Seeing signs of deflation and why the fed should not be hiking rates right now despite what was said today. Well get the case in a little bit. Lets start with the selloff. Bob pisani is tracking the action here on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Bob . Finally volatility. About sometime. Six weeks, a slow market overall. Last time the dow moved 1 , july 8th. Were due for volatility. Were reminded, hey, the markets arent positioned for a possibility of a september rate hike. What will you do . Sell Interest Rate sensitive stocks. Utilities market leaders all year. What else do you do . Might play a steepening yield curve and why financials might be improving. You can bet Insurance Companies of met life and prudential have happy. They had a miserable time in this environment. You bid up the dollar. That puts pressures on commodities and why they have been weak today. Thats why you see stocks like y rio tinto down. What else do you do . You buy volatility. So everybody who wants
Now is probably benefiting around 1,000 a year, and some very detailed microdata that i have seen on Household Spending patterns suggest there may be a link, as you would expect from reduce reduced amounts that people pay at the pump to overspending like eating out for restaurant meals and other things, but the aggregate data, you know, is not as strong spending is not as strong as it could be given the decline. And, of course on the other sigh we are it may be that it will take a while and its something that will slowly strengthen over time if Oil Prices Stay low. On the other side, of course, we have seen a marked decline in drilling, which is depressed investment spending, and, of course, very substantial layoffs in the energy sector. With respect to impact of oil prices on inflation and what would happen if they move up, the committee has generally tended to look through movements of oil prices, whether they were on the up side or on the down side, viewing it as a factor that shoul
May be missing their flights because of the tsas performance. One of the best examples of government waste on treadmills, we will look at the congressional pig book. The Golden State Warriors winning their 73rd game of the season setting a new record for the most games won in a single season and an end of an era in los angeles, kobe bryant going out with a bang scoring 60 points, all the highlights coming up. We are on it. Jpmorgan set the tone yesterday with betterthanexpected numbers, futures looking at a possible pullback. Big rally in stocks. In asia gained across the board on the heels of that triple digit move for us stocks. The nikkei and japan up 3numfour . European stocks today, the s p down a fraction. 25 points hire, although stories coming up in the program, Dagan Mcdowell and michael bloch, good to see you, you are just back from rome and we want to hear about it. Maria Chris Collins is with us, the chairman of Donald Trumps president ial campaign, retired general and fox
Global markets are going now. Dont do it today, hitting that 118,000 mark, could tomorrows jobs number put us over the top . A closer look at what people are expecting tomorrow morning, when that allimportant report from the Labor Department is released, 8 30 a. M. Morelier Oil Prices Today as we showed here on closing bell yesterday. Some stations, look at that we did it, 1. 99 a gallon. Thats why a few politicians now from both sides to of the aisle are starting to talk about the possibility of raising the gasoline tax, which hasnt been done in about 20 years and use that money to help fix our crumbling infrastructure. We have a de bit on that. Our friends kudlow and frank will be joining us. That should be fun. Looking forward to that. Will have a chance to weigh in. Here is what we see on the markets, an hour to go in the session it is the oil names again which are weighing on the dow, off about 16 points. Seems like chevron off about 2 . Exxon down about half of 1 . The s p dividi
Have been lost as a result of all of that. The biggest blizzard though turned out to be inside the New York Stock Exchange today. Well put. Take a look at whats happening in the market. We are geared up for a negative start then got a flurry of earnings. Caterpillar disappointing. Microsoft didnt help thing. Both stocks getting hit hard. Whats interesting, thats contributing to the dow being a weaker performer than the s p today. Its off 231 points. The s p mean while down less than 1 . So you could argue perhaps its an oversized reaction to a couple big companies, but by the way, theyre important companies, and by the way, the nasdaq also off 1. 3 . If we get a moment could we see crude oil settled higher. We did see a comeback in that sector and energy was one of the leaders to the upside in an otherwise down day. Crude oil was up 2 . It was up 3 in the settlement. Were in the electronic trading right now. In fact, i will just point out, the aaa Daily National average gasoline gauge