Earlier today before turning negative were just off the lows of the day. Rates are in focus the tenyear is pushing past two six. Pete, whats happening we erase a 280point gain the other day. Then we go up more than 300. Then today we find ourselves falling as we speak. A little slipping welcome to the new world of the market welcome to the new world, and you talk about 1,500 points, thats why were seeing the volatility rise the way were seeing it. This is significant. These moves are huge they have volume behind them i was talking about the volumes the other day in the options world. 24 million, 37 million contracts over the last three sessions so volatility is here, scott i wouldnt be surprised if we start to see a new range for volatility everybody has been expecting it. But we get these kind of moves, and we still have plenty of different political reasons for the stock market to move, along with where i know, steve, in a note earlier today, was talking about what hes seen in the te
My eye is on the nasdaq to see we can close in profit for the first time after three days of losses. The range of volatility we are seeing on an intraday basis early february, we saw this massive volatility where the highs and lows of the intraday idening. The dow is having the biggest intraday move. We will check to see the volatility continues as the week progresses. We are looking at the Energy Stocks today. Oil is up 1. 5 . My eye is on Chesapeake Energy, up 21 on an earnings beat. Fourthquarter earnings better than expected. They are cutting down 3 billion of debt. Management is saying they are working on large asset sales this year. Some of the laggards we are looking at across the board, my eyes are on roku. They are down 17 . Last quarter was good. Fullyear 2018 was good this year, investors were a bit nervous. It is a highly shorted stock. 30 of shares shorted. The bears a broker winning today. Roku winning today. Julia lets check the first word news. Called asident Trump Whit
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Morning. It is so vast that the Vice President of the united dates jumping into help here we will hear that plan coming up. Stephanie until then, ill give you the top news stories for the morning. I mentioned it earlier. Stocks in china earlier today. The benchmark shanghai composite index, 8. 5 , the most since 2007. Investors are growing concerns the Chinese Government may end those unprecedented steps it took to prop up share prices. Earlier this year on bloomberg television, the head of the council on Foreign Relations call that a nightmare scenario for chinese leadership. Where does the government and this party get its legitimacy . The answer is that they cannot quite figure it out. They have got a real problem on their hands and they do not quite know what to do it that is why you see massive intervention. This is a serious political problem. Stephanie let me break it down. From july 8 through this past friday, the shanghai rebounded 15 , more than 1400 stocks, were allowed to s
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