Sectors, however, employment was steady to rising in most other sectors. And throughout the nation, labor markets are set to remain tight. And widespread labor shortages were actually reported wage growth, however, something that weve talked about for a long time was modest to moderate home sales front, moderate variation. Now, prices rose at a moderate pace however, some businesses were indeed passing along tariff increases to consumers and i want to take you through a few of the regional comments which we got which in many cases represent an aboutface from the prior beige book in new york, sectors plan to raise their sale prices in 2020. And it rose significantly and they anticipate higher prices among manufacturers. One last thing here, in cleveland, retailers said tariffs put upward pressures on costs. So we have these districts around the country reporting that these tariffs are still working their way through the economy. It could potentially put some upward pressure on inflation
And we have executives at davos falling over themselves to take action against Climate Change, something that will hurt their earnings per share even if it may save the environment. Yet, none of that seemed to matter until midday and then ultimately, the dow dropped 152 points s p. After we learned that the coronavirus has reached our stores and boeing told us that the 737 max wont resume service until june or july causing its stock to crumble and taking the average down with it. The coronavirus is precisely the kind of outbreak that would have decked any other market right from the opening i mean, really cause it to plummet. And then what would happen is it wouldnt get off from the canvas it would stay down but this market was able to hang in there until that onetwo punch this afternoon well, this hasnt resulted in huge number of fatalities, at least not yet. The fact that respiratory viruss like this one are incredibly difficult to contain should play a role here. So far, it seems le
3. 5 . Were at 63. 35 on that contract. Lauren stocks in asia, more subdued trading, shanghai slightly lower, kospi slightly higher. Cheryl taking a look at europe, theres going to be reaction the to this overnight strike and the possible tension escalation between the u. S. And the iranians. The ftse is slightly higher but the cac in paris and dax in germany are lower. And welcome to fbn a. M. And good morning, everyone. Im cheryl casone. Lauren what a morning. Good morning to you at home. Im lauren simonetti. Lets get to it. Iranian officials vowing to fight back after President Trump authorizes a massive air strike killing irans most revered military leader. Cheryl we have the breaking developments from jordan. Trey, good morning. Reporter good morning. Overnight, the United States assassinated the most Senior Member of irans military. This man was responsible for overseeing irans proxies throughout the middle east in places like gaza, lebanon, iraq and syria. What we are getting ac
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Sector is feeling some pain from trade. Lets check markets because we are to have a negative Market Impact overnight. Given the heightened geopolitical tensions, we saw the 10year yield dropped. Were back to 1. 81 right now and rising once more. Treasuries selling despite that manufacturing data. We have the s p 500 down 0. 7 . The only sector that is positive is energy. Not that strange when you think oil prices are a few bucks higher. The dollar index is close to 97. The yen is stronger. Most currencies are weaker versus the u. S. Dollar, which is acting as a safe haven. Gold as to point to well because you can see gold is up another 1. 2 . We are close to the 1515 mark. Crude 63. 60. We are off of session highs. Rent trading 68. 81. Big reactions on the treasury markets. Isn is significantly weaker. Stocksxx 600, european are down. Airline stocks are suffering the most. Risk off toassic geopolitical events in the middle east kind of day for these markets. Just day two of 2020. Vonni