It is a tradition, right im trying to advertise this shirt i bought years ago one day a year i get to use it i go year off, year on i have a tie i sometimes do. Tartan, what is the pronunciation we good with hes got the tartan each one means something a family or a clan well make up a story give him a couple of scotches you are an irishman, not a scott, right a quick shout out to dean and the whole crew that put that together, which is awesome every year, it is so fun. Every year. Shall we lets get it going. Why dont we start with the markets. The markets are at alltime highs. The dow closer higher yesterday. All three major averages closing with record closings more on boeing in the show the trading day is shortened so everybody can go out and panic shop and panic wrap. Market closing at 1 00 eastern and the bond market at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. The bond market ever a fraction higher any gain, whatever it is is going to be a new record look at the banner, the nasdaq winning streak now th
Socalled macrow and listen to individual companies on a day the dow slid, s p lost. 79 and nasdaq shed 6. 8 because treasury yields cantonu to sink and the president terrified the market you dont know the term terrified . You better get used to it. Others were focused on tariffied, i was focus on home depot because when im trying to take the pulse, home depot gives me a better read from the bond market or any talking people on tv home depot has all sorts of insights you cant get from staring at the yield curve and right now the spot says the consumer all systems go. After list piening to the blockbuster earnings, idea were heading to a recession, according to home depot, things are getting stronger, not weaker but there are issues why should you trust home depot . Two words. Car carol, the longtime chief financial person who is retiring after 24 years at the company. It was her last conference call. Money. We spend a huge amount of time interviewing officials going and Hedge Fund Manag
The New York Stock Exchange and as i said, countdown to the closing bell is not going to take any breaks and that decision is made because we are watching a mighty tumble and struggle here. Folks, its a very fastmoving one. Dow and s p 500 are on track for their worst week since january of 2016. Tech and financials are pretty much the hardest hit fears of inflation and of course higher Interest Rates rearing their heads once again. Let me start with Interest Rates the rising 10 year treasury yield started the whole thing last friday when we lost 666 points on the dow and by the way were down 600 right now. Intraday, today, the 10 year treasury yield briefly revisited the four year high of 2. 88 that it had hit remember this early monday sort of overnight before many of you were awake. That sparked an 1100 point blood bath back on monday for the dow. To date we touched that level and were now off slightly at 2. 85 . Nasdac, look at this folks at the low of the session today the nasdac w
Julie hyman is here. Point,osses, at one would not have been major, but given what we have seen the last two months, this is a drop. Julie hyman we have seen selling spread across the globe. First of all that was a situation in japan that unsettled investors. The nikkei rising more than 1 , plunging more than 1 , then finishing down just. 2 . Selling in europe, perhaps having more to do with earnings. There is concern about inflation around the globe and the tax debate in the united states. All of that combining to equal the declines that we have been seeing, the steepest here among the three major averages for the nasdaq. Lets put this in perspective we have the s p 500s daily percentage change at one point today down about. 5 for the s p, which you see over there. It was the biggest declines. The first time we have seen a decline of half a percent or more going back to december 5. Streakuld be the longest without that magnitude of a drop since 1968. It has been unusual, that is why a