Resigning after a spy probe. And we are getting a read of how much people are planning to spend on the holidays this year. The internet has changed everything Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening welcome. Im Brian Sullivan welcome to the Fourth Quarter. The first three months have been an adventure of a lifetime the s p 500 jumping 19 in nine months that is the best performance for the first three quarters of the year since back to 1997. The First Time Since then that the total returns was more than 20 for the first three quarters of the year, going back to 1997. We meleer right on to that futures up 92 indicating more gains ahead. At the end of the show today, we always do the rbi, random but interesting. We are not going to do that today. Call it an entire hour of rbi. We are going to show you starts of the run and bonds have been a stand out as well. Bonds have gone up considerably. Yields have come down. Weve come up but we are still at 1.
Green arrows across the board in europe the dax is up by 0. 3 . The cac adding 1 . The focus again today, because yesterday it was the fuel for that whipsaw action, treasury yields, 1. 727, much firmer than what we saw yesterday. We saw a low of 1. 595 we had record lows across the yield curve. Thats worth noting. A lot of strategists saying we could test 1. 35. Beijings central bank setting the official reference rate for theyuan to the weakes level in a decade. Eunice yoon has more on the midpoint number that traders are watching they do it now at 9 00 p. M have to watch all the time eunice its worth it its worth it to stay up that late the central bank set the midpoint fix weaker than 7, but it was actually stronger than what a lot of analysts were expecting. So because of that traders were taking that as yet another sign that the government here wants to pull the reins back on the chinese currency there was no official commentary today on the fix it was interesting to see what came
Nikkei up. European equities right now as well a bit of a mixed picture ftse up slightly the tenyear note is trading at 2. 053. Now to the big story of the morning. Details on the hack capital one disclosing a massive data breach that affects 100 million u. S. Customers and 6 million in canada. The company says 140,000 social numbers and 80,000 Bank Accounts and 1 million Canadian Social insurance numbers were compromised. It says the largest category of data that was exposed was from credit card applications including names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and self reported income the hacker also accessed customer status status such as payment history, Credit Scores and credit limits. The breach occurred in late march. The hacker accessed information through a vulnerability of the servers in an unnamed cloud company. The fbi arrested a suspect, Paige Thompson shes a former engineer at Amazon Web Services. Authorities allege thompson posted some data on gethub and a private ch
[inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus head of libra at facebook. On may 9 senator brown and i sent a letter shortly after it was reported that company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using a social network. We asked space bar for more information how the system would work, access and use of Consumer Financial information and facebooks access to use of information on individuals or group of individuals for credit or insurance or housing i appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent facebook formally announced its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white paper providing information on the project. Since then us and Global Regulators have taken notice including the Federal Reserve, reserve, Uk Financial Conduct Authority and a stability board, g7 and others for the last week during the Federal
Merger deal with pfizers generics unit. And disney domination. The studio breaking an alltime record for annual box office earnings, and of course, it is only july. So, theres a lot for investors to digest this week with stocks at record highs. Jim, coming off of those on friday, you were out, but a lot happened good to have you back. Thank you the starbucks calls kind of the emblematic of what happened this quarter. Starbucks had run big. So you had to figure, no matter what, how could it really move then it goes up big dollars because its better than expected, better than feared what were seeing are companies that we were worried about because stocks have run, and then the stocks do okay. So, this is a short sellers dilemma. Lets say youve been betting against companies because you truly believe theres been an earnings deceleration. If earnings just stay in line, the stock flies. If earnings are a little bit below, the stock doesnt do anything. Right. So, theres just this kind of bid