At the New York Stock Exchange you can say stocks are sinking you can say they are stinking, folks. Trade tensions in washington, eamon javers has the latest from the white house on trade and Steve Liesman is here to explain what is a yield curve inversion and why it has so many people so worried. Lets begin with mr. Pisani at the nyse it is weak Global Economic data remember, yield curve inversion is in effect, not a cause. The Global Economic data that is issue were seeing those sectors that would respond to that are the weakest, including retailers, energy, semiconductors, and industrials. Everything is down rather uniformly, anywhere between 2. 5 to 4 . A lot of emphasis on sectors that are already deep into correction territory, were talking more than 20 down from their recent highs and almost all of these are due to trade tensions, Global Growth and tariffs being the two big aspects of that. Pharmaceuticals is the one exception off the highs, a lot of separate issues dealing with
Seat back seat rally where all the wrong stuff the minerals the oil complex, led the market beautifully . With the dow climbing 369 points, the biggest twoday gain since december, 2008. S p pole vaulting. Nasdaq rocketing 2. 5 . Arent we supposed to want to roll costs down and down and down some more . Not up huge as they were today . I know its tough to explain how oil is spiking, almost 10 the biggest oneday move in six years. It will be a positive. Today it was certainly hailed by investors as a big one. Lets go there, though. Because its what happened today and it was a very important day because it was a stress reliever. A stress reliever, for many of the biggest investors of capital all around the globe. Let me set the scene up for you. The proximate cause of the nasty selloff we traveled through the weakness in chosen, it was exacerbated into belief until yesterday that the fed seemed unaware and how frail the worlds economy had come. But yesterdays comments from new york fed pr
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I am francine lacqua. Manus i am manus cranny. Mario draghi says the ecb will do what it must. Where have we heard that before echo do what it must to raise inflation quickly. Francine Downside Risks have increased. His remarks are the ones we heard from governing council members. Manus hans nichols is in frankfurt. We just finished hearing that speech. Echoing what he heard what he said a year ago. This time it is about inflation. Hans he is concerned about inflation not rising high enough. The risks are manifest. The most important thing we heard was him talking about what he may do on deposit rates, signaling their level they can empower an increase the bang for the buck that you can get for asset purchases. A pretty strong hint that you are going to get something on the deposit rate. Confidence. Ius circled it because i was looking for evidence on what he could be confident. He didnt give much confidence he didnt give much reason for any confidence. We are going to have the slowest
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