A bounce in the eyes and Services Data out today in order to save the market but today the i sense that his readings on the u. S. Services sector fell last month to its lowest level since august of 2016 coming in at 52. 00 expectations of 55. 00 Service Oriented companies employ the vast majority of americans and registered the weakest growth in september in 3 years business production new orders grew more slowly and employment levels were essentially flat so between the 2 numbers now the pair of surveys clearly point to a sharp loss in momentum the Services Side is much larger than manufacturing accounting for about 80 percent of the u. S. Economy manufacturing only makes up roughly 20 percent so many analysts came out and they didnt place too much emphasis on the manufacturing numbers earlier this week and they were overly dismissive of the weak reads they said that the market shouldnt panic yet manufacturing doesnt amount to much and Services Matters more and thats actually still ex
Like china now with the trade war backdrop International Trade has been weak and u. S. Corporates are starting to see they hit their bottom line so now with the 2 main drivers of corporate profits both getting pummeled are we in for a round of negative q 3 earnings and furthermore is this the start of another economic contraction. And earlier this week we had an opportunity to catch up with steve professor of economics unpatriotic and the author of can we avoid another financial crisis we started our conversation by talking about the economic slowdown in china despite the burst the slowdown the nations economy is still growing the fastest of all the worlds Major Economies we asked if this was sustainable. Growth is if you actually look at a 6 percent rate of growth every year that means your economy doubles and saw as if. That sort of growth is possible when youre starting from the incredibly low blows that china began with but if you want to eat you want to go to out of the. Period an
To lift the company there. In the markets, heres were reset. The action is really in the bond market, cable rate. Everything else is doing a whole lot of nothing. 1 ,cable rate down 7 10 of unwinding any of those maybe we wont have a hard brexit trades over the last what he four hours. The bond market the last 24 hours. The bond market in italy he really hitting a low. Basically, you left, you came back, and it is exactly the same. David except there were tweets from the president about maybe raising some tariffs on china. Alix but in terms of the market action, it is more like bonds are at record low. Shocker. Time to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Joining us from london is bloombergs emma chandra, from rome is, taddeo, and on the ,hone rome is maria tadeo is the phone is ma michael khyber. Es you cape from minister heres you cape Prime Minister u. K. Johnson heres Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Pm johnson we will be leaving the eu on october 31. Emma we
Ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is great to have you with us on this wednesday our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, jon and pete najarian, carrie firestone, kevin oleary, and also with us on set, Kathy Entwistle weve got a full house of advice today. Stocks on track to recover their losses from last week. Being driven by strong earnings from target and lowes target hitting alltime highs topping 100 bucks for the first time ever. Do we continue to bet on this consumer, carrie are there enough unknowns in the back half of the year to make you cautious its a great question and what the market has been telling you for the last year is that its a battle its a tugofwar between deal or no deal recession or no recession. Interest rates up or down. And do we put the money in the mattress or the market this week its the market. So if you have earnings growth, which weve been seeing this quarter, and the consumer is strong, people forget that we dont have a trade d
Prodemocracy demonstrators and fire at least one live shot its already sent in Water Cannons for the 1st time since the protests began. On nick spicer thanks for joining us putting a stop to Irans Nuclear program has emerged as one of the most divisive issues for World Leaders meeting in france french president Emmanuel Mccall says its been informally agreed he should approach tehran in the name of the g. 7 but us President Donald Trump denies having even discussed the question the white house also said it was not informed ahead of the Iranian Foreign minister surprise visit to the summit france says Mohammad Javad zarif wants to assess the chances of a de escalation in tensions. And georg matus joins us now from the summit india its a gaylord irans foreign minister has now left the summit what do we know about how his visit went. Well rons foreign minister himself said it will be a tough way but he does see a chance and apparently that is being shared by of the french diplomats here w