President trump making a move likely to spark a fight for the west wing. Trade tensions rising again as new tariffs again overnight on the largest trading partners we are not talking china it is friday, october 18 Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning happy friday and welcome to the show hear is how your money is opening up the dow off by about two points so relatively stable the s p 5001 away and the nasdaq 2. 2 away. The bond market now moving ever so slightly on the other side for stocks twoyear note yields just below 1. 61 let us now go worldwide in european trading we are seeing a little more red than green dax up. 1 cac off by. 7 and the same for ftse and mib as well in asia, can you see the nikkei up about. 2 3ers and the hang seng down. We had breaking news overnight the latest read on the chinese Economic Situation it is now slowing to the lowest level in decades eunice, what can you tell us about these numbers. They were pretty bad. The consensus is that beijing i
Economists do most dont showing you where things are standing now three and a half hours before the opening bell. Looking at a dow that would open just about 11 points higher and nasdaq looks like it would open down going to china quick but showing you treasury yields. The 10year note at 1. 766. Joe mentioned, breaking overnight, the operatest rate of china slowing to the slowest pace in 30 years that may explain some is of what we are seeing here eunice un is now in beijing where tim cook is. Thats right. First getting to the numbers i think you can compare that policymakers will unveil more soon Third Quarter numbers missed coming in at 6 . That is because of the demand overseas and at home the september numbers rebounded. Most said those are something you usually see. They are more concerned about sluggish demand weighing on the out look of the economy. The more optimistic bureau saying china faced a big downward pressure. Planning to front load some local government bonds those wil
Points higher right now. The s p 500 looking to open little over four points higher lets show you what happened over night in asia as well maybe were pushing a little bit i was going to say, i thought it would be the opposite situation but the hang sang off little over 1 almost 1. 5 . Shanghai composite down. European equities as well right now. We see whats going on there there you have green arrows across the board finally the number that Alan Greenspan says he likes to look at, treasury yields. Show you where things stand. Thats a sad i look at all those things its a sad commentary on our life. I dont know if its sad. Sad that its the first thing i do oh, to see before coffee, before brushing my teeth, before anything. Yeah. Shaving shaving any way, developing story this morning, over the british ship that was seized by Iranian Revolutionary guards last week, iran releasing new video over the weekend shows commandos repelling on to the deck tanker from helicopters uk leaders spent t
Probably one of the biggest in terms of Enterprise Companies going public during this ipo vintage. We awere here last year for the uber ipo slack today. Well bring you lots of news about it its a different type of listing, its a direct listing well talk about all of the dynamics around that for now, back to you we talked about that direct listing earlier this week. The pros and cons to it again . There are some pros and cons. You can only do it if you have a lot of cash on the Balance Sheet. This is a company that does. If youre trying to raise money, it doesnt work this way theres no additional money that gets raised the way uber was raising money and wework will be raising money. Well see if it becomes a model. Spotify did it successfully. Slack is doing it. If there works, theres a question on whether airbnb, the next ipo on the docket in the future, theres a question if they go the same route it has a huge implication for wall street, wall street fees and the ipo structure. Andrew,
General Family Dollar tieup goes through, the combined company would have 20,000 stores in 46 states, a total of about 28 billion in revenue. Now, heres the important part the synergies on this transaction, which contrast to the other one and i know were talking about dollar tree and Dollar General and Family Dollar, its confusing. Dollar, dollar, dollar. Dollar, dollar, dollar. Heres whats happening. On the Dollar General Dollar General tree. On the Dollar General proposal, they would have 550 million to 600 million in synergies annually. That would happen three years after the close. That is in contrast to what was 300 million in synergies on the other dollar tree deal. Now, the dollar tree is a much Smaller Company than Dollar General, and thats one of the reasons theyre not able to have the type of synergies. A lot of analysts had wanted Dollar General to come forward with this deal. Were surprised that they havent. Apparently, if you look through some of the filings on the origina