Im Contessa Brewer. Hope you had a fang taktastic holiday. Lets take a look at futures were shaping up to have a slight hely lower open. Implied futures down 25 points, s p up just slightly here at one point and the nasdaq off by five taking a look at the treasuries and ten year notaes Holding Steady after rising slightly on friday were up about 2. 5 yield on the day. European markets are closed today for boxing day, but taking a look at the asian equities, the nikkei is off by 0. 2 . Shanghai risen by three quarters of a and the kospi has dropped by half a percent. As for the broader markets, oil down just slightly this morning. Wti crude is off by 0. 1 brent almost 0. 2 . And nat gas up they now expect the north sea pipeline to reopen in early january. And that is just tempering somewhat the production cuts weve seen in russia and by he opec taking a look at currencies now, and the dollar is also Holding Steady this morning. Down just slightly a tenth of a percent against the euro up
January on better than forecast earnings syria take a look at the s p 500 a year to date shows 3 . Index of one point that is a look at the year to date chart. Up one point 36 . Nymex crude is on the rise. T is up just over 1 take a look at the chart there. That a year chart or is that today . Fourmonth chart down just over 4 . Trading nearnt bear market territory. Also looking at the fourmonth chart there. Ar market chart. Taking a look at consumer confidence, dropping the most since 2011. Where did treasuries and up . Where our treasuries trading right now and . Yield are still going out. That partly has to do with maybe the fed and the fact they are holding their first of their twoday meeting. Yields rising for the first time in a week. They had been declining in response to much of what we are the in china and around world. Finally, currencies take a look at the dollar rising for the first time in four days versus the yen. In stocks and commodities, that slow down. Stabilizing the
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