Opened up 250 points. Its not that i want stocks to go lower. You know that. I just hate it when people buy stocks up huge and then get picked off by a gigantic move that should never have occurred. As the average gave up almost all of their gains, closing up 33 points. The s p climbing 3. 2 . Nasdaq advancing just 0. 62 . The severe retreat made much more sense to me than the up opening because it was based on nothing that has happened here. And therefore zero staying power during the day. I get upset when i see that were taking our cue from the chinese stock market. And when they rally, we open higher . Well, the sellers come in knowing they have been given a gift, the gift of higher prices for all stocks. A gift that is frankly undeserved. The only difference this time we had to be wear of chinese bearing gifts, not just the grifts. Its this infuriating setup with the dollar and Interest Rates were going higher. We know that those are both poison to stocks. Well stocks were still cl
Was it the fed with so many voices calling for rate hikes . Was it the consumer or the earnings for some companies or the fact that oil seems to be unable to break . Every day we try to figure out what is ailing this market. This week i looked up the fabled july 15, 1979 crisis of confidence speech to see what jimmy carter said during a period where america was suffering from a collective malaise. And i quote, for the first time in our history in the history of our country, a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years, carter told the nation. Again, quote, it is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will, end quote. Of course at the time we were suffering from gas lines caused by an opec embargo, and from wild inflation caused in part by a weaker dollar that eroded our savings. Now the price of oil is on tenter hooks after being cut in half and its the dollars strength thats hurting earnings. Ther
Every day we try to figure out what is ailing this market. This week i looked up the fabled july 15, 1979 crisis of confidence speech to see what jimmy carter said during a period where america was suffering from a collective malaise. And i quote, for the first time in our history in the history of our country, a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years, carter told the nation. Again, quote, it is a crisis th and soul and spirit of our national will, end quote. Of course at the time we were suffering from gas lines caused by an opec embargo, and from wild inflation caused in part by a weaker dollar that eroded our savings. Now the price of oil is on tenter hooks after being cut in half and its the dollars strength thats hurting earnings. Theres some kind of aversion to owning stocks which i think is part of a genuine belief that the future will be worse than the past for many americans. Carter talked about a poisoned political envir
What is ailing this market. This week i looked up the fabled july 15, 1979 crisis of confidence speech to see what jimmy carter said during a period where america was suffering from a collective malaise. And i quote, for the first time in our history in the history of our country, a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years, carter told the nation. Again, quote, it is a crisis that strikes at the very Heart National will, end quote. Of course at the time we were suffering from gas lines caused by an opec embargo, and from wild inflation caused in part by a weaker dollar that eroded our savings. Now the price of oil is on tenter hooks after being cut in half and its the dollars strength thats hurting earnings. Theres some kind of aversion to owning stocks which i think is part of a genuine belief that the future will be worse than the past for many americans. Carter talked about a poisoned political environment but the partisan rancor
First we start off with apple shares falling 1. 5 as the country underwhelmed the developers conference. Josh lipton is there. Reporter melissa, the app store eight years ago had 500 apps. Fast forward to today, 2 million apps that have been downloaded. Some 130 billion times. Ceo tim cooks jobs keep these developers very happy. He started his key note today by talking to the thousands of developers about the companys products and platforms. Now we offer you four incredible platforms that power these worldchanging product experiences. Watch os. Tv os. Os 10. Ios. Were going to move each of these platforms forward today. Reporter other apple executives were also on stage today, including eddie cue and craig. Developers i talked to, most excited about one change in particular. Apple is now going to let them integrate siri into their answer. That would mean, for example, you could use siri to order an uber or book a reservation. Apple music, which critics had said was clunky, confusing, n