There watching day vacation live from new york, sydney and hong kong. Counting down to asias major market opens. Australia has just come online, asian equities set for him next open. Amazon and intel jumping read chinas foreign minister is set to meet with President Biden after talks with Antony Blinken in washington and ftx founder Sam Bankmanfried struggles as he testifies at his federal trial. Annabelle im going to wait a few minutes until that becomes online because it seemed like a sentiment shift in the final 10 minutes. The futures contract reopened. It had closed to negative and came online in the last 10 minutes into gains, so the impact of u. S. Earnings from amazon, intel is better than expected. Better numbers, stocks rising, telling us how much of an influence those numbers are having. What else is helping as the pullback in treasury yields and so that is being reflected in the three year and 10 year, the softer dollar the aussie is firmer against the greenback. Asx 200 is
Kick off the final hour of trade. Look at the dow jones industrials, down 40 points. Low of the session, down 291. So a big comeback here. The s p 500 down 19 points, but weve got breaking news on the nasdaq. Right now it is still falling deeper into the correction hole, right now down 122 points. Of course, it tumbled into correction yesterday. Right now the techheavy index though is well off the lows of the session. You can see low of the session a loss of 277, so weve chopped that in half. Yesterday though the composite suffered its worst day in eight months, clocking a 318point loss are. Alphabet really led the dive into correction with a bruising 9. 5 loss on weak cloud results, the google parent getting hit again this session, down 2. 69. Off the lows, but thats good for at another about another clip of 2. Yesterday was the worst performance for the stock in three and a half years. Microsofts 3. 1 gain wednesday was not enough to cushion either the nasdaq or the dow, and today it
This came through in the early hours, a release for forward, not signed and sealed but it would seem tough negotiations have ended in an agreement. Good morning. Thank you for having me. This is good for the workers, this deal, because it is a 25 Wage Increase for workers, a Reference Point for the other Car Companies that are still striking and i think there is a lot of pressure to negotiate with workers and come up negotiate with workers and come up with a deal because the financial cost to the company to simply huge. We originally had the Third Quarter results from General Motors and they say the strikes so far have cost 800 million, a big hit in their profitability and the overall estimate for the strikes so far is nearly 2 billion. It is costing. Absolutely, they had to try to come to some agreement quickly. As you say, it was costing these car makers huge sums of money. Also installing production, impacting supply of new cars, at a time when the us economy is really trying to get
Im melissa lee, coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq we start off with a sharp reversal in shares of jpmorgan today. The big bank hitting an alltime early in the session, but taking a tumble midday. The drop coming off Ceo Jamie Dimon said this at the companys investor day i think were in a very good position to continue to invest in our future, and were not going to buy back stock now. Share buybacks have been a big driver for stocks this year. Look at the gains in alphabet and apple since the Companies Announced massive repurchase plans. But with stocks at alltime highs, the nasdaq posting a record close today the dow setting a new intraday before pulling back. Have valuations gotten ahead of themselves if jamie dimon is not buying at these levels, the question is, should you why are you laughing already you read my mind. Im thinking to myself, if hes not buying, why should you mouthing it but the reversal today is very interesting. Yeah. Noa lot of volume, this reversal mo
That comes up against the weak anecdotes we keep hearing about. The beige book did not sound like the robust economy. I dont know what you are hearing from the companies and everything. It is not robust news. The question becomes not so much the strong Third Quarter. The question is in the Fourth Quarter and if the fed wants and needs a slowdown to feel comfortable about inflation. I dont know if we have the problabilities available. The first is the tenyear note which is darn close to 5 . 4. 98 was the top overnight. It is now down a bit. The second is limited or almost no chance. Quickly, ill give you the probability. 5. 7 for november. It jumps up to 39 for december. Then it is 47 for january. If you hear from the companies, mike, i say most of the ceos are concerned about what is coming. Generally, that is true. If you get a slowdown, it doesnt usually happen precipitously. I think the market wants the ability to try to start to focus fully on companies and on exactly how the busin