Regime . Is everybody going to float . What a difference this summer makes. Tom it is august. We are going to give you what we can today. Right now, we need wisdom on the top headlines. Here is vonnie quinn. Border,along the korean the most Serious Exchange of artillery fire in five years. North korea fired a rocket at a south korean border position and that prompted south korea to unleash an artillery barrage. Earlier this month, two south korean soldiers were wounded by a landmine in the demilitarized zone. Policy makers are getting closer to raising Interest Rates for the first time in nine years. Participant said conditions were approaching the point where the economy could sustain a rate hike. Moved to prop up the yuan. The Chinese Central Bank has injected the most money. The yuan fell 3 in three days last week. Kazakhstan is the latest emerging market to give up control of the exchange rate. Tenge reached a 23 drop. Hillary clinton might not have used the private server for emai
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The tuesday trading day in the u. S. Julie hyman is here. We are in the green, at least. Julie more record, in fact. Even though we see relatively modest gains, it is enough to push to new highs. The s p 500 up for the sixth straight session. A lot of the again we have seen has been fueled by various earnings reports. Look at the bloomberg. Looking at the s p 500s performance, we see a 1. 7 gain. On the bottom, we see the number of companies that have reported. We are now more than three quarters of the way through in terms of companies that have reported. About three quarters have Beat Estimates in terms of earnings. Lets look at the Companies Reporting today, specifically within the travel industry. Here, we have oil caribbean on the upside. Thecruise line saying that 2018 itinerary is booking at higher rates and higher value, according to the cfo. Fourth quarter forecasts are below estimates, but its thirdquarter numbers beat. S pulling up other trip advisor and priceline reported n
And finally, 1 00 p. M. Time, the u. S. Treasury is set to auction 24 billion in three year notes. Jonathan thank you very much, david. And an uncomfortable market. The s p 500 finished yesterdays session unchanged on a record close. Joining us from hong kong is sean darby. And of course, allen russ kin of fx research. Much has been made on the vix and the s p s. Give us your thoughts and your initial takeaway. Weve got a period where real bond yields have been turning negative in most of the developing markets. Thats been accompanied by a fall in the dollar and the background got a resurgencing global trade. So its a pretty Perfect World for the economy and for equity markets. I suspect why weve had such a low reeding on volatility measures over the last couple of weeks. Jonathan whats interesting about this is people often come out and say this is a sign of complacency but realize its also very low. So isnt this just a case of the market being right . I think the markets have actuall
1st. Is that what the date was . The fear gauge hitting the lowest level in more than two decades. The volatility index closing yesterday at 9. 77, the lowest level since december of 1993. I cant imagine thats not a place where you would buy. Though normal stocks that hit new lows what do they do . Hit more new lows. Stocks that hit new highs, hit more new highs. It can only go 9 more lower. Yeah. This only happened five times ever. Having always thought in a contrarian way that complacency and when people get participants get bullish, you worry. Call ratios, you worry. Percentage of investment services. If its that complacent i admit, okay, its not going to be le pen, but the world at this point, theres nothing that were not thinking about that could happen that could throw us for a little bit . It scares me. The flip side is if premiums are so low, you can buy insurance and remain long or replace your stock with calls. There are different ways to use this to your advantage to remain