Overnight in asia, the markets in china, hong kong and taiwan all closed for dragon boat festival. And early trading in europe, also red arrows. The dax is the biggest decliner. Down 1. 25 the cac and ftsi boat down 1 . Wti down but still well above 50. And george soros front page this morning. A bearish soros is lured back to trading again. Getting back into the game. Soros recently directed a series of big bearish investments, semiing stocks and buying gold in shares of gold miners. And in an article he warns the falloff from ununwinding of chinese investments likely will have global implications. Soros is worried that continued inflation in china will hurt the u. S. And others. And he say s telling the jou if britain leaves it could unleash a general exodus and the disintegration of the European Union will become practically unavoidable. Soross best known trades of course he bet against the pound in 1992 in a trade that led to 1 billion in profits. We know what the markets done. Som
Puzzling day for the markets stop staging their intraday reversal since march and the move came as reversed sharply off lows, this following tragic death of uk lawmakers some interpreted to mean decrease odds of brexit. Is brexit now off the table . How do the markets respond . Bk, you made the observation first. Its terrible that market is actually reacting to this type of thing and action. That did move the market, the pound move and the rest of the markets. I take this as saying its not necessarily off the table at all. But given the way the markets were trading, you had so many down days in a row, a lot of people shortterm shorts in it. It was probably a good place for people to cover and that accelerated itself. I would not necessarily buy into the rumor brexit is off the table. I think its still out there but there are other issues we have out there and thats the slowing of the Global Economy. If you believe its an option, on the table, you had market reaction, this could be a tr
Far. Looking at so ar this morning we got Economic Data on home prices. The case schiller home price index showing an increase of war than five percent of a weathered is talking about the top 20 cities or more broadly, looking nationally. You can see the three major averages are trading higher, representing a rebound from yesterdays decline. Once again in the green for the full year. We have had a lot of switching back and forth on that front. As the is nearly as high nasdaq today. Seeing a switch from yesterday. Betty while prices are dominating the direction of the trade. Definitely, we are seeing more of an issue with commodities following the trade. This, 2. 3 looking at today. It is helping matters. Myyou look at bloomberg terminal, financials doing the best, followed by commodities. Yesterday, a broadbased decline, and today a broadbased advance. Natural gas is once again powering higher rate it has been on a winning streak on the outlook finally, some colder weather. The local n
Target practice. Given all the volatility weve seen, are wall street strategists s p targets about to change. Do you have an answer, mandy . Theat least i have some very smart people joining me through the course of the hour with their answers. Welcome back, brian. We missed you. Begin with the wild swings in oil. Those prices were down bigtime earlier but weve seen a massive rally to the tune of about 6 now building on the two previous big up days, keep in mind. But crude has now completely obliterated all of the losses it saw in august. It was down about 20 . Jackie deangelis joins us with more from the nymex. What was the major spark in this turnaround . Crude, jackie, and do people believe in it . When you look at session lows, 43. 60, were up more than 4. No one was looking for it in the morning. But the headlines came out that producers are now willing to talk about production globally. Opec saying that it stands ready to talk to other producers about the market but that it wants
Same. Were pretty much at session highs. At the high today, the dow was up 90 points. So, again, we are at 85. Yesterday we saw some buy orders on the close, so well keep a close eye on it here, and on apple, tyler, in particular. Yeah, it could close at 100 or so for the First Time Since splitting 7 for 1, and that means apple would be back at 700 on a presplit basis. Say that five times fast. Well monitor how apple finishes during this final hour of trading. And could we see dow 18,000 this year . Professor Jeremy Siegel thinks so. Hes here exclusively, with no surprise, a pretty bullish market call for this year, and for perhaps beyond. Well get into the details with him and talk about valuation as well, coming up. And how about that new deal from sprint . Did you hear about it . 20 gigs a month of data for 100, but there is one catch, youve got to be a new customer. So, what about someone whos been with sprint for years . Why do they have to pay more . And this isnt unique to sprin