Has been a growing show of support. Other pro athletes joined in their own protests. Kaepernicks stand is being compared to activism by other athletes including mohamed alis protest and the vietnam war and the sa lewd at the other olympics. The politics and governments Scott Schaefer is here with more. Athletes and political activism has a lot to discuss. Joining me now is sports columnist, ann killian. Also with the reporter, the senior vice president. Welcome to all of you. This story, this issue has really exposed fault lines. Politics, patriotism and sports and race of course. What is your take on how it began. Its how it began on social mead why and athletes and people who may otherwise not be keeping track of this as much as they are have their things in their face all the time. They are retweeting them and concerned about them and they want to know what they can do. Colin kaepernick took a stand and its really interesting that its him because he was not a guy to engage at any le
Usually, you get more volatility in a surge of volume typically at the end of the closer we will be watching not. The dow and the s p have consistently been down. 5 today. The nasdaq has not been doing as poorly. Financials more heavily weighted in the s p 500. If you look at the week in the s p 500, we had a big rally on monday and a pretty sizable rally again yesterday and that did salvage the week more or less but we also had some big down days so these big swings are back to the stock market in the u. S. If you take a look at the groups on the move today, you see here we have a little bit of green in the form of utilities. A lot of read on the screen and indeed, it is the financials and industries that are the biggest drags in the s p 500. A number of stocks falling on these regulatory risks. David mentioned Deutsche Bank. You can see those shares down 9. 5 in u. S. Trading. Exxon mobil and the attorney general new york scrutinizing not companys finances. Eric spiderman alleging th
Close of trading for the day and we could lets go to the markets desk and check in with our own julie hyman. It is a real rally. We were talking about this delayed reaction to the ecb. Mario draghi said there would be no Interest Rate cuts and investors were confused. They seem to result of confusion today. Europe and thein u. S. Rallying through the session and hovering near the highs. It has not been a supervolatile session. We see a steady uptrend here. Stocks are continuing their winning streak. Fourth week in a row we see stocks higher. You see the s p 500 on a oneweek basis. Three quarters of 1 is enough to continue the street. One investor were hearing from his someone who is already bullish on the stock. He has the highest target of the strategists we survey for the s p for the yearend. One of the things he is looking at, if you take a look at bloomberg, is highyield. This is the bank of Americamerrill Lynch u. S. Highyield index in white. S p 500 total return index in blue. Wh
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Julie im not sure what he was doing in that car. He is a tall guy. Squeezee were trying to something out of the markets. Julie losses are accelerating as we head toward the close. Accelerating commodities selloff. All three major averages are trading lower now. The nasdaq losses have accelerated, down nearly 1 . Same goes for the s p and dow. Energy shares are doing the worst today. Energy shares as a group are down 2 , followed closely by material financials. At the same time, we have seen more selling in stocks, were seeing more buying in bonds. Rates are going lower today, 1. 87 , despite the fact that we heard from the federal reserves James Bullard today that he thinks it is more likelier than not that we will see a sooner increase in rates, but that is not pushing a great in the treasury market today p ushing up rates in the treasury markets today. We are seeing a steep decline in oil. Leg down coinciding with the leg down in stocks, breaking below 40 per barrel for wti. Earlier