Little bit of buying pressure, 1. 61 . The s p is up by 6 10 of 1 . If you take a look at the sector breakdown, it will be a little more defensive than the headline numbers will indicate. , talking about the fact that the ecb is taking the currencies single level into account. Alsolso ha watching what is happening with the pound as well, and the russian ruble, because we have seen the ruble coming under pressure as a result of what is going on with the navalny poisoning, germany confirming unequivocally that as a result of recent tests, they are now able to confirm that he was wasd with not a poisoned. Will that result in sanctions . A big move, big move against the ruble. We will come back and talk about that later in the program, alex. Alix Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Opposition Leader are facing off today in the house of commons for the First Time Since july, and that comes as johnsons government announced another uturn and policy, as you were just saying, keeping local lockdow
By 9. 1 and the pain is very much in the tech sector. The nasdaq is down even more. Stoxx 600 down by 6 10 of 1 . 1834,rodollar is at 100 stabilizing at this point. The euro has been down and pushing back. The lira is that a fresh record low against the dollar. Just off a fresh record low. Alix a lot of activity in the u. S. Is a steep selloff in tech. Scarlet fu, walk us through the nuts and bolts. Scarlett we are off the worst levels of the session before the nasdaq its the biggest drop since june 11. No specific catalyst. The jobless claims report was not encouraging, but this is a long time coming. People saying equities were not extended, especially those in the growth sectors and specifically mecca cap names. Looking at the different indexes within the nasdaq 100, 80 9 of the members are lower. Are down. M within the s p 500, 62 . Then you get to the dow average. 57 of the members are lower and within the valley, only half the members are down. They give you the sense of the rota
I say that with hesitation because you never know with these numbers anymore. Here is more. Is not highfrequency data. But they are coming in stronger than expected. 6. 2ory orders up by percent. The forecast was for 5 . Percentages dont mean a lot right now because data is always volatile. It is even more so now. We are seeing wide swings in orders for both factory goods, durable goods and nondurables. Durable goods orders, we already got a report on that. That gets revised. It is revised stronger. 7. 3 earlier. Tothe end of july, it is up 7. 6 now. These are june numbers. Orders, that is the one economists like to look at because it tells you what business orders are and what business spending is in gdp and that comes in at 3. 4 . That is up from 3. 3 . Not a lot of new information. Slightly stronger. The reopening started to bring rebound into the economy. At this point, we have no idea if that has continued. The new yorku that ism number which represents this 53. 5 four july. At le
Michael its been a while since ive been able to give good news, so i will take as much time as i can hear. It doesnt happen very often, but it did happen in july. Manufacturing data betterthanexpected, particularly in europe with of increase for most major economy. Spain leading the way at 53 point five. Italy at 51. 9, france, 52. 4. The euro zone as a whole comes in at 51. 8. All of those numbers for the most part above what they had been in june. These are sentiment indexes that suggest that look at the comparison between june and july. We dont know whether they really incorporate the rebound in cases. In the states, we saw a much better than expected ism unemployment number of 54. 2, which suggests that maybe it did not capture it, or manufacturers managed to keep going through the covid outbreak. We are just now seeing covid start to show up more in europe again. That is something to keep an eye on. Several surveys show that while overall moment to miss revving up, momentum is rev
Day. You just made my was that a mel brooks movie robin hood men in tights . With the singing. Something like that. Every time i think of robin hood that is what i think about. Alix cary elwes. Lets get back to markets. Any comments on yield curve control when the fed releases its decision in about three hours. Joining us is Marilyn Watson of blackrock. Thanks a much for joining us. With the exception of the last few days, it has been thebb conversation of about a about a curb steepener. What is the best conversation into or out of the fed . Think expectations for anything new from the fed are extremely low. Good in termsery of the labor market on friday. In terms of that being in earlyement, it is still days in terms of the u. S. Economy reopening. In terms of how we will see further opening in the economy and what will happen in the labor market. At the fed we expect to see yields and rates anchored at the front end for some time to palm. Expectely neutral and we rates will remain ne