Through to the open. The s p up about. 87 . Nice gain. The nasdaq up better than 1 . It is a rally. Please note, the market has completely reversed, the selling that greeted the inverted yield curve scare and the china trade scho scare even though that is a threat. The Hong Kong Police have banned the giant demonstration planned for this saturday and beijing has brought in fresh troops. The scene is set for a crackdown. If that happens, it would likely affect china trade talks. By the way, monday, the hong kong protesters have called a general strike when our market is closed. Watch out Tuesday Morning. Heres what we have for you. The markets rallying bigtime. Interest rates are falling. The president speaks to Brian Kilmeade and here comes dorian. Likely a cat 3 hurricane when it hits florida. Varney company about to begin. Stuart ive got to say this. The market just seems like it just wants to go up, bearing in mind yesterdays rally and what weve got coming at us first thing this mor
Is pouring into tenyear treasuries as a safe haven. Trouble, trouble everywhere but treasuries offer a degree of security not found elsewhere, and well pay you interest. You dont get that in europe or japan. Heres another opinion. Surely the Federal Reserve will now lower Interest Rates very soon and very sharply. Ive got another reason for the selloff and its hong kong. Its calm right now but is this the calm before the storm . There are signals that beijing has had enough. Things are coming to a head. Number one, Chinese State media now calls the demonstrators radicals and appears to be whipping up mainland support for a forceful end to the protests. Intervention, they say, is inevitable if the situation worsens. Two, there is video of chinese troops massing at the border. Three, the demonstrators are being told not to move to a different part of the airport. Just a few dozen remain. Four, the chinese accuse Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader mcconnell of inciting chaos. President trum
But still red for each of the major indices. Joining us for the full first hour of the show Courtney Gibson from loop capital markets. Courtney, thanks for joining us. Whats your take on today . Investors in a sort of holding pattern, are they, until we get to the fed unbelievable holding pattern. I mean, volumes are down precipitously today. At least they were before i came on the show today. I talked to our equity desk at loop capital and in the u. S. Alone volumes were down somewhere near 30 and even in europe spain was down i think somewhere near 40 on volumes our desk flow today was down substantially as well. It looks and feels as though investors right now are really kind of sitting on their hands markets as you can see, dow down just slightly but recovering back to the highs of the session. Russell is lagging down 0. 7 utilities, real estate the bestperforming sectors. Energy and tech towards the bottom we have got apple down about 0. 7 , albeit higher for the week broadcom wei
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
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