Now in bear market territory. Those stocks are down at least 20 in some cases, more than that. All the major averages deeply in the red today. Its i shaping up to be the worst week in the dow, s p and nasdaq in nearly four years. This is serious selling. Lets look at the price of oil breaking below 40 a mark today. Weve been watching this one for some time. Its now down about 20 . Thats a bear market. Thats just this month. Finally, take a look at volatility index. Surging today. Its doubled this month. Its above 25. This is the one we are watching. It was dormant all summer. Today its up above 25. This is the best month it had. All sorts of benchmarks are being set. Exactly. Dow jones industrial average is close to breaking below 16,600, which it did do briefly earlier. We started the week with the vix around 12 and were at 25 now. We have bob doll to break down where he is telling his clients to put their money now. Tech and social stocks getting crushed in this market. Apple one of
The dow now down 4 . Nasdaq giving up 181 points. We have full team coverage. Bob pisani clocking the action at the stock exchange. Bertha coombs at the nasdaq and Jackie Deangelis at the nymex. Lets start with bob. Apple helping to turn things around. Emwas typical. The big plunge and recovery we saw all within 15 minutes. Apple opening down from thursdays lows. Recovering and testing it around 9 45. Let me show you intraday full screen of what the day looked like for apple. It doesnt do justice looking at the chart. Close was 105. 76 friday. Within less than a minute we went to 92. Down 13. At 9 45, the whole thing turned around. Ten minutes later, apple up at 102. By noon after the 11 30 close in europe, it was up 108. These are large moves. Its hard to describe how weird today is. We have two new highs at the new york stock exchange. 1239 new lows. Those are very weird numbers. We have 160 stocks advancing. We have roughly 3,000 declining. You get an idea. You dont see these number
After yesterdays strong rally following on the heels of wednesdays strong rally, were up about 1 on the dow. I dont like to talk about the dow but unless the s p stronger. China did all right. Shanghai up 1. 8 . Shenzhen up, and nikkei at a 3 gain. We were below 2 at one point on monday in the craziness, but now were hovering in the 1. 2. Crude had its best day in many years. Well above 40 again. Monday, we fell below 40. It has been, to say the least, a volatile week in many markets. Lets get to our road map this morning, and it starts with the last trading day of this wild week. The dow coming off its biggest twoday point gain ever, not percentage but point gain. Equity futures, slipping. Carl icahn has his next target. Why commodities . Why now . Well talk about a company weve talked a lot about and mr. Akahcarl icahn himself, and the takeover continues. Pa perrigo is saying were not interested. Ill have more on what to expect as the Companies Battle it out. Futures moving to the do
If Kayla Tausche is at the nyse to tell us whats happening on the floor. Stocks for the dow and s p are in the red right now. The dow having its nay rowest trading range today since august 18th. The nasdaq has been flirting with the flat line for the last hour. It is just slightly into positive territory. The dow, the s p and nasdaq though even with todays trade all remain out of correction territory. Lets get the trading action at the nyse. Bob pisani joins me on the floor. Michelles getting ready to go on vacation, a lot of other traders are and very happy to be a somewhat normal august day here. The s p 500, very narrow trading range. Only 13 points. Got a little droop in the middle of the day. Stan fischer speaking exclusively with Steve Leisman. Some interpret him to be a little more hawkish. I didnt hear it but the markets seemed to react that way. Down just a little bit. Very narrow trading range, 13, 14point bottom to the top. Volume is heavy but declining. Heavy for august but
Be more big moves next week. Oil staging another big rally today. Yesterday traders said it was mostly Short Covering. Could this be the beginning of a real rebound for the commodity . Weve got rbc commodity guru helena croft joining us live. We have bob pisani tracking the action here at the New York Stock Exchange. Kate rogers at the nasdaq and jackie d at the nymex. Finally more typical august day. There is a little fireworks in the energy space. S p 500, a narrower range, about 15 points. That would be more than normal on a typical day. Compared to what weve seen, other than a slight swoon in the middle of the day, its been fairly straight and narrow here. I want to show you what markets are doing here. Well call the trading range narrow. Volume on the heavy side. Not as heavy the prior four, five days. Heavy for a day in august. Breadth 32 advancing to declining. Thats been holding other than a droop in the middle of the day. Volatility is flat. Look at names like mid state petrol