Plus, march madness officially kicking off this week and the games have changed dramatically. Now players are allowed to make money which cleared the way for ea sports to bring back an old favorite and play pay players for their names and likenesses. We will get that back to back. Two straight losing week spirit had not happened since october. You can see the nasdaq is leading the way higher by about 1 . The s p 500 not too far behind and the Dow Jones National average of 3 10 of a percent. Ai optimism boosting tech stocks and not just in video which we have already seen. Google and apple may be working together. Those reports both helping those two stocks as well. Now to the two big events that markets will watch this week. First up jensen wong, nvidia ceo delivering the keynote. That is today at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Everyone wants to know what he will say about demand for aig chips and what they have in the pipeline. Coming up n wednesday, jay powell, we will hear from them to 00 at 3
Were peppy boys. Three down weeks in a row for stocks. It looks like weget out of the gate in a positive way. Dow would open higher by 133. The s p is good for 21. Still early with the nasdaq which has been beaten up is up 89. Bond yields here come after declines of 2 last week for each of the major averages. Treasury yields spis part of th story. 10year treasury eased off last week, but still at 4. 29. Steve. The upper end of the range recently. 4. 30. Some people telling me 4. 50 is not out of the question. A lighter touch from the China Central bank. Lowered the oneyear prime rate by ten points. Economists expected 15point cut. The economists expected a 15basis point rate cut to the fiveyear prime rate. Major indices in china were down across the board. Palo alto here for liesmaniacs want to talk about the fed. Palo alto. You must have been talking about this. It is odd they did the release on the summer friday in the afternoon. It wasnt a bad one. It was a good one. Everybody thoug
Youre watching daybreak asia coming to you live from new york, sydney and hong kong. Counted up to the major market opens. The top stories this hour, asia set for a risk offer, from the july minutes touching intraday highs not seen since october and the end at its lowest level this year. The Central Bank Policy makers are still seeing significant upside risks to inflation, which could require further Interest Rate hikes, and reports of rare protests in beijing as one of chinas biggest shadow banks skips payments on Retail Investment products. Lets switch look at u. S. Futures, stocks to get on the chin today after the minutes from the feds july meeting shows that the vast majority are resigned to at least considering the possibility that more rate hikes will be needed. Some mixed close, but seven at seven lead to the downdraft with some big tech names like amazon and tesla. You could see again, right on the screen, still there, but i would call this unchanged. Markets, the whole world
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