Well but they are not doing much for stocks. Not seeing a big decline. One would think, a b that is because it is bringing forward when the fed might raise rates but we are not seeing bond yields rise or the u. S. Dollar. Take a look at the bloomberg map. We have Energy Shares trading higher, Consumer Staples lower. A Diverse Group of groups doing poorly today although it seems like there is a little bit of a rotation out of the defensives. Within the Consumer Staples, have kraft heinz pulling back today. It does not look like a specific catalyst that is driving them lower. In terms of the dow loggers we have cocacola and then we have been talking a lot about the home depot. They said the First Quarter would likely be the high point for the year in terms of sales growth. It is off from january to february and february to march, slowing sales growth. That appears to be behind what we see in the selloffs. Scarlet and a bright spots . It looks like energy is the bright spot that it is not
Alternative and vermont senator Bernie Sanders beat the once, quote, inevitable candidate and political machine Hillary Clinton in a landslide. More than 40 points separated them. Sanders grabbing his own page in the history books, all of that was yesterday, today a brandnew chapter written by now. The campaign trail leads us to South Carolina and many of the candidates have landed there where the political environment as you all know is totally different from that of New Hampshire. Hoping to crack the clinton fire wall, sanders making immediate appeal to the states black voters by meeting with controversial civil rights leader al sharpton, had a little discussion, the gop candidates who trail trump, ted cruz, marco rubio look to Gain Momentum which has as many delegates as iowa and New Hampshire combined, its a winner take all format. Fox News Reporters on the ground in New Hampshire along with political panel. On wall street, the markets hanging on every syllable coming out of the fe
Its official, halliburton buying baker hughes for about 35 billion, and weve got more on activists and the fight for allergan. Forget wasting time at work. Menlo park reportedly developing facebook for your office . Moving in on google, microsoft and linked ins turf, down 3 in the free market. Numbers inside japans recession, gdp down 1. 6 following contraction of 7. 3 in the prior quarter. This week japanese Prime Minister abe expected to announce delaying plans to race the countrys sales tax and call for parliamentary elections in december. Estimate was 2. 2, to the upside. No one expected this to happen. Now a bunch of policy decisions to make. Do you suspend sales tax . This felt like 1937 in our country where they thought, you know, weve done enough to make it so were coming out of the great depression, lets start raising taxes, be more conservative. There are a lot of people saying that, you know what, this was just being prudent because the country itself is so in hock. I saw th
See there. 2. 71 . Yeah. Lets move on to europe. Second quarter gdp data indicating eurozone emerge by recession. In and also some growth in france. And that gets us to our road map which starts with a rare miss for macys. Shares of the Department Store are falling in the premarket. The ceo says consumer are worried about the uncertain economic environment. Apple still getting the icahn burp thmp this morning. Carl icahn tweeted he bought a stake in the tech giants. And strength on the farm. Deere beating on the top and bottom line this morning, citing strength in Farm Equipment sales. Bill ackman speaks out about the villains of the Capital Markets in his public bat with other highprofile Hedge Fund Managers. Man. A lot of personality. A lot of personalities running around there in vaktism land. Hes start with shares of macys. Down sharply in the premarket. Retailer posting the Second Quarter results that were below wall street forecast. Samestore sales fell 0. 8 from one year ago. Ce
The prior week s stock market reversal was a warning ahead of plunging stock prices this week. What was the technical damage and Tom Aspray discusses what it may mean?