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4. 0127. Todays auction, the 30 year treasury. We will follow that as soon as the headlines roll across. Bloomberg u. S. Dollar index down today. 1 . Oil coming down as well. 83. 14 per barrel. When it comes to the inflation data that we saw this morning, a blackrock representative gave us his take. Guest serious progress on inflation for now. That cannot be ignored. Take a step back and this is what we will need to deal with over the next few months, this will be a roller coaster. Matt chief u. S. Economist at t. Rowe price joins us now. What was your take on what looks like a pretty victorious number for the fed . Guest thank you for having me today. I would say there was a lot in this report that the fed and inflation forecasters will like. Two months in a row where inflation was behaving like used to before the pandemic. In particular, im encouraged by the progress we are seeing in core goods inflation. Deflationary momentum is continuing. It looks like it will be sustained. We sou
President biden imposes limits on u. S. Investments in china. Alibaba returns to growth across all of the main divisions, defying chinas economic turbulence. We will take a deeper look at the Supreme Court ruling in the epic case siding with apple, at least for now. The other big story was inflation, gaining 0. 2 last month. The slowest pace of gains for two years. The market starts thinking about the fed and then says maybe the fed will skip a rate hike in the next meeting. Why do we care about the fed . Higher rates discount the valuations for future cash flows for names on the nasdaq 100. The main text the main tech index outperforming but we are basically treading water. The other big risk as it is bitcoin. We are the same level we have out for two weeks. The u. S. 10 year yield climbing back up. Remember the story we keep reiterating. Yields have been coming slightly lower from 4. 2 on the 10 year to now nero took now nearer to 4 . The earnings story is disney. So many stories in
Little joins us to talk about the state of spending. Im Katie Greifeld in new york. Another quiet day on the screen behind me. The s p 500 unchanged. The nasdaq 100, more action but to the downside, currently off by. 2 . Also put the vix, not sure why but it never does much. Slightly on the rise, trading with a 13 handle on the vix. Lets find some excitement. Less than blockbuster results for morning brothers warner brothers. Poor performance at studios. Geetha ranganathan joins us now. What was your take away from the earnings . Geetha tv advertising and the Network Business continues to be under tremendous pressure. Tv advertising fallen by 11 and that crimped but there were bright spots. Cash flow was strong. This is a merger between warner bros. And discovery. They guided to an extra 1 billion on top of the 4 billion they already achieved. And then hbo max, good subscriber of momentum. They have a whole bunch of new international lunches upcoming. It is becoming a profitable busine
Will cover all the commodities. Caroline hyde in paris on a warning by the oecd, and Ryan Chilcote in vienna previewing the opec meeting. We begin in asia where Prime Minister shinzo abe has decided to postpone an increase to the sales tax. Delayed once, it is twice, and i am wondering if we will ever get it. Enda i think it just shows you how nervous the outlook is for japans economy. Japan has the biggest debt burden and they have been trying crying out for the government to do more to tackle debt. Minister day has had to step back again and surrender and say, we need to do more spending and try and get growth going. The economy keeps flirting between contraction and expansion. It is also interesting in terms of what it needs means for the bank of japan. We have already seen the reaction, a big gain in the end today as it takes pressure off Central Banks in the yen today as it takes pressure of signature banks. It shows you that japans economy remains on quite narrow footing. The dol