Happy monday morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. On cnbc. Im sara eisen. And im wilfred profit. Very good morning from me as well. Lets check the markets, low volatility. Little action. The dow and s p closed lower for the week. The nasdaq marching to its own beat closed higher for a fourth week in a row. Dow futures up 40 points. S p points up 4, nasdaq futures up 6. Retail earnings are going to be dominant as they were last week. Looking for results from walmart, home depot and more. Going straight there to show you the big boost. Wti 2. 6 higher. Present is above 52 this morning. 52. 15 up 2. 5 . As i mentioned on the Energy Minister comments. Nat gas up by a percent. And last week helping the market up 3 breaking the threeweek losing streak. So perhaps thats a sign to spur the market this week. Asian markets, hong kong, up. And the Industrial Production and fixed investment, both significantly rising but significantly below estimates. The ftse was the outperformer, 2 . Germany
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The president had with our own jeanine pirro, maybe wholesale changes are in order. Well looking at that, what that could mean. Whether a change in staff is something that would be constructive or something that the president s critics have likened to rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. There is no middle ground here. To the federalist, bree peyton, gop fundraiser, noelle nikpour, and former trump michigan cochair. How real are the rumors are . We hear them percolating after a white house crisis, however real you call this, how do you take this . Will happen and question when and what magnitude. The president has been forced into this situation. It is important for him to act, to send a clear message that everybody that works for the administration it is important to protect confidentiality, protect the administration as goals. Neil all right. Noelle, you could go back and say much of this is of the president s own doing. He kind of keeps aides in the dark. They have to come ba
Could be just a test run today for something way more sinister. From sinister to outright scary, north korea has now succeeded in launching what it calls the perfect weapon. A missile capable of carrying a Nuclear Warhead that could reach here to the United States. As china watches, it isnt waiting to capitalize on at least the void that the u. S. Appears to be leaving when it comes to trade. China building the new silk road that it hopes will lead to infrastructure deals around the globe. Senator byron and gregg on both the real and economic attacks from the east. Oh, yes, and well ask them when do they think what their expert and experienced guys will have a tax reform plan or at least a tax cut. Russia tells saudi arabia were with you on this, pushing oil prices to threeweek highs. As you can see oil right now is at 48. 80 the nasdaq and s p 500, though, in record range and a fox business exclusive Virtual Reality and whats next . Next vr is going to do something that it believes wi
Twitter. Class i am across the emirates, 4 00 a. M. In london 8 00 a. M. Across the emirates. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets middle east. Claim seeing the regional index gaining slightly. A mixed picture. Investors trying to gauge a response after the fed left its key benchmark rate unchanged. Lacking clear direction at the moment. Yousef a pause for reflection in many of these asset classes. F1c offering little surprised in its statement. Of this chart gives you better expected these markets getting a lot twitchier. I pulled some strings to get you this number. 3 key indices. Fcx isity in global high, in white. Look how low that is compared to other indices. The bond index volatility. Keep an eye on these spreads with the rising Political Risk in the mainland continent. We are seeing volatility with the dollar index. Although volatility has been subdued after the fed rate. This chart will give you some clue to the direction of the dollar. Another explanation for the shoddy performance o