Overall. You can see germanys dax regaining some of the losses, france is the only major indices in the red right now. The tenyear note yield very important, one of the reasons why the financials have performed so poorly and there is that yield, down just a bit, 2. 362, although this is right around where we were yesterday. As for oil, up and up rather nicely. And the latest s p case shiller home prices report, prices up 5. 9 in january compared to a yearni year ago, faster than the 5. 6 economists had been predicting. As for the road map, ford expected to announce significant new u. S. Manufacturing investments this morning. The automaker receiving high praise from the president. Plus futures are pointing to say flat open, the dow seeking to reverse course from the longest losing streak now since 2011, six years, and yum brand ceo reid will sit down exclusively with our own sarah eisen. Nobody elses. She is a road warrior. Lets deal with the bond issue up front, about an hour ago we g
Retailer issues weak guidance, announces the cfo will step down. Toll brothers is going the opposite direction. Sold more homes at higher prices driving up numbers for latest quarter. And facebook responding to claims that its trending topics are skewed by political bias. The revamp for that company is coming up. But first up, best buy shares falling in the premarket. The Electronics Chain issuing weaker than expected guidance for the quarter, First Quarter results did beat consensus, but domestic comps were essentially flat. Sales growth and wearables, home theater and appliances offset by some weakness in phones, tablets and gaming, but chair is leaving and at least citi for their part today says that means improvements from here on out could be limited. Yeah, i saw that downgrade. Well timed downgrade because the stock was starting to creep up. When you look at the actual numbers they did and look at their future, they kept their guidance, i didnt think it was all that bad but the d
Vote in the European Union makes you numb. Were dealing with total overload at this point. We have prominent rich people that dont care about stocks. We have Hedge Fund Managers talking about how the pound sterling will crash. We have wall to wall coverage of this event in every periodical. More than i can recall when portugal, ireland, italy, greece and spain were about to go belly up a few years ago. I think theres a real possibility we could be taking something that isnt a big deal. At least most certainly for the u. S. And turning it into one. If major countries had truly defaulted during the euro crisis a few years ago i think we could have seen a collapse of the western world. This issue again could easily have rivaled the panic of 20082009 in our country. Im choosing not to worry as much precisely because everyone else is. It will be my job to recommend the stocks that shouldnt have been hammered because they had nothing to do with britain. Of course, we have to wait for the peo
Monetary policy to congress today, as part of the testimony. It had this worrisome nugget about stock values. Quote, forward price to earnings ratios for equities have increased to a level well above their median over the past three decades. Although equity valuations do not appear to be rich. Term premiums are more normal levels. That is what they said. Yellen was asked about the possibility of asset bubbles. She was a bit more sanguine. She did not contradict the report. I dont see signs of extreme threats to Financial Stability be at this time. This is something we monitor very closely. But it is something that can happen in a low Interest Rate environment. So i dont think that i see any broadbased evidence of those Financial Stability concerns, but it is something thats possible. Now, the fed noted in the Monetary Policy report why the Interest Rates would rise. A rise in rates thats not connected to good economic news, concerned about inflation or other reason why yields would ris
Ford. You got to try to figure out i know david is completely driven by this idea of the driverless car. Well, were going to be in one, but we wont be driving. Jim, were going to get a lot with you in a few moments. In the meantime stocks are up three or four sessions, but a lot of bets may be held today as we await the brexit vote tomorrow. Europe relatively steady, a lot of earnings to get to and by the way oil did reclaim 50. Road map begins with the countdown to brexit. Were live in london with the latest on which way it could go and how Global Markets are reacting. Teslas offering to buy solar city, the price tag about 2. 8 billion. Were going to get elon musks take on whats really behind this offer. And shares of fed ex sinking after earnings. Well break down the numbers you need to know. But first up ahead of tomorrows uk referendum on eu membership, a number of polls have the outcome as too close to call. Wall street will also focus on day two of fed chair yellens capitol hill