That investors will look at. We can change the board and have a look at whats happening in the fx raise. Index,omberg dollar marginal gains up over three days by about 7 10 of 8 . Turnarounde seeing a in the u. S. Dollar, but some of that will be contingent on the stimulus taking place in washington. We had a fix of 6. 9 and that is where it currently is. 6. 98 for your offshore currency. In terms of the aussie dollar, that is flat. The aussie decision is out today and expected to stay on hold. 117. Uro is at milan terms of commodity in terms of gold prices. Still has a forecast of potentially 3000 for spot gold, currently at 1975. Thats what your copper futures are doing. Nymex is down 6 10 of 1 . They have more oil onto the market with demand amid the virus being a question. There is your yield on the 10 year,. 56. Its get the first word news with Karina Mitchell in new york. The and added states remains the focus of the coronavirus pandemic, with several area starting to see faint i
Im also brian sullivan. Welcome. What a week this was and guy adami, i am not going to take anything away from a dow that rose nearly 2,000 points and its better for most peoples portfolios than it falling 2,000 points. But i believe were going to eamon are we going to eamon . You have time now to think about that question. Lets go to eamon lets go right now to eamon jafers who is at the white house with more news following the president s News Conference which certainly moved market, eamon. Boy, did it it was a thousandpoint spike while the president was hearing. Traders clearly liked what they heard and the president takinga i ceofocused approach and bringing on the ceos of target and name checking google the president i thought taking a much different tone on the coronavirus. Hes tended to sort of minimize the danger of this over the past couple of weeks and yet today he said Something Different heres what he said. In the coming weeks we will all have to make changes and sacrifices,
We start with global trade tensions because business relations between the us and europe look likely to become increasingly strained. And this is at a time when the us trade war with china has rattled global markets. The World Trade Organisation has ruled that the us is entitled to tax imports from the European Union worth billions of dollars in retaliation for state support the eu illegally gave to aircraft maker airbus. Its the latest chapter in a 15 year battle between the two sides over subsidies for airbus and rival boeing. Vivienne nunis in new york is following the story. After 15 years of wrangling, the wto has handed down the largest arbitration award in history, it allows the us to apply tariffs to 7. 5 billion worth of european exports in retaliation for illegally subsidies paid to abbas. President on troubles quick to claim it is a big win for the us. They think i dont like the wto and they want to make sure that im happy because all of those countries were ripping off the
Nasdaq edged down. 26 , the star of the show was the Dow Jones Industrial average, which briefly crossed above 40,000. Hallelujah before pulling back a bit and closing down 39 points. Still, thats a huge leap from where we arrived at dow 30,000 back in november of 2020. So you know what . I think its worth exploring what stocks got us here and why. During this period weve constantly been told that tech is the market leader. But when i look at the top ten stocks up the most during dows trip from 30,000 to 40,000 very surprising group. Only two of them from tech. We also were told Interest Rates is all that matters but thats played a smaller role than expected too. Only the tenth stock really impacted. Instead its an odd grouping where the main thing these companies have in common is very strong exceptional management. Lets run them down so we can learn what the market really wants here. I need you to think about this even though we didnt close above 40,000, this is what matters. First i
Nasdaq up 27 . Again, the dow has been weak over the last several trading sessions. You are seeing the issues going on and the bigger deal is the russell 2000. It turned negative for the year yesterday. It is a huge pullback with the dow industrials and russell. All these pulling back with the potential for recession. These are the things we watch along with treasury yields and inversion in the treasury yield curve. Twoyear yield at an 5. 1 . Above the 5year and 10year and 30year. Those yields picking up is what we are watching. Yields are picking up because the economy is strong. Why is the dow and russell indicating otherwise . Maybe it is so strong that the fed has to do something. If they do something that is why. They have to go further. Here we are. Dijamie dimon made comments yesterday. He said it could go 7 . He said it is not something he is predicting, but you have to prepare for it. Thats what he told his board and clients. Prepare for it. Dont be surprised if rates are high