The nasdaq was lower but it is catching up. And the dowup. 9 up by about as much. The dollar index is stronger. Still below 93. Two of the better performing stocks, brownforman which is the topperforming stock primarily thanks to a surge in spirits and of course, the Michael Jordan news. Rally,g with the equity citigroups Tobias Levkovich recently raising his target on the s p 500 to 3300. He joins us now by phone. Thank you for joining. We are a little bit higher than that right now. There is going to be a leg lower to this market. It is still going to hold up somewhat into the end of the year. We are not going to see a crash according to you. Tobias the best way to put this is the fed is going to prevent it in many respects in terms of policy initiatives where there is this fascinating feedback loop phenomenon where stock prices go down, he will start getting very worried. People will start getting very worried. It will ebb and flow. It is unlikely for the markets of the you about 40
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Issues that may ultimately go behind closed doors. I think this is going to be fascinating and important how the republicans and democrats . Questionmocrats mueller. David turns out hes going to do a little more talking. Carol just before they all go out on recess. We are also walking the markets also watching the markets on this wednesday morning. S p 500 futures had a bunch of selling yesterday. S p down three consecutive days. A little bit of support here, up just about 12 point. The eurodollar 1. 13. Crude seeing some support. Concerns over the tensions continuing with iran. You got new york crude up about 1. 8 . David General Mills breaking their earnings right now, which is a bit of a puzzle to me. Net sales came out at 4. 2 billion, a little bit off estimates. 83 asngspershare was 0. 77, but they are down in premarket trading. It looks like there is a little disappointment creeping in. Carol the stock is up about 38 this year, so theres a lot of optimism. Any disappointment abou
Stimulus, not less. Yvonne glad you could join us. We are hitting a pause button in the trading, after what seemed like a long runup in stocks. We did see the selloff when it comes to equity markets in the u. S. A lot of talk in asia about the fed and centralbank talks. Indonesia coming out later today. We could see centralbank emergence playing through in this part of the region. Kathleen isnt it interesting coming into this year, the whole story was about Central Banks moving in the direction, that they would all be heading toward the exit. Now the Federal Reserve is like, where is everybody . Everyone has their own reasons to hold tight, including the european Central Banks. I should say reasons to stay easy. Yvonne yes, that is certainly the case. We did not get a good lead up for asia. How are things looking in the wall street session thursday . Seems a lot had to do with tech. Kathleen a lot of digestion, people trying to figure out where they stand with the fed and capital marke
We are seeing how this all fits into the focus with theresa may and whether she can work with the labour party in particular. We will be looking to talk about that with our brexit team here at bloomberg. We also have great guests coming up. David thank you very much. Lets get caught up on the markets. Alix here is where we stacked up. Equities have gone nowhere. Volume in europe is pitiful at the moment. I am looking at cable, not necessarily on theresa mays speech, but the chief economist at the boe will talk about where he comes down on the hawks vers us doves side. Selling on the margin coming down on the board. Crude goes down, 0. 8 . There is a risk of oil below 40 if opec does not shock and on the markets. David it is time now for your morning brief. We will get u. S. Job opening numbers and turnover for the month of may. And we will get the keynote address on normalizing the Central Banks Balance Sheet in new york city. Sell 123ury will billion in u. S. 10 year notes. That is al