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
Kayla tausche. Goldman sachs internet analyst. Great to have you back. Thanks. Along with our own mike santoli as we watch the dow tick above 19,000 for the first time. Yesterday, of course, all four major indexes hit closing and intraday highs. What does this all mean . The path of least resistance is higher . This is how the market trades literally when the paft path of least resistance is higher. Its drifting higher. I think that happens around round numbers. I look at dow 19,000, all the caveats about how its only 30 stocks, 1,000 points on the dow is literally not what it used to be. The most impressive thing was it was at 15,5 in february. We ft. First hit 18,000 at the end of december 2014. So over two years, youre up about 5. 5 , point to point. Why is that . Corporate earnings flattened out for two years, going on three years. Now youre getting more of an energetic push on this reflation period. Fund futures hit 100. 2 for december. Now the market is coming to grips with the f
Decision just hours away. Will they or wont they hike . The ceo of mylan takes the hot seat on capitol hill today where shell be grilled on the companys epipen price hikes. What to expect today and the highlights from yesterdays heated wells fargo hearing. Shares of fed ex higher after better than expected earnings and raising their guidance. Well take a look at what drove that quarter. First up, the bank of japan surprising the markets by introducing a zero rate target for its government 10year bonds in an effort to stoke inflation. The boj saying it will purchase bonds if yields begin to rise, lend money at a fixed rate if yields move much lower. That all comes ahead of the feds latest policy statement at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. Fed chair Janet Yellens News Conference half an hour later. Yen had a run and then the narrative began maybe this is an admission theyve reached the logistical limits of accommodation. Look, i find them flailing. I just find them look, they surprised because
Thank you for joining us on squawk alley. John is at merge in miami, flori florida, and we will get to him later, but at post 9, kelly evans. Good morning. And joining us from out west is jason calakanas who is an invester and we have a lot going on in the market, and dow and s p 500 nasdaq posting the intraday highs today, and the dow is holding e steady above 18,000, and russell 2,000, and the dow transports are out of correction territory, but start with the netflix today, jason, because the shares have been hit hard when the company gave weaker than expected subscriber guidance for the coming quarters and 2 million additions rather than the 3 million that the investors were expecting, and also, there was a offering of prime video stand alone which was talked about on the Conference Call from reed hastings, and we have that. So take a listen. Hulu is doing great work, and amazon, and hbo and showtime, and so many competitors, and everybody is working hard to build the best content.
10-year yield. we are around 2.41 and we haven t seen those levels in some time, but we are keeping them there. and europe? how did we do over on the continent and elsewhere? a mixed picture there. spain was in the red it looks like, but other markets in the green. oh, yeah, looking at portugal, too. and as for asia, and japan s nikkei up over 1.6%, an shanghai down 1%, and you can see the hang seng as well. getting to the road map this morning looking at the markets. and looking at the day after a dramatic sell-off. david tepper telling cnbc saying that when the dust settles, the place to be is stocks. and free market trading after quarterly revenue misses, but at the same time doubling the dividend and looking to switch the stocks home from the nasdaq to the new york stock exchange here. and michael dell speaks, almost. we will have the details coming up in that continued battle for control of his company. well, the stocks are looking to recover after the worst day of