Fall. The central bank shift as the bank of japan ends the negative Interest Rates. Later, with the National Association of realtors settlement means for realtor s and brokers. Its tuesday, march 19th, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Thank you so much for being with us. Lets get you ready for the trading day ahead. We kickoff the hour with the stock futures check with the positive session for stocks yesterday and hthe fed kicking off the twoday policy meeting. The s p is flat. Dow is just down a bit. We are checking the yields. The benchmark coming in at 4. 32 . We will watch the moves this morning. We want to look at energy market. Look at the oil which is coming off the highest close since october. It is fractionally higher. Wti is trading above 80 a barrel. 83 a barrel. Brent crudeat 87 a barrel this morning. Thats the set up. Lets turn our attention overseas and the story of the boj and the impact with the
This year for june. The market looking for confirmation of that and sentiment stateside could be key. As we look at the overall picture, we are down. 40 . We are strong with the heat map bringing on the green early on. We are seeing oil and gas at the top and autos at the bottom. One lone sector with porsche right at the pbottom of the bac of numbers. Telcos and utilities and under performers today. Real estate is an under performer as well. The chemicals basket is up. 50 . Household goods up over. 50 . The banks with hsbc up 1. 5 . We have Technology Names up by. 60 today. Travel and leisure is improving. Basic resources is a top performer. Oil and gas with the bounce up 1. 7 . The ftse 100 is 7,731. The addition of 60 p0 points ascertain us above 7,700. The French Market is above the 8,000 point level. Settling in above 8,000. The other main boards from the smi to the italian market up. 30 . Little more appetite on the stocks from spain today with the ibex at. 40 . Strong signals cre
Week look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei eking out another gain a gain of 9 points, but thats the 14th day in a row that weve been looking at gains for the nikkei these are the highest levels weve seen in 21 years nikkei closing at 21,457 the hang seng with a gain of 1. 17 . And the shanghai up by 0. 28 the dax is up, the cac in france is up by 0. 21 spain is up, but just barely look at crude oil snapped a fourday winning streak. It is still above 50s a b s a on the wall street agenda just one piece of economic data, september existing home sales out at 10 00 eastern time. Well watch that carefully after getting some week housing numbers lately fed chair janet yellen is the keynote speaker this evening at an event at National Economists club in washington ge, honeywell, Procter Gamble, suntrust reporting results before the open. Later today an exclusive interview with ges chairman and ceo, John Flannery 10 00 a. M. Eastern, squawk on the street. Just to give explain why
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