News on the banks. We were discussing on closing bell the banks finding out this evening what this extra stress tests theyll go through this fall will be there will be two severe recessions it will be tested against as opposed to normally one. Its possible we could interpret those severe recessions as not as bad as they could have been june saw unemployment spiking to 10 . This test has two versions one is that it spikes to 12. 5 and then dips more quickly to 7 7. 5 both of those factors perhaps highlight the severely adverse scenario didnt get that much worse given the year that were in than perhaps it could have got. 10 unemployment to 11 or 12 is not that much worse. That will also include a stock market decline by 30 house prices falling 26 all of course headlinegrabbing changes but not that much worse than they could have been given the fact that we already knew this early set of tests was coming there is one line that stands out at the end of the statement that says, the board re
First, todays show is brought to you by the letter b thats because bond yields, bullion, big cap tech. Fed chair Jerome Powell gears up for a high stakes speech from jackson hole summit. With bullion up, big tech up, what is up with the market as we gear up for powell, guy . I like to hear you say bullion. I feel like im going to have soup or go back to doing what i used to do back in the day its wonderful you can do an entire show saying that word. Whats up . Risk assets are continuing to go higher based on we talked about this a couple days ago, the fact they said they will be a historic speech for the fed in the way they view inflation, the way they measure inflation and thats why the market took off and i think thats why you saw it probably move today into that speech the things you didnt mention and forget it but they didnt rhyme with b or start with b the russell was down today and the vix closed north of 23 those are two very interesting things to take into consideration along w
Also janet yellin saying maybe the Federal Reserve should be allowed to buy equities directly maybe they should be able to were going to talk about the markets all show long. And see if were getting getting around this area well look at where we understand with the indications. And where we think we might be in flat thing that curve waiting on tim seymour as well, tony dwyer will join us too, it is a big market day. Lets begin now with these markets. Guy adami, i have a statistic for you that i think may move you given the kind of weeks we have had in the moveup, the qqq well talked about on this fine program, is it now higher year over year. I mean, some of the its amazing what you can do with numbers, i didnt know that and thank you for sharing that, and happy monday to everybody. This is a good day, and listen i think you can take some glimmer of hope from that absolutely tims joining in, and hes been optimistic, which is good. Dan has a longer slew that he will share about where th
Falling 973 point, but the real damage was done in the small caps which got a lot smaller today. The small cap indexes, you name it, you can throw a dart and hit one, it was down 7 to 8 . Small caps on concern of the domestic economy taking it on the chin you also have to look at the big banks. Big bank stocks also in the red. You heard the gang before just talking about it and also focus on boeing. Boeing losing another 12 today. Another very difficult day for boeing and the airlines in general. Just a reminder, we of course, at 5 00 will be monitoring that White House Coronavirus press briefing when it occurs, if you have marketmoving headlines or headlines that you need to know, we will bring you into that as always, waiting for it to begin and well dip in once or twice during the show, as well welcome, everybody as said, im Brian Sullivan and we have a great trader panel we have tim, karen, dan and guy. The gang is all here, and karen finerman, i want to begin with you because i kn
Now people are suggesting because of the weirdo incidents, cramer called them morons the vix is leading the market because people are selling to pay for positions they were in over their head on. Wouldnt be the first time the tail wags the dog. Is it the tail or the dog the answer is yes. Guys, take it away. Have a good couple hours. Thank you this is the closing bell, everybody. The final hour of trade has everybody focused on whether were going to go back and retest the lows weve seen this week. We have sort of, but is it enough thats the question. Is is it enough for the market another big selloff. The dow was down nearly 700 points at the lows midday, but we are well off those lows right now but that could change. Stick around as bill mentioned, we have higher Interest Rates. That could be one factor sparking selling another thing to keep an eye on, the u. S. Dollar hit a twoweek high earlier in the session before it gave background. Right now we have Team Coverage of this decline