Of one of the worlds biggest banks leaving after less than two years on the job it is a busy monday, august 5th, 2019 Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning good afternoon good evening welcome from wherever you are watching i am brian sullivan. We have breaking news with regard to chinas currency it is sinking in a big way the chinese yuan traded offshore is now sliding below 7 to the u. S. Dollar. That is a threshold thats not been breached in more than a decade tough go to 2008 and the financial crisis now, as that currency falls, remember, what does it do . It makes chinese exports less expensi expensive, which some say could mitigate any positive impact from the u. S. Tariffs. Analysts are quick to note, china could retaliate more against President Trumps tariffs by further devaluing the currency you can see where it is 7. 08 this is a fouryear chart. Remember, it is inverted as that goes up, thats the dollar against chinas currency. Thats a weakening of china. Look at t
Power lunch kicks off right now. And stocks are hitting highs of the session on some breaking news out of washington, as you see, moving up by a half or a little more of a percent each lets get to Kayla Tausche with the details. Hi, tyler the market is moving on reports that u. S. Negotiators will be departing washington on monday to go to beijing my sources tell me these inperson facetoface talks are expected to take place in china at some point between the congressional recess, which begins friday, and a chinese holiday, which is set to take place on thursday, august 1st. Remember, the top u. S. Trade official, ambassador Robert Lighthizer wants to be meeting with members on capitol hill to talk up the usmca, he wants to get as much support as possible before lawmakers leave town for a month and so he personally, im told, has not wanted to leave washington until those conversations have wrapped up. That leaves just a window of a few days time for these inperson talks to take place. T
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Seventh straight session. Dropping triple digits today. For the year the dow is actually down the better part of 3 . S p 500 is still positive for 2015. But its broken a technical level, slipping below the 200day moving average. Twice in the summer it has bounced on that. Will it do that from here . The dollar hit highs not seen since april, but if im looking at the screen to the right of me correctly, it is raised those gains and now in negative territory for the session overall. Despite that, Oil Continues to be under pressure. Prices down about 5 1 2 percent for the week. Oil light sweet crude is just trading above 44 a barrel. If we break that it will be significant. Check out the yields on the benchmark 10year treasury notes. Yields down to 2. 18 . Despite the view that the fed might be hiking on this payroll data in september. Vrm the nasdaq is the biggest loser right now. Kate rogers is following the action. It is not quite as ugly as it was here yesterday. We are less than by t
Those shares have been so volatile in the last several weeks. European equities, meantime, on news of this greek arrangement there, you do have red arrows mostly across the board, and perhaps not surprisingly, greece is the one thats getting the lift by 2. 25 . U. S. Equity futures at this hour . Well, after yesterdays big day breaking that sevenday losing streak, the dow would open lower by nearly 125 points. Here are the big stories were watching today. Greece and its lenders agreeing on bailout terms. A Greek Finance Ministry official tells cnbc there are still some minor details, but they wont affect the completion of the deal. The European Commission expected to comment on the deal at its midday briefing. On todays economic agenda, a few data points of of note for this datadriven fed. At 8 30 eastern, a first read on secondquarter productivity and costs, and then at 10 00, wholesale trade. As for earnings central, the consumer front and center this week. Among the Companies Set to