Think you look at things like small caps in japan. Ashley gentlemen. Were already out of time. Jeremy schwartz and walt mccarthy. Theyre clapping away. Friday heading into the weekend. The dow, all we had to do finish in the green would be higher, short of another record but higher for the week. Here comes the the the closing belle with Melissa Francis and connell mcshane. Melissa s p 500 and nasdaq turning positive within the last hour. Im Melissa Francis. Connell is back. Connell i am connell in for david asman this is after the bell. What names are moving book, here is what else we have for you at this hour. Donald trump back to work, looking to fill his remaining cabinet positions. Among those paying him a visit, a democratic senator from north dakota. So were following that. Trump even taking his own team by surprise as we were taken by surprise with his pick for defense secretary last night. Well tell you who this general James Mad Dog Mattis is and some extraordinary measures ne
Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost alongside susan lee in for sara again. A very good morning, susan. Good to see you, wilfred. Lets get you up to speed. Dow closing. 25 . And the oil prices were stronger yesterday. The Energy Sector was the best performing sector. Oil prices up slightly again today. Thats led to gains around the world. And gains in the u. S. Futures markets, culled high by 66 points on the dow. About a third of 1 on all three of those indices. Its interesting to point out the biggest reaction to all of the fed speaker over the month has been bonds. If you look at the bond markets down to 1. 73 . Of course, we were near 1. 9 a few weeks ago. Well get you more to the markets in just a bit. But first, breaking split cal news. Montana, south dakota, north dakota, and the most up for grabs, 475 at stake for former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and senator Bernie Sanders. But ahead of todays contest, word comes that hillary has gone over the top of the magic number of
Good morning and welcome to World Wide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen. And im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. Throw back thursday. Some winning olympic spirit. These are the words i can see, but its not a classic sporting song. Its about winners. U. S. Has been winners in this olympic games. Lets check out the markets this morning. Show you with where we are. Flat to positive yesterday after stock traded lower most of the day. Looks like were mixed again this morning. Little moves here. Dow up two points. S p, futures up almost a point and the nasdaq is lower by negative 2 points. We have not seen a plus or negative 1 move on the stock market in 28 days. Looks like the pattern is set to continue this morning. We had one. 5 move this week which was wow. That was the biggest move in two weeks. Yesterday another flat session. As for the tenyear treasury note yield, yields have been increasing. Certainly off the lows and into the mid 150s. They backed off a bit. There
Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen. It is the first day of autumn today. Fall. Autumn. Even if i say your word, you would pick me up for saying it wrong. Fall. Happy fall, happy autumn. The summer was wonderful. Over too soon. Its Throwback Thursday today. The theme is coming, what is it . A fall theme. Look at that. Lets get you caught up to speed on the markets post Federal Reserve and post rally day on wall street. The market actually climbed more than 1 . It looks like futures are pointed higher again. A smaller amount this morning. Dow futures up 20. S p up 1. 2. Nasdaq futures up 6. The tenyear treasury note yield the fed decides to pause and hold off, wait for the economy to have room to run. The tenyear yield at 1. 64. Yields came lower after the fed. A lot of focus on the forecast or the dots for when fed members think the rate hikes will come and a lot look forward to 2017 where they pared it down from three hikes to two hikes. The pace of hikes might be slo
Buy. Throwback thursday as we said. This day in 2003 apple opened the iiphone store. We are expecting a slight decline, a big decline now in fact at the open. The dow down, the s p by 16 t nasdaq by about 10 points. Yesterday we did see a little bit of strength but not too much. And oil prices did hit highs of the year. That was the big story. 156 points the dow expected to open down. Lets have a look at the yield on the 10 year note. We did see a dovish reaction to the fed yesterday. Yield up to 1. 9 and now down to 1. 82. Still in the middle of the range weve seen. Meanwhile the big Global Market story. The bank of Japan Holding its Monetary Policy steady and cutting its inflation forecast. Most boj watchers had been expecting more stimulus. The yen soaring on the news. The euro and dollar dropping by comparison. Big drop for the euro in five years against the yen c, the dollar in something. There has been jawboning in the news where participants were led to expect policy action. And