trips to london simply because of the devaluation fac
Gold medal from rio. Remember the news that broke about some team usa swimmers being robbed at gunpoint . Conger was with lochte and two others. Authorities in rio say they have more questions about the incident and have ordered the seizure of passports from lochte and jimmy fagan. Things are unclear, including whether the swimmers, including conger, have left rio. It shows lochte and another swimmer returning to the village three hours after the alleged robbery, appearing to place cell phones and other items in bins before proceeding through the metal detectors. Its not clear what those other rockville today. No one there would talk. It does not appear that authorities in brazil want to talk to conger again, just lochte and fagan. Today, Katie Ledecky is back home in bethesda. News 4s david culver was there where she got a herolike welcome. David . Reporter she brought an excitement to what is otherwise a really boring baggage claim. Catching her excitement then came the chants. [ cha
No. Celebration of Washington States brand new pot law. Yes, theyre smoking joints. I dare you, like double dare you. Obama administration bites and says, yeah, were prepared to go off the fiscal cliff. Roger goodell, the commissioner football fans love to hate. Theres a softer, gentler side of goodell. Seriously. The nfl commissioner you dont know. Newsroom starts now. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining me. Im carol costello. Smoke em if you got em. Recreational marijuana is officially legal in Washington State. Shall we say a rather mellow celebration at seattles space needle . Pot smokers lit up like it was new years eve. New voter approved Initiative Went into effect midnight. This pot party technically, is illegal. Wzs law bans smoking pot in public places. For now the Seattle Police department is turning a blind eye. This notice was sent to all officers last night. Until further notice officers shall not take any enforcement action, other than to issue a verbal warning,
True but look at gold today up 40plus dollars, back above 1,300. A lot of traders are wondering whether the market is responding to Janet Yellens comment yesterday that the inflation data has been nothing but noise. Well get into that in a moment. Private equity legend jay jordan says this market is overpriced and too risky right now. Where is he putting his money . Well ask him in an exclusive interview ahead. Looking forward to that very much. Also, netflix trading lower today despite that major announcement that Chelsea Handler is moving her late night show to the streaming Video Content Service in what is being billed as an historic move. But the market is not buying it. Not impressed. Youll hear from an insider who says this movie is not a slamdunk success for either netflix or Chelsea Handler. Thats coming up. Heres where we stand in the markets right now. Stocks under a little bit of pressure a day after the s p 500 set a new high after Janet Yellens comments and the federal res
Vix goes up. It registers fear. What causes the vix to spike typically is news about the economy. Actual realworld events. This, for example, is what happened to the vix on october 24th, 2008, that big red arrow there. Thats when the stock market crashed in 08, one of the worst days of the great recession, record high vix. Another spike happened may 20th, 20 2010 when there was sudden new that is europes economy was even in worse shape than we thought. It spiked at a twoyear high august 8th, 2011, when the u. S. Credit rating got downgraded. Republicans in congress threatened to default on our National Debt and Credit Rating got downgraded. Wall street freaked out. Vix went way up. You can think of a high vix reading, a spike in the vix as a red light flashing. Alert, alert. Maybe your economy is tanking. Maybe it isnt. But a lot of people on wall street have reason to believe that it is. Panic. Today, as he kicks off his inauguration weekend, president obama was given a great present