Of the current Interest Rate environment, but we dont try to time our decisions based on capitalizing on Interest Rates at the moment. I think for the long term, maintaining the deep and liquid u. S. Treasury markets is something thats very important to u. S. Economic security. You dont need to time it. Look at the deals apple and verizon did for multiple billions and know its better paper, i believe, than apple. I think we have the best paper in the world. And i think that the markets around the world refleblcted th. Theres a reason the dollar is the worlds reserve currency, why the appetite for u. S. Treasury debt is to high. I think, you know, as you look at the way weve created new products, its really reflected the evolution of market appetite for different kinds of products, and well continue to try to be innovative in terms of introducing products that help to keep the deep liquid markets that we have, but i think any attempt to try and design our products to capitalize on an In
Morning, still below 2. 5 . As for europe, so much discussion over the weekend with what is happening in portugal. Markets responding generally positively that portugal will use some of the leftover rescue funds to try to recapitalize a new bank there and were seeing some credit spreads on the back of that as well. Half an hour away from the market open. Lets begin with the road map today. We take a look at markets with u. S. Futures looking for a comeback, International Tensions temper positive earnings news. Investors continually reinterpret the current take on its consumer. And in an interview with the economist, president obama telling ceos they should quit complaining. So before we get to all of that, lets start here with the market, according to a higher open, selloff with the worst s p since june 21st, in fact. Data showing growth in china sector but the shanghai market is at an eightmonth high overnight. So jim, are you bidding up portuguese paper here . So many things went wro
Partially made up for todays bullish session. The dow gained 76. S p jumped 0. 72 . And the nasdaq too. We have to ask ourselves what could get us to make up the rest of the lost ground . I think first we need to analyze the proximate causes behind the decline. There are a lot of competing explanations out there. We have to get to the bottom of this. Many people are blaming this selloff on the fed. I need to disagree here. The fed stayed the course at this meeting they had, didnt do anything different from what anybody expected. A predictable event. That went off without a hitch. Dozen cause a 2 decline. Plus, its not like the closely watched ten year treasury jumped on last weeks fed meeting. It was basically wall street speak for unchanged. Sure, you can argue that the employment number on friday was pretty strong. It doesnt help. It doesnt illuminate anything. So many hedge funds want rates to go higher so they can make more money off the short position. The betts against the market
Gained yesterday and then something, and there are a number of developments that were following going into this final hour of trading here. And so, lets take a look at where markets stand with the Dow Jones Industrial average off 165 points this hour. It was down almost 200 at the lows just a little while ago. Remember, anything below 75 points means weve given up yesterdays gains and returned to the lowest level since at least may 20th, perhaps going back into the red for the year. In any case, this is a broadbased selloff, and the dow off 1 at this hour. Same goes for the nasdaq, which is off 42 points. The s p 500 off 1. 15 or 22 points, down all the way to 1, 916. The dow, going into the week, it had shed about 600 points in ten trading sessions. So certainly a sharp selloff. Lets try to make sense of it all. Rob morgan, sam stovall from s p capital iq, frank rad yok from jhs capital advisers, danny hughes from Divine Capital here at the big board. Our own Michelle Carusocabrera on
Finish off a real nasty week, you notice the dow is now negative for the year. We deserve a break after the last five days. What i regard as a rolling bear market from minerals to industrials, to oil and gas and today, the semiconductors and amazingly, we get it money because its columbus day, were going to get a break. A day where Companies Know better than to say anything other than columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Given the relative proximity to the s p 5001,196 closing level, even that could be frout with the pain of previous octobers. The market is a bundle of nerves right now. Were going to get a heap of things the bulls need to see happen this weekend, well slice through levels that were unthinkable three weeks ago when alibaba became public. It seems to be the demarkation point for pain we felt since. What could help turn the market around . Any sign that the stalemate over ukraine between germany and russia is coming to an end would help. No new outbreaks of ebola would