Welcome to power lunch, im contessa brewer. Another strong day for stocks as all three indices look for a winding streak the dow is up about 143 points, a slight pullback from where we were a half hour ago both the s p and nasdaq are on pace in more than six years and both indices up 5 health care the best performing sector today johnson johnson, pfizer, eli lilly among the big gainers. A couple beatendown names moving higher, ge back above 15 a share despite being hit with a shareholder lawsuit and snap is now up 50 so far in february. Three hours left in what has been a huge week for stocks. Bertha coombs is at the New York Stock Exchange bertha it has been quite a big week. Its been two weeks since we had that downturn starts and after consuming a lot of rocky road ice cream, today it feels like vanilla. If you look at the major averages in terms of where they are from their highs back at the end of january, the nasdaq here within 3 of its all time high in january as weve seen a big
Is it not possible that improved wages themselves can help lead to improved productivity, which can create a virtual cycle with wage growth over time . German powell yes and thats exactly what we hope is happening right now. Congressman so you are committed to keeping your foot off the brake . Chairman powell when im getting ready for this hearing i went back and read something you said in your very first year on the fomc committee. At the very first meeting one of the Bank President s rett Bank President s mentioned tighter labor markets and youve noted that you havent seen anything in the data yet to support that. It struck me as interesting because it got me to thinking about you three and you six and my frustration with both. And i think its been two and a half years since we hit the supposedly definition of a full employment, yet you three keeps dropping and the definition of full employment keeps chasing it. Dataont we just use wage to help define what full employment is . Chairm
Invest in laborsaving is it not possible that improved wages themselves can help lead to improved product activity, which can create a virtual cycle with wage growth officer time yes, thats exactly what we hope is happening right now. So youre committing to keep your foot off the brake . When i was getting ready for this hearing, i went back and read something that you said in your very first year on the fomc committee. You noted you havent seen anything in the wage data yet to support that it struck me as interesting. It got me to thinking about my frustration, and how its been 2 1 2 years since he hit the supposed definition, yet it keeps dropping and the definition of full employment keeps chasing it it made me wonder, as it relates to what you said earlier, why dont we just use woo wage data to help define it. For a lodge time there was slack in the labor market. Weve reached the point where the risks are really twosided now. If we do get behind and the economy does overheat. If th
Days. The eurodollar slightly weaker, that uptrend to seems to have been broken with a stronger dollar over g10 with the exception of the yen. Its a buy treasury single after the big selloff we saw yesterday and goldman doubling down on bullish commodity bets. I want to take a quick check on the safety Asset Classes. I mentioned dollaryen, portugal if you want to take on risk, go to portugal. The yield there is down by eight basis points with a lot of buying going across the curve over in europe and the vix at 29. Gold is up by four dollars now. The vix at 29 feels like the different world. David people werent buying gold. Alix gold is really liquid, its not surprising saw some selling if you needed to get liquidity. You covered gold, back and forward. , the new york fed president space of the European Chamber of commerce in new york city at 10 30, crude Oil Inventory data will be released and 21st century fox and tesla both post earnings, coming up today. Terms the first take, the sto
Where theres you know, theyre used to a lot of cold weather. Theres a lot of soul searching going on inside the ioc. We have curling we have curling i watched that in person. It was very tense really tense once it was the eighth frame, they went up five points you sort of knew what was going on we had a guy sitting next to us doing his own play by play which helped in terms of some of the rules. Did you edit the Cross Country tape were you okay on this . I didnt fall so its like downhill kind of did you go up any hills its more like ice skating. All right welcome back. Lets check the markets after yesterdays 400point rally for the dow. The blue chips are up 10 since the lows of february 9th the nasdaq up more, its recovered all of its losses. Nasdaq 1 from its high that it hit back on january 29th the dow is still off by 3. 5 from the january 26th highs. Look at whats been happening this morning in the u. S. Equity futures. At this point, you can see where we are the nasdaq off by 1 th