Is up a buck. Our roadmap begins with historic highs for stocks, and the worst plays at these levels and where it may go next. It is amazon prime day, and now the company hoping for a big boost to its bottom line from new amazon prime members, the real driver behind the massive craze. And pokemon driving nin tete stocks up high, and stocks looking to make more history, a day after the s p set those record highs since may of last year. Alltime internet high now 2143, the closing high, 2137. Nasdaq poised to open in positive territory, which it has not done, unlike the other two, all year long. Your point this morning, jim s, not enough people care at this point . No, too many people ordering shoe dog for you on amazon prime day right now. Right . Here we go. Im ordering shoe dog. Nick nike has yet to confirm, starbucks has yet to confirm. If we can get amazon to get going, we get cisco, say through 30, intel positive note, we take microsoft and shoehorn nintendo, we could get them. This
Right now. A very good morning and warm welcome on cnbc. Im wilfred frost along with morgan in for sara. Welcome morgan. Good morning and thank you for having me. Im excited to be here. Its my first time and im really excited to be your copilot early hour. Great to have you with us. Very good morning. Happy friday. Lets get straight to the market action. We were a little soft yesterday. A quarter of a percent down. The nasdaq a little softer still around. 50 declines. Were expected to go into a Third Session in a row of declines today. You can see now the dow called lower 30 points. The s p 500. The nasdaq by around 12 points. Yesterday energy over took telcos as the best performing sector year to date as wti rallied 4 . In general, though, it was a theme of taking money off the table. The ecb failed to deliver with sufficient dovish action or rhetoric. Either way we didnt get what we expected. Markets lost a little bit of steam. As we look at the bond markets, we did see yields tick u
Im sara eisen. And im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. And happy friday. Lets have a look at u. S. Futures. Sharp declines. Over 1 in the dow. Expected to open slightly positively. Essentially we are flat in the pre market but called higher by 4 points. And the s p by 1 and the nasdaq by about 17 points. Lets look at the 10 year treasure note. Yields ranging around 1. 7 and 1. 9 over the last three weeks. Chinas central bank fixing its currency t yuan higher. In fact at the sharpest pace since 2005 when china removed its peg to the u. S. Dollar. There have been huge swings in currency all week long led by yesterdays massive jump in the yen. How did i miss that . A 3 move in the yen. Bank of japans surprise decision to do nothing and leave the Monetary Policy unchanged. And of course the big importance is the chinese currencys depreciation in the beginning of the year that was spooking markets and its gone the other way and that is calming. The dollar index, dollar br
The truth on behalf of the families for the four dead americans. I should not be a distraction from that, and thats part of the decision as well. Thank you very much. Theres been some rumors that a letter that was put out by no. Can you put to rest those right now . No. Come on. Who do you think [ inaudible ]. Huh . Who do you think i think the conference should be able to decide. Thank you all very much. Okay. That was Kevin Mccarthy listening right there just a few moments after he shocked a lot of people pulling out of the race for House Speaker. He said of the party, i think were going to be stronger. He admitted that the vote was going to be tough, said he didnt want to win with 220 votes, would rather win with a much larger majority and also commented on the comments he made regarding the Benghazi Committee saying that wasnt helpful to the overall process. Were sort of left in limbo as to where the vote for House Speaker goes from here. The stock market clearly didnt like the new
There there are rallies in sanaa. The houthies have used live ammunition to a break up demonstrations in the capitol. Theycapitol. Adding to the turmoil in yemen are soldier who is are blocking an intended highway. Its a crucial shipping lane. The threat was made after houthi fighters shot and killed an Army Commander and two of its guards. We have reports now to aiden in southern yemen. The political en pass in yemen continues after the Southern Movement. Those representing the cities in the south announced their suspension in the political talks that the u. N. Special envoys attempted to broker others parties followed suit. The Main Opposition Party said that they were boycotting and other leftest parties which really left only the houthies andallies. Now aside from the political en pass there have been demonstrations. They continue to take place on saturday with demonstrations taking place in the capitol of sanaa. Also protests taking place in other places across the south. Meanwhil