Today's Economic Calendar
8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales
9:00 FHFA House Price Index
9:00 S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index
10:00 Consumer Confidence
10:00 New Home Sales
10:00 Richmond Fed Mfg.
10:00 State Street Investor Confidence Index
1:00 PM Results of $26B, 2-Year Note Auction
Today's Markets
In Asia, Japan +1.1%. Hong Kong +1.3%. China +0.2%. India +1%.
In Europe, at midday, London +0.3%. Paris +0.3%. Frankfurt flat.
Futures at 6:20, Dow +0.3%. S&P +0.1%. Nasdaq +0.2%. Crude +0.3% to $49.39. Gold -0.4% to $1272.60.
Ten-year Treasury Yield +3 bps to 2.31%
An ode to a socialist Fed
The reason our markets are dead
Rigging all prices
With credit devices
To fascist Elites it has led
The Fascists controlling our cash
Are turning our cultures to trash
Their global wet dream
Could rip at the seam
Reducing our nations to ash
- The Limerick King
Dan