We are off session highs and off session lows perhaps restoking the trade war discussion, and they closed a percent, perhaps this gave investors that are looking for selling opportunities a bit of a window to do so. We saw a leg down again around 1 30 the dollar hit three year lows later on, and the dollar fell after treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin made comments, a weak dollar positive for trade, the weaker dollar pushing up the price of oil and gold, up higher by 20 bucks, for stocks, the nasdaq, weakest of the three averages, thats Still Holding to be true, and the weakest of the major s p sectors. Chip stocks, specifically weaker on pace for the worse day since the end of november, and Texas Instruments, the biggest drag in the chip group, the shares down as much as 9 at one point after an inline Earnings Report, but also the slowest Revenue Growth in a year, causing investors to rethink the prospect for Texas Instruments. Weakness in the tech stocks we watch closely, the faang gro
Here the shares are down 8 right now. Thats not even the biggest point decliner in the dow. Which goes back to how low its share prices got. Exactly. At this hour the Senate Finance committee is beginning to mark up its tax reform bill well tell you whats at stake there and what could be the most contentious issues between the house and senate. Meanwhile, amazon is reportedly considering a freemium option for prime video. Wel n will netflix make a similar move lets get to our top story today, the big decline in ge shares Morgan Brennan has all the ugly details for us morgan reporter hey, bill, yeah, so ge cutting its dividend in half. Its only the third time since 1899 its cut that payout, this is the first time its done it notscenario. Thats only part of the story here big part of why these shares are falling 8 is the updated guidance new eps numbers for 2018 expected to be 1 to 1. 07 a share, reduced by half since the previous target and lower than consensus estimate 6 billion to 7 b
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