North carolina, and ohio whether we will get a clear result tonight remains to be seen the tenyear note level higher than since early june. Banks among the best performing stocks in the dow and the s p. Oil prices are gaining ground but the Energy Sector is the only in the red. Overall a broad based strong day on wall street. Following gains yesterday as well lets get straight to the big stories we are watching. Mike santoli is here watching the market rally. And ylan moi is following the all important balance of power in the senate for us mike santoli, welcome. Good twoday run in the markets. It is inhabiting the ground we were in the last half of last week and gone right to the middle 3,400 is the middle of the long threemonth range. If you think about it it has taken two days to lift the indexes back onto a balanced footing. We were pretty oversold last week challenged and tested the september lows bounced off of that today. Make sure folks are not leaning too much in one direction
Losses in tech. The s p is looking at the best year, potentially here in two decades. Deirdre bolton kicks us off. She is at the New York Stock Exchange whether thedre . Thats a great question, blake. You mentioned the s p 500 is on track to havehe year since 1997. Todays red on screens doone foe year. The groups putting most pressure on the markets right now are ones that outperformed last week. Really sent stocks to all new highs for the christmas rally. They include info tech, consumer discretionary, also communication stocks. Youre seeing that pattern as individual stocks too. Some of the biggest winners of the year are lower today. Here are some top three weve been following. Apple, microsoft, visa. They are all stand out stocks for 2019. Apple, we have to highlight. It is the best performing stock on the dow for the year. It is up 82 . The gains pushed companys market cap back above the 1 trilliondollar mark. Analysts talking a lot about wearables. They are beating forecasts. By
These are your markets. A bit of a move sideways for the europe stoxx 600. Mix the data across the world and mixed corporate earnings. If you look at the banking sector, it is one of the biggest gainers. We have a german manufacturing orders and Euro Area Services pmi for the month of october. Better than expected. Anything above 50 means expansion and we were expecting 51. 8. So look out for any movement on eurodollar and the u. S. 10 year yield. Coming up, we speak to the president of south africa. Come alk about s escom at a possible ratings downgrade. But first, lets get to bloomberg first word news. We begin with the impeachment inquiry for President Trump. The actions of Rudy Giuliani deeply unsettled to ukraine, outlining a quid quo pro. This is in exchange for investigating joe bidens son. Julienior ambassador said Rudy Giulianis role started as perplexing but quote became more insidious. The world has gone mad with free money according to ray dalio. He decried the current poli
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Papal confirms that its bailing on its crypto currency program. And why analysts think thats a wise move. But first to our top story. Lofty investment goals thanks to mashayoshis san. He tells any kay business the results still have a long way to go, and ma makes me embarrassed and impatient. Er used to envy the markets in america. Theres no excuse for entrepreneurs in japan, myself included. Joining me is sarah mcbride. What was your key take away from this interview . Sarah it turns out that msasyoshi was asked more broadly about the japanese environment, and so you can interpret his results to be more broadly, why arent there more entrepreneurs in japan . Why isnt the startup scene as vibrant as some of the places he mentioned southeast asia. There are a number of unicorns out of places like singapore and its just hard to see anything similar in japan. So in that context, i think you cant say, oh, he was just upset at himself over the vision or something narrow like that. Taylor rem