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the way of providing direction for investors. joe: people didn t expect much and he didn t deliver much. matt: except for confusion. joe: the streak of days without a move continues. look at the take a losers today, we did have a down day, although it was slight, the losers are the stocks that have been the big winners lately. apple down 2.6%, one of the biggest drops for apple on a day after it revealed a new iphone will stop ibm down 1.6%. stocks areic tech down. also, real estate scarlet has been showing this chart and we know financials have done well. reits have been the big winner they are among the big losers. joe: on the government bond market, yields are higher across the board. not a ton of data, though we did get initial claims that were solid. the ecb not expending qe and perhaps adding pressure on rates. i want to look at russia because that is quite a turnaround story. this is a five-year look at russia yields and you see back in 2013 with the peak crime ....
points. all 10 major s&p 500 groups are higher. we will get to 11 groups later on this week when the s&p spins off greece. s&p, in terms of percentage gain move, it was the best day since july 8. joe: i think it s pretty remarkable. i think a lot of people would have expected some follow-through after how ugly friday was. they didn t get it at all. even though the speech was clearly dovish, markets were rallying before that. matt: markets had set themselves up for some kind of surprise from laelchange brainard, who has always been very dovish. obviously, that didn t happen. here you can see the stocks up the board.% across almost 2% on the nasdaq. one thing i think is interesting is that defense stocks were the biggest winners. consumer staples, telecom, utilities. the p any ratio is up to 22.4 22.4.- p/e ratio is up to it s more expensive than the 10 year average. functionok at the sps on the bloomberg. scarlet: so much green. green, which means volume is up over the 2 ....
it is just past 7:00 p.m. it is just after 7:00 a.m. and hong kong. happy early monday. this week is all about janet yellen and governor kuroda taking center stage. it seems like the boj might overshadow the fed this week. that s right. it was an interesting time. last night, we saw some hand in hit manhattan. more on that later. just to see how things are kicking off so far. consumer confidence and new minutes ago, aew recovery in the third quarter. the kiwi dollar flat. meets later this week, but no change expected. australia, five straight weeks of losses. we could see a soft open in sydney today. we are seeing a lot of dollar strength since friday after that better than expected inflation for august. japan futures are pretty much flat, yen holding on. 102.26. what will we watch in new york ?two week ramy: ramy: two words, the fed. we have to talk about the bombing. how is that potentially going to affect trading? linkght now, there is no to international terrori ....
samsung selling assets to fund the note seven recall. right. you can let us know what you think of our top stories. follow me on twitter at @rishaadtvand include #trendingbusiness. playing catch up when it comes to hong kong and shanghai. markets closed on friday. singapore, taiwan, malaysia coming online. had a dramatic morning with the technical issues plaguing the asx. in anession was placed enquire state. the technical issues have been resolved, and we are expecting an open at half past the hour. we will be watching that. taiwan,e, the open in up by 1.5%. the straight times opening flat, malaysian stocks up by .5%. seeing modest gains. the new zealand market not moving much. but really the focus for global markets is the central bank bonanza happening this week, the fed, the boj, a plethora of regional central banks. on thursday, rbnz. there is an outside chance we will be getting a move from the rbnz given inflation expectations are week. bank of the philippines an ....
about the big central bank decisions. matt: take a look at the index is here. some of the movers on those indexes. the dow, the s&p really unchanged. down about .2%. shakerss the movers and , earlier today, we saw financials with the biggest gainers. they were overtaken. gains coming out of wells fargo, i thought it was interesting. rising, one of the most widely followed analysts say that they will reap the benefits of auto to point auto 2.0 asof they call it. u.s..nterest rates in the a slight fix up. again, it s a very quiet ahead of the big central bank decisions. werequity winners utilities and real estate. again, very minor. scarlet: we could see flows pickup up, and effect as well. thosellar is weak or for central bank decisions. joe: some disruption to the infrastructure. matt: i am looking at what is happening with the japanese population. japan has an aging population and it s pretty amazing. you can do that on the bloomberg terminal. people over 65. 65 or old ....