cut for american workers getting less for their money. gas prices continue to climb. federal reserve expected to continue the rate hike. what is the administration going to do to get inflation under control. gerad bernstein. good to have you on. i wish we had better news. i m certain you wish this was better news. but at the heart of this is the core inflation number. and when it comes to core inflation, that does not include energy or food but yet that number is the highest we ve seen since 1982. sir, is it time for this white house and the biden administration to pivot on its economic policies? no, i think what we have is the white house, the federal reserve, we are acutely aware of the pressures that this causes on american families and budgets. the president started out this morning by talking about how americans are squeezed by the cost of living and they didn t need this report to remind them of it but it is certainly in the report. i asked you that question and you
Brent crude up to 55. 48. Okay. Breaking Global Market news some early news this morning. The Uk Supreme Court ruling against the British Government in a key brexit decision. The vote means the Prime Minister, theresa may, must get parliaments approval in order to trigger brexit. Look at the pound moving on a result of this. Youre seeing it falling there over a half percent this morning. A couple other big stories to tell you about, yahoo reporting better than expected results on the top and bottom line. The company saying the sale of its core Internet Business to verizon should be completed in the Second Quarter which helped ease investor concerns that the deal might collapse. The 4. 8 billion transaction was supposed to close in the First Quarter. We talked about it yesterday along with that news that the government was looking at yahoo and the fact it had not disclosed that breach earlier. Barclays turning cautious on apple. Downgrading the iphonemaker. The analyst is cutting apple
In just a moment. The premarket settling into some positions. More news on cable vision today. Japanese export data today, monday markets will be key. It starts to come in better than expected and the claims were down as well. In our road map today, u. S. Based cable vision in a deal. And more from the conference and a interview with the verizon ceo. And what ciscos chuck robins told jim last night. The day is finally here after fed policy makers wrap up their twoday meeting, well find out whether or not they hike rates for the first time in nine years. The special coverage at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time, a press conference at 2 30. The reuters pole, 35 a hold and 35 expect a hike. I wish it was a little more consensus. That means a lot of people will be wrong. I surge people trying to figure out this market, there is no hurry, you can make a determination if you want to. When you see that kind of split, you know some big bets will turn out to be not so hot. For a fed, jim, that prided its
Look into the future. Today kicks off with a focus on investing. Our guest today is Hedge Fund Legend leon cooperman and gabelli and rick rieder. Were excited to bring you this conversation all here at 8 00 eastern time and later this week, president ial candidate jeb bush and bill ackman but first lets get you up to speed on todays headlines. So that was the 20 year i thought it was 20 years since we had all been here at the same time. Three months. No, three months. Summer is up. Beginning of game day. Its a feel good song. We are united. We have not seen each other for weeks. Lets get caught up this morning. U. S. He equity futures. Here it s. Well show you whats going on. We are rallying this morning. Dow looks like it would open up much higher. S p 500 looking higher as well. Another volatile trading session but by the end of it things were looking up there as well. Chinese stocks rallying into the close. The top economic planner approved Railway Projects worth nearly 11 billion.
Today will be the tiebreaker at least but it just tells you a lot about the month. Its been up its been down. In fact an even number of times. But whats also interesting, lets all remember this is the day before the fed announcement and usually you get a very quiet day ahead of that and youre getting anything but right now. Triggers arent taking a stand either up or down ahead of the fed meeting. Final hour of trade begins with the dow down 129 points after a strong session yesterday. Interestingly, its not like yesterday where all the indexes were up by about the same amount. The dow is giving up almost 0. 75 . The s p doing better only off 6 points. A third of a percent. And the nasdaq did turn green on the session. Its up by almost 7 points to 4,936. Some interesting moves. Lets see what oil has been doing as well. Down another 73 cents or 1. 6 . Were sitting near sixyear lows for the price of oil, and i happen to know also that the price of gold has been very volatile in todays tra