How facebook is fighting fake facebook, facebook on paying tribute to game of thrones as they do that. Fixates on trade tensions between china and the united states, another dispute is weighing heavily on chipmakers. Slappedk, japan restrictions on exports heading to south korea. Samsung, south koreas largest company, slid nearly 3 . Another company dropped 1. 5 . Together, the two Companies Account for 60 of the worlds memory chip capacity. Upsetting supply chain for iphones tofrom laptops. Why is this happening now . This is something that goes back over 100 years, you could argue, with japans invasion and colonization of korea. Korea argues, you never apologized. The japanese side says, yes we did. This appears to have bubbled up. Emily could it have anything to do with President Trump and him taking a similar tact in dealing with china . Ian that is the argument, that the japanese side, for domestic political reasons, they are saying, weve had enough of this. This is something that
Standing declines. Airbus orders takeoff leaving boeing by 30 billion to zero. The ceo. Kathleen lets take a quick look at how the u. S. Stocks ended the session. Modest gains. Modest gains better than none at all as trade wars tensions swirl. Across the board for the dow jones industrial, s p 500 up fractionally. 22 points on the dow. Three points on the s p 500. It was the nasdaq that had the best performance, up 6 10 of 1 . It was based largely on the faang stocks. In particular, facebook saying it is getting ready to unveil a cryptocurrency. Investors like that. The s p futures are indicating positive ground to be taken. However not as much as i was an hour ago. As for treasuries, interesting Economic News showing more signs that a trade war is have an impact. Treasuries ended at 2. 09 on the 10 year. Close to the 2 yield. One from the National Association of homebuilders saying it looks like tariffs are weighing on the prices of building materials. We also saw a Manufacturing Inde
200 points after the jobs report ended the day down just 40 points. Meantime the yield on the tenyear yield jump back above 2 President Trump blasting the fed when speaking to reporters earlier today. Were paying a lot of interest and it is unnecessary, but we dont have a fed that knows what theyre doing so it is one of those little things. But if we had a fed that would lower rates, you would have a rocket ship. So what is the market saying now about what it expects for a potential rate cut this month . Didnt bullard and powell dress down the window for a rate cut last week, or at least going from 50 to 25 basis points i think powell should dress down the window i dont think he should cut. At all . The market thinks he should cut but you have a limited amount of ammo so why not string it out longer wasnt the argument that the fed moved too far . One cut too far. And it was more of an ee quill quill equilibrium cut the question is was good news today bad news for that. If you look at f
The euroasian Friendship Cup continues in grodno today in the International Hockey tournament, the second round, the hosts of the ice, the neman players, after a successful start, they will meet with the sokol team, the representative of the left the day before , let me remind you, the russians did not leave a chance for mada from kazakhstan and this is the barys farm club playing in the khl, the belarusians were stronger commands. Humo from uzbekistan confrontation neman sokol on the evening air belarus 5 start 18 35. And the match of humonads will start at 15 00. More information from my colleagues on our air at 15 00 see you soon. On the political talk show , in essence, as always, we will talk live about what worries us residents of belarus today , such a cream on the economy, we will talk about import substitution. Not only, but, of course , we will touch on the situation on the Foreign Exchange market. I think by all means, if you want to become participants in our discussion, pl
You know, an iphone sold in the us or europe might be designed in california and built in india using Semiconductors Made in taiwan from Raw Materials provided by china. So if any link in that supply chain breaks, it sets up big problems for the rest of the chain. And thats true for smartphones, as it is for pcs, and especially in Battery Production for those Electric Vehicles were buying more and more of. So what if one country decides to make it harderfor others to get hold of some of those critical Raw Materials . Well, thats what china announced just last month. Translation the Chinese Government implements i Export Controls on gallium and germanium related items in accordance with the law to ensure that they are used for legitimate purposes in order to safeguard National Security and better fulfil our international obligations. For quite some time now, the us side has been abusing Export Control measures to continuously strengthen its crackdown on chinas semiconductors and artific