or down? or up? professor khouw breaks it down, why rates could be in for a bumpy ride, and how to ride that out with options it s time to risk less and make more options action starts right now. let s get right to it consumer staples making a comeback from the march lows and now hovering close to all-time highs. carter, what are you looking at? i thought we d target proctor here proctor is the biggest weighting we know in the sector, but it s just a bit hot to my eye and let s try to figure it out together so first a simple table and you can see it there on your screen and this is just looking at the consumer staple sector versus proctor. the staple up 10% and proctor has doubled that up 24 on a two-year basis, the sector is up 25 proctor is up 77 on a five-year basis, the sector is up 33 and proctor is up 93. now let s look at a chart of that five-year comparative chart and you can see that there on your screen. so to be this ahead of your peers, meaning the sector is
support for limited gunshots in the wake of the florida school massacre. ramy: good morning to you and to all watching around the world. markets, close because of the president s day holiday. not much moving except the dixie . it has been moving slightly to the upside. lot of investors have been expecting this to fall farther down. the last time it hit that mark was three years ago. to ask be looking ahead some forex analysts what they expect in terms of that trend looking ahead. the interester rate differentials matter when it comes to the dollar. really thin volumes. liquidity in shortage given u.s. markets are closed. we are seeing some markets come back after the chinese new year holiday. hong kong still and holiday mode. we are seeing new zealand stocks flat, currency as well. big earnings day for australia. we are looking ahead to the hp earnings. bhp.- to the earnings season not too shabby so far. the aussie he much trading water ahead of rba minutes this morning. th
today, thursday, august 1, 2013. good morning. welcome to today. 7:00 a.m. on the west coast. i m savannah guthrie. and i m matt lauer. we will take you live to cleveland in just a moment. but first, edward snowden almost a year after receiving asylum in russia. good morning to you. well, edward snowden was expecting a permit to leave the airport and get some space really while he waited months, he thought, for a possible temporary asylum. but he got something much better than that. an official tast track passport. this is edward joseph snowden s terrific to freedom. his new passport, granting him temporary asylum for one year. snowdenstranded for more than five weeks while russian authorities reviewed his asylum request. and within minutes of the news, snowden s lawyer confirmed that snowden with passport in hand left the airport. but citing security reasons, the lawyer refused to say where snowden was going. snowden s release comes just y days after eric holder