Wednesday. Closing the day up by 123 points still on track for major indices to see the third week in a row looking at dow futures s p 500 down by 10, nasdaq down by 25. What happened . Stocks took a dive it was more a product of the percentages were going up for powell to have another cut all but factored in. Bad news has become good news. Good news has become good news if you look at the december percentage cut, it doubled 30 to 60 . October, yes december, yes. Sort of. The market took that as a positive well see what happens today the jobs report is the all important one that hits in 2. 5 hours time. Looking at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei ended up by about a third a percentage point the hang seng is up just over 1 you are looking at a mixed picture. Not Much Movement for the dax or the ftse a little weakness in italy and spain. Looking at treasury yields coming under pressure on this data in terms of the ism manufacturing numbers and the nonmanufacturing ism we got y
The dow has been up seven sessions in a row. S p is up six out of the last seven sessions you are talking the highest closes since late july overnight in asia, the sang high deposit was closed for a public holiday. The hang seng up almost 1 in europe, it looks like now most of those markets are in the green, one exception is the ftse down by about. 1 . If you check out treasury yields in the united states, another big story is what happens to the yields some of that movement started after treasury secretary told us that Treasury Department is looking seriously at the idea of a 50year bond for some time next year. Right now, the 30 year is yielding 2. 28 i saw him later in washington and he started talking about 100year bond for the next consideration. Did you prepare for seeing him by watching the interview we conducted . I did thats why i decided to take the 50 and up theante and ask him about 100. To beat the record, he would have to serve 13 years see, i knew it were you talking abo
Here in new york but the markets are a little soggy right now United Health, the biggest of the dow downers. Morgan stanley lowering its price target but keeping an overweight rating for United Health peleton shares are trading lower marking another disappointing ipo. Bob is looking at some of how the biggest names are performing the buying public is saying prices for ipo is too high even if its centered around sound concep concepts this process has begun several months earlier of 120 ipos that have gone public, 22 have broken their ipo price on the first day of trading. About half are still trading below their initial price. Many ipos started really strong but they have been slipping recently as the investors question the valuation had a great week it was up 26 . Its now 6 this week. Crowd strike was huge back inror months but its down 16 this week mpl peleton off the lows of the day and disappointing debut for the company that makes those bikes and treadmills and offers classes. In w
Now we are at 29. 80ish we have been going side ways most of the year in 1997, the year started at an alltime high and went up. It is true. You think about where we were Christmas Eve and we had taken a huge plunge. We got it back interesting on the performance. Similar to the u. S. But china lagged significantly where we are in the trade war. Who is hurting more or less. Down about 4. 7 china has closed today but something to keep your eye on treasury yields are up part of that because of a weak japanese option not exactly for risk on reasons. I wonder if the new quarter means youve loosened up a little bit looking even at absolute levels, a lot of that has been weak. At the end of the quarter, it hasnt money too significant well be a bit of a head wind. Still talking about growth from 6 yesterdays day was fractionally better the eurozone manufacturing and final print was a tiny bit of expectations still the worst to october 2012, the Global Growth out look does not look particularly
From the journal and now the times. I mean is there good read on how much danger hes in . I dont know. He has control of the board. I think he ph wins a lot of support. The Company Needs money and dep was an important part of this whole thing and therefore he kept quite do what he has the power to do necessarily. Yep wipe out the entire board if he wanted, but they do need soft banks leverage. How much money do they need . Softmu softmoney, well see i think everyone is interested in getting this thing back on track and sort of recover from the disastrous s1. Kara, this feels different to me from uber but i cant figure out why. Its these two ceos who have this maverick streak who are on this growth at all costs, sort of tear. So why does it feel to me like if newman were to step away, the whole reason for believing in the companys growth wouk be at issue here. You mean without him its nothing . I dont think thats true of any company im not saying that, no but so much of the mythology ar