Outside the New York Stock Exchange where traders and tourists flooded the streets to look up at the sky, but inside the exchange, the light was muted, trading was quiet, vol wr ume was light. Dont think for a minute nothing is happening in this market. New lows today eclipsed new highs. We had to do it. Some say investors are becoming jittery even though the dow and s p 500 were higher for the first day in three sessions. A closer look shows the indexes are being pulled back down to earth on track for their worst month of the year. Today, the Dow Jones Industrials rose 29 points to 21,703 but nasdaq fell 3 points. Meantime, the s p was up a modest 2. But it is small cap stocks, the russell index, that is getting a lot of attention these days. It tends to start and lead declines and today it turned negative for the year. Bob pisani has more. Reporter stocks going mixed today but the dow is still on track to post its worst monthly performance since october of last year. You know, weve s
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Performer. The nasdaq finished just in the positive, verily. Oliver the nasdaq has remained somewhat boy it after the past couple weeks. Deeper in the stock market, i won a look at a couple of those sectors you mentioned. So well. Not doing that has been part of the market hurting quite a bit. Matt that reminds me of the death of the safety trade. And the birth of this conversation that will keep happening. Financials held up a bit possibly due to the fact we are getting more hawkish. Bigger moves. Not a huge move on the week but he was looking at the same kind of reversal of the trend in which financials are staying in the green. Energy getting hit. Commodities not getting hit. Utilities down 3. 2 on the week. Eventually flat after fisher came and muddled that message a bit. A threeday chart here on my terminal. You can see i put a line at the close of day two. Day two was one carson block came on Bloomberg Television exclusively and told the world of his short trade on saint jude and
Outlier. That is the close from friday. Theyre having a bank holiday in the uk. Finally, take a look at where we are on crude. Its been sliding throughout the morning. Its been in focus for equities here in the u. S. And across the world. Wti just slipped below 47 a barrel. Its down 1. 5 . Brent is trading roughly lower by about the same. That is below 50 a barrel. Scott . Loud noises at Los Angeles International airport causing panic late last night as many confused the sounds for gunshots. Passengers at lax were seen running from terminals on to a tarmac after Police Responded to 911 calls from many locations about a shooting at the airport. Around 11 45 p. M. Eastern time. Police conducted two sweeps and concluded the reports were unfounded and there was no shooting. In business news. Look for personal income and spending. On tuesday, we get the home price index and august consumer confidence. Wednesday, its adp employment report. Chicago pmi and pending home sales on thursday. Look