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Five points. Not much action in the indexes, personalction in the indexes, particularly with energy stocks. Betty exxon and chevron posted dismal earnings. We have seen the plunge and oil price. Primm there you have it. Down another one point. Betty 47 a barrel now. Futures are up. There near the level of a bottom. 1000. Primm lets look at some of the top stories on the bloomberg terminal. To the Worlds Energy giants have then hurt by the worldwide glut of crude oil. Exxon mobil has its worst quarterly performance in six years, and the income fell by more than half. That could force exxon to cut costs more than previously planned. Promptedrgy prices chevron to write it down write down the price of its oil fields. The benchmark west texas oil will finish july down 20 . There is no sign that the glut of oil will end. U. S. Stock fire rolls are 100 Million Barrels above the fiveyear average. Production set a record this month in southern iraq. Fedex has agreed to pay 4. 8 billion for at t
Run, right . Reporter not a bad strategy, it seems, because the short term has been very bumpy. And heres a question we get asked a lot. Are we in an official bear market yet . Technically, a bear market is designed to say weve dropped 20 from recent highs. As of tonight, were down about 10 from recent highs, so not yet a bear market. Back to you. Okay. Hold on. Thanks, scott. If you want to remain calm while the stock market fluctuates, you may want to avoid following twitter. The hash tag blackmonday went viral around the world. Take a look at this time lapse map. The first map shows yesterday at noon pacific time. Things were pretty calm with an occasional tweet every hour or so. Flash forward to today at 9 00 a. M. Pacific. Hundreds of tweets a second from around the world talking about black monday. Our coverage continues on nightly news with a look at whats happening and what you can do to protect your retirement nest egg in the stock market. Nightly news with lester holt begins
Typically have over the past several months after the north Korea Foreign minister says that President Trumps comments over the weekends have amounted to a declaration of war. The dow and the s p have recovered to some degree, although they are still down one third of 1 . We are seeing a selloff in Technology Stocks today. Microsoft,etflix, all taking a steep hit today. Its an interesting disconnect we are seeing here. Atr a doll by heimer over oppenheimer, tough me about how this has been doing better. This looks postelection, we have seen this rally in the smallcap relative to the large cap. Getting done as the domestically Oriented Companies are seeing it potentially benefiting from that. Will continue to watch that trend as we get more details. Tenor seeing a risk off in the wake of those north korea comments. The yield reversing some recent games now. Recent gains now. It has been accelerating throughout the day. Still at historically suppressed levels. Oil is continuing its rally
Getting hit. The worst more than 1 . Lets dive into that. Charted the ratio of small caps to large caps. Outperformedvely but take a look at today. You have this big decline here as it sinks lower than the large caps today. Were back to our lows. We are looking for that Senate Tax Bill to come thursday. Lets look at individual stock movers. We are a month out. I am looking here at kohls and target. They have started those promotions already. Expectamerican consumers to do a majority of their shopping friday. The season is lasting longer. You have to make up for that in volume offset that pressure. Some retailers trading lower. Malle looking at the rates. They are trending higher on takeover speculation. Bloomberg regional mall index. Perhaps some good news here. Flex financials are under pressure at the moment. We are seeing bond yields decline for the fifth straight session. Just something to continue to watch after we solve that threshold kids at 2. 3 . Thatongtime bull markets led i