High for the day. We should not get too complacent. We have continued to see swings. If you look at the gains, they are pretty broadbased. Only energy is lower. That has been the Weakest Group throughout the day. Utilities recovering as we see a little bit of a back up and yields today. Tech shares also strongs. Also strong. If you take a look at the weekly performance, we are setting up for the best week for stocks overall in quite some time. For tech specifically, and the xlk, it could be the best week going back to 2011 with a 5 gain this week. That would be even bigger if you counted the rally which began last friday. Cisco is helping lead the technology gains. That company is trading at a 17year high. The company came up with revenue that rose for the first time in eight quarters. The forecast was also positive and the company said revenue in the current period will climb as much as 5 . We have seen other companies and related businesses also on the rise. On the call today, the ce
1. 25 . Still a mixed picture here as we continue to see these swing back and forth from the major averages. Look at the s p 500 on an intraday basis, and stocks open lower, and of rising to the highs of the session around 11 15 or so, and have been shopping around for the rest of the day. Some of it it appears where the equity markets were getting this were from the bond markets to some degree, particularly around 1 00 p. M. That is when we got the results of the latest bond auction in the u. S. A 10 year option, 24 billion worth. The weakest result we have seen in five months time. After the auction, we saw yields go to the highs of the session. That is not to say that every move and take in this equity and rally has been pushed around by the bond market, but investors are watching what is going on in bonds to some degree. Also, we are watching what is happening with oil. We see a for data klein in oil prices that amounts to the worst that we have seen in more than six months. You se
Looking at the worst week in two years with all of the averages well see what happens today its been interesting to watch volatility to see whats going on meantime, lets take a look at whats happened overnight in asia the nikkei was closed for a national foundational day holiday in japan the hang sentence down over 0. 1 shanghai composite and stocks in south korea higher with the kospi at 1 . In early trading in europe, you can see things are in positive territory as well. Big gains. Gains of 1 or better across the board. In fact, the dax is up by 1. 9 right now. Then if you take a look at treasury yields, this is a big story. What kind of inflation do we see. The tenyear is yielding 2. 88 this week, were going to be getting inflation data cpi on wednesday and thats something that else to see if inflation is really out there. A couple big stories were watching before we get back to the markets. Vice president mike pence said the u. S. Is open to talks with north korea but will continue
Statement the fed held back from changing its line on the balance of risks. A number of Committee Meetings were edging in that direction. What did they do . It seems a compromise here. They do not change the balance of the risk statement but they add that word further a couple of times in the statement. That change was explicitly in the context of the brightening outlook that fomc officials have for growth in 2018. Said they agreed to update the characterization of the expectation for the evolution of the federal funds rate in the postmeeting statement to point to further gradual increases. It appears this was a half step by the committee in january. Ok. Towards signaling a quicker pace of increases but a half step. Lisa thank you so much for that. U. S. Markets close in two hours. We are getting so much reaction and bond markets to the fed meeting minutes. Lets get a check on where stocks are trading. Taylor we are seeing highs of the day. Gains accelerate going into the meeting. We w
Abigail doolittle is here to tell us what is moving. Abigail we have nice gains for the major averages, and for the doubt, another record high. We dont have that you can that yet, at least for the s p 500 and nasdaq. Interesting if we see more of the volatility we have had the last two days from where the s p 500 and the nasdaq have woven into small declines. The day is young, but the bulls are out. We have weekly gains once again. Lets hop into the bloomberg and look at g btv 6636. We have all the gains so far in 2018, and not surprisingly, that has led to the best month of the s p 500 of 6. 6 since march 2016. That was the big rebound after the correction we saw earlier in the year. Pretty bullish action for stocks. Hoping today some earnings winners. Lets look at the likes of intel, among other stocks. Intel trading higher, and its highest level since 2000. They also offered an optimistic avi, thea drugmaker, up 6. 6 but 8. 6 . And we have a report out where companies are beating th