Talks continue into today. The s p global is in advanced talks to buy ihs mobile markets in what would be one of the biggest deals of the year. A very warm welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading for European Equity markets. Good to be back in the studio. Thats have a look at the future is and what they tell us about where we are headed this monday morning. Futures dont look great. European features move to the downside. The Asian Session has been fairly negative. These have been record months for global stocks. Rebalancing at the end of the month perhaps is part of the story here. We will talk to the market live team about this shortly. Lets take a look at what is going on on the gmm. Some of the weakest in the weakness in the Asian Session, down one point 3 on the msci asia pacific. Indonesia under pressure. A host of emerging markets under pressure. China outperforming a little today. The Manufacturing Activity we referenced
Nominate janet yellen to his treasury secretary. She would become the first woman to hold the position. Janet yellen has pushed for more fiscal spending during the pandemic. Credentials could covid passports restart International Travel . We will discuss the latest strategy with its ceo this afternoon, and before then, we are joined by the chief executive of the dutch flag carrier. Do not miss that conversation. It is 6 00 a. M. In london and 7 00 a. M. In zurich. A little bit of breaking news on novartis and we will come back to that in a moment but there is a Share Buyback of up to 2. 5 billion. So we will touch on that in a moment but i think we are in this momentum and we have almost got this goldilocks between a vaccineon starting, narrative, and janet yellen did not get Elizabeth Warren so thats probably part of the cheer on the streets. Certainly. I think wall street will embrace it but also the progressives will embrace her but with this pick which is historic, the first female
Demand. Ryan, it is always a pleasure to talk to you. It was long in coming. Everyone asking, what are you going to buy . Tell us how you came up with this deal. It is great to be with you again today. We have been talking about the need for consolidation in business for quite some time. We need to put a Value Proposition together that offers investors a different way to think. We have done this with a transformative acquisition with concho resources. This brings in a bunch of lowcost supply resources government 23 billion barrels into the company. It is about a super strong Balance Sheet to manage the volatility we have seen in this business. It is about how you allocate capital for value, not for growth. It is distributions we were going to give back to the shareholder. It is about having a sustainable business. The deal takes an Energy Transition that we know is coming for our planet. Alix can you give us insight into how competitive it was . If you look at the Shell Companies that
I think what weve got is a range. I dont think its anything really terrific, and i dont think its anything bad. One of my favorite technicians, larry williams, who was the dean when i was in diapers, he was doing great stuff, weve been going back and forth about the notion, look, until we get closer to action, hes usually an october 20th buy. I mention because neither one of us thinks theres anything catastrophic ahead but neither one of us is excited if you are excited, if you think we will return to the days when stocks only go up, you will be disappointed, scott. I just think what were seeing with the teslas is emblematic if you get too excited. One of the central questions whether tech has gone down enough relative to how much it ran up i bring that up, you look at the faangs, month to date microsoft down amazon, facebook down 11, 12 and 13 1 2 here is what mike wilson told us from Morgan Stanley thinking tech could have a ways to go before its done all right, well, we dont have th
It is a blue shirt. It is because they dont know how to do the lighting because it is darker outside now. Ive got the blue and it shows up every day here in the bunker im envious i want blue but im unable to perform. Sad. Lets show everybody what we are seeing for the end of the week here. We have a bit of a mixed picture. The dow looks like it would open down the nasdaq looking to open higher as well the first down day and on pace to snap the first twoweek streak amazon closing down 2 and a quarter of a percent a little bit of a rough ride there. This next story will keep on giving i hope it stops reading. The more i read about it, both sides are locked into things the other side wont agree to one comment about the tech wreck. I know, i know the house is not burning isnt going to do anything for anyone. This will unralravel completely it is nutso on the upside. It seems like it is less accepted moving up then down 7 it is like oh, my god, will the sun come up tomorrow President Trump,