Mixed picture w m go, a mixed picture with the cac 40 and to 10 and the dax is up sub 1 and the ftse 100 in the u. K. Up 5 10 of 1 and the ibex in spain one of the worst performers. Asset on a across headline level with european equities unchanged. Space, a little bit of Dollar Strength which means cable off by 1 10 of a percent. Interesting dynamics around sterling with employment and wage data with mark carney testifying and news about brexit geared brexit. And the u. K. And their view on the transitional deal. We ceos move lower we see yield move lower in the core and periphery. Thematic chart that i got from Marcus Ashworth. Spain and the u. S. s 30 year yields rapidly diverging. Front and. At the end. The final chart, i mentioned the euro, after flash pmi data on the eurozone coming in weaker than expected. The euro off slightly and approaching its trendline since middecember as momentum appears to be favoring losses. We like to watch the technical charts. In the u. S. , the major
Meeting but it does seem hike this really is. He should have said really twice. Or at least three times maybe. This is it. Really really. This is like whackamole. Markets that go down they find a way and its a lot of times not what youre focussing on. Did you think once again well be 8 down . They have a plunge Protection Team like us but its not working at this point. Down 40 the market is over there in three weeks or four weeks. Still up 10 on the year. And 70 in the last 12 months. Its like the wild west. We shouldnt extrapolate everything over here from whats happening over there. But 180 points here or 8 there, maybe thats commensurate. Well wall street journal today, stocks plunged scarier than greece and thats written by the head of emerging markets and global macro at global stanley investment management. They make the point which is hotly debated in the market to what extent does the market crash in china have a Ripple Effect on the chinese economy and that has a Ripple Effect
The government trying to prevent a collapse of the countrys markets which lost nearly 30 since june. The news helping to spark a rally today. A gain of more than 3 in shanghai and shenzhen we have seen the imagine higher by nearly 5 . Keep in mind you go down 30 you have to go up a lot more than that in order to recover. Heres the greek stock exchange. Market there open for a second straight day after its five week closure. Down by only 1 today after the big pummeling it took yesterday after reopening and the u. S. Futures at this hour suggest that were going to have slightly negative open. The dow lower by 15 points and s p by 2 and nasdaq by 4. He is dismissing claims that oversupply is driving down prices and he believes the end of the broader commoditys route is in sight. Lets Check Oil Prices right now. You can see above 45, not by that much. Up by one and three quarters per cent. Its a nice gain after the sell off in recent days. Brent had gone below 50. That was the big headline
It will have erased the gains of the year. Courtney reagan has more on whats exactly happening. One trader i talked to said there is no one sudden catalyst. Just a lot of things were seeing thats making this a be generally riskoff trade. If weve broken through sew key Technical Levels. Specifically on the s p 500. The next level we are looking for is 2,067. Well see if we break through or hold above it. Consumer discretionary, health care, telecom are the biggest drags. Energy is actually higher and crude oil which continues to fall. Despite all the retail news and movers in the Consumer Discretionary names weve been uk talking about it all today, 7 of the 15 performing stocks in the s p 500 are media stocks. It is kind of due to this reinvigorateing talk about cord cutting. If you look at the s p media industry, a subsector group here, having its week since october of 2008 when it lost almost 22 . You can see by that chart was level, then the steep falloff. One consumer discretion yae
Impact and a price impact as you were talking about because here along the gulf coast and here in Southeast Texas in particular, there is some serious Refining Capacity down here. Were talking about some major refinery thats are off line now because of flooding, because of power failures and so on so were looking at the port arthur refinery. 603,000 barrels a day, largest refiner in the country, thats down this all told, the ones that you see on the screen, about a fifth of u. S. Refining capacity is off line and that is having the expected impact take a look at the scene right now in port arthur, texas. Rescues are still going on there is still flooding. Not far from that location is that motiva refinery which is shut down, they say, for a couple weeks but some analysts are speculating it could be long brer they finally get back in there and get it back up and running at full capacity and were just talking about refinery thats are off line there is also reduced capacity all over the p