Paid hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of the services. More on that get exclusive story through the day. I want to check in on asset prices that show you what kind of risk on rally we had after donald trump said he would only put tariffs on part of the 300 billion worth of goods from china that he had previously flagged to start in september. We see asian stocks rising after the massive rally in european and u. S. Stocks, gains of 1 and more than 1 across the board in the u. S. You also see another contributor to the risk on sentiment. For the fifth day in a row, china has set the yuan peg stronger than expected. Five days in a row the pboc says it is stronger than the market signaled the. Signaled. Ket , no more safen haven bid, the dollar gaining strength against the japanese currency. For the yen. Nejra perhaps some part of the market saying we got ahead of ourselves yesterday. The s p 500 jumped 2 at one point. Apple leading the gains. Only so
Global growth softening, and specifically having caution because of trade concerns. We will talk with the ceo of dow in this halfhour, Jim Fitterling. Alix also looking at other names like 3m, surprisingly reaffirmed its growth organic sales. , sor names coming in weaker when you have Companies Like 3m , that is positive. Boeing is extending cuts, help withthem to their pricing power. Terrible news for airliners, and then all of a sudden better. David exactly. In the meantime, we have an announcement out of the turkish central bank. Mr. Erdogan has his way. They are going to cut the one 19. 75 , downe to from 24 . The turkish lira is coming down on the news, a little under 0. 5 now. Alix that is a 425 basis point cut. The market was expecting 250. This is definitely more aggressive on that side. David the got the message. Alix we are just about an hour away from Mario Draghis press conference. Eurodollar goes nowhere. Crude up by 1 . Basically, wait for the next hour. [laughter] david
Leaked that were very frank about his assessment of the president , and it was not very flattering. It was business as usual, but five hours later that proves not to be the case. David but President Trump really had gone after him, even calling him stupid and things like that. At the same time, the British Government backed him. But it is hard to do your job if they are not going to talk to you. Alix for sure. But also the leaking. He was supposed to report back. That was the point. In the markets, we are seeing a bond selloff headed into the fed , particularly on the long end and in europe. German bund yields are at their highest level since three weeks ago. You have persistent weakness in the equity markets, down 2 10 of 1 . It is a mixed dollar story. Some industrial output from europe. Eurodollar goes nowhere. Yields up by about three basis points, 2. 1 . We havent seen that in about a month. Crude, lots of things boosting crew today. Russian production is down. More harsh words fr
Incredibly tight range for european equities. The pound is down. We are expecting Boris Johnson to become Prime Minister tomorrow. The pound was down a little bit more earlier, bouncing off its earlier lows. We continue to watch the situation in the gulf escalate, and we continue to watch the situation between the u. K. And iran escalate as well. Oil trading higher. Vonnie time for a bloomberg spook now bloomberg scoop now. Carl icahn is ebbing up his Occidental Petroleum in letters to shareholders. Occidental petroleum has just responded. We are joined by our deals reporter scott deveau, who broke the story. Occidental says we dont think we need one. What carlentially icahn is trying to do is get four directors on the board of occidental, and in order to do so he has to go through this very convoluted process. He has to get a record date, and get shareholders to support his move to replace four directors. Occi shares are barely moving. Do they think you will have much success here . S
Central banks are a primary focus, an seen the initial focus this week. Ecb mario draghi is due to address people in sintra in just a moment well stay tuned for that piece coming up in a short while the Federal Reserve is expected to keep Interest Rates on hold at its twoday policy meeting that begins later today. Invest and economists said there remains a high likelihood of a rate cut later in the year analysts from bank of america, jpmorgan and bmo forecast the cut in September Jpmorgan and bmo said they also expect another move in december. Goldman sachs and citi, they dont agree with the assessment. They say their best case is that the fed will take no action at all in 2019. Theyre calling for a cut in june, so thats tomorrow well see what happens here in europe, the ecb flagged it will postpone any rate hike until the middle of next year. Low inflation has hampered the eurozone in recent years and the central Bank Launched a fresh round to boost the central bank. Annette joins us