Yesterdays record drop played out. This is a time lapse video of what happened with the dow down 200, down 300, down 400 as you got closer to the end of the day, down 1600 points almost at one point by the end of the session, 1,175 point decline. Decline of 4. 6 . This is the biggest point drop in history add it up, the dow traveled 5100 points yesterday down 4. 6 does not rank in the top 12 or 15 declines weve ever seen the biggest decline was october of 1987, a 22 decline this was enough to get peoples attention. The dow and s p lost more than a third of their 2017 gains just during the last two sessions if you were wondering what else was going on behind the scenes, volatility this was the big story volatility is back yesterday we were talking at this time about volatility being up at 17 that was a big deal. By the end of the session it was above 35 for a gain of 115 . This morning you see volatility up once again, another 14 this morning, 4262. Mike santoli, this is something that
Flat. R yen now we had seen it move lower throughout the session but were off the lows of the session and is vix is what everyone watching. 45 is how were trading on the vix. Thats like a quadruple from what we saw last week. Modestly higher. I was interested as to why we didnt see gold spike more. To be about equities and commodities kind of taking on the chin. Raises the question whether its fundamentals or technical. Well be die jekting over the next two hours. For the first take, there are three top stories. You have equitys and what is the fed going to do . David . Were joined by Michael Mckee, Bloomberg International correspondent and the reporter bloomberg news. What happened with the dow yesterday . Ill pull up a screen that tells story of two days in one chart here. One on the left is what happened on friday when we had those out about jobs. The one on the right is what happened yesterday. Michael, what does this tell us . Tells us that we saw return Inflation Expectations ear
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Dovish fed, the spread continues to steepen. That is more on tax reform, 78 basis points is the difference. The pound just turning positive. A macronmerkelmay lovefest over the past few days. I do want to bring in breaking news over the last half hour from ge, a huge mess on earnings at . 29 a share versus estimates that . 50 a share, and it cut its fullyear forecast. The oil and gas environment remains challenging for its spinoff of the baker hughes ge business. What was the huge mess on earnings and revenue came in stronger miss on earnings one revenue came in stronger . Typically on an earnings day it moves just about 2. 8 . What doesions about it do to flannery, the ceo . David it is typical for a new ceo to clean things out, but this is really a big one. Jonathan it says a lot what was going on and maybe for John Flannery, he has the appropriate whipping boy to drive things forward. It gets a decent position because these are just numbers and got his. David he has got to come up w
Since may. As we said, big beats from cat, 3m and utx zpl global same sales closing 6 for mcdonalds. And pipeline concerns before the ten orders again shipments may only be half of what was expected. Stocks are poised for a strong open help the by results dow components and caterpillar and others, a significant increase in demand for Construction Equipment, 3m and utx beat on the top and bottom line and upbeat guidance for the full year those are going to be the stars today. Some of pretty amazing, caterpillar appepared back the workforce. Its almost as if they pared exactly the right time when orders explode, you get that leverage and youre seeing earnings weve been waiting for caterpillar i would say since 1983 or 84, finally getting the breakout 3 m chugging forward greg haze, great organic growth. I dont want to overlook this Stanley Black and decker, tools up 9 . Some numbers are rather extraordinary and catching attention because these are the same numbers that say gdp will be mu