Are a little mixed. Nasdaq is down ever so slightly but earlier, the nasdaq had also been slightly higher. Looking at another round of record highs. Hope surround tax reform and the earnings season really kicking off on friday with some of the big banks. Investors on hold, taking a breather. Highs, relative to checker sector composition, tech lower as well but one of the best sectors on the day, health care. Almost 5 tific up up for the half percent. 4. 5 . Johnson johnson up 1. 9 . Investors liking what they had to say. Retail, a bit of a mixed picture. Season, butiday urban outfitters, not so much, down 5 . That is below what they had guided two, before and we also have under armour down 4. 4 . On brandside ahead risk and i know you love charts. Check out this chart on the s p 500. This is the rsi or momentum indicator on the s p 500. When it goes below 30, that suggests the market is oversold. We saw that back in the mid90s, for the most part in between those two levels, hitting lev
Lets go to the markets. Another day of calm. On the surface, things are calm. Who knows what we might be in store for the next week or so. If you look at the major averages, a little bit of green. Ultimately, not much. Futures were doing better before we opened the markets, but those gains have aired back paired jobless claimsad in line and in retail sales a little weaker than expected. The question is whether the markets are moving because of the economic numbers today will not be fed going next week or because investors dont lightly make the weakerta like Economic Data. Looking at some of the bigger movers today, apple continued to do pretty well. You are looking at it big jump in the stock of the past four days, up another 260 basis points today. Adding 60 billion in market cap. Goodyear doing pretty well. That is basically a story that a lot of the stock market has been about recently, which is higher payouts for investors. They were looking at wells fargo on the downside. That com
175 in the third quarter. Investors looking at this positively so far. Alibaba up about 5 in the premarket. It is down about one third, more than one third since the high it reached shortly after its ipo in 2014. The stock has not done well. Jon up 3. 5 premarket on alibaba. Even if youre not interested in the company, to get a gauge of what is happening in china. Your scorecard, futures firmer in the u. S. , up 61 points. Points. D 7, 8 in london, pretty much flat. Switch up the board, the dollar on the front foot against some of the majors including the euro. On the backs first against the Commodity Currencies with wti up 45 and . 19, 3. 2 . A rally on treasuries, yields got a little bit higher by one basis point to 1. 79 , over 24 hours away from payroll friday. Here are stocks to watch with matt. Matt in europe, gains. I want to highlight two of the biggest gainers. Refining is what is helping them and chemicals. You see a rally. Bt group rising. The former monopoly of the u. K. Co
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