Below 45 a barrel. A design of 4. 13 . Energy the least well werg sector. Also its a quadruple expiration day. That will put more pressure as art cashin has mentioned. Utilities are holding in decently, one sector not getting crushed as investors do hunt for yield and safety. Is now the time to jump into the beaten down sector . Its down 10 this year. We will hear from both sides coming snup thats one we keep looking to when the market goes lower utilities somehow hang in there as a defensive play of some kind. Plus could apples bottom line get a boost next quarter because of a calendar shift . One wall street firm thinks so. We have details on that story plus much more regarding apple coming snup lets get more on this sell off with our man on the floor at the stock exchange. Bob pisani, happy friday. Thank you. A long one but quadruple witching. Slower Global Growth, look at the Global Industry names, ingersollrand, flur, couple minutes, the big truer manufacturer, everything is down
The german dax down nearly 3 today. Futures down sharply following yesterdays fed decision to stay pat on Interest Rates. Most fed policymakers are not ruling out a rate hike by the end of the year, four of them are forecasting an increase in 2016 or later. At yesterdays News Conference chair yellen outlined her case for holding off on a rate hike. Light of the heightened uncertainties abroad, and the slightly softer expected path for inflation, the committee judged it appropriate to wait for more evidence including some further improvement in the labor market to bolster its confidence that inflation will rise to 2 in the medium term. Jim, some video of you as the decision was coming across the screens. You were excited. Because you did not want them to hike. Now everyone is worried about what theyre calling the third mandate, somehow the rest of the world is driving our Monetary Policy. What i like about it, carl, its over with. We can focus on companies doing well and buy their stock
No, that actually was good for the market t. Dow gained 126 points t. S p climbed 4. 6 . Nasdaq advanced 0. 4 . How did these terrible things suddenly become good for stocks . This market is trying to find a footing where it doesnt go down every day and segments hard hit can be ready to rally. Its finding its footing in all the wrong or ignorant places. The fed kept Interest Rates low. Banks need higher rates to make more money after your depositles. The stocks got dumped. It doesnt matter at all to people that the banks were actually quite doing quite well here in the u. S. That its got more robust lending than anywhere else on earth. We learned last week when john stumped the ceo, wells fargo came on the show. He made it clear it was excellent t. Stock got hammered. Big money matches, what do they want . Lending is a risky business. Even if you are wells fargo, which is an amazing sir couple spent lender. Nope. The stockmarket prefers its fool proof when the banks take your deposits
A policy that on average would hold the inflation rate below 2 . That is not our policy. We want to see the inflation rate get back to 2 as rapidly as we can. But there are lags in the impact of Monetary Policy on the economy and if we waited until inflation was back to 2 and that would probably mean that unemployment had declined well below our estimates of the natural rate and only then did we start to begin to you know, the word tighten Monetary Policy i dont think is really right because we have an immensely accommodate testify Monetary Policy in place. So let me say just to begin to diminish the extraordinary degree of accommodation for Monetary Policy we would be overshoot we would likely overshoot substantially our 2 objective and we might be faced with then having to tighten policy in a way that could be disruptive to the real economy and i dont i dont think thats a desirable way to conduct policy. Gina, bloomberg news. You mentioned earlier that there is always going to be som
Win streak. Data coming out as well. Ibm kicking off its investor day. Ceo ginny rometty. An exclusive interview. Net neutrality, the fcc taking up what has become a contentious issue. But waiting on important details for Internet Companies like google and netflix still to be determined. First up wall street digesting Economic Data ahead of the opening bell. Consumer prices down. 7. Strip out food and Energy Prices up. 2. Durables nice, above expectations, above 2. 8. Weekly jobless claims jumped to 313,000. Dow closed at record high. Nasdaq ended the tensession winning streak. Within a stones throw of 5,000. A level at which its closed only two times in history. Take it out today because theres a lot of good chatter in individual tech names. I would tell you we had a gauntlet this morning with the runthrough. When you get through a gauntlet nothing that is earth shaking, whether claims durables, inflation. Ive got nothing earth shaking. I dont feel its going to do anything other than