BR Capital Market Report 4/9/2018

The BR Capital Market Report for Monday, April 9:

   

Market were up.

 

Index

Direction

Change

Units

Index

Time

Change

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Up

                      46

 points

          23,979

1:46 PM

S&P500

Up

0.3%

percent

           2,613

Nasdaq Composite

Up

0.5%

percent

           6,950

           (1.50)

30 Year Treasury

Unchanged

                      –  

Basis Points

             3.02

Annual Yield

 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may fine Wells Fargo more than several hundred million dollars and as much as $1 billion for auto insurance and mortgage lending abuses, according to Reuters. The fine would be the first since Mick Mulvaney was named interim director of the CFPB. That penalty would dwarf the $100 million the CFPB fined Wells Fargo in September 2016 to settle its phony checking accounts scandal.

President Trump has asked the Agriculture Department to come up with a plan to “protect our farmers,” according to White House spokesman Sarah Sanders. She did give any specifics but said the program would be presented shortly. Earlier, Trump said noted that China was targeting the U.S. farm sector in the tit-for-tat trade fight.

 

Serving the Pacific Northwest, I am Bill Roller of brcapitalinc.com.

www.marketwatch.com/story/cfpb-may-fine-wells-fargo-as-much-as-1-billion-report-2018-04-09

www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-asks-agriculture-department-for-a-plan-to-protect-farmers-2018-04-09

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