Apple. Be that as it may, the s p is falling for the fifth straight day. Again it is on track for its biggest loss since going back to december. The 10year note, which is a good barometer how people are feeling, if you are nervous, park your money in notes and bonds, people are doing that, these are the lowest yields in the better part of three years. Were keeping an eye on that, keeping an eye on other things were waiting for. President might comment on that or all the above. He wants to up the trade ante. The latest besides affecting tariffs virtually on everything we get with china, he is talking increasingly now it starts at 10 with the remaining goods. It could go up still further. As stuart was pointing out. A lot of other goods and services were talking aabout could easily ratchet and move in different directions. Well keep an eye on that. Also keep an eye on what has been happening on the Precious Metals front. Gold, for example, getting a lot of buying interest, a little less
The president criticizes the fed and europe as powell testifies this week. Deutsche bank announcing massive job cuts, exitinging Global Equities business, a highlyanticipated 8. 3 billion Restructuring Plan, but will it be the last. Another controversy brewing at starbucks well tell you what has the company apologizing this morning. Late last week, the s p was at within striking distance of 3k. Since the release of the stronger than expected june jobs number on friday, stocks have fallen on dampened hopes of a fed rate cut as the chairman prepares to testify on the hill later this week the president ramps up his criticism of the fed over the weekend. Take a listen. Despite everything, theyre not doing well and were doing great. Theyre not doing well at all, were doing great. Were taking money out and Interest Rates have gone up. If the fed didnt do what it did or even half, we would have the dow that would be as good as it is, it is doing good, but we would have a dow that would be any
The same this year what were hoping for, as you go into 2020, is that perhaps 5g starts to be a catalyst for the shares, but youve got to get through the cycle first. What happened to the last half year we spent talking about how services and wearables will make up for whatever weakness there may be in the classic cycle . Yeah, and that hasnt been our call and the problem with the services is that its just too small as a percentage of the total. So services, as one of the examples, you would have to add, for the video service, about the equivalent of ten netflix to offset what the loss you know, the decline in revenue from iphone over the last year so it just gives you a sense of large numbers, because iphone is so large that puts a little context around it. Mike, i mean, apple is trading lower today, but so are the other f. A. A. N. G. Names, as well is this one of those scenarios where we need to be talking about more about the impact that f. A. A. N. G. Has on the Broader Market to
Growth as solid and said that the labor market continues to strengthen but the fed pointed out that wage growth has remained moderate and that inflation has been below the feds 2 goal this year. In the report, the fed said that it remains firmly committed to its inflation objective. Here at home, the fed is still forecasting more moderate growth during the Second Quarter and that the slowdown in business fixed indepth could be persistent internationally, the fed said that growth has stabilized during the first half of the year, albeit at a restrained pace it also said that International Financial conditions were supported by accommodative communications by major Central Banks. Now, as you said, this all comes from the feds semiannual report to congress fed chair jay powell will be testifying on the hill next week there was a special section in this report on trade the fed found that tariffs lowered u. S. Imports by about 70 billion. It also said that higher tariffs are having a materia
Welcome to post9. What do you think . We were down as much as 200 points on the dow earlier today. Now were down just 16 points. I think it really what were getting a feel for here whether you thought there was a 50 basis point coming or 50 base point rate cut coming, i think it goes off the table. It hit bull the hardest which is that inflationary hedge. It pushed gold lower equities have recovered but the moves we saw in bonds and dollar havent retraced steps. Shows the resilience and risk on sentiment that investors have. Thats what i was watching throughout the session when you saw equities lower and bonds lower you need one to break one way or the other we saw continued selling in bonds but a little bit of recovery in equities what were seeing on the screens they really arent down too much s p futures down its interesting to see what happens on monday when everybody comes back from the hampton. We only have one basis point decline for nasdaq any positive close for the main three i