Lisa and in the meantime, preparing for that washington d. C. Ceremony for july 4. David and if you dont want to watch that, you can watch the boston pops. Lisa right now we have a rather muted tone in markets. Nasdaq futures indicated slightly lower. In europe, a little bit of a gain. The euro gaining over the dollar. Cave on the part of italian leaders to European Union leaders on the part of their budget. David leaders getting something done. Lisa maybe. For now. David we are joined by lananh n guyen and michael mckee. Even as we are speaking, we have European Union Leadership Meeting once again in brussels. Michael well, they are supposed to start meeting, but they may be watching our show. Lisa but slightly. [laughter] michael they are struggling to come up with a compromise. Germans and french seem to be working well with the dutch to come up with leadership for the various commissioned posts, but the italians and others in the periphery havent cooperated. They dont want to just
To buying and selling friends across the country. We begin with dom chu with the latest numbers. Its green across the screen, but the tech trade, which has been the leader for the last several days, and even months and quarters and years at this point, is the underperformer in todds trade. Well go through that in a moment. Its the dow up nearly 300 points, three quarters of a 1 gain there. So a laggard is the leader in todays trade. The s p 500, the broader measure, 5170 the last trade there, up about 20 points. At the highs, we were up 23. So near session highs. We were down 18 points at the lows of the session. Up one half of 1 there. And the nasdaq composite up 16,151, up 48 points, roughly 1 3 of 1 . So its the laggard in todays trade. I mentioned the technology trade. Crypto is part of that narrative right now. Bitcoin prices, currently down about 3. 5 , 64,800 and change. Remember, just in the last several days, bitcoin prices were above 73,000. Eit ether prices were above 4,000.
Lackluster trading an ugly chart for the biggest in the market and shares have fallen 11 this month alone. Intel and microsoft also a drag today and its hard to get much going for the nasdaq as well given that tech slide weve seen and the continued march higher for yields take a look, the 10year higher again, pressed against its highest level since last october. It takes us to our talk of the tape state of stocks and why some say this correction is not over. New edges Cameron Dawson making the case here now at post nine good to see you again. We should note as were at the lows of the day, the dow has reached it 50sDay Moving Average. Why do you argue today that this has more to go the confluence of evidence would support theres more to go because of seasonality, were in a bad seasonal stretch, september the worst month. We know momentum has turned negative in the near term on a tactical basis and breath, the number of names trading above their 50Day Moving Average, its not washed out y
Yes, you heard it right. That debate is ahead but first lets get a check on the markets, and its kind of the wild west out there. Lots of movers the s p seeing lots of good, also a lot of bad and downright ugly movements the good, for instance, viatris beat on earnings, the bad, tyson foods missing on top and bottom lines citing lower demand and look at Sage Therapeutics slashing the price target this comes after the news force the rejection for its major depressive Disorder Treatment and the dow is actually moving towards session highs right now i should say, up 422 points, ty. Wall street cant seem to agree on whether or not were heading into a recession firms saying strong or maybe reversing their calls from earlier in the year. Reversing them generally towards the more dovish scenario inflation data out later this week, a key focus for many as we look for any sips about the health of the economy, but perhaps we should be focused on one thing in particular. That would be debt the st
Strong session. That sector going for its seventh straight day of gains. The only other areas with some green on the board kind of feels a little suspect as this last hour begins, well keep our eyes focused there as well. It takes us to our talk of the tape. Is the markets uncanny resiliency throughout much of 2023 a sign of whats to come in the months ahead or just too much to maintain. Lets ask eric johnston, hes made his case on this show that stocks are due for a big drop, and on the other side, nfjs john mowry who argued investors have been too negative. Both joining me live. Its good to have you both. Eric, youre here next to me. Ill come to you first. Why do you remain negative on this market as we make the turn into the fall . Yeah, so there remain significant headwinds that are in front of us, and i think looking forward. So i think if we look at a few different things, number one, this is a late cycle economy. Weve looked back and i would define the cycle by Unemployment Rate