Slightly pressured. 650 billion are wiped out in u. S. Equities in one day, yesterday. A lot of it has to do with the dollar. On track for the best week since april. That is hurting sentiment around the region. The aussie dollar is hovering around the july lows. You have more calls for a cut of the cash rate from the rba next month. We see yield heading lower in australia. 105 for yourat offshore renminbi. Slightly stronger for the pboc. Here are where yields are. 67 basis points. We continue to watch whats going on in the aussie 10 year, and the china bond inclusion could happen later on today with that ftse russell. Russell wreste. Could spur inflows into the market. We are watching commodities with the Dollar Strength. The metal is falling off. Silver, copper and aluminum taking the biggest hit in the last 24 hours. The marketre on action we are joined by our mliv strategist in singapore. Question of the day is what i want to start with. What assets suffered most from deleveraging .
And spending the consumer wants reliability and the consumer will pay for it thats the lesson of the icr, the big consumer conference i spent all day learning from. A day where the dow gained 150 points, s p climbed 0. 13 and prices were higher earlier today. So many retailers are suddenly doing so well from kohls to childrens place to restaurants like darden. Remember, they are owned by olive garden and then end up with a winner, of course, it is never that easy i think its worth focusing on the consumer side. At least for now even as many of the big gains in the market are coming from what we call the capital good, companies that benefit from the global, not domestic but Global Economic expansion look, ive been recommending boeing for 240 points. Im not whacking away. In fact i think this 318 stock could easily go to 400 bucks caterpillar will be huge, accounting changes in the new tax code and thats not baked into the stock as much as they try to do so united technology, honeywell,
Aforementioned yahoo . They were just talking about it. Well get you ahead of all of the trades. Mandy has gone down to the heart of the action at the New York Stock Exchange. Hi mandy. Its a down day, as you said but being driven by a few stocks as you mentioned. Ibm and United Technologies for more than 100 points of the dows drop. Bob pisani joins us here on the floor of the stock exchange. We did not color coordinate ourselves. But it looks good. A happy coincidence. The important thing is if you look at ibm and United Technologies, put them up for me, they are about 120 points to the drop in the dow that were seeing today so very very unusual action, and thats why the dow is much weaker, for example, than the s p 500. We are having a problem, again. So in the First Quarter, put up whats going on with United Technology and ill show you this. In the First Quarter the big problem for Multinational Companies was number one. Week Global Growth particularly china and secondly the strong
99 for a case of water, thats the type of price gauging that the attorney general is seeing in the state. Hell join us to tell us how hes cracking down on all that have. And next hour President Trump is likely to address this catastrophic flooding in a News Conference with the president of finland. Well bring you that live as soon as it begins. But we start in texas. Contessa brewer is in houston with the latest on the flooding and Brian Sullivan is in galveston with a look at how Hurricane Harvey is affecting refineries contessa, well start with you. Reporter the bayou has overflowed its banks, normally parkland, and this Historic Building here was due to be completely renovated by fall of 201. As you can see, they will probably have to go back at t. Houston at this point is mostly a ghost town. Businesses shut down, employees stranded there are some 3 Million People who work in the metropolitan houston area most of them i would guess are out of work today because the roads are simply
Now. And welcome to power lunch. Im milissa lee. Holding steady this hour, dow managed to hit another record high right at the open before pulling back here. Apple one of the biggest drags in the session this after the company acknowledged cellular connectivity problem with its new watch annadarko, a massive buy back and fifth straight day of gains and near session highs on pace for a fifth positive day in six we begin here with a developing story. President trump announcing new sanctions on north korea eamon javers has the latest. Hi milissa. Alongside south koreas president moon at an event in new york city. The president saying, first, the United States had put new sanctions on north korea and also that the chinese president had told chinese central bank, told banks in china not to do business with north korean entities indicating the chinese are getting serious about exactly what he wants them to do in terms of north korean trade what the president had to say thanking chinese presi