One of the great men of American Business will join us following the nfl teams first time back oen field without fans but players bringing attention to social justice around the country. Power lunch starts right now guess were together but separate, once again welcome to power lunch. Billions of dollars of deals on wall street today. For 20 billion, gilead adding to its cancer fighting portfolio. Its basically doubled next up for 40 billion, the biggest chip deal ever, nvidia buying arm holdings which designs chips. Up 8 and finally not quite a deal yet oracle betting to be Technical Partner in the u. S. September 20th deadline. Oracle shares up 5 on the news. Well have all of this back over to you all those big deals on wall street helping the comeback rally in stocks. After two down weeks in a row. We havent seen that in a long time jim paulson joins us now is your time to buy the dip. Welcome. Good to see you. You see the marriage between wall street and main street looks as strong
Charles evan calls for credibly important government stimulus. Australia heads into Earnings Seasons amid the first recession in decades and a virus pandemic that is crippling the economy. It promises to be one of the most challenging periods on record. Here is how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Fewer sugars u. S. Futures under pressure. We had ask leading u. S. China tensions fan yelling fanning the data. The bloomberg dollar index flat at the moment. This after a fifth consecutive weekly decline that will be the longest losing stretch since january of 2018. The offshore yuan is flat at the moment. This after the yuan led declines in asian currencies. We have President Trump moving to been tiktok and we chat. Hang seng futures down to tense up 1 . Under pressure from the last two sessions. It is a thin trading day. Singapore and japan are closed. We have a china data blitz that could be confirming the recovery we are seeing. We have ppi numbers. Not to mention retail sales a
Possibility china might make efforts to im pose security measures on hong kong has some worried especially in asia today. My goodness, thats despite the fact that we did actually get some we started with vaccine data driving the markets. Look at the rally on monday to start the week off of the moderna news you had those positive vaccine comments from dr. Fauci saying the data looked promising, but its being overshadowed by everything playing out in china, whether its the situation with hong kong and what is essentially being seen as something of a power grab through a National Security lens or intentions between the u. S. And china more broadly and some of the policies that weve seen start to come in this week as well its interesting to see in general how this week has played out in the markets because reopening from a week to date standpoint has really led the way here it is the russell 2,000, the small caps which are seen as a proxy for the reopening efforts now that we have 50 state
The Prime Minister prepares to ask lawmakers to support his brexit deal. Does he have the votes . We will be live all morning from westminster and brussels. A sterling outcome. Goldman and Credit Agricole remain bullish predictions for the pound, seeing a mediumterm rise to 1. 35 or higher. Kicks off european earnings season with a reiteration of its strong preliminary result. We will speak with the cfo, luka mucic, shortly. Less than half hour away from the european open. Im looking at a three day trade of the pound. We are holding at the high levels we have seen the highest levels we have seen since may. The pound doing quite well at 1. 2925, at one point reaching on 1. 30. Trade to almost it is getting there for sure. Take a look at what we see in terms of the futures trade, just 30 minutes away from the start of cash trading across europe and in the u. K. 0. 2 after s. A. P. Earnings. Ftse futures relatively flat right now. You also see futures gaining in terms of the u. S. Trade.
Right now. Welcome, good to have you with us on this thursday, our Investment Committee at the table, jorich sapper steen is here, high tower treasury partners, the cio, one of barons top 100 Financial Advisers s to ks higher once again led by tech, which has been on quite a tear this week the nasdaqs best week in ten. Powered by the semis, some of the fanangs is this something to build on or a oneweek phenomenon. It all comes back to trade, trade even trumps pardon the pun, trumps the inverted yield curve. Look, we got some positive news. I was talking to some people yesterday thinking that, look, trump really does want to go ahead with the september 1 increase of tariffs. Chine chinese probably dont want to go ahead i thought there was a 60 40 chance that he wouldnt. I think the chinese are sort of giving him cover in their comments this morning. You think the markets trying to sniff that out a little bit i think the markets assumed its going to happen, actually, and thats why the in