Green arrows across the board in europe the dax is up by 0. 3 . The cac adding 1 . The focus again today, because yesterday it was the fuel for that whipsaw action, treasury yields, 1. 727, much firmer than what we saw yesterday. We saw a low of 1. 595 we had record lows across the yield curve. Thats worth noting. A lot of strategists saying we could test 1. 35. Beijings central bank setting the official reference rate for theyuan to the weakes level in a decade. Eunice yoon has more on the midpoint number that traders are watching they do it now at 9 00 p. M have to watch all the time eunice its worth it its worth it to stay up that late the central bank set the midpoint fix weaker than 7, but it was actually stronger than what a lot of analysts were expecting. So because of that traders were taking that as yet another sign that the government here wants to pull the reins back on the chinese currency there was no official commentary today on the fix it was interesting to see what came
Yesterday. Big seller, big buyer, big seller, big buyer. Really kind of crazy but there we are more or less back to where we were a couple days ago before some of the recent volatility, of course well get to why things have calmed down a bit. Lets get to our road map. It starts with that pause in volatility stocks pointing to a higher open youve seen of course the bond yields are stabilizing a key downgrade this morning shares of kcaterpillar lower wih concerns about the trade war with china and some earnings bright spots lyft and roku both surging ahead of the bell. Well also get to other names as well lets begin with the markets futures, as you saw, pointing to a higher opening on wall street, this following the s ps biggest intraday come back of the year global bond yields are stabilizing. Investors digesting better than expected trade data that came out of china in terms of exports there. An escalation in trade tensions between the u. S. And china has accentuated fears in recent da
And their currency is under siege. Our problem is a Federal Reserve too proud to admit their mistake of acting too fast and tightening too much and that i was right. They must cut rates bigger and faster and stop the ridiculous quantitative tightening now. Which gets us to the markets this morning, jim. We have been talking about negative rates, they only continued to worsen. It is a strange phenomenon to be sure but it is also a worrisome cycle people believe because you have negative rates that auger for weaker Economic Growth or a lack of growth you have what are it becomes selfreinforcing you have the global coordinated monetary easing going on right now. And you have the first time people talk you about the possibility of rates here falling dramatically from where they are now have you ever seen a ten year whipsawed as much in yield in the half hour period as we did this morning almost as if someone wants to get ahead of even lower yields there is a big short position in bonds. Th
World cut rates. China weakening the currency again overnight. A perfect guest to discussion the swings in the market, former treasury secretary jack lew joining us thats coming up on closing bell. First right to the market action, joining us for the hour is josh brown. Whats turning things around here oh, my god, this is like what we live for, right it was pretty dire this morning. In the last five days, i have shift fred bearish back to bullish, then bearish, then superbearish. I was lutheran for a minute now i know youre joking. I am personally highly susceptible. I know this about myself, and every investor should think about their own behaviors. Im hidely susceptible to the lines i see in front of me not that i will react to all of them, but if youre not going through that, maybe check your pulse, that is what markets are designed to do, and i think the people that radically shift their views based on price act are the people who end up paying the volatility tax what led the comeb
Caseshiller report, home prices up 3. 5 in april compared to one year ago, compared to 3. 7 gain in march all right. Lets bring in Carl Quintanilla. Yesterday or over the weekend, traveling to vietnam, you saw a bit of some of his teases and reports, but hes there in a place that, of course, carl, has become so central in the discussions of trade that we have on this desk every day with jim in terms of changing your supply chain, so curious to see what you have learned in the time youve been there in terms of how easy or difficult that actually is. Yeah. David, youre right. It is funny, you know, we talk about it at the desk all the time, and then you get here on the ground and see what is happening in real life because this is not something that companies address directly or specifically you and i know we have read the transcripts and the Conference Calls, they say were looking at it, were going to study it, reports that others may or may not be studying, expatriating supply chains ou