Intervention is not the solution solution. They are desperate to try to keep this market up and theyre trying every rule in the book to do that. Unfortunately as you know the more they do the more uncertainty is imposed on the market. Its official puerto rico defaults on a Debt Repayment for the first time ever. The governments debt spiral warning comes to fruition. Putting the brakes on profits. Toyota calls china a difficult environment while bmw warns of slowing sales. Coming up on the show hes a man with a plan. Obama talks tough on climate change. What would you give the president for his birthday which, by the way, is today . The numbers are in and its not looking good for Hillary Clinton. Stay tuned as we unveil the results of the latest wall street journal poll and angry gamers. Why the app ruffled some feathers, later in the show. Welcome to the show. It was an ugly start to the month of august with stocks falling across the board. The dow losing 91 points. A lot having to do
Im Caroline Hyde. As we were just saying, we are getting breaking numbers from allianz. Just to run you through some of the numbers, the outlook is confirmed on the upper end of the range. This is the number one european insurer, confirmed its fouryear forecast. Of 2e getting net income billion euros, ahead of analyst estimates. The operating profit came in at 2. 84 billion. We are looking at property and Casualty Insurance at 11. 8 billion euros. We will get much more on these breaking numbers with hans nichols. It looks as though the insurance side of things, hans, is missing a combined ratio, that we are seeing better than expected numbers from a revenue perspective. Hans yeah. This that income is a big beat. It is coming in north of 2 billion euros. On that front it is a big beat. When you look at whats happening in insurance, there havent been many natural asasters, so they could have little upside, although it looks like the insurance number is down on the property and casualty.
Oil still trudging below 43. Our road map begins with chinas ripple effects across the global markets. Was a secretive News Conference enough to stop the bleeding. Retail sales are rebounding. Some major Retail Stocks falling hard. More pain to come in the sector. Two stocks sinking on secondary offerings. How should investigators make those moves . Futures lower. China allowing is currency to weaken against the dollar for a Third Straight day. Cutting about i 1. 1. The Third Straight day of cuts as applies to markets. You sat here yesterday and said you like the setups and you saw what the dollar was doing. People are going to think these are okay. The dollar is back to being strong. Oil challenging 42. Those stocks were integral to the turn. Interest rates kind of doing nothing. The earnings other than cisco. The retail earnings directly in contrast to the retail sales number. You put macys and kohls together, you have to wonder what nordstrom is going to say. Yesterday was perfect.
Conversation stay tuned. Which will continue for the next 59 minutes. I want you to be more vocal on fast money, certain people are saying whatever they want. When good men are silent, thats when bad things can fester thats like a history lesson. Thats when things can fester hes saying youre a good guy. Ill take that. Thank you, joe a look at u. S. Equity futures it looks like we would have been on track for a positive month of august well see what happens this morning. Dow futures up by 57 points. S p futures up by 7. Nasdaq up by 20 this comes after an up day for the markets yesterday as well. Overnight in asia, you will see the nikkei closed up by 0. 75 . Hang seng down by a percentage point. Shanghai was almost flat if you look at whats happening in early trading this morning, you can see across the board there is strength. It looks like the ftse is up by 0. 6 similar gains for the dax in germany. The cac is up by 0. 7 . Check out the dollar, too. Dollar weve been watching so close
As we await sessions, lets bring in elevation parters in Roger Mcnamee this morning, sar sar sarah fagen and elan muy lets set the table for what we expect sessions to say the white house wants to end this program and it looks like there will be a sixmonth delay before it actually phased out. The big question that sessions will have to answer is exactly what will the end of the Program Look Like . Is it a shutdown of daca for all the people would are currently receiving those protections and benefits or is there some sort of phaseout that could allow people some perhaps grace period before they see those benefits run out and before they can face deportation. Quickly here, sarah, we expect the ag in a moment, people turning their attention to what were expecting to be a six month period for congress to react. With now a number of new obstacles in their way what might their calendar look like the calendar is getting more crowded and certainly with other issues before them this is not a g