The government trying to prevent a collapse of the countrys markets which lost nearly 30 since june. The news helping to spark a rally today. A gain of more than 3 in shanghai and shenzhen we have seen the imagine higher by nearly 5 . Keep in mind you go down 30 you have to go up a lot more than that in order to recover. Heres the greek stock exchange. Market there open for a second straight day after its five week closure. Down by only 1 today after the big pummeling it took yesterday after reopening and the u. S. Futures at this hour suggest that were going to have slightly negative open. The dow lower by 15 points and s p by 2 and nasdaq by 4. He is dismissing claims that oversupply is driving down prices and he believes the end of the broader commoditys route is in sight. Lets Check Oil Prices right now. You can see above 45, not by that much. Up by one and three quarters per cent. Its a nice gain after the sell off in recent days. Brent had gone below 50. That was the big headline
Barrel yet again. It is a multimonth low, down another bit. And certainly today while its up 1. 5 , the question is what is the selling point of the Iran Nuclear Deal beyond low oil . Because iran will flood the market with oil it has on its land. The Obama Administration on the Charm Offensive this hour trying to work on other points here to sell. The president expected to make his Iran Nuclear Deal pitch to major American Jewish Community Leaders in less than 90 minutes. This after israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his case against the deal to the same group. Wrapping up a questionandanswer session just over an hour ago. Now, secretary of state john kerry making his case on iran to americas gulf arab allies yesterday. He actually got an endorsement from the nations of the gulf cooperation council. Kerry forging ahead today on his international tour, pushing this deal, visiting singapore, depressed asian nations on support for the president s free trade deal as well. Nego
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Weve been seeing. Right now the dow is indicated down 58 points. S p off by 6. 5, the nasdaq down by 12. The dow once again yesterday set a new record high. You hate when i say new record high. New fresh record alltime high. It has been six records in a row for the dow. The s p 500 and the nasdaq breaking sevenday winning streaks. You are looking at the dow on pace for the best week in more than two months this week. Nasdaq and s p are poised for their fourth straight weekly win in a row. Overnight in asia, look and youll see the nikkei was down by almost 0. 6 . Weakness in the hang seng and shanghai composite. In the dax down 0. 4 . The cac off 0. 8 . The ftse is flat. And if you check out crude oil prices this morning, right now pull back of 38 cents for wti. Trading just below 53. Among the top corporate stories. Toshiba shares plummeting again, and s p could cut their Credit Rating by several notches if the Firm Receives federal aide. The credit is rated as junk right now at triple
Said there. Wti, 49. 54. You rolled your eyes. Im trying to figure out i initially thought that ge was going to sort of double down and cost average in, because now things are cheaper to buy. It looks like this is sort of if response to trian, trying to get more focused on turbines and medical imaging and the other businesses, sort of maybe offload something theyve been trying to get in in such a big way since 2007. Theyve been adding to oil and gas, right . Now theyre getting out. We dont know. Though the company picked all the wrong times to get into all the wrong businesses. I wasnt going to say that. Being a big bank, energy company, or a media company. Which makes me think they own all these what i think are valuable oil and gas assets, now its cheaper to buy them, the ones you bought for too much, you can buy them at a better price. Now they will offload some of the stuff they bought at higher prices . Put it into a partnership, spin it off. Unclear. Have you made calls on this .