Zhang thinks this Old School Auto maker has a better grasp of the future than many give it credit for hell show you how to plug in with the right circuit breaker. And in this market, elmer fudd might have said, be very quiet, im hunting yield but theres always a pesky welcome ba wab wabbit to beware of. The Home Construction trade on fire this year with both the xhb and itb up double digits the rally comes as Mortgage Rates hit new lows and home bound americans tackle Home Improvement projects carter, what are the charts telling you . Well, the question is at some point is a lot or everything priced in. Its been a great area obviously we know the story thats been in the news about refis and Home Improvement and we know the earnings have been great. But at some point sometimes an area of the market is full, is rich i think thats the premise here. Lets look at a few charts the first is a twopanel all youre looking at is the Home Construction etf on the top. The bottom is relative perform
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
To the list. The head doctor for navalny says hes still unstable to move but says he needs to be evacuated for treatment abroad joe biden vows to restore the soul of america. In his closing speech of the Democratic Convention says President Trump has failed in his most basic duties in the nation the president keeps telling us the virus is going to disappear. He keeps waiting for a miracle i have news for him, no miracle is coming. Welcome back lets continue our focus on the pmi data the headline of the eurozone pmi. The economic recovery stuttered in the eurozone through august on the back of the pmi data. The flash composite down to 51. 6 from the reading of 54. 9 anything above 50 is still an skpengs but does express slowing. The new index dropped should be slightly concerning, i think as we continue to look for strong evidence the manufacturing pmi, 51. 7 from 51. 8 again, on these services, not as robust the ceo and chief Market Strategist at long view economics. Can i get your ini
Into his own hands uber road blocks and queue the countdown clock. Jobs numbers are expected this morning. Estimates are all over the map it is august 7 this is Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc we made it to friday good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever you are watching happy jobs friday as well. Looking at futures they are indicated lower down about 130 points. You can see the fair value slightly positive. Anything can happen. It was another big day for stocks on thursday another record close for the nasdaq the 32nd closing high. The nasdaq closing above 11,000 the First Time Ever is now up 62 from the march low if you are some genius who timed it go to sizler, if you can. Gold look at that another nominal record high. In 1980, gold hit about 1,800 an ounce. With inflation, technically higher then. The First Time Since the win streak in may up from 2006 gold is higher around the world different story. We have more in a moment the european markets are trading down not
Hear from mike roman later on today, july has been very good i think you will continue to get a positive from housing, this horton number is the number people should be focusing on because it was stellar you will get a lot of people talking about how there is a lot of good news in anything involving personal fun, polaris, but just were just in such dim tidings when it comes to aero space thats what im focused on greg hayes, 2023, oh, my. You were just talking about that and then iata, the International Air transport association is saying 2024 for precovid traffic levels they also point out that airlines are adding capacity, jim, ahead of demand which is coming back slower than they thought. Personal travel, people want toful tra, we know that. Great Conference Call by American Express on friday about what people want to do, but the Business Travelers is where they make all the money and the Business Traveler is zooming they just arent going i dont know what its going to take to bring t