Bank of america hiking its yearend s p target to 4,600 it had been 4,300. Also ahead, sources are telling cnbc that apple and goldmansachs have been planning the launch of a stocktrading feature for the iphone project was shelved last year after the markets did turn south. Could have worked on it mitsubishi you worked on it yourself no, im just going to make up a series of things because thats exactly whats called for. Well get to it with kate rooney in a minute lets begin with the markets ahead of the fed decision later on today are you encouraged at all by some of the action this morning . Look, i think that if you dont have a if you dont have a rate hike, and he talks tough, everyones okay so, if he talks anything less than tough, then we go back to that scenario where theres that holy 13 you get when theyre done i think theres a perspective that longer, higher, whatever, take off the higher, maybe a little bit longer, but theres a sense that the dont worry, be happy s p target piec
Aides try it to style them back. It happened yesterday. He was asked about north ring remarks, saying his remark. I dont ink they mean that. I think its the first time they heard it like they heard it and frankly, maybe it wasnt tough enough. David that was the president yesterday. This to sayis had about diplomacy. The americane effort is diplomatically lead it. It has diplomatic traction. It is hitting diplomatic results. I want to state right there. The tragedy of war as well enough known. It doesnt need another characterization beyond the fact it would be catastrophic. David to take us how this is playing out, we go to our chief correspondence. Lets start with you. How is this in asia . Reaction is one led by the australian Prime Minister who came out strongly to emphasize their alliance with the u. S. President ed with trump early in his term. The newspaper reported the moving interceptors and the place. China should stay neutral if north korea provoke the u. S. Into war. Andhe u.
Earnings. Joining us is Christine Harper from bloomberg. We are joined also by allison williams. Christine barclays and some of the banks around the world are up. Postbrexitthe trading and money market reform is coming into play today. That drove up client act timmy. Rates in particular. The fixed income trading is not really anything. Nobody was expecting that. Allison estimates started to come out and people felt better. We knew it was strong because of exit. August was a typical seasonal slowdown. Saw, inm things we general when things are accelerating, thats only 10 to get some of these beats. Christine its interesting. Thatd the First Quarter was terrible for a lot of banks. The Third Quarter which was summer was really good. Its up 48 year on year. On the money market reforms, how much of that is a oneoff due to that figure we wont see again in the next quarter . There is always a number of things that we are not going to see in the next quarter that we will hear analysts asking
Coming your way. But lets kick things off with the aforementioned Michelle Carusocabrera live in cleveland. Michelle. Hey, tyler. Another newsy day. Weve had news break in just the last half hour that the trump employee who helped write Melania Trumps speech, well, that person has accepted responsibility for the similarities to Michelle Obamas 2008 speech John Harwoods going to join us with all the details. Big night, senator ted cruz, onetime president ial hopeful expected to speak. Whats he going to say after trump called him lying ted in the primary . And then of course the headliner is indiana governor mike pence who has the spot of v. P. On the ticket as senator marco rubio, its going to be a big, big night. Lets get details on speechgate. John harwood is on the floor. John. Michelle, its very interesting. This is an expla thags that the Trump Campaign could have offered yesterday but chose not to. Instead the Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort came out and said, no, there were no ph
Threatened by u. S. Tax rules. Is the inversion era over . What does the head of the imf have to say about greece and Global Growth . Bloomberg will speak first two Christine Lagarde later this morning. By what was happening in the european banking center. We still do not know what the Panama Papers mean. Zeb we have not heard from the regulators. We are starting to hear from the banks. They have said they have done their due diligence. We have not heard from investigators. This mysterious thing with the banks could be the tip of the iceberg. It is not like panama is the biggest tax haven. It is one of many. And they are very clear confident in their compliance practices. Given the history of all of these stories. We are going to find out how investors feel about their banks very shortly. It looks like we are heading to a negative start to the day in europe. European stocks are pulled down. The cac is going to open up lower. London is down. 4 . We are going to see a negative start here