Highly coveted spot for secretary of state continues coming through the door into the golden elevator, the biggest one of them all ceo of exxonmobil who went around the back way quietly meeting with the president elect. With us live the trump insider fresh off his own meeting at trump tower, in his first meeting since the interview, richard grunel gives us a sneak peek what happens when you get off the golden elevator and what donald trump is looking for in his next secretary of state . Boy, did we hear from this man when he called the Trump Administration disastrous, what they now say will send the markets into a frenzy. With me live straight ahead. The russell 2000 hitting a lifetime high as the dow viciously fights for 20th record close of the year. Folks, anything can happen. Were less than an hour to the closing bell. Lots of breaking news, lets start the countdown. Breaking news, two major stocks popping at this moment on the news we told you about. Look at sprint. Along with tmo
Markets feeling a little bit better. Existing home sales are the number we are getting. We are seeing a rise month over annual payril for 5. 455 million. U. S. Argest part of the housing market. That is a three month high. There was a surge in the midwest. There seems to be improving numbers in the housing market. We are seeing stocks higher today following a rebound we saw around the globe. Especially commodity lenders, we will dig into those in a moment. Nasdaq is leading gains today up i 1 . Showing gains. Lets look at the bloomberg. Technology is performing the best today. That explains why the nasdaq is doing the best today. Financials are bouncing back as well. They were sharply down yesterday. It is not quite all of the groups in the s p that is higher. Staples and utilities in particular. Today,look at the banks Goldman Sachs holding its annual meeting here. The majority of shareholders voting to keep the ceo and chairman role as one. All the banks bouncing back today. In terms
Taiwan has its first female president. It may all come down to what she doesnt say in her inauguration speech. These are live images from the capital. Oflet us know what you think our top stories. Follow me on twitter rishaadtv, and use trendingbusiness. China markets underway in 30 minutes. Lets take a look at whats going on out there. Markets have turned positive in the last hour or so. We had a weaker start, but things are looking up. New zealand down by a quarter of 1 . We are processing the reaction to the fed saying june remains alive event. The s p 500 wiping out its gains for 2016, falling the most in seven weeks. Taiwan online. Malaysia pretty flat. Cpi numbers out of malaysia later on at noon hong kong time. Gaining 2 10 of 1 . , fairly stable, trading at that 110 handle. Up about a225 is 10th of 1 as well. The retracement in the u. S. Dollar gives a boost to oil prices and commodities. Taking a look at the movers of the day, it is about the energy names. Part of this is barg
72 . Investors regain postbrexit composure, Federal Reserve strikes an optimistic tone. Will the fed hike in 2016 . We speak to the ceos of Anglo American. They are coming up over the next hour. Caroline german sports good maker is raising its forecast. We have a flurry of earnings. Adidas coming out saying 2016 net continued operations will be up 35 to 39 . Well ahead of the 25 growth seen previously. Upping their forecast, secondquarter sales;ow sales uparter group 21 on ethics adjusted basis. This is an upgrade from the secondbiggest sports maker in the world as nike is clearly been making inroads into china. Well see how much we can see a turnaround in adidas. Lets have a look at how the futures market is spiking itself up for the market opened. Pretty lackluster after the Federal Reserve yesterday, we are seeing the futures market flat at the moment. This is your assets. This is the futures market currently, flat. A little bit of profit taking after the Federal Reserve seems to be
The cfo tells us everything is going to plan. Committed. Eel we are executing. Things are under control. Anna and sums up for facebook, as the social media giant has mobile revenue surging. A very warm welcome to countdown. I am an edwards. Manus i am manus cranny. Anna we had Credit Suisse numbers earlier. Bmp reporting secondquarter q k n÷numbers, secondquarter nt profit at 2. 56 billion, ahead of the 2. 1 billion estimates. They had again from selling a stake in visa europe. We know now they wont put that in the books, 597 million pretax gains from that sale. A business trying to get back to return on equity of 10 this year, taking additional steps to cut cost, bolster capital. A simple turnaround story, than others you can mention in the banking sector. What many analysts have been saying, because this diversity and breath of activity they take in the stock. Around 16 yeartodate compared to 27 , that is the one year share price youre looking at there. To bloomberg. Ke you see like