Good buy into early end and maybe beyond. But lets start with todays rally. Joining our exchange today is jim kahn, sarge gilfoy, and Rick Santelli at the cme. Rick, im going to start with you if i may ahead of the fed meeting tomorrow weve got a bit of a stealth rally in the pound the pound. The dollar over the last week or so including a little bit today how many rate hikes over the next 13 months are priced in you know, i dont know that much of the dollar activity that were seeing today is necessarily predicated on what investors think about 2018 whether its two, three, some are saying four. I really think its more of a function of the u. S. Market kind of bucking the trends of europe, the spreads of our treasuries especially the long end is distancing itself from the yields of the long end of europe and as that occurs, if you were to put that on a chart, the differential at 210 basis points seems to be one of the factors that could be dragging the dollar up a bit. More in a yearend
Abigail were almost at the end of the year. We had a big rally, also for stocks. Not a big rally but solid gains. The dow is on pace for a record close. Right now, we do not have alltime highs. Check out this smallcap russell 2000 leading the charge of about up of. 6. The big topic, the tax overhaul. Smallcap companies are considered to be more sensitive to, considered their more meaningbased, perhaps they are more sensitive to what is happening in the u. S. 3316. Look at g btv these are not the russell 2000 Tax Companies but what we are looking at in blue are low Tax Companies. This purple, goldman sachs. And the wide to it high Tax Companies white, high Tax Companies, up 7. 7 . Deal. Ll but a done pretty interesting. It is also interesting to see the russell 2000 sensitive to taxes overall and what is happening in the u. S. G btv 32, this is a oneyear chart. The white, russell 2000 to the s p 500. It has been trending down as the husband uncertainty and volatility around the possibil
Across the board with the exception of the italian ftse. A quick look at wti crude right now, wti if youre buying it buy the barrel, you can do it for 48. 91. Hurricane irma one of the most powerful atlantic storms in a century. Its churning its way across the caribbean towards florida. Kalee dionne joins us live from cnbc headquarters. Whats the path . Reporter the path is westnorthwest at this point the question still lies when will it turn to the north . Thats something well be watching throughout the day. The latest update from the National Hurricane center, it maintained its 185mileperhour winds. Its just to the eastsoutheast of st. Marteen, and conditions are deteriorating there. This will continue to move at 16 Miles Per Hour that pressure continues to drop. As that pressure drops, the winds will maintain that speed or continue to increase. Everyone is wanting to know where is the track i dont want a lot of people to focus on where it will go as it moves closer to the u. S. At t
Youll understand why were playing that music in just a minute welcome to power lunch. Im michelle carusocabrera. Stocks carving out small gains the dow hitting yet another record high. Lets take a look at the benchmark tenyear note. The yields there hitting their highest levels since mid august. Right now the 10year yield at 2. 24 . Some of the stock movers, sprint and tmobile, both soaring our david faber reporting the two were in active talks about a merger again going the other way, however, best buy shares are tanking about 9 . The retailers outlook falling short of expectations. Were going to head live to the investor meeting in just minutes from now heres some other news happening at this hour cnbc confirming reports that the senate gop is looking at a tax cut that would total between 1 and 2 trillion. And are cereal and sausage the investing breakfast of champions . The company post hopes so because its buying food maker bob evans for 1. 5 billion and its prime time for kohls in
U. S. Equity futures have been indicated higher after the markets were down yesterday. The first time in seven sessions that the dow and nasdaq were down this morning a rebound from that these were modest declines yesterday and this morning s p futures indicated up by three. The nasdaq indicated up by 2. 5 overnight in asia, we have seen some gains in some asian markets. The nikkei up by a half percent. How many winning streaks is that 16 in a row that weve seen for the nikkei now trading at 21,805. Hang seng closed down bay half p percentage point in europe, as you look at some of the early trading, you will see green arrows across the board. Modest advances. Ftse up by 0. 4 . The cac is up by a quarter percentage point the dax up by 0. 2 look at crude oil prices looks like crude this morning is up wti up by 444 ce cents, brent u 57 cents. News out of Chinas Communist Party congress, members confirm president xi jinpings status as the most powerful leader since mao by writing his name