Data out this morning was up slightly joining us for the entire hour is from ariel investments, pushing back against the earnings theme youre feeling good . Id say im better than the market is feeling. I think the market is looking for soft earnings, maybe 3 decline in earnings. Were hoping that we might get a positive number, but not as bad as the markets think lets drill down on all of the big stories. Lets start with you, bob. All three major indices at new highs. And let me show you, a nice group of Retail Stocks hitting new highs. Walmart, home depot, dow tjx, autozone. A small group of Consumer Staples breaking out to new highs. Proctor and gamble, colgate, starbucks a 52 week high for them the Payment Systems, mastercard, visa, visa the biggest gainer of the year up 36 . They have been on fire recently. Finally one last point, the vix down to 12 and change. This is sitting right near the lows for the year. Obviously august is a slower part of the year, but even so, a pretty low
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Was the third negative week. On the s p 500, down. 10 . Second negative week in a row for the u. S. Markets. We continue to see the strength in the boards with wall street fading. We bounced over. 10 . The decent appetite moving on to the poboard. The slippage in the basket of media names. You have Universal Music Group and ung at the bottom of the chart. That stock down more than 1 . The travel and leisure basket at the bottom. Te telcos reversing. Vodafone is weaker at the start. The chemicals basket are giving back territory. Real estate is below the flat line. We push higher. Banks with 1. 7 bounce for the italian lender. 1. 5 pop for the commerce maker. We have retail out pacing industrial. Household goods up. 25 . We have autos with strength. All trading higher. Oil and gas also seeing a further improvement and technology with the top position and modest uptick in europe. Lets take stock with the ftse 100 this morning at 7,731. We are trading above the 7 threshold. Descent bounce
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