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Consumer confidence relatively judge the michigan consumers intimate data is a good guide. Lets break it down a different way. Current conditions, 85. 9. That is above expectations at 84. 9. This is what i was really looking for, expectations also ,oming in ahead of expectations but they are still below current conditions, 79. 2. They are not going down, which ethic is the really important thing, as we see the virus picking up. Alix and we didnt get stimulus, counterintuitive to what many thought would happen. Big tex stocks are lower on a stocks big tech are lower on a flurry of data. Now with us, mark st oeckle. Are you buying the dip . Tok i think people need keep it in perspective. The reports were good. I think what we are seeing today is skimming a little but of the froth out of the valuation adjustment. I think they are all very wellpositioned and very well performing companies, but lets also not forget weve had a big run up into these numbers. The interesting part is you look a ....
Government in a phase four plan. That is helping to lift equities. No surprise, you have the underperformers again starting to surprise. Nordstrom and the gap are the two strongest is in the s p right now. Those are the names rallying. You have to wonder about the efficacy of the rally. Priceslped by energy getting some stability in the u. S. Despite the fact we saw an and norma screwed inventory build of 15 million barrels. I had to actually look three times out the number because it was so big. You are seeing that risk on continuum, but i have to have doubts when you have nordstrom as the Top Performing stock in the s p. Guy lets talk a bit about what is happening in more detail in europe. We are trying to figure out what is going to happen next. Eu ministers are divided on how to finance the regions fight against covid19. Yesterday, 16 hour call. Tomorrow, they were doing again. Aance and berlin both saying deal is close. The q ....
Reasonable as we have to store all this. Saying 10unbelievable decimation of tt commodity right now. Guy absolutely. You bring up the btp market. There is a lot of moving parts around the btp market today. Ly we saw yield spike yields spike to the upside. There was speculation the ecb was in the market. The big story has been the european governments considering using the european stability mechanism to extend credit lines to countries including almost certainly italy. There is an issue with this. Activationesm usually comes with some degree of conditionality. Clear theyaking it would be unacceptable to have any conditionality around it. Prelude toement is a the omt from the ecb, which would be the big bazooka from the ecb. Holly raines has been talking. His afternoon there is potentially more to come. Huge moves in btps. The pound is trading your 1985 lows. The bloomberg dollar index is getting very close to an alltime record high. Lets talk about what is happening specifically in the ....