Economic houses in place. Theres seeing property is the biggest threat. You may have seen a glimpse of what is to come in 2018 and the treasuries market with that yields surge we saw today. A lot of nervous investors around how much the yield curve has flattened in the face of more positive economic data. I want to bring up this chart really quickly, which shows how much a yield curve has flattened. It is headed toward that in version, usually points to an imminent recession most times. We heard dow fed president fred kaplan say thats usually the ase, how you determine flattening inverted yield curve, and why this time would be any different. That has a lot of investors nervous, are we going to see some sort of tantrum in the bond market . That would be quite shocking to the market. It has been interesting, too, what weve seen overnight, not just the 10year come the 30year. Reform . Signal of tax could we see some type of Economic Growth, or are we going to reach your end and see this
Picture. Comes off a day of record closes once again the gains were relatively slight they did come off the highs during the course of the feenl few ho final few hours of the session the Telecom Sector was the worst. Healthcare was the best. The nasdaq was the laggard of the three. Oil hitting a threeyear high thanks to ongoing production cuts led by opec gained about 2 yesterday. Up another 0. 7 . 63. 4, so a great start to the year for oil prices. That continued not just a strong year but a strong q4 in particular tenyear treasury note for you yields did move higher yesterday. For once its been the longer end of the curve that moved higher, faster than the shorter end. 2. 546. This time yesterday flirting with the 2. 5 level, yesterday it picked up steam. The 30year moved noticeably higher people talking about the fact that this is a surprise underlying tapering from the japanese thats driving global bond Prices Higher that shows the way that the u. S. Has been anchored by the Intern
It was like five sessions between 25,000 and the zeseventh trading sessio. From january 4th to yesterday is when we saw the 1,000 point move in the dow oil breaking, which is a weird Reason Energy stocks came down as a result just the idea lets hold off for a second nevertheless, with all of that, the s p 500 still remains on pace for its biggest monthly gains since march of 2016. The nasdaq is still on its biggest monthly gain since july of 2016. Look at what happened overnight in asia, you will see the nikkei was down by a third of a percentage point back to this morning sorry, flipflop back to this morning, you are look at double digit gains or triple digit gains once again for the dow. This comes after last night the nikkei down by a third of a percentage point hang seng and shanghai stocks both ended higher bay quarter percentage point in europe, where you see the early trading this morning, you will see at this hour theres a bit of weakness. Dax is down by 0. 2 . Ftse down about
Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. A quick check on futures pointing lower once again. We were down in the high 200 points, just above that now in terms of declines, down 302, crossing that 300 mark the s p down 25 points nasdaq down 68 crazy day yesterday. We crossed the flat line many times throughout the session well have more analysis on that in a moment. First breaking news, steve wynn is out following allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Contessa brewer is live in carson city and has been covering this story for us what is the latest this is really sending a tremor through the gaming industry in nevada a pivotal inflew he weew influel leader is resigning. He said in the last couple of weeks i have found myself in an avalanche of negative publicity, i have reached the conclusion i cannot continue to be effective in my current role the fact he is resigning from his role as chairman of the board of a company he founded shocked those who are close to him. I spoke to a source who said t
Gains and losses for much of the day before surging in the final hour of trading. The dow travelled 5500 points in total when you add up all the moves. With yesterdays rally the dow and nasdaq recovered about half of mondays losses show you whats happening in asia. S generally improved asian markets were mixed, flat hang seng lower by almost 1 shanghai off by 1. 2 europe this morning, positive across the board gains of a half percent generally. Lets go show you whats going on with the yields which has been so interesting in the wake of that wage data on friday the 30year is yielding 3. 03 . Tenyear note at 2. 7 2. 76 we had gotten up to 2. 88 on monday that led to a lot of selling its a key level well talk a lot about as we move through the morning. Fiveyear note at 2. 49 the twoyear at 2. 0. Well have more on the markets as you can imagine in just a moment we have also a breaking Corporate News story making a lot of waves steve wynn is now officially out as ceo of his Company Followin