Euro stocks have the longest winning streak. Old, flat on the day. The brent spread, could that blowout . There are rumors of a deal extension for more than three months. The morning brief, Goldman Sachs is going to lay out its plan to turn around the performance in its core bond trading unit. We get data for the month of july. At 1 00, the u. S. Treasury will sell 10 year notes. At 1 00, apple will launch a new iphone. That is coming up. The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on north korea as part of an effort to get the nation to stop its quests to develop Nuclear Weapons. Joining us now, marty shanker. The sanctions, but they watered them down. It is significant china and russia went along, but there are implications russia is helping china smuggled goods into north korea. There is no sign the sanctions are effective. Is there anybody who believes these sanctions will stop north korea . No. I dont think anyone is naive enough to think north korea will say we have had
The s p up by 3 and nasdaq up by 15 this comes after all the markets looks looked very strong yesterday. The dow was up by 260 points s p was up by 26 it was a record close for the s p 500 and thats its first since august 7th the dow closed at a onemonth high take a look at whats been happening in europe this morning. The gains we saw yesterday as concerns about irma faded a bit and, again, some concerns about north korea not quite as potent as they had been as we headed into the weekend this morning, it looks like a bit of a mixed picture in europe most of the major bourses are higher with the dax up by. 5 and a similar gain in france the ftse is down by about. 2 . Lets flip the charts and see what happens overnight in asia youll see when it comes to asia, there were some closes actually, lets go excavate to the currency check it looks like the dollar is down a little bit against the euro today. Below 120 for the first time if in several days. 1. 196. Dollar is up against the yen, 109
Of an explosion on a train renaultnissan targets annual sales of 14 million vehicles, by 2022 as the automaker lays out its bullish sixyear strategy. And Ceo Carlos Ghosn tells cnbc he is confident in the french governments plans to sell down its stake. They said they want to do it at the moment where the market is more favorable, which i understand, which i understand yes, i have no doubt on the fact that they will do it because they said so good morning, its friday. We have more bad news to deal with when it comes to another Missile Launch over japan coming from north korea and the unfortunate news coming out of the London Underground before that, lets get to the stoxx 600. We are lower to the tune of 0. 2 , despite the fact that european stocks are set for the best week since july investors by in large shrugging off the latest news out of north korea. For the week, we have done well. Seems like were finally recovering from this summer dip we have seen in large part because of the st
Kind of a mix. Spain and france both slightly in the red the ten year note yield holding firm around the 2. 2 or so percent. You can see at the bottom of our screen weve gotten that news. Equifaxs stock had been halted. Rick smith announcing he will retire as the companys ceo. Want to get more details on when that retirement is coming, whether its immediate or not. Of course, hes been undergrea pressure given the huge breech there for some 143 million or so potential accounts that were compromised. Some might wonder what took so long. Yes. Already two Technology Executives left the company the week before last the stock has been in pretty much free fall today its been characterized as retirements as well its a couple of weeks ago saying he certainly shoulding fir should be fired. He has been dismissed. Take a look at the press release. Im not clear as to whether effective today okay. Thank you. Mark felder, current board member mark felder is now chairman and there is an interim ceo. T
Closing up for the fourth week in a row the nasdaq once again closing at another high and lets take a look whats been happening in asia overnight markets in japan and south korea are closed for public holidays. You did have the china markets open with the shanghai markets being closed after a week long holiday. That index was up by. 7 of a percent. In europe this morning in some of the lerl i traearly trading, like things are relatively flat. Slight declines, very slight declines in germany and france the ftse down. Spain is up by. 7 of a percent finally, check out crude oil prices and youre going to see that right now it looks like wti is down by by 10 cents still below 50 a barrel at 49. 20. Thanksgiving in canada. Today unless someone is playing a joke on me they tweeted that in there i dont know what that means exactly. Is it the same they didnt have. Turkeys, pilgrims thats our holiday, isnt it . One of ours. Come on, joe. It can be a totally different reason to give thanks maybe.