You have had two triple digit down days. I am curious to see if we are going to see twitter trump or teleprompter trump. David all of the reporting down here is going to be teleprompter. By words are being written Stephan Miller who tend to be a little bit of a hothead. Inx heres what we stack up the markets. The s p coming off its worst selloff since august and continuing today s p futures down by another 12 points. It is now a story of broader dollar weakness. Strong gdp out of europe. Yields taking a break pretty much unchanged. There was some buying in the market. Hit downtinuing to get 5. 8 . I want to highlight some movers as well. A lot of action happening in the market. Metlife hasnt set aside enough money to pay annuity holders. Stock continuing to get hit premarket. There is going to be a buyout for this company. That is no longer true. That stock getting hammered. That stock now unchanged. Take. Time for first those equityry is markets fairly shaken by the selloff in bonds.
Cramer, faber is off president is in wisconsin, surp positive, yields tick up on decent core ppi. Tech stocks taking a tumble. Treasury is out with its plan to loosen Bank Regulations and is the worst over for under armour . The stock having a nice bounce after the warriors take the title. First up, tech stocks looking to rebound from their worst twoday streak of the year jim looking at some of the percentage declines for fang, somewhere in the 4 to 5 range. What happened is you didnt get followthrough other than the negative apple you got a downgrade of adobe that lasted for about 30 seconds. There were no substantive calls and by the way no preannouncements that these great tech selloffs that weve had there usually is a linkedin tableau data, upgraded today by goldman. Theres something to hangon to which says tech has slowed down but we didnt get that, which made it so it was more of an air pocket than it was the beginning of some gigantic rollover. Just didnt get it i was looking fo
Well get answers from the ceo of blackrock as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Saudi air strikes continuing to pound yemen as battles in the streets shake the capital yet again. Concerns over a faceoff between the American Navy is fading. With me now, Robert Jordan the former u. S. Ambassador to saudi arabia under president george w. Bush and a diplomat in residence at Southern Methodist university. Good to have you on the program. Thanks so much for joining us. Sure maria. Hi. A lot of conflicting reports about yemen this morning. I want to get to that in a moment. Let me kick it off with the breaking news of the day in nepal. A horrible story there. More than 2,000 people dead after the worst earthquake in 80 years. How would the state department go about this in terms of getting aid to such a remote place . Well we have access to our military personnel who are very very helpful in situations like this. Its really an opportunity for america to make friends by aiding in a time
A brazen act of aggression in violation of international law, in violation of the you in charter, in violation of the helsinki final act, in violation of the Ukraine Russia agreement. Russia has engaged in a military act of aggression against another country. We are on the brink of disaster. There was not any reason for the Russian Federation to invade. Kraine i am watching what were seeing across the markets because of these geopolitical tensions in that part of the world. It is really about risk aversion. Benchmark indexes were off the days lows, but we are seeing fairly sharp losses. We get the asiapacific index up for you. Investors are basically scaling back on risk exposure. We are either seeing money profittaking or some of it was supposed to be going into equities this week going somewhere else. Here in the region when you talk about safe haven asset you talk about the japanese yen. You talk about japanese government bonds, and traditional you are looking at gold. Is stronger b
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