Are watching in europe and the United States. The stoxx 600, really like volume today, but up near session highs. The eurodollar under pressure, so the single currency feeling the pain. The dollar goes from strength to strength. 1500, 1486. Elow maybe some positioning around what has been a fantastic run for gold. Vonnie in the u. S. , we are looking at small positives for the s p and the dow for the quarter. Today, the s p is up about 0. 25 . It could be adding to that gain for the quarter by the end of day. The best performer in the s p 500 right now is newell, up almost 5 from an upgrade to 25 a share. As you can see, we are crawling up towards that mark as suntrust says the bottom is in for newells strategy. The money coming out of treasury market. Some money coming out of the oil market as well. 50 to five dollars 55 since a barrel 55. 50 a barrel for wti. Guy a lot of anticipation around Credit Suisse this evening. Its board is apparently backing a cruciale thiame in meeting that
We are getting breaking news, a little bit of data out of germany. One point 9 move in 2016, a touch above analysts and economists expectations. We were expecting a 1. 8 , and we have a 1. 9 . It is pretty much in line with estimates, rising 0. 7 month on month. We had estimated 0. 2 , so it is coming and above expectations. We have a little bit of china december new yuan loans. It goes back to an economy in china that may be boiling up a little bit, and you china loans increased almost doubled from the period last year. Lets quickly check on the markets to see what all of this piece of news means. We had the first News Conference, press conference by donald trump yesterday, the first one sense july of last year, certainly the first one since he got elected. Maybe because of the lack of policy details, the dollar weakened a little better there was a little disappointment and markets about the press conference, and that caused investors to unwind trade positions. Gold, for example, back