liz: hello, everyone. i'm cheryl lynn for liz claman. it is the last hour of trading, and here we go again. it is just a day. talk about red of three major indices are down, and the selling has picked up in just the last hour so. 14,750. down 358 points. new session lows every few as you can see, the s&p and the nasdaq in the negative as well. we were down 1%, 1 and a half%. at 2% in change. all three major market averages, and we will be on this throughout the hour. stay with us. a few stocks. i don't want to bring you down too much. a few stocks that are bucking the trend. a higher bike almost 7%, as you can see. a nice change. this stock is higher by one and 1/4 percent. western alliance, 14 5/7. about one-half percent gain. we're looking for good news in this sea of red as we go into the close. also, we talked about this yesterday. the dollar climbed to a 2-week high against major currencies overnight into the trading session here in this country. analysts say they expect the dollar will see volatile on moves in the coming weeks. investors try to let gays cells of the economy, not just the u.s., but the global economy. a lot of news, and assault team coverage with nicole petallides. once again standing by the new york stock exchange. a big sell-off. phil flynn at the cme tracking down the commodities, especially metals. jo ling kent is here with a very troubling story about china that we are following, but first to you, nicole. your headline please. >> reporter: to the big deal here is watching the volatility. we had a lot of 200. swings in the last 21 days since ben bernanke and his testimony may 22nd. half of those, ten of the 21 actually had 200. swings. the volatility is here and today you are obviously seeing a bigger move unusual. 350 points to the downside. cheryl: and an unusual move. that is how you would characterize this. >> reporter: absolutely an unusual move. essene the volatility of 10200, but not 350. cheryl: you will get back to you in a moment. phil flynn at the cme. >> reporter: it is a metals meltdown. what temperature doubles milton mack probably when the fed starts talking about a brief. the dollar is soaring. metals are melting down. i don't care if they're precious metals, industrial metals off. there is no place to run, no place to hide. add on top of that the oil market is seeing a drop it has not seen in over a year or at least since last november. it is a meltdown in commodities. no place to run, no place to hide down here. cheryl: my guys. stand by. your headline please. >> reporter: facing a cash crunch that could cripple lending. rates are being quoted, but no transactions are taking place. he will take a look at how this will affect the chinese economy. cheryl: that is a story you know very well. we will see you in just a few moments. bank stocks heading lower. the financial sector overall something that we're watching. nicole petallides, of course, at the new york stock the stage with the sec to report. >> reporter: this is a big deal to have back-to-back sell-offs. the financials are selling off. racine bank of america down two and a half%, down three 1/3%. the major averages are down over two full percentage points. you can -- you know, down over 300 points. give 100 to ben bernanke, 100 to the credit crunch in china and the latest headlines about the imf, not giving them money back to greece now, so you have a lot of things in the air. cheryl: that headline. that's something that they're talking about right now? >> reporter: a stronger dollar and the news read don't get the funding right away. so we're talking about. the biggest deal, but it does not help the situation when you're selling off. this does not mean that this is the worst ever. is to be the greatest ever where you pick up your favorite company. cheryl: that's a good point. you sound like charles. let's get right to our floor show. we have trader standing by at the new york stock exchange and the nymex. standing by at the new york stock exchange. pick up if you will just for a moment what nicole was talking about, the imf headlines, potential changes in greek funding spirit is that something the factors and today? >> that is is kind of the icing at the cake. clearly the of the nation yesterday out of washington, with some of follow-through. we have had no real positive headlines that are going to help believe this market at this point. what is going to be interesting to see is if this followthrough continues. we will mark off yesterday just as of 1-off. we're seeing significant seeling today. if we see it tomorrow then i think we should start to get worried. let's not panic just yet. tomorrow actions are inspiring. we have been s&p rebalance that will occur tomorrow. we are going to see a lot more buying coming into this market tomorrow and hopefully that volume will help dampen some of the volatility that we have been seeing. cheryl: we are seeing volatility for the year right now. potential highs for the year. 2013. does that trouble you, or is at par for the course considering that we are in the summer? >> it is something we should be expecting. a lot of traders have already put that into play and have already had that trade on that tape at this point right now. cheryl: i want to go over to the nymex. i know, if you will. certainly with of the action that we have seen between treasury and the dollar, a big effect on the oil contracts. >> reporter: down sharply, but back to the mid-90s which is a healthy level. reset here for quite awhile. as jonathan before you mentioned, not too concerned just yet. we kind of maybe get a little bit of an over reaction from the fed. a little bit more concerned, little bit more fear in the market. volatility picked up with that and we have some great down below 93, 9325 and some of those moving average is down there for it really starts to be more of a trend. we did have a solid run-up in crude oil for a little while, and now we are having a bit of a correction, so we will see how far this actually runs. cheryl: direetion, time to mike and opportunity. you will go with that theme. tillman, thanks to both of you. appreciate it. now we were talking to fill just a moment ago about commodities, especially metals suffering their biggest sell-off in the year and a half on really this data coming in a china. bleeped chinese data and, of course, the federal reserve plan to reduce stimulus efforts. we heard from mr. bernanke yesterday. let's bring back and phil flynn. middleman -- mill not down. you're going with that the right now is. >> it has to be, and there are a lot of reasons for people to be dumping this off. even if you just had a margin call us, you are worried about inflation, but you really cannot be long on metals right now. you look at what the fed is doing. it is really dollar bullish right now, and people, i don't think, realized. all of the market does not seem to realize that tapering is like raising interest rates and a negative rate environment off. very bearish commodities, bullish dollar. you add to that this burgeoning credit crisis that you have, polity in china right now if. china, of course, your biggest consumer of these precious metals. take copper. we saw the biggest dropoff in the london metal exchange copper -- the biggest bill in many, many years. you add to that the physical demand that is coming out of asia, and that drives up another reason longmeadow's does as well. cheryl: somewhat testy about copper. i am wondering if there is another side to this story. one of the things that we have seen with the demand in copper, you and i talked about that. housing continues to remain strong, the copper contracts will pick back up and whoever is buying it today is going to make some money in the future. >> you know, i still believe that this is going to have to come from stabilization in china. the u.s. market is not the use nearly as much chopper -- kopper as they used to. the big demand has been coming from building factories and things like that. i am not sure that a rebound in housing is necessarily going to do that, and another reason why it will not is the starter the housing market the faster the tapering, the faster the tapering, the stronger the dollar, and that is going to put more downward pressure on price. cheryl: before i let you go, all those papers underneath your arm, a very busy trading day, a lot of contracts bought and sold. >> one of our best days in a long time. the cme stocks is one of the brides stocks today. we are up. they all wanted me to tell you that. at least it was. cheryl: a national audience. you tell them that. phil flynn at the cme. what a day, the new york stock exchange. all right. as pick up again on this chinese news, chilling news from banks in china. as the country's credit markets are beginning to a freeze. jo ling kent has more on how the world's second-largest economy is trying to dodge defaults until -- this news sending soccer is your town. >> that's right. overnight in china and now you're on wall street. basically short-term lending rates at record highs in money-market rates surging after the people's bank of china, their central bank which reports to the central communist party refused to pump more cash into an already strained financial system. basically trying to punish speculators. now, rates have been soaring of the past two weeks. banks started to react. basically afraid of lending to one another. does that the short-term cash flow, they are less kind of up in arms. they could defaults. and now in china messina rates are being set at high levels, but no transaction is happening. this is a very risky move given that the chinese economy has been slowing down quarter over quarter. analysts who cover china say, for example, over an asset management in new york, is the central bank of china does not inject emergency cash into the banking system in the next there so wealth management products that lend money to banks in the interbank market will start to see mass de fault. now, certainly not good news for those who are here. so basically, the central problem here is what the chinese government should do. now, they are caught in basically a dilemma and also there is an entire social move as well. new president is trying to crack down on certain types of speculation and lending. so we will stay on the story for you. back to you. cheryl: the term speculation because we have seen some speculation in the chinese housing market. and then to have the banks make this threat, so many levels of fear, basically, for the chinese economy. >> reporter: you know, is definitely jarring, but we have also seen this coming for a couple of months. some would argue even over the past year as the economy shrinks. yet more credit has been going for 20%. so, you know, it's very much this strange dilemma, but they have seen it coming. cheryl: interesting. covering that china story. thank 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overreacting. when you think about what is going on in the housing market today, it is a very supplied driven phenomenon. the mix apply. for the next 12 months housing prices will be just fine. cheryl: you may be seeing mortgage rates take time. the bond market and treasurys. pulling back stimulus. in not concerned. this is the basic question. >> it depends on your timeframe. a long guerrilla got into the recovery whether it's 18, 24 months, as the recovery spreads of the area that has been concentrated in right now this, of course affordability is a concern, but you have to think about affordability alongside underwriting. he can give mortgages in the camp. eighteen to 24 months. the income the recovery has been concentrated. concentrated among good buyers that have very good financial wherewithal, good credit scores in a very, very tight market, very, very concentrated some market where there is just not a lot of inventory. so it affects the long-term market the housing recovery. you can sit here and say rates don't matter. of course they do. it is a question of how strong the recovery is. eighteen to 24 months out and it changes the scope a little bit, but we are still in an up market tear it -- its destiny the housing sector, the stocks themselves that way ahead of themselves. >> if you have the time frame you can buy the stocks in the cheaper through the summer. in the year end, they will remain very good. long term from the -- from a fundamental perspective the stocks are not inexpensive. another 15 to 20 percent pullback before we have more positive on a much longer-term basis. cheryl: you -- you like these songs because we have pulled teague, these other stocks that have performed so well. this is the only one that you are really favor on right now. >> and is very much evaluation call. struggling with a bit of a company's turnaround. management is doing a great job, taking time to materialize. the results in terms of the profitability. you will see the company narrow performance and valuation to accept. otherwise the stocks are, again, they are not inexpensive at this point. there are still a expensive. these topple back, something like pulque make make a lot of sense. specific factors, but not at this price. cheryl: hundred and 7%. that is a heck of a run-up, but normally i would throw the caution now with u.s. airway a minute, that's a big jump, but after of in 2012 we have to think about future earnings. >> a lot of earnings power inherent in the business right now. abbas teeseven sector called del webb. sixty-five, 55 and older. a powerful demographic that they're falling. i think there is a lot of earnings power in the business that is not capturing the business. even after the big one. is not attractive. but if it came down, ten, 15 percent, looking to get more constructive. cheryl: i'm old enough to remember the position. that goes back a long time. david goldberg, ubs home-building analyst. >> thank you for having me on. 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