The nasdaq is on track for its best monthly gain since july of 2016 the s p 500 is at its biggest monthly gain since last february the s p and nasdaq have risen seven of the last eight trading days if you were waiting for things to slow down, you are still waiting. Triple digit gains for the dow already this morning overnight in asia there were gains this came after the strength yesterday with the dow up 200 points. The hang seng was up by 1 shanghai was up by 0. 1 . The nikkei did give back some ground in europe this morning, there are some green arrows across the board. Gains of a quarter percentage point for germany and the ftse in london. The cac in france is up by a third of a percentage point. If you want to look at treasury yields which have been picking up ground, you will see the treasury yield for the tenyear, sitting about the same, 2. 544 lawmakers in germany reached a break through in talks to form a new government the euro rising. You need a government. Euro rising to new
Welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. The bulls are in charge firmly today. The index up triple did you get right now, up about a half percent. We are off session highs s p also hitting 2800 for the first time ever. Its a broadbased rally also hitting record highs. Heres whats moving this hour ge is down about 3 , teak a 6 billion hit related to the reinsurance biggs. Fellow dow member, unitedhealth going in the opposite direction. The stock is rallies and amazon take a look at that, trading at alltime highs. That is the highest on the street brian . Thanks, mel here is what else is happen, a Big Hedge Fund eyeing twitter. Greenlights taken a small position in twitter. Its not helping the stock, though we have called the energizer bunny. Now theyre getting into the rally, buying ray ovac with specter and were going to head live to the Detroit Auto Show later this houring to a look at the cool car stuff. Roberto pisani is down at the stock exchange. Seven days, and were running out ha
It was like five sessions between 25,000 and the zeseventh trading sessio. From january 4th to yesterday is when we saw the 1,000 point move in the dow oil breaking, which is a weird Reason Energy stocks came down as a result just the idea lets hold off for a second nevertheless, with all of that, the s p 500 still remains on pace for its biggest monthly gains since march of 2016. The nasdaq is still on its biggest monthly gain since july of 2016. Look at what happened overnight in asia, you will see the nikkei was down by a third of a percentage point back to this morning sorry, flipflop back to this morning, you are look at double digit gains or triple digit gains once again for the dow. This comes after last night the nikkei down by a third of a percentage point hang seng and shanghai stocks both ended higher bay quarter percentage point in europe, where you see the early trading this morning, you will see at this hour theres a bit of weakness. Dax is down by 0. 2 . Ftse down about
Well give you a check of the picture in a moment. There you go shanghai up 0. 50 . Trading under way there for a number of hours. The dax is up approximately only over in france, the picture, negative at this hour. Treasury yields much in focus this week. 2. 60 on the current year and above that level at 2. 65 that is the one to watch were certainly watching that. 2. 60. You can round that up to 2. 7 right now. You can round that up to 3 a lot of people say thats the next stop. The question is at what point does that put more pressure on equities and minds of investors as the rates are going or the bitcoin, to lose money on bonds, i got to get into the stock market except, well see what happens from the equity market from there quite frankly, every piece of low rates have been great for the equity markets apparently rates going higher are great for the equity markets. Thats the dogma right now what point do you get, as ive sort of been saying the full capitulation of Bond Investors whe
We got a bit of her take on the markets. Take a listen. This is a source of some concern that asset valuations are so high. What we look at is if stock prices and asset prices were more generally were to fall, what would that mean for the economy as a whole and the Financial System is much better capitalized the Banking System is more resill yen resilient. I think our overall judgement is if there that there were to be a decline in asset valuations, it would not damage the core of our Financial System with more on all this lets bring in the professor of finance at the warden Business School still celebrating the eagles World Championship last night. Congratulations. What a game. Jeremy i was there got back to philly at 4 00 a. M im the happiest man wow. What can i say its actually my first super bowl i didnt get to the previous one. But ill never forget it im sure not. Something to treasure forever. That is absolutely true for any fan of philly. As far as market go, i know its short te