Plus, verizons 5g focus. The ceo says 50 of consumers will have access to that technology and beyond meat is tumbling in the premarket, pricing a secondary at six times the ipo price and has new competition on the way. Stocks are looking to open higher after their worst day in two months yesterday the fed cuts rates by a quarter point, but the chair dampens expectations for more easing despite the selloff, the major indices still finished july in the green, their sixth positive month in seven, although were headed into the historically weakest two months of the year well, look, were making much too much of this mid cycle were going to forget what that means five days from now we wont be thinking about that. Well be thinking about it today until the market goes up then we say forget about it. He was in a spot hes in a spot because he has a president who cant fire him but would fire him, right . And send him down the elevator he wants to make it so that its not personal so he comes up wi
That is hurting profits. David they were downing trading but they were expecting to be down in trading. Its all about net Interest Income. It sort of like wells fargo yesterday. More nettually Interest Income than last year that it was below what is expected so they are getting punched a little bit. David we will keep our ought alix we will keep our eyes out especially in that conference call. We are in a tight trading range. The tightest weve been in since nine days over the last week and a half or so. Eurodollar pretty much flat. In the 10of Movement Year as well. Crude up by 8 10 of 1 . I felt like a left and came back and everything was the same. Pretty much steady as she goes. David things will really happen now. Eddie 30 we will get used u. S. Housing starts at 8 30 we will get u. S. Housing starts. Facebook has it second day in congress on his liber proposal before the House Financial Services committee. At 12 30 we will hear from Esther George on the Economic Outlook. After the
The visit to stake out Common Ground in their struggles with President Trump. The u. S. Supreme court says a 40 foot cross can continue serving as a or memorial in a busy maryland intersection. Justices rejected arguments that the nearly one hundredyearold monument represents an unconstitutional government endorsement of christianity. The concrete memorial was built to honor 49 local men who died in world war i. Global news, 24 hours a day, on air and tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg world headquarters, im taylor riggs and for shery ahn. We are joined by our bloomberg and bloomberg audiences. Here are the top stories we are following. S p 500 is touching a record high. Chairman powells dovish delivery has fueled the global bond rally and boosting stocks. Setting up a day to go public. Slack technologies sword on day one and gives this company a market value of more than
They see an increase in the price of steel thanks to tariffs , so conagra is not doing well today. Down 2. 1 . There is a takeover attempt. It is being bought primarily for some of its features. Guy . Guy g20 leaders meeting in osaka this weekend. We seen the chinese president arrive in the u. S. President arrive. Investors watching for the outcome of the bilateral discussion between these two gentlemen, in particular whether or not we are going to make progress when it comes to the trade war. We are joined now by Neil Ferguson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. Good afternoon. What is your expectation for what is going to come out of this meeting . Neil i dont think a great deal is going to come out of it because i dont really see that either of the two leaders, trump and xi, have a strong incentive to make concessions. Trump i think senses that the chinese are on the back foot, that he has the upper hand here. Hes playing them, as he loves to do, by saying on one hand he is in
Jay powell is also losing patience and is ready to cut. The dollar fell against most major peers. The s p 500 is near a record. Xi jinping heads for historic talks in north korea. Beijing says its influence on the divided Korean Peninsula remains significant. Kathleen we are starting on the bond market because that is where we saw the action, really saw the reaction to the Federal Reserves decidedly dovish turn. Side of your screen, you can see the big move down. We had the 12 basis point drop in yields. 1. 74 . , jim bullard,ove president of the st. Louis that, saying the fed should cut right now, today, really putting some fire into treasuries. As for stocks, your alltime high for the s p 500, these are not big gains, but these are gains, nonetheless and we have seen s p futures pointing to a. It of a decline if you look at fed funds futures, that that is they could definitely do it as early as the july meeting. How about this playing out in asian markets. The stock rally brother loo