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The u. S. And china. Here to break down the Market Action is abigail doolittle. The macro news earlier this morning seemed to be about rising trade tensions between the u. S. And china, but then stocks mostly ending in the green. On thisgoing afternoon . Abigail a really sleepy day overall. You have traders not at their desks, checking out just a little early despite the fact that we have macro news. Plus, it is a repeat of last year. At the end of the day, mixed action. But unlike yesterday, we actually had tech closing higher. The nasdaq 100 higher 0. 4 . The chip sector got hit yesterday, rebounded today. Also indicates that traders are brushing off macro concerns. Where we are seeing those concerns play out our for the china adr, the new york thing index, because baidu and alibaba are in there. And the Golden Dragon china etf, down 4 for another day. That is comprised of Chinese Companies in the u. S. , the fear that these companies will be delisted. This is an interesting dynamic
Is it a u . Maybe its an l. Or perhaps its a z. Or maybe its a w. Or a nike swish. We keep hearing people argue about the shape of the recovery. But this whole debate misses the point. The defining question of this market is very simple. Will we have a depression . Anything that makes a depression less likely causes stocks to explode higher thats what yesterdays rally was about. Even though we gave up some of the gains today, im calling it a consolidation day no matter what dow sinking, nasdaq dipping 5. 4 when you have a bag r big rally yesterday and it us diddant give up everything because of a Late Afternoon sell off, it is a of a kelgs. The issue is not whether well have a rapid v, recovery u, bounce the w, l shape, i dont know the l, of course, is the house of pain for ages maybe we havent started talking about the swish because of the Michael Jordan series. The market slows down dramatically all the people fretting about the shape of the recovery are getting ahead of themselves.
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For sirera iara eisen. What recession a better than expected jobs report started the morning with an optimistic tone china says it has reached a consensus with the u. S. In this weeks trade talks and exxon ticking higher along with industrials and financials. And in just a few minutes, the actor who plays logan roy on hbos secession will join us on the cutthroat world of media competition. Hes going to be right here at post 9 joining us for the hour is kara fineman. Here we are sitting basically at the highs of the session i found it really interesting that yesterday the markets got pretty derailed by worries that the trade talks werent going so well today we have an agreement of principle and we really didnt move so much we have that other data out today, so its hard to really parse what to me, this kind of day seemed pretty goldilocks. You had a really good jobs number in the morning, right you had progress on china. Although ive got to say, im skeptical on every update that we get a