On this afternoon. In asia, the nikkei was down the hang seng was up 0. 23 for european markets, the dax is slightly lower you see slight gains for the cac, the ftse 100, stocks in italy and in spain look at the Treasury Department. The tenyear is yielding 2. 090 . We have a very busy day going on in the markets. From wall street to washington, lets get you through the squawk planner. On the earnings front, three big banks on the docket starting with jpmorgan that will come at about 6 45 a. M we have Goldman Sachs coming in with its earnings. Those should be announced around 7 30 wells fargo earnings should cross the tape at 8 00 a. M Johnson Johnson will also report at 6 50 a. M. Eastern time well bring you a first on cnbc interview with the cfo right after that report. On the data front, we will be getting june retail sales, import and export prices as well that all hits at 8 30 a. M. The other big event on the planner is big tech is back in washington today the house judiciary subco
Season just step away from the roulette wheel because if you try to trade around the quarterly reports, you are going to get singed, if not burned after a record day, where the dow gained 27 points hallelujah s p climbed 2 , nasdaq inched up 0. 17 . That was easy earnings season is devastating for traders. No if you want to invest in a stock before reports and buy things if the stock gets hit thats another thing but trading no thanks. I didnt always feel this way. My Old Hedge Fund i used to place heavy bets on what would happen before it happened. I had as much legal information as i could get my hands on and always thought i had an opportunity to make a good call ahead of time but that was before regulation fd when the government leveled the playing field. When i was running you could meet with execs with small Interest Groups other people didnt want access or privy to that is illegal. These days everyone has access to the same information at the same time. I think thats fabulous. No
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