But competition was set to restrain the ability of the manufacturing of those payment tariffs or higher Labor Compensation to pass that along. Some of the details we saw was like philly and cleveland. Richmond said there was strong volume at ports as there were a lot of imports to get ahead of some of the expected tariffs st. Louis and kansas city said farmers suffered because of depressed crop prices because of tariffs. Lets talk about the job situation, which is a completely different picture of the economy. Employment grew at a modest pace labor markets, however, set to be tight and there was a lot of difficulty filling open positions. Youve heard that before but they went on to say there were continued worker shortages across most sectors, especially construction, technology and health care. A staffing worker in the minneapolis district said its the toughest market they have ever seen. There were concerns about renewing and securing work visas. Compensation, however, grew at a mode
Yvonne this is after Boris Johnson seemed to double down on the fact that the eu, he will not start to brexit talks unless they reopened the previous deal they reached with theresa may. That santa the pound dropping like a rock, at 1. 21, as we mentioned. Whether the boj can actually whether the latest meeting, and tamp down expectations, the yen will strengthen and the dollar will wink it weaken if the fed does cut. Here,interesting to note we always talked about the average time to make a policy decision. The shorter time perhaps mean they will not make a decision. The longer, perhaps that means surprises. David 11 hours and 11 minutes from now, keep your eye on that. Flip the notes. Final word on the aussie dollar. Now on the longest using streak since 2014. Here is a big nothing burger for you. Nothing happening across the bond markets right now. Lets go over to su keenan. Reporter lets start with vietnam, which is being warned it must reduce the trade surplus with the u. S. This a
Nasdaq up by 33. However the new york fed, bullard as you mentioned and others are pushing back on this idea that a bigger cut will be coming the new york fed itself putting out headlines saying that speech was not about potential policy actions at the upcoming fomc meeting, this was based on Academic Research done by John Williams i dont ever recall hearing the fed walking back what somebody was out there saying a lot of fed president s have spoken to us over the last 10, 12 years at this point pushing become a bit on that. Lets look at what happened overnight in asia. You will see the nikkei was up by 2 . Big swing back for it. Hang seng was up by 1 the shanghai up by 0. 8 . Again, the nikkei reversing course after the weakness we had seen the day before. European equities this morning, you will be seeing green arrows there. The dax is up by 0. 3 . The cac and ftse up by 0. 2 . Italy and spain weaker italy down by 0. 9 look at the treasury market. Right now on this friday were headin
Welcome to power lunch. Im courtney reagan. Lets get a check on the markets this hour. A cautious day on the street stocks trading in a narrow range. The dow managed to hit an intraday high earlier, but now were in the red across the board for the three major averages with the dow down about 21 points, the nasdaq composite leading way lower by half a percent. Oil also tanking this hour secretary of state pompeo says iran is ready to negotiate about its Missile Program. The final trade details are straight ahead brian. Big oil story im sure well get more. Thank you very much. We have a lot to do. Lets kick off this hour from news from washington where else where once again, President Trump sparking new uncertainty about any kind of a trade deal with china that happening in just the last hour Kayla Tausche is following it. As the president s top trade officials prepare to continue negotiations over the phone and possibly in person later this month, President Trump was ambiguous when spea
Markets where startups and Venture Capital wont even go because dominant players are so big. Now, the committee is saying that it is getting pushback from Internet Companies who allege that they actuallyvation and not well bring you all the latest back to you. Thank you well be back with you joining us to break down the are market action, megan, good afternoon to you lets check the markets. Dow is flat. S p down 0. 03 , and of course any positive close for those three would be a record alltime closing high megan, relative softness today compared to of late. What do you think is driving that part of it is trade we heard words from President Trump around the risk of higher tariffs and that is something that weve been particularly cautious about we did get a trade truce if you will at the g20 but nothing really changed there. And so i think that what we saw is a little bit of weakness from the market on the back of the reality that we could get higher tariffs down the road. But that is co