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markets feeling a little bit better. existing home sales are the number we are getting. we are seeing a rise month over annual payril for $5.455 million. u.s.argest part of the housing market. that is a three month high. there was a surge in the midwest. there seems to be improving numbers in the housing market. we are seeing stocks higher today following a rebound we saw around the globe. especially commodity lenders, we will dig into those in a moment. nasdaq is leading gains today up i 1%. showing gains. let s look at the bloomberg. technology is performing the best today. that explains why the nasdaq is doing the best today. financials are bouncing back as well. they were sharply down yesterday. it is not quite all of the groups in the s&p that is higher. staples and utilities in particular. today,look at the banks goldman sachs holding its annual meeting here. the majority of shareholders voting to keep the ceo and chairman role as one. all the banks bouncing bac ....
a great\showing backlash. welcome to countdown. anna: a very warm welcome to the program. it is past 6:00 in the morning. here in london. let s get to a very interesting chat. a reminder of where we have been in the dollar over recent months. fed chat boosting the dollar once again and that has been the story for the past month. we have here in the blue a chart that is showing what is happening in the dollar to dollar index which is sinking. a bit of a boost as investors increasingly factor in june, withas possible meetings the fed getting a boost from the minutes that came out from the april meeting. williams adding to the constant flow of relatively hawkish commentary we seem to be getting from the fed. you ve got for the first time since march more than a 50% chance of an interest rate hike from the fed on june or july. manus: the big question is what the fed is about to do. thsoose possible rate hikes are easing off the issues are the canadians. this could get eve ....
day. this is about central banks. we are learning about china and we re talking about the pound. tom: it is an interesting economic day. great series of smart guests to give us depth. i would notice are the headlines just out of microsoft. you have the hewlett-packard headlines yesterday of the split up of the split up if you will on hp q and now you have microsoft out with a 1% severance or layoff or job cuts. i like job cuts on the bloomberg banner. 1850 out the door. shows the door of the real economy around the economic data. let me guess, we will also talk about brexit? francine: surprise. [laughter] francine: it is a month away. we may talk about it for the next three years. the imf has backed off and greece will get its next round of financial aid. it will allow the relief of more than $11 billion and they will take steps to ease the burden of the countries $58 billion in debt. they stood down after originally insisting that the program did not offer a path to fi ....
big today gain and as you say, don t fear the fed, even in the face of this perception that the fed will potentially be more aggressive. all three averages hovering near their highs of the session. been talking lately about anniversaries of record for the major averages and we are approaching the anniversary of the doubt. it was at a record last may 27 and as you can see, distill trading lower by 1.7%. but since last friday, we have embarked on a significant rally, to thate getting closer record level. what would it have to do to get to that level by friday? let s look at the last week of trading. we have seen the 360 point gain for the dow. it would have to go up by the same again to regain that record status. part of what has power to be stocks generally higher has been the financial group, which has seen this big increase here. we have seen financials move higher along with bond yields. financials still the second worst-performing group year to date, so there is a ro ....
will give it to you in a second. i brought a list in case that question was asked. the money has been paid out. i have been thanked by so many veterans groups throughout the united states. one gentleman called me up acently crying that out of blue he got a check for $100,000. i have been asked thanked by semi groups, great veterans groups. people are picketing out there are sent by hillary clinton and they are picketing that the money was not sent. i do not think it is anyone s business of i want to send money to the vets but i have to say this, i raised close to $6 million. it will be over that amount. when it is all said and done. as of this moment it is $5.6 million. his comments were a response to a twitter .nnouncement associated press in center for public affairs research found that republicans end of a credit voters feel a significant disconnect with their political parties. joining me here in new york is gerald seib,ank luntz and and jonathan martin, the natio ....