More than 2 on the stoxx 600 great s p futures point to another day of decline in the u. S. On track for six days of declines and heading for lowest close since october and global stocks for the 10 year yield hitting a fresh record low. Yields are dropping across the u. S. Curve. The two year yield sitting around 112. To the euro missed the risk off memo . Three out of the past four days. 10947. It could be down to the broad dollar weakness. The yen has been big today along with gold. Saying we could get 1800 on gold. Wti extending its slide beyond a 13 month low. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. We begin with italian Opposition Leader Matteo Salvini who accuses the government of underestimating the threat of coronavirus. He is urging them to earmark at least 10 billion euros for emergency measures. I think it will be the composed of factions the dont like each other. Its already the weakest in terms of growth. After the virus, which will evidently slide us into a recession, a g
Significant rally, up eight at the opening bell, a gain of 55, urging the fed to cut rates. We wait to see when the fed is. Some money coming out of treasuries. I want to see it but cant, dont have it but it is up from the historic low of one. 03 , it is one. 12 as we speak. Politics. A mad scramble by the democrats to support joe biden and beat back the bernie challenge. Amy klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg throw their support to biden, beto reappears to back him up. This is desperation time. Today bernie is expected to win the california and texas primaries, all hands on deck for the moderates, they are panicked at the thought of the bernie nomination but there is still bloomberg. He says even if he doesnt do well today he is not bowing out. Democrats are locked in a 3way battle, totally split, at war with themselves. Just wait till you see joes latest gaffes, that is plural. Varney and company is about to begin. Tomorrow is super tuesday. I was waiting for a black man to pick me up and
The dow gained 91 points the s p only climbed 1. 9 . Nasdaq barely at all 0. 8 where do i even start . This morning kicked off with an interview we did with the chief Economic Advisor and my former cohost here on cnbc, he explained that the agreement side with china is a lot more farreaching than most people realize. It actually forces china to change the way it runs its economy to create a more level playing field. He said our relationship with china is quite cordial because the Chinese Government recognizes that the United States doesnt want to disengage with them. While this deal was being negotiated, the big fault line was repeating those who dont believe china can ever be redeemed so why not just keep hitting them with tariffs forever so wreck their economy and those that think that china can be a good trading partner if theyre willing to play by the rules. Call it the engage camp versus the disengage camp and the engage camp just won from the stock market perspective, that is fab
On you may have returned the ugly christmas sweater you got from your brotherinlaw you dont like but what if you could turn the ugly stock you would own the desk gives the names we will start with the nonstop on wall street the nasdaq hitting a milestone, crossing above 9,000 the first time ever. Records keep falling stocks keep climbing and fundamentals, tim serial dont seem to matter much. They dont. You can find an argument for valueses within megacap tech if you look at intel, sysco you cant make the argument with apple anymore. The interesting thing about the triple qs or the etf for the nasdaq 10 oh or lack at the nasdaq 100 we know that apple dominates this index and this is apple pick whatever point in the road you want in 2019, its 70 from june, its 50 from august, 50 for apple from august. And thats thats how you get to a nasdaq at alltime highs. Microsoft and apple leading the which. Today a little amazon for good luck but its lebron jamesly out of this. Which is amazing, da
We will name names and later a prediction so wild and bold that honestly we question if we would even talk about it and bring it to you we debated it. But we are bringing it to you and you will hear it coming up true story all that ahead in the next 60 minutes. But nike bouncing back a bit after the steep post earnings drop lets get the numbers, talk about china with seema modi. Talking about her hometown heroes, nike, seema. Thats right, brian sthars of nike turning around after slipping as much as 2 in extended trading a solid beat on the bottom line. But the company said margins were negatively impacted by higher input costs primarily due to incremental tariffs in north america. Sfratly nike reported Greater China sales of 1. 85 billion up 23 this quarter but a slower pace of quarter than last quarter when sales grew 27 . Still, nike has been able to steadily grow revenue in the country over the past five years. Targeting the Chinese Consumer using platforms like alibaba to sell sho