Another big asian selloff. China losing 8. 5 in overnight trade and the hang seng in hong kong also dropping 3 . Japan a more muted drop but i think you get the picture. Europe falling as well. Germany and france bearing the brunt of the selling and the drop continues through the usa. We are off the lows of the day but as you can see the dow is moving to the downside by 133 points right now. The nasdaq is off by 46 points. The s p down by 11. The russell 2000 is down by nearly 1 folks, or 11 points. My old colleague now joins us with more on why china dropped so far, so fast. Reporter volatility returning with a vengeance to the Mainland China stock markets. Equities plunging more than 8 . The biggest oneday drop in more than eight years on signs beijing might be backing away from supporting the markets. Concerns over Economic Health soured sentiment further. Data show chinas industrial firms dropped 3 from a year earlier reversing a. 6 rise in may. Index heavyweights including china u
Reporter it began christmas day, Tricia Mccauley didnt show up for dinner, ended 36 hours later we police found the popular actress and Yoga Instructors body inside her car. Johnson is now charged with mccauleys murder. Police say during the more than 24 hours mccauley was missing, johnson was driving around in the victims car. Stopping at several locations, including at least four cvs stores. At this cvs on 14th street, johnson assaulted an employee as he was trying to load up a cart with handsoap. Court records show johnson has a long history of petty mosts and assaults and had been arrested as recently as one week before christmas for an incident inside another cvs store. In that case, a judge released him but ordered him to wear a gps device and undergo a Mental Health evaluation. Johnson did not comply with that order and was not wearing a gps device when he was r system is broken in this case and that we pray to gods that our loss is not something that anyone else will ever have
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
Not going to balance the market, we have to hit the marginal supplier, and that is north america, and we need to look for lower prices in the short run. Saudi arabia pushed opec to maintain production levels over objections. China has overtaken japan as the Worlds Largest stock market, with a market cap climbing to 4. 5 trillion. It could go higher. Meanwhile, the japanese market is down over 3 due partly to the weakening japanese yen. There is also increasing pressure on the airbag maker takada. The move comes after the u. S. Look nationwide. Five deaths are linked to the airbags. Split parliament voted to google apart, separating the Search Engine from other businesses. However, the resolution carries no legal weight. Google has been the subject of an antitrust investigation from the eu for four years. If the crowds are not as large as black friday, maybe it is because many people did their shopping online. It was a recordbreaking day for target, which had it Biggest Online day ever.
A lot of Economic Data out this morning, jobless claims coming in better than expected. Core ppi in line with consensus. Retail sales light. As for the picture in europe, take a look there. Really following the cues of the u. S. Markets this morning. Our road map today starts with the fed announcing a new round of stimulus as chairman ber bernanke warps the fiscal cliff is hurting growth. House Speaker John Boehner expected to talk on the cliff talks 11 a. M. Eastern time. Told you this week, of course, they were talking actively, now, Sprint Nextel offering to purchase the other half of clearwire it doesnt own. Surges of best buy surging on reports that the founder is on the verge of making a formal takeover bid. And google maps has found its way back into apples operating system. Of course, we have to start off with the markets. Dows fiveday winning streak has been snapped, despite the fed announcing a new round of stimulus. Chairman ber bernanke say worries about the fiscal cliff ar