Lower. Okay i know i say this stuff every night all right . Maybe you think i sound like a broken record but the truth is im always repeating this mantra because of days like today where events can overwhelm you and gameplan cant survive even a minute of battle with the enemy, short sellers, s p furlt sellers, etf guys or fellow individual stock shareholders who decided to capitulate. Today a session with the dow down eked out another record five points at close s p another record nasdaq lost after being down this is object lesson day. Use todays incredible turnaround as way to show you how to set up your own battle plan at home for this unusual volt tillity admittedly im a bit of an extreme coach, exgame coach but i know i can teach you i can teach you. Let me give you setup. 2 00 a. M. I get alert on cell phone from unilever. Looked like bad miss to me it was release, nothing good. Gone to bed two hours before that slept in until 3 30. When i saw how hong kong had stopped because of
One full percentage point. Ugly for apple, not great for twitter. Come outperformance on the dax. Switch up the board just very quickly and get the other asset classes. The bti at 45 a barrel for the First Time Since november. Wti at 45 a barrel. The aussie dollar down by 1. 83 . Rba might cut rates again. There are the big moves in the wider market. Julie ton of earnings out today ton of earnings out today. Adjusted eps at . 45. Weve been talking about this story that comcast is in talks to buy dreamworks, according to the wall street journal. Glaxosmithkline in london ofting as well with core eps those two stories are very different from what we are seeing across the tech sector. Let me start with apple. Obviously come apple missed by a longshot. Even though we did expect apple revenue to fall. It fell for the first time in a decade. Smartphone sales were down. Analysts knew that was going to happen. A disappointing outlook for the current quarter. Apple tends to do that. They did no
Internet caucus taking a look at internet privacy and personal data protection. The chair of the Federal Reserve, janet yellen, testified on the u. S. Economy and Monetary Policy appearing before the House Financial Services committee on wednesday for about three hours. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to suggest a recess for the committee at any time. This is the annual testimony on the Federal Reserves supervision and regulation of the Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. The dodd frank act requires the Federal Reserves vice chair of supervision to testify before our Committee Twice a year regarding the supervision and regulation of Financial Institutions. Regrettably, five years after the passage of dodd frank, no such person exists. President obama has been unwilling or unable to follow the law in a point at vice chair. We can no longer wait for the president to do his job so we can be al
Financial institutions and markets generally. Those powers we use during the crisis to keep credit flowing to the economy. Sure. And so we want to be very careful about what we do. The words used for that are unusual and exjentsisheses. Sur correct. In my format we take that and we say we add upon it, raise the bar marginally, i would argue, and use the language unusual and exjent circumstances exist that pose a threat to the Financial Stability of the United States. Youve come out and some of the other fed governors come out opposed to that language. Why . Thats when we would use im not sure that we have been opposed. Thats when we would use those powers when there are unusual and exjent. Its understood to mean pose a risk to the Financial System. Weve kind of added two things as a belt and suspnders. One was to include the language that pose a threat to the financial starblete to the United States. And that is the pushback that weve gotten. Ive met with some of the other fed governor
Provide liquidity when there is a financial panic and lenders are worried about the state of Financial Institutions and markets generally. Those powers we use during the crisis to keep credit flowing to the economy. Sure. And so we want to be very careful about what we do. The words used for that are unusual and exjentsisheses. Sur correct. In my format we take that and we say we add upon it, raise the bar marginally, i would argue, and use the language unusual and exjent circumstances exist that pose a threat to the Financial Stability of the United States. Youve come out and some of the other fed governors come out opposed to that language. Why . Thats when we would use im not sure that we have been opposed. Thats when we would use those powers when there are unusual and exjent. Its understood to mean pose a risk to the Financial System. Weve kind of added two things as a belt and suspnders. One was to include the language that pose a threat to the financial starblete to the United S