Sandwich in the land we are here to settle the score. We begin with a monster day for retail where something happened check out shares of home depot, urban outfitters, kohls, all beating on ets but mixing on revenue. The stocks had a mixed reaction today. Urban outfitters the big after hours mover, so which is telling the story of the health of the american consumer. What do you say . It is a great question. The health of the american consumer, we can debate it the one that tells the story to me is home depot i will tell you if we had a conversation last night and you told me all of the numbers home depot would report and you said, where are the stocks going to go, stocks are down 3 the exact opposite happened. I guess the market is giving home depot a pass once again sales growth wasnt there yet their margins improved. A mixed bag for home depot given their valuation, given the take we saw today, the fact is stock is up today tells me the stock wants to continue going higher typically
Watering 5 billion. The implications of unrest, weeks of protest and hong kong. The effect on the citys top names. Shery we are seeing pictures being pressured down half a percent on that news that the white house is halting any licenses for businesses to work. Ith hallway huawei this after a stellar performance. Green. Ector was in the the s p 500 was able to erase this weeks loss. Nasdaq two and a quarter percent. The Energy Sector leading those rises, gaining ground with news that saudi arabia was in touch orbital in and order to slow the decline. Lily catching the eye of investors. Lets see how we are shaping up in asia. Pointing to a mixed open. Futures down almost. 5 , but in sydney, seeing a little bit of positivity. That sentiment is strongerthanexpected and it was shortlived. Bloomberg reporting that the u. S. Is planning to publish that final list in chinese imports. They plan to hit with tariffs this week or early next. Reporting the white house is holding off the decision o
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
World cut rates. China weakening the currency again overnight. A perfect guest to discussion the swings in the market, former treasury secretary jack lew joining us thats coming up on closing bell. First right to the market action, joining us for the hour is josh brown. Whats turning things around here oh, my god, this is like what we live for, right it was pretty dire this morning. In the last five days, i have shift fred bearish back to bullish, then bearish, then superbearish. I was lutheran for a minute now i know youre joking. I am personally highly susceptible. I know this about myself, and every investor should think about their own behaviors. Im hidely susceptible to the lines i see in front of me not that i will react to all of them, but if youre not going through that, maybe check your pulse, that is what markets are designed to do, and i think the people that radically shift their views based on price act are the people who end up paying the volatility tax what led the comeb
Lacqua in london. Lift to the stoxx 600, data from around whattivity jay powell is doing. Dollar weakening for third day. Crude oil 60. 60. Makesort saying surplus return despite opec cuts, whether that means they will come further is something we will watch for. As operators in the gulf of mexico are bracing for Tropical Storm barry, giving pressure on crude oil prices. U. S. 10 year yield at 2. 12. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, the allstar lineup today. We will talk about deals in the banking outlook. We will speak with Philip Hammond. This afternoon, we sit down with the ford chief executive. Breaking news. Arkey says it has received Missile Defense system from russia. U. S. Threatened to punish turkey over the purchase. Washington says the system is designed to shoot down nato aircraft. Goldman sachs warning of u. S. Intervention in the fx market. It says president trumps about otherplaints currencies is highlighting u. S. Policy. Now the u. S. Could forcibly weaken the doll