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Its the fed on a day where the fed presented the monthly heati lly meeting, surprise we heard endless chatter how the stock market is in a bubble of the feds making. After a good day, the dow gained 160 points and nasdaq fell to 1. 35 . You need to know that i think this is totally nuts yeah, right. The all powerful fed created an environment where equity is the only asset class worth owning and bonds are for suckers. Its our central bank with the illuminati and free masons im sick and tired of hearing were in a bubble that the feds over inflating the price of stocks by printing money to keep the economy moving believe it or not, there is more to the economy than the Federal Reserve and certainly more to the stock market first, im not saying the fed doesnt matter of course, its important. They could raise shortterm rates to five and that could crush the stock market that would make the bears happy. I can hear them coming on air a ....
Retaliation. If they retaliate, talk sanctions against iraq. Gold, still in and out of a sevenyear high. A lot lower than it had been. Oil barely positive. For a while, brent, that was well over 70 a barrel. But it is not translating to big gains here. Then we have treasury yield actually backing up a little bit after it was, getting lower and lower on sort of a flight to quality, that doesnt seem necessary. The dow as i indicated down about 63 points. We had been down close to 300 points. What is remarkable about all of this, folks, sometimes we see things in the prism of the financial community. I like what it shows people who bet with their own money think of what this is going. Theyre not always prescient and right. Theyre far from accurate period. In the middle of this moment, what some are calling potential world war 3 00, sort of a muted, sort of a shrugged shoulder reaction. Why is that . Latest from blake burman at the white house. Hay. Hey, blake. Reporter over here at the wh ....
[gavel] this meeting will come to order. Will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus head of libra at facebook. On may 9 senator brown and i sent a letter shortly after it was reported that company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using a social network. We asked space bar for more information how the system would work, access and use of Consumer Financial information and facebooks access to use of information on individuals or group of individuals for credit or insurance or housing i appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent facebook formally announced its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white pap ....
Banks mixed. Carmax, the worst performer. 2. 13 , crude up to oil below 65 a barrel. Trucking index, s p, best performer today, more than 8 up. That is relieving investors. European markets now. A better day in europe. The dax up a quarter of 1 , cac upup 6 10 of 1 , ftse 100 for tenths of 1 4 10 of 1 . Questions about barbary moving over. First quarter doing well in china. That stock is up 13 . Thank earnings season, j. P. Banks, wells fargo, reported earnings this morning. Lets bring in our Investment Banking reporter. It seems pressure on margins not affecting banks much. Reporter it is affecting them in that wells fargo revised projections downward and the lowest net income in three years. Theres will come down contingent on how many rate hikes there are. Jamie dimon is saying it is like wind blowing. Investors are following the news well. Vonnie what are we seeing in terms of indications for u. S. Consumer . Reporter so f ....