Good morning im becky quick along with joe kernen and ars there are some red arrows. You have to look at what has been happening over the last week joe mentioned it is up 3. 5 this week alone watch what has happened. The crazy whip saw market picking up again walking you through the dow. Thank for peter for helping me out with this. The record high 25,551 on november 12. Falling to the low on march 23, 18,591 yesterday, june 3, the dow up 41 back to 26,269 the same story with the s p. Looking at that, you will see it hit a record high 3,386 on february 19. Fell on march 23 to 2,237. Yesterday back to 3,122. It just shows you how rapidly these things have happened and how much ground has been made if you are looking at the nasdaq. Only up 1. 4 from the record close from february 20 treasury yields have picked up the 10year yielding 0. 746 . Crude oil prices are down this morning. Concerns that that opec plus meeting. That there will not be any cuts extended a lot of that comes as you ar
The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized today declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today, were here to examine the impact of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witness is facebooks chairman and ceo, mark zuckerberg. Facebooks plans to create a digital currency, libra, and a digital wallet raise many concerns relating to privacy, trading risk, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy, and the stability of the Global Financial system. I and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks development of this digital currency, libra, and digital wallet until congress can examine the issues associated with a Big Tech Company developing these Digital Products and take
Unexpectedly in july europes economic engine has been hit by the u. S. China trade war and uncertainty of a break said but new figures show exports rose by point 6 percent michel months and by it was 4 percent compared with the same period last year imports fell further than expected is this a 6 office says that underlines concerns the economy has lost momentum many economists expect germany to fall into recession later this year. Meeting his chief economist at the bank and joins us from our frankfurt studios. Where is the mighty German Economy at right now losing steam last state about to lose a lot of state. The German Economy has lost a lot of steam German Economy is probably at the moment stagnating the export data are very volatile in july was a good month but some of data can be somewhat unreliable the overall trend judging by Business Confidence and especially by export orders is still down because the figures that we just got out now its been a very different picture as far as
Joining us is josh brown. I think this is so important, we have this continued strength in the big indices and faang is not leading. This is the thing that everyone has always said. Its a very narrow market, only a handful of stocks. That is not whats get on this year yes, theres been huge performance in some of the faang names. A lot of that was recovery, but you have a broadened rally, something weve been looking for for a long time, and you have great rotation you still can get new highs out of the indices one thing i think is indicative of that, boeing down 2. 7 , give or take, thats the biggest weighting in the xli, almost 9 . Caterpillar, also a bad day. Thats either the third or the fourth biggest weight in the xli. Despite the xli, its doing great. You have other names picking up the slack. And that tells that theres strength everywhere. Thats really what a lot of people like myself have wanted to see. Of course in a price weighted index like the dow, they are dragging. Boeing
The same as wall street saw the two previous market peaks, september and may. The pricetoearnings ratio below 17 for the next 12 months. Right now ahead of what could be a couple of fed rate cuts and a trade deal still in the works with china, is the market still a value trade or a value trap . Who is that dion warwick it is dionne warwick. Like that wasnt on in your car on the way over. I love that sothebys stuff. Deja vu my voice, i apologize to the people at home i know you think you know me, and you say, absolutely, value trapped in terms of the s p and you know what, mel youd be wrong wrong wrong, i think its a value trade. I think its 17 times for ward earnings and in this low Interest Rate environment the market is not expensive and it will not sell off because because of other reasons and theyre right at the top and the fact that maybe the fed will disappoint or maybe there is no china deal or maybe this situation with iran gets worse and the mark has a lot of reason to sell of