And bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange hey, robert. Hello there, old friend narrow trading range were down second day in a row, but a small trading range. 16 points in the s p 500, maybe 200 points in the Dow Jones Industrial average the nasdaq, though, is eking out small gains. The dow gainers for the month, theyre still the gainers for the day. Look at apple, look at nike, look at sisco, all up on the month. The laggards, its interesting, the ones that are down in the month of december also down today. Boeing had a tough month even disney. They topped out the beginning of december, 153 now, 143. Visa ending down today a little bit here that was a big mover all throughout the end of december the one sector i would point out to you is the Energy Sector. Oil exploration product up again today. And you know all of those really beaten up small Exploration Production companies, witing, southwestern, all terrible year, terrible three or four years since the tax law selling seemed to
Repeatedly pointed to the period during the late 1990s, when the fed cut rates multiple times at consecutive meetings, but not for an extended period of time he said that experience was successful but, of course, policy is not on a preset course. On the other hand a couple officials at the meeting and in the minutes, argued for a bigger rate cut of 50 basis points. And possibly even guidance now, throughout the meeting, there were references to trade tensions and there was this gnawing concern that the uncertainty has been weighing on Business Investment and manufacturing, could lead to a slowdown in hiring, and that could ultimately end up hitting the consumer on this volatility and the repo markets. The fed had a discussion about that, there were staff presentations about it, but the fed ultimately just agreed on the need to discuss the appropriate level of reserves in the future back over to you thank you very much essentially we are unchanged right now, still up 27 points. Bank sto
Has been a tumultuous quarter. Plus, a rough quarter for ipo shares of ab inbev and Bernie Sanders corporate tax, the 2020 president ial hopeful out with a new plan calling for a tax on companies that pay their ceos way more than their workers it has been a roller coaster ride for stocks in the Third Quarter as we enter the final trading session of q3. Dow and nasdaq aiming for a Third Straight quarterly gain. Mike, awe kn mike, as we know, we went into the month thinking big, bad and scary. I think thats actually the story for the quarter too, the market held itself together and preserved these levels it was at, just about at old highs. Without really a ton turning for the better the way you can look at it is the cost of two and maybe a third fed rate cut was not that steep in the way of suffering through really bad growth or any real stress in the Financial System just yet. So but it does feel tenuous, feels as if the market is sort of maximized what it had to work with to get to thi
Morning. Education secretary rick perry calling it a deliberate attack on the Global Economy. Plus oxycontin maker, pharma filing for bankruptcy this morning. First up, though, a series of attacks on two of the Worlds Largest Oil Facilities in the news the u. S. Is rejecting that notion saying the scope and the precision of the attack suggests the launch was made by the houthis but, in fact, originated by iran. Iran calling the claims baseless and unacceptable guys, weve been talking all year long about what it could take to produce a true supply shock. I think theyll come back 5. 7 Million Barrels. Look theres a temporary inability to get permian oil. You can only ship so much. You have one harbor who can handle it, two others. Corpus christi not yet i guess what im saying it cant. Were pumping too much and it does remind you if we had even more pipelines, we could just turn the spigot on its not the Strategic Petroleum reserve. Its the permian. There are a lot of key questions. One,
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