It is not but we are thrilled to have you here lets take a look at where the u. S. Equities are. Dow up by about 72 points. With these gains, the dow would actually erase the loss for the week at these levels s p up about eight points. S p up around 7. 5. Youll see the 10year note is yielding 1. 716 Global Markets continue to follow the headlines learning trade talks between u. S. And china are set to resume october 10 sources say Vice President premier lu will represent the delegation weve had lower level things happen but this is the next big event. Its the back drop amazing. Trump keeps plugging away. There is so many Business News headlines i think Portfolio Managers are losing sight we are coming up on the quarter. The dollar rally but most of the conversations im having right now, it centers on the Fourth Quarter of last year everyone is reflecting upon it and thinking to themselves basically, you go into the Fourth Quarter of a Football Game with a 207 lead and end up losing 272
Barbara doran from b88 Capital Partners good to see you, barbara less than two weeks until the official u. S. China trade talks kick off and a new wrinkle as to what will actually happen when both parties meet. It is definitely a new wri wrinkle today. For me the bigger concern emerging is what happens to the consumer all of the consumer data this week was pretty terrific, except for Consumer Confidence numbers. Housing, et cetera, we continue to have strong wages, growth, that sort of thing but for the first time, were seeing Consumer Confidence down a little bit, consumers and surveys are saying, hey, trade issues have crept into their head and, you know, my real concern is the margins of companies, if they start to do layoffs, that hurts Consumer Confidence, and stops spending and that is the underpinning, which by all accounts, we all agree. By the way, the china has got markets spooked. Nasdaqs down 1. 6, the laggard of those indices. Bob is with us for the full first hour, which
Delivery companies. Reporter mittra is not alone. Jeff foster closed two restaurants this year. He penned this essay where he said customers want instagramable food delivered to their doors without having to wait. He said we were a 3 Million Company at the time, but even that wasnt enough to survive in San Francisco. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has been looking into the trend. Closings are outpacing openings by 9 . Last year there were 325 closings versus 298 opens. Rising rent costs and increased labor requirements. These laws were wellintentioned, but i dont think you rilize what a devastating impact its going to have on neighborhoods. The restaurants have vibrancy to it, something we feared for a while. Reporter and that iconic palomino sign coming down right now. Restaurant owners have asked for considerations, including subsidizing the high costs for small businesses. In the meantime, some are trying to adapt and going virtual. They literally only cater to delivery comp
At the open. S p looking to be up by 1 point, the nasdaq off by 1 1 4 points overnight in asia, japan was closed for a public holiday. No trading or the nikkei most of asia was digesting Economic Data out of china the Second Quarter Economic Growth gdp slowing to 6. 2 , also coming off 6. 4 in the first quarter. Thats the weakest pace in 27 years. Industrial output, retail sales data also fixed Asset Investments were all above forecast chinese shares were down before the data was released. Then they turned positive. Overnight in europe, we are looking at i thought we were going to follow asias lead, pretty much flat across the board. The dakotas is off by 4 100 of a percent. The treasury yield market, the twoyear note 1. 845 . Just mention on the china data that markets responded better to the data for the first portion of trading in asia and europe and weve just sold off a little bit in the last few hours. As you pointed out that was just for june. Gdp for all three months it did see
Keith bliss. Keith, welcome thank you very much, morgan good to be with you. Mid averages did hit new records this morning but have drifted back down to the flat line, not really moving very much right now are you surprised by that . Not at all. Im a little suppliesed at trpre lack of action it seems theyve hit their own food coma as we wait for earnings to come through we have 300 companies that are going to report next week. We are on fed watch, of course, waiting for the july 31st Rate Decision a bit like waiting and waiting markets are taking a breather right now. Here in the u. S. And elsewhere around the globe, people are starting to go on their holiday so you have lack of participation. Were going to get into all of that a little more. Secretary mnuchins crackdown. Wilfred is covering citi earnings dion is watching the debt ceiling debate lets begin with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchins comments on crypto moments ago eamon javers has that. The rarely used White House Press Bri