Low. Investors now down about 18 from the ipo price and its not just uber and this is definitely not music to investors ears, shares of chinese streaming giant ten cent are down sharply well tell you why onthon tuesday, august 13th as Worldwide Exchange begins now. Get along down the road weve got a long, long way to go scared to live scared to die we aint perfect but we try good morning, or good afternoon or wherever in the world you might be watching. Thank you for joining us here on Worldwide Exchange between the continued protests in hong kong and sharp drops for bigname stocks, it could be another busy day in the Global Financial markets and for your money. After yesterdays nearly 400 point drop for the dow, futures are trying to stay steady. Theyre flat across the board. But remember, this time yesterday we really had a similar situation and we had some of the headlines coming out about the hong kong airport closing, futures dropped, markets weakeneding down nearly 400. Stocks ai
Than expected. That means we have a bit of a risk off move. We had moves from the central bank of new zealand, and overall, new zealand stocks are gaining. There is quite a lot of movement when it comes to commodities and we will have a full roundup of centralbank action and its impact on stocks and commodities. Coming up, we speak to the commerzbank chief Financial Officer. Dont miss that interview live later on bloomberg surveillance. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city. Chinas currency policy is staying at the forefront of the trade war. Referenceet todays rate at marginally stronger than seven a dollar. Avowing to keep the Exchange Rate is vowing to keep the Exchange Rate study. Westminster and brussels blame the other for the diplomatic breakdown. Michael gove is in charge of planning for a no deal and says the eu is not bracing for a new agreement. The Prime Minister has made it clear he will not sign a deal that includes the irish backstop from a red
I want to dance, you and me alone. I want to capture the feeling. Oh, yeah. Cheryl welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning. Im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning, im lauren simonetti. Lets take a look at how your money is moving this morning. Dow futures gaining 69 points, s p up 8, nasdaq adding 40. Cheryl were seeing stabilization in asian markets overnight. Weve seen a moc a move on the. The nikkei and shanghai composite slightly down, the hang seng actually gaining. Lauren we have some stability in the european markets as well. The ftse is up 50 points, the cac up 55, the dax in germany up 1. 2 , despite a new report showing Industrial Production in the powerhouse of europe contracting. Cheryl were following the 10 year treasury right now, especially on the comments on fed president bullard yesterday, there is weakness on the yield so a little bit more of a bet on stocks today possibly happening versus the bet on bonds. Lauren still the flight to safety is going on. We see it in the pric
Businessweeks editorinchief, joel weber. We begin with jay powell. Joel take something complicated and simple it down. The cover is an expression of that this week. Jay powell, fed chair, probably the most important person in the world of finance. The Financial Institution that is probably the most important anywhere in the world and for a year now, hes been the target of trumps friend are ire, because trump wants lower rates, lower rates, and jay powell has basically been a stoic figure through all of that. Anol we believe this is independent organization and for the first time, we are wondering is it going to remain independent . And can they continue to fend off the executive branchs desire for lower rates . We will see what happens this next week with rate cuts. The market basically thinks there will be a rate cut. The bigger story is one we wanted to ask to dig into, which is for a year now, weve lived through the tension between trump and powell, more from trump than from powell.
Off. We are looking at markets this morning, firmer tone. 102 points higher, nasdaq up almost 50 points, all three majors rebound yesterday on trade and currency fears, beijing and washington still in stalemate with china digging in for drawnout fight, pretty good market yesterday, lindsey, your reaction . Yeah, im actually surprised the market is taking everything that we learned through the last couple of days in such good stride, again, today like you said at the top of the show you see the yuan being weakened. Not to the extent we saw sunday night which sent the market into kneejerk reaction. I think what we are seeing the two countries are in it for the long haul and i dont expect us to have any resolution before tend of the year and we go to a point of no return, we go too far and the Economic Impact around the global is really too, too far to come back from. Definitely stoke uncertainty, dagen. Dagen uncertainty that the Federal Reserve cant fix, uncertainty is the greatest enem