Carl Quintanilla (Anchor) 00:00.040
We'll get started with trading in 12 seconds. By the way, doing the honors here at the Big Board third street music school settlement at the Big Music School in New York City. Over the next half of the year. And as we look to be open right now, I mean we are separate we're
Carl Quintanilla (Anchor) 00:13.920
separate
Sara Eisen (Anchor) 00:14.320
down open. The S&P is kind of off about half a percent here in the early going. Like despite what you you mention as the calmer macro backdrop, energy is a stand out. Energy stocks higher with oil prices firmer. I mentioned that there was no breakthrough on Ukraine uh
Sara Eisen (Anchor) 00:34.880
necessarily or on Russia despite the diplomatic talks from President Trump over the weekend. Also, maybe some bullish comments from China from their finance ministry on on the possibility for stimulus. I mean, we are watching these commodities, whether it's oil or silver and
Sara Eisen (Anchor) 00:49.640
gold. How How do you read into what what the overall message is there?
Mike Santoli (Senior Markets Commentator) 00:53.920
It's been phenomenal. I mean, first of all, I think the energy move in terms of energy stocks is a part of this sell leaders by laggards type dynamic we do have at the very end of the year. So maybe that just could be you know year in repositioning stuff. In addition to firmer
Mike Santoli (Senior Markets Commentator) 01:09.440
action in crude around this mid to high 50s levels