More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
Across 420,000 acres and that is about 14 times the size of San Francisco and they are still having no containment. It is daunting, it is overwhelming. It is out of control and it is out of anybodys control. We are covering all angles of this massive fire battle including the unhealthy air and the impact as people escape. Lets look at the mountains, where an update is about to began. We are coming to you from the incident command post in the city of Scotts Valley and they have a map that shows significant it has expanded in size overnight. We will get the exact numbers once the press conference gets started. Where we are standing, this is west of highway 17 and we are in the mandatory Evacuation Order area. It will give you a better sense. Look at this map it shows you how big of an area were talking about. The orient shaded in red is a la honda to the north. Skyway 17 to the east and down to santa cruz campus and then the only thing stopping it was the Pacific Ocean to the west. At la
Oleary is with us kevin, welcome back to you look at where we stand right now following that adp employment report been all over the place. Nasdaq has been positive throughout dow has been bouncing around, as has the s p 500. The jobs number shocking, neutralized somewhat, though, by the continued move in tech stocks, like apple, rising above 300 a share today pete, thats really why were talking about the divergence these horrific economic numbers. And yet, unbelievable stock market numbers, because of tech, which is the only s p sector positive on the year yeah, its been an unbelievable rise out of those tech stocks that you mentioned, and sprinkle a little bit with the tech stocks as well. Because weve seen a really nice rise there we know how narrow this is the narrowness really comes with those megacap stocks and we talk about these all the time and thats something that obviously last year, f. A. A. N. G. Was the big story. We continue to have a narrow sort of group thats absolutel
Started arresting protestors ahead of the Third Straight weekend of protests in Hong Kong Shanghai composite finishing the day in red european european equities here we are higher across the board german dax is up by almost 1 and almost 1 gains in france as well as for treasury yields, amazing to think that the ten year yield was at a three year low earlier this weekend 1. 443 were now at 1. 526 with the two year 1. 544 so the inversion remains exact. A new journal piece says that states attorney generals are taking issue with that proposed opioid deal with purdue. It will settle with a 2 billion settlement it will link much of that with future sales of oxycontin. Some states want the family itself to guarantee a larger cash payment up front. Others didnt like parts of the plan that calls for purdue to claim bankruptcy and emerge as a Public Benefit company theyll ask for an update today about where negotiations stand, he said he wants at least 35 states on board although a deal can mo
This after a day of trading that saw s p 500 hit another alltime high, second straight day of record. Meantime investors are cautiously awaiting upcoming earning season with 80 of s p 500 Companies Reportedly cutting earnings forecast. Joining me research chief macro strategist lenor hawkins, what is driving the market to plus side if you watch the bond market, 10year yield falling and closing below 2 yesterday and then you this percentage of s p 500 Companies Cutting their earnings forecast . This is really all about the fed in the hope that easy money will keep prices going up because this has nothing to do with fundamentals, if you look at what happened at first half of the year, s p 500 rose 17 , the strongest first half of the year since 1997 but if we look at earnings, if we look at whats going on with the fundamentals, earnings declined 4. 4 for the s p 500 for the First Quarter and expect today decline negative 2. 3 in second quarter, you have prices going up while the actual r