Currently, it is down just slightly, but still the elevated levels hovering at just 26. Last week it hovered at 36 which gave some investors pause. The dow is down about 6 in august. The s p is off just about 5. 5 . The nasdaq is down close to 6 as well. Year to date, though, the nasdaq is actually the only major average that is positive by close to 2 . So far, this year. Certainly, a decidedly different trade for the nasdaq on the year. Biotech, some of the highflying tech is helping that. But a 2 gain can be fixed quickly as volatility continues. If its up 100, are we going to say its unchanged . I mean, its nothing, right . It was basically unchanged. 100 points, lets get the latest out of china. Overnight, the central bank injecting 220 billion. And now beijing abandoning the chinese stock market on largescale share purchases. Instead, the paper says chinese efforts will step up efforts to find and punish those destabilizing the market. The benchmark shanghai composite closing down
Over what has been another interesting asian session. To digest, the Ripple Effect coming to china, still having a big effect on asian economies. The signal seems to be that a september rate hike is still very much on the cards at the moment. It is the 31st of august. It delivered the correction that everyone was anticipating. The big question is is there still more to come . That is the twitter question of the day. Tweet us. I want to show you a chart. This is why we are asking the question in front of us this morning. Look at the options skew when it ets at theinese moment. Really telling everything at the moment. The bear has a smile on his face but he maybe smiling for quite some time. If the puts continue to rise, this is the effective way of showing how the market is operating and how it is signaling we may need to fall. The market is fighting puts, that tells you the best is still on for the downside. Lets go to hong kong now with the latest. Dayt is certainly a down across the
Welcome to the pulse, live from london. Nikkei hasns recorded its biggest oneday gain since 2008. That came as asian stocks rose across the board amid optimism that chinese policymakers will succeed in stabilizing the mainland equity markets. Francine the chinese premier will address an evening session of the World Economic forum and discuss the state of chinas economy later this morning. To round up all the market moves, lets get to mark barton. Mark what is going on today , then . The asia pacific index rose the most since 2009 in the last two days. The shanghai composite Index Benchmark has risen by 5. 3 , all on this belief that china will stabilize its Financial Markets. It comes after all three u. S. Indices went down, their secondbiggest gain of 2015. Index hadsiapacific its biggest gains in 2009 not the most astonishing move today in asia. This is the most astonishing move yesterday, 24 hours ago, we were talking about the nikkei erasing all of this years gains. What a differen
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