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THE MARKETS
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Note: Bank prime is from 10 major banks. Federal Funds rate is the market rate, which can vary from the federal
target rate. LIBOR is the London Interbank Offered Rate. Consumer rates are from Bankrate. All figures as of
4:30 p.m. New York time.
1.
1.
1.
1.
10-year note
Yield:
5-year note
Yield:
2-year note
Yield:
6-month bill
Yield:
Treasury Performance Over Past Three Months
7863.41 –1.2 +18.
2882.69 –1.2 +15.
25,896.44 –1.5 +11.
Daily Stock Market Performance
Daily
Index Close % Chg
YTD
% Chg
Nasdaq Composite Index
Dow Jones Industrial Average
S&P 500 Index
3100
2850
2600
2350
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8400
7800
7200
6600
6000
27,
26,
24,
23,
21,
Industry Group
Daily
% Chg
Daily
% Chg –4.0%^0 +4.0%
Water Utilities 0.
Gas Utilities –0.
Biotechnology –0.
Diversified Telecomm –0.
Electric Utilities –0.
Capital Markets –2.
Metals & Mining –2.
Consumer Finance –2.
Personal Products –3.
Construction & Engineerng –3.
S&P 500 Industry Group Snapshot
Bank Prime
Federal Funds
LIBOR 3-Month
30-Year fixed mortgage
15-Year fixed mortgage
1-Year ARM
2.18%
2.25%
5.25%
3.47%
3.09%
3.83%
Money market funds
6-Month CDs
1-Year CDs
5-Year CDs
New car loan
Home-equity loan
Consumer Rates
0.
0.
1.
1.
4.
6.
Interest Rates
Index Close Daily % Chg YTD % Chg
DJ Total Stock Market Index 29,580.86 –1.3 15.
Russell 2000 1494.46 –1.2 10.
Post-Bloomberg DC Area Index 609.81 –0.9 30.
CBOE Volatility (VIX) 21.09 17.4 –17.
Other Measures
Europe
Americas
Asia Pacific
Brazil (Bovespa)
Canada (S&P/TSX Comp.)
Mexico (Bolsa)
Eurozone (DJ Stoxx 600)
France (CAC 40)
Germany (DAX)
U.K. (FTSE 100)
Australia (ASX 200)
China (CSI 300)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng)
Japan (Nikkei)
Close
Daily
% Chg
YTD % Chg
–25% 0% +25%
101,915.20 –2.
16,237.77 –0.
39,852.65 –1.
370.41 –0.
5310.31 –0.
11,679.68 –0.
7226.72 –0.
6590.27 0.
3699.11 1.
25,824.72 –0.
20,684.82 0.
International Stock Markets
Daily
Close% Chg
Daily
Gainers Losers Close% Chg
AMAG Pharma $11.83 14.
Cincinnati Bell $4.85 13.
Unifi Inc $19.27 8.
Superior Industries $2.93 6.
KLX Energy Services $12.39 6.
Haverty Furniture $19.12 5.
Tredegar Corp $18.00 5.
SolarEdge Tech $86.63 5.
Sanderson Farms $144.03 4.
Amgen Inc $205.78 4.
Geospace Tech $13.73 4.
Digi International $13.65 4.
Tabula Rasa Hlth $66.12 4.
Corcept Therpt $12.94 4.
CenturyLink Inc $11.20 3.
Care.com Inc $9.10 3.
Oasis Petroleum Inc $2.96 3.
Cal-ME Foods $41.49 3.
Coca-Cola Bottling $346.50 3.
Rent-A-Center $27.47 3.
Progenics Pharma $3.90 –16.
Unit Corp $3.53 –14.
Comty Health Sys $2.16 –11.
Nektar Therapeutics $18.58 –11.
Cooper-Standard $33.78 –10.
Livent Corp $6.77 –10.
Mallinckrodt PLC $4.82 –9.
Carrizo Oil & Gas $9.12 –9.
QuinStreet Inc $10.75 –9.
Callon Petroleum Co $4.70 –8.
Signet Jewelers Ltd $13.13 –8.
Mosaic Co $20.76 –8.
WeightWtch $28.65 –8.
McDermott $3.92 –8.
AGCO Corp $67.87 –7.
AppliedOptoelctrncs $9.75 –7.
Equitrans Midstream $13.44 –7.
American Axle & Mfg $7.14 –7.
Designer Brands Inc $15.26 –7.
Brink's Co $83.47 –7.
Gainers and Losers from the S&P 1500 Index
Daily
% Chg
YTD
Company Close % Chg
Daily
% Chg
YTD
Company Close % Chg
3M Co 162.12 –0.8 –14.
AmExp 123.95 –1.8 30.
Apple Inc 200.48 –0.3 27.
Boeing 332.88 –1.4 3.
Caterpillar 116.72 –2.2 –8.
Chevron Corp 121.56 –0.7 11.
Cisco Systems 51.54 –1.7 18.
Coca-Cola 53.18 –0.4 12.
Dow Inc 45.69 –2.
Exxon Mobil 69.61 –1.7 2.
GoldmnSchs 201.41 –2.7 20.
Home Depot 206.97 –1.5 20.
IBM 134.12 –1.5 18.
Intel Corp 45.60 –0.8 –2.
J&J 131.90 –0.1 2.
JPMorg Ch 107.69 –1.9 10.
McDonald's 217.09 –1.8 22.
Merck 85.71 0.2 12.
Microsoft 135.79 –1.4 33.
Nike 81.65 –0.4 10.
P&G Co 116.00 –0.7 26.
Pfizer Inc 35.40 –2.6 –18.
Travelers 146.33 –1.8 22.
United Tech 128.02 –2.5 20.
UnitedHealth 243.20 –2.2 –2.
Verizon 55.69 –0.2 –0.
Visa Inc 176.34 –1.5 33.
Walgreen 52.00 –1.5 –23.
WalMart 105.19 –1.9 12.
Walt Disney 135.74 –2.0 23.
Dow Jones 30 Industrials
Brazil R$ per
EU €per
Japan ¥ per
US $ per
Canada $ per
Mexico $ per
Britain £ per
US $ EU € Japan ¥ Britain £ Brazil R$ Canada $ Mexico $
1.1213 0.0094 1.2079 0.2511 0.7555 0.
0.8918 0.0085 1.0772 0.2239 0.6737 0.
105.2700 118.0500 127.1530 26.4382 79.5330 5.
0.8279 0.9283 0.0079 0.2079 0.6255 0.
3.9816 4.4654 0.0378 4.8096 3.0082 0.
1.3237 1.4842 0.0125 1.5988 0.3324 0.
19.5855 21.9618 0.1860 23.6566 4.9180 14.
Cross Currency Rates
Exchange-Traded (Ticker) $
Daily
% Chg
Value of $1000 invested for the past: day month
$800 $
Coffee (COFF.L) –3.
Copper (COPA.L) –0.
Corn (CORN.L) –1.
Cotton (COTN.L) –2.
Crude Oil (CRUD.L) 0.
Gasoline (UGAS.L) –1.
Gold (BULL.L) 0.
Natural Gas (NGAS.L) –0.
Silver (SLVR.L) –0.
Futures
Daily
Close % Chg
Daily
Close % Chg
Copper $2.5850 –0.
Corn $3.9275 –6.
Crude Oil $54.93 +0.
Gold $1,517.20 +0.
Natural Gas $2.11 –0.
Orange Juice $0.9885 –3.
Silver $17.07 +0.
Soybeans $8.7925 –1.
Sugar $0.1156 –2.
Wheat $4.7625 –5.
Commodities
BY THOMAS HEATH
Stocks continued their August
swoon Monday on fears that Hong
Kong protests, falling worldwide
bond yields and the ongoing
U.S.-China trade dispute could
lead to a global recession.
The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age dropped 462 points before the
blue chips clawed some of that
back to finish down about 390
points at 25,898, about a 1.5 per-
cent drop. Financial services was
among the hardest-hit Dow sec-
tors, with Goldman Sachs Group
off 2.6 percent. Pfizer, United
Technologies and Caterpillar
were also big drags. Only drug
giant Merck stayed slightly above
water.
The Standard & Poor’s 500-
stock index finished down
36 points at 2,882, a 1.2 percent
drop. The technology-laden Nas-
daq composite index fell about
95 points on the day to close at
7,863, or 1.2 percent down.
All 11 S&P stock sectors closed
lower, led down by banks, con-
sumer staples, materials and tech-
nologies. Banks are among the
most vulnerable when bond
yields drop, because it is more
difficult to make money on loans.
“The escalating trade tensions,
combined with low volume and
traditionally weaker-than-aver-
age price returns in August and
September, are contributing to a
retest of last week’s low for the
S&P 500,” said Sam Stovall of
CFRA Research.
European markets closed down
across the board. Asian markets
were mixed, with the Hang Seng
in Hong Kong dropping 0.44 per-
cent. The Japanese Nikkei 225 and
the Shanghai Composite closed in
positive territory.
Several factors have contribut-
ed to the market turbulence in
recent sessions, including China’s
threat to devalue its currency,
massive protests in Hong Kong
that could prompt a response
from the Chinese government, an
escalation of the U.S.-China trade
war and a flight to bonds.
Goldman Sachs chief econo-
mist Jan Hatzius said in a note he
released over the weekend that he
does not expect a U.S.-China trade
deal before the 2020 election.
Hatzius now sees fourth-quar-
ter U.S. growth at 1.8 percent,
lower than many forecasts.
President Trump has hardened
his position on China trade in the
past two weeks, threatening to
increase tariffs from the current
10 percent to 25 percent next
month if the Chinese do not make
concessions to the United States.
The trade back-and-forth has
fostered a feeling of uncertainty
among American businesses,
making it more difficult for com-
panies to make long-term plans.
The uncertainty has been felt in
stock prices. The Dow is about
5 percent off its all-time high of
one month ago.
Monday’s decline follows a tur-
bulent start to August, which is
historically one of the worst
months of the year for stocks. But
the trade war with China is cast-
ing a pall over the global economy,
threatening a decade-long U.S.
boom that had pushed stocks to
all-time highs.
“At this point it is up to the
president,” Nancy Tengler of Ten-
gler Wealth Management wrote in
a note Monday. “Cut a trade deal
with China, and we can avoid
recession. Stocks will like that a
good deal, too.”
The closely watched 10-year
U.S. Treasury bond was down to
1.633 percent, a sign that investors
may be heading away from risk
and toward the safety of long-
term bonds. Yields drop when
bond prices rise. Some European
countries have negative bond
yields. That means people are pay-
ing governments to hold their
money for them. Historically peo-
ple buy government bonds and
expect interest payments on those
bonds as a reward for lending the
government money.
Stocks are coming off their
worst day of the year last Monday
and finished five turbulent ses-
sions on Friday only slightly nega-
tive for the week.
thomas.heath@washpost.com
Stocks sink amid U.S.-China tension
EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS
Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor Monday. All Standard & Poor’s stock sectors fell.
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TURKISH PRESIDENT
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