Fiveday losing streak for stocks in some six months. Worries about chinas market meltdown and earnings here at home unsettling investors. Josh, is that really whats at play and what has more weight on the psyche of investors, or china . I think the china thing is really weighing on the psyche of investors but its important to keep in mind whats happening in china is really happening against the backdrop of a weakening picture for the market and the reason why thats important to people outside of just a handful of technical analysts is that people actually own stocks and when they look at their portfolio every week, they see less and less of them green, more and more of them red. You see this in decline, highs minus lows, up volume versus down volumes, the percentage of stocks above their 200day moving average. That number continues to plummet each week. People feel less and less good about the advance. And now you have this eightmonth consolidation period where stocks essentially have
The ceo of boyd gaming will discuss where he sees growth. Today we have henry tao, steve grasso. Should we be as concerned over whats taking place in china . I dont think the u. S. Market should be concerned at all. In china only 15 of household assets are in the Chinese Market. People are not spending according to what they make in the chinese equity market. I dont think there will be any substantial impact on the u. S. Earnings at all. Do you buy that rick . Not even a little. I dont disagree with his information. I do think there are many aspects to china unique to china. Many have no problem when commodities were racing and copper was racing saying this represented global demand. Maybe it was chinas demand. I think that this reversal may not be exactly correlating. Lets speak or let the market speak for themselves. The dollar index, bund and dax all hit the same levels in july. When i see the dow, its not everyones favorite gauge of value, but the lowest levels since february this
Ugly off 8 1 2 . Is the selling fully chinarelated here in the u. S. Or ocould there be something else, something bigger and deeper perhaps, guy . Lets start with you. Tim talking about china, i think it has a lot to do with china. When the markets down 8 on top of the moves weve seen over the last couple of months it has to have something to do with that but i also think its somewhat technical in nature. I think earnings have a lot to do with it. I think earnings have been okay but i think the chasm between eps and revenue continues to grow. I think technically the markets done everything right until last week when we traded back up, tested you willtime highs, seemingly failed, had an outside week in the s p without getting too wonky, now were going to test again those lows we saw last week or so, 2042. If it holds there, off to the races. If it fails we have to have another conversation quickly. The russell, the iwm, 121 has been the level, closed lower today for the first time in a
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