Role, on the Long Distance round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. The fed has been sometimes blamed for propping up the market, but it looks like fridays selloff may have been in part due to what the fed was saying and doing. Thats right. I think the fed made a mistake. They released the results of their a bank stress tests, and at first they looked just fine. The dividends were capped for the third quarter, but that wasnt much of a surprise. Normally the suspension of buybacks because no ones really buying back banks anymore, but they left a lot of uncertainty about future quarters. As investors looked at those numbers, they a really started to get a bit afraid of what it meant for bank stocks, and then they started to fall on friday. And it really isnt good for the market at this point or investors. Tech is about 27 of the s p 500 right now. If thats near dot. Com levels. Investors really need other choices besides tech, and they were starting to feel comfortable w
Role, on the Long Distance round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. The fed has been sometimes blamed for propping up the market, but it looks like fridays selloff may have been in part due to what the fed was saying and doing. Thats right. I think the fed made a mistake. They released the results of their a bank stress tests, and at first they looked just fine. The dividends were capped for the third quarter, but that wasnt much of a surprise. Normally the suspension of buybacks because no ones really buying back banks anymore, but they left a lot of uncertainty about future quarters. As investors looked at those numbers, they a really started to get a bit afraid of what it meant for bank stocks, and then they started to fall on friday. And it really isnt good for the market at this point or investors. Tech is about 27 of the s p 500 right now. If thats near dot. Com levels. Investors really need other choices besides tech, and they were starting to feel comfortable w
Role, on the Long Distance round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. The fed has been sometimes blamed for propping up the market, but it looks like fridays selloff may have been in part due to what the fed was saying and doing. Thats right. I think the fed made a mistake. They released the results of their a bank stress tests, and at first they looked just fine. The dividends were capped for the third quarter, but that wasnt much of a surprise. Normally the suspension of buybacks because no ones really buying back banks anymore, but they left a lot of uncertainty about future quarters. As investors looked at those numbers, they a really started to get a bit afraid of what it meant for bank stocks, and then they started to fall on friday. And it really isnt good for the market at this point or investors. Tech is about 27 of the s p 500 right now. If thats near dot. Com levels. Investors really need other choices besides tech, and they were starting to feel comfortable w
With the u. S. Cases jumping the most in almost eight weeks. Anthony fauci says a new mutation could speed the spread. Will tell citizens to act responsibly as pubs and restaurants in england reopened today. The nation will also use quarantine rules from some European Countries, including right here in germany. Lets take a look at some of the risk assets that could move markets today or indicate what we are going to see. S p futures, first off, actually, as i mentioned, there will not be any trading in the u. S. Today, but still a good idea to see what is going to happen in terms of risk sentiment. We see them down. That said, european futures are kind of mixed right now. Gold is trading slightly lower right now but still looks set to end the week higher and nymex upde as well down today, but above 40 a barrel. So it is relatively strong price for wti, and then finally, take a look at the bloomberg dollar index. Interesting today. It is slightly higher, but the dollar index looks set t
Nonfarm payrolls surprised to the upside but continuing jobless claims show maybe market weakness persists. However, asian stocks are higher. U. S. Equities of course will not trade on this fourth of july holiday. Today is the third of july but this is the holiday, the bank holiday, as you would say, for tomorrows Independence Day celebration. And case closed. Thean lawmakers end nations illegal standoff with the bank voting to accept that the qe measures taken were proportionate. Western one hour away now from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at how futures are shaping up. We had a mixed picture earlier. Now, we are looking at green arrows for the most part in terms of european futures. Actually, very Little Movement there. And if you look at a broader board, you would see a more andrse picture with cac ibex 35 futures down but also not by very much. Still sort of searching for direction. Lets get the berlin burger the bloomberg first word news. Top stories