Sara eisen great to have you with us lets get straight to the markets. Extraordinary seesaw session yesterday. The dow up 300 points at one stage in the morning, around about midday lunch time, started selling off, such that the dow ended off 58 points or 0. 25 those intraday swings were similar across each of the indices. The s p ending lower the nasdaq ending down 1 . Definitely the same theme throughout the day whether we were at the peaks or troughs thats the selling of things like tech and buying of things that could benefit from a lower Corporate Tax rate like financials this morning you can see a similar theme once again the dow is higher. The s p is fractionally higher but the nasdaq is lower. The dow up 8 4 points. Tenyear treasury note did rise over the weekend to cross above 2. 4 , but slipped a bit yesterday. It is below that level still today, 2. 38 on the tenyear. Look at whats going on arou around the globe ahsia is mixed but mostly lower. The south korean kospi is highe
Shanghai was off by 1. 25 . If you look at whats been happening with some early trading, green arrows for the most part. But youre looking at fractional advances the dax is up, just barely cac up by a quarter percent, so is the ftse. Look at crude oil. Up by 1. 1 yesterday settling just below 58 a barrel that was the highest level in almost 32 weeks. Today were at 58. 36 that was the 67th or 68th new high yesterday of the year yeah. Could be another one tomorrow. Andrew is finally coming to the train. Youre getting on the train left the station. Were on the bitcoin train now that train maybe left a long time ago where is the train that left newark he said sao paolo. They offloaded it on to a boat, crossed the water heading to the south pole you did cop to that yesterday. Im i wish i didnt have to but i do. Calling the trump trade and Everything Else i do. A number of big stories to tell you about. We are continuing to follow a developing story out of Southern California crews are despe
Record high. Obvious question is the selling, the intense up and down swings. Is it over . Watch this show, you will find out, looking good in early going today but i have no clue how we close this friday afternoon. I have news for you on taxes, the news is watch out. Under consideration online sales taxes and that 25cent per gallon increase in the gas tax, they would pay for some of the infrastructure building but the significance here is the switch. We have cut taxes and now we are taxing what we buy. Oprah says she is not running in 2020. Yes, its friday and Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart not a great night for team usa at the olympics. Missed out on medal in womens, big event, she won gold in that event four years ago. She missed the medal this time. Figure skating, nathan falls during short program. There you have it. Now, he was one of the pregames favorites, got it. The germans won another gold. Ashley thats a surprise. Stuart they dominate this event. I think they have
Those shares have been so volatile in the last several weeks. European equities, meantime, on news of this greek arrangement there, you do have red arrows mostly across the board, and perhaps not surprisingly, greece is the one thats getting the lift by 2. 25 . U. S. Equity futures at this hour . Well, after yesterdays big day breaking that sevenday losing streak, the dow would open lower by nearly 125 points. Here are the big stories were watching today. Greece and its lenders agreeing on bailout terms. A Greek Finance Ministry official tells cnbc there are still some minor details, but they wont affect the completion of the deal. The European Commission expected to comment on the deal at its midday briefing. On todays economic agenda, a few data points of of note for this datadriven fed. At 8 30 eastern, a first read on secondquarter productivity and costs, and then at 10 00, wholesale trade. As for earnings central, the consumer front and center this week. Among the Companies Set to
Yesterday you saw the nikkei ended that 16 session winning streak this morning stocks are closed higher the nikkei was up by 32 points to 21,739. Hang seng down by a third. The shanghai was up by a third of a percentage point. The early trading in europe, things are in the green across the board. Gains for germany, france and london up by a third stocks in italy and spain also higher treasury yields, check this out, yields at 2. 43 . Crude oil prices which have been above 50 comfortably for quite some time are now up about 8 cents. 52. 26. Here are the big stories were watching new comments out this morning from the saudi crown prince. He says the aramco ipo will take place next year and valuation of the company could top 2 trillion the crown prince said saudi arabia is working with all Oil Producers to rebalance the global oil market. On the wall street agenda, weekly jobless claims out at 8 30 a. M. Eastern, followed by september pending home sales at 10 00 a. M. In europe, we are go