Again. Im Brian Sullivan power lunch tees off right now. And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. The major average giving up gains. Dow and s p, russell 2,000 small caps did soar to record highs but now looking at losses across the board. The dow managing to hold on to ever so small gains. Commodities are crushing it and oil at threeyear high and copper and gold soar the dollar at a low. Saying a weaker dollar is good for u. S. Trade transports getting slammed led by united. The airline down 11 on pace for the worst day in four months on fears about a price war. Got much more on this coming up. Michelle. Thank you. Im Michelle Caruso cabrero live in switzerland where the trump tax cut and the surging and Global Economy are front and center well talk taxes, trade and whether davos is ready for President Trump to arrive on friday and michelle, on this multicon innocent, over the next couple of hours you will meet four managers who are the sole of consistency. That is why they have be
37. 86 the quote there. The ten year note, right there, hovering just below 2 at 1. 9. Lets get to Steve Liesman. For a meeting, not much is supposed to happen, were looking for a lot to happen. Were looking for signals about rate hikes. Smoke signals, verbal signals, hand signals, some kind of signal about where the fed is going. Fed expected to stand pat today. Let me look at the keys to the Federal Reserve here and the statement that is coming out as well as the press conference. Looking for something of an upgrade to the economy. Perhaps the risk becomes balanced again. Remember in january, in the statement, the fed said it couldnt judge if the risk to the upside or downside which way they were because of the uncertainty in the global environment. Does it drop those Global Concerns from the statement . Were looking for the fed to bring down its rate forecast, the average fomc member looking for four rate hikes this year. The market looking for two or even fewer than that. Well see
And wendys. All of them reporting before the bell. After the bell, we get gap, monster beverage, salesforce. Com, splunk, and deckers. Lets get over to andrew with more of todays top stories. And andrew, good morning. Good morning, becky. Were watching shares of jcpenney. The stock spiking afterhours. The trouble retailer reported a loss of 68 Cents Per Share for the Fourth Quarter. That was smaller than expected. Revenue also missing, but heres the good news. The retailer is upping its samestore sales and Gross Profit Margin forecast for the year and youll want to keep your eyes on that. Jcp shares are down more than 30 so far this year. Well be talking more about jcpenney with dana telsey at 7 30 eastern time. Tesla raising cash to expand into the future. The company will be rolling out plans to build a factory and develop what its calling its gen3 mass market vehicle. It plans to build its gigafactory in arizona or texas. The Company Expects the company to run at about full capacity
Several biggests on several different market topics today. And that is trader joe zikerman. Over his shoulder is highfrequency trader minaj narang. He played several trades while he tried to convince minaj that hes being trecheated. First sue whos in the house. Thats right. Thank you, ty. And were going to go directly to the nasdaq because that has seen the most dramatic selloff in todays trading session. The money may be moving into the bond market. Its decidedly, sheila, moving out of the nasdaq today. Over to you. Thats right. A very another ugly day here at the nasdaq. We were down 2. 5 on the composite on the nasdaq 100. At session lows right now. Traders say what is worrying them is how quickly we dropped today. Basically we took only 30 to 40 minutes to erase all of the gains that we saw yesterday. That kind of velocity is something traders dont like to see. As for the why were seeing such a big dropoff, traders saying you dont need a reason. You dont need bad Economic News or b