Well have the numbers the moment they cross and the best analysis in Business News. Of course we are waiting for president obama during this hour to speak at the white house. Set to speak about his request for congress to authorize money and power to fight isis abroad before they infiltrate the United States. Well bring you, of course his comments live as soon as he takes the podium. Lets have a look at exactly where we are on the markets right now. The dow at its lows was down 109 points. Its quite a strong comeback although i guess for your Broader Market the s p still negative for now the third time in four sessions. We keep trying to make a hit at 2,068 and keep failing on that. Were five points higher than our recent range. The nasdaq is higher. This is the third decline in four sessions for the dow and the s p 500. Okay. Lets bring in our contributing panelists today. They include Keith Fitzgerald from money map press, Jack Bouroudjian with us from index Financial Partners jeff r
Bill theres plenty of attention on what a poorer start this trading year is off to and not just any day or two days to see this kind of pressure but the two days to kick off the year traditionally not a great sign. Two other markets very quickly. Oil, yes, we continued lower again. Big time. Down another almost 4 on wti. We are now at 48. It did touch the 47 range and brent is threatening to go below 50 at this point. Lets show you if we can the 10year yield. It touched 1. 88. At its lowest point today taking us back the lows of last october. Yes. On your screen there, you are seeing the 10year u. S. Treasury note below 2 . The 30year well below 2. 5 . I mean, we are talking about levels we havent seen since the financial crisis and there is a big element perhaps of whats happening overseas but lets talk about it in the exchange. Markets see the dow off 92. Nasdaq off 39 and s p off 11. Joining us in that said exchange today, margie patel, david kudlow jeff reeves Samuel Stovall and Ri
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Off 20. 6 and the nasdaq, thats the one thats off 39 as you can see right there. Also keeping an eye on the small caps. Flipping through and looking for the names as they get more attention on the valuation here and more and more people want to play these as a way to protect themselves against some of these external currency moves. Watch this index for signs of overvaluation or a pull back. Whats calling the shots today . Oil has been continuing to move lower on more evidence of ever higher inventories in this country. Were still just pumping like mad and filling up coffers around the country, so the price of wti crude is now at 45, and brent north sea closed below 55 a little while ago. And, oh, by the way, the dollar continues to move higher as well. So were now at 1. 05 at this point. Look at the round number on the dollar index. 100. It was not that long ago this thing was trading in the high 70s. A huge move. Again, a lot of that is against the euro but its not just the euro its o
That long to come back to an alltime high. And lets all remember the last time we were there in 2000 we felt like we were at mt. Everest at that time because it had gone straight up. And it didnt take very long for it to come plunging back down to earth although this time is different. A lot of people looking at the valuations and a number of reasons. Well talk about then and now. Also something to note heading into the close, quadruple witching. The expiration of four different options contracts to make for a bumpy ride and exciting and higher volume ride into the close. That is what could put us over the top for the nasdaq today. So well watch that going into the final hour here. Lets show you how were doing otherwise for the major averages. The dow is up 233 points. Thats close to the high for the session right now as a matter of fact, up 1. 3 . And the s p is up 24 points now at 2113. Lets get to our closing bell exchange. A lot to talk about our guests today including jeff reeves