Morning Market Report 11/20/2017

The KUIK Morning Market Report for Monday, November 20:
Markets are up.
Index Direction Change Units Index Time Change
Dow Jones Industrial Average Up 75 points 23,434 7:17 AM
S&P500 Up 0.1% percent 2,581 1.46
Nasdaq Composite Up 0.1% percent 6,787 F
30 Year Treasury Down (1) Basis Points 2.79 Annual Yield
European stocks were slighly higher, with German stocks recovering after talks collapsed to form a coalition government for the Europe’s largest economy. In Frankfurt, the DAX 30 turned up 0.2% to 13,013.75, come back from a 0.5% decline. On Sunday, the pro-business Free Democratic Party ended talks about forming a coalition government with Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and the center-left Greens. That puts Angela Merkel’s fourth term as chancellor in doubt, and raises the prospect of a minority government or a new general election.
Sleep expert Matthew Walker is not a fan of the expression “you can sleep when you’re dead” calling it “mortally unwise advice.” Walker who is director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Human Sleep Science has been studying sleep for more than 20 years and is the author of a new book, “Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams.” He says many Americans are sleep-deprived. One in three adults report they usually get less than the recommended seven hours, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But insufficient sleep is linked to everything from Alzheimer’s disease to stroke, cancer and even suicide, and it doesn’t take that much lost sleep—just a loss of one hour in one single night.
Serving the West Side first, I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for 1360 KUIK.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/european-stocks-stage-recovery-in-wake-of-german-political-uncertainty-2017-11-20
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-expert-has-a-dire-warning-about-not-getting-enough-sleep-2017-11-15
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