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Bit of the rising yield. 65 basis points on the 10year. Throughout the day, i think my theme has been trained to gauge investor sentiment. Maintains, stocks can these high levels. If you go up to 1 or one and a quarter, he has to massively rethink his price target. Then you get to the relative trade. Of course, earnings yield lower than the 10 year treasury at the moment. But if it starts to climb a little bit, how does that affect the relative value . Caroline we have had that sort of worry. Mike wilkins at Morgan Stanley also saying, we are worried about rates going higher and what that would mean for stocks. Whiting is still with us. This week, we get a little bit of messaging out of the fed. Are you expecting to hear anything out of powell or any of the other members that would give you a better assessment of where Monetary Policy might go . Steven it is possible. Chairman powell has been relatively quiet about healthy Federal Reserve might adjust its framework for achieving its in
Rosengren. And speaking of the fed, yes, there is more. We have an exclusive interview coming up. Loretta mester is the president of the cleveland fed right after the close. Joining us for the hour is charlie with aerial investments. Was this a big sigh of relief after the data from earlier in the week yeah, you know the markets was really nervous about a recession. Thats the conventional wisdom in the market. Theres a lot of evidence that bulls like me keep pointing to that were not, but you can see when we get even a soso number, the markets react very positively Services Growth is slowing and thats the point of contention right now, is does the manufacturing upset bleed into the consumer . And it does, you have a problem. You had a very strong wage growth its not even the fact that unemployment is going down, its that people feel secure in their job. Its a tight job market. People are not worried about losing their job theyre spending more and were still 70 of consumer economy. If t
Keith bliss. Keith, welcome thank you very much, morgan good to be with you. Mid averages did hit new records this morning but have drifted back down to the flat line, not really moving very much right now are you surprised by that . Not at all. Im a little suppliesed at trpre lack of action it seems theyve hit their own food coma as we wait for earnings to come through we have 300 companies that are going to report next week. We are on fed watch, of course, waiting for the july 31st Rate Decision a bit like waiting and waiting markets are taking a breather right now. Here in the u. S. And elsewhere around the globe, people are starting to go on their holiday so you have lack of participation. Were going to get into all of that a little more. Secretary mnuchins crackdown. Wilfred is covering citi earnings dion is watching the debt ceiling debate lets begin with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchins comments on crypto moments ago eamon javers has that. The rarely used White House Press Bri
Jumping into the bitcoin game wall street legend art cashin has a bitcoin prediction for 2018 well tell you what it is in a couple minutes cant wait for that. Plus the question Everyone Wants answered, will my taxes go down because of this bill . We got a Financial Adviser who breaks down the impact of the tax reform bill coming up in a little bit. We begin in washington today, lawmakers are expected t vote in a little less than two hours on the legislation to keep the government from shutting down lets get right to Kayla Tausche for the very latest right now. Kayla . Reporter bill, theyll vote on the houses version of thereat legislation that was published overnight. It would be a shortterm extension of government funding at current levels through january 19th, as well as funding for some critical programs like Childrens Health insurance. And the fisa surveillance program. In addition, the house is going to consider an 81 billion Disaster Relief bill theyve been debating that as well