Back now all i know is that that alarm is still its very early when it finally goes off thats hard to when your on vacation does your body clock still make your get up early 730, yeah. What is that three extra hours or something. Thats like a weekend for me. I think we both do that. You cant, after all these years. And i think ben franklin was on to something, i do im not missing anything with that latenight tv, right . And by late night i mean like 9 00. Weve got a lot to tell you about today. We want to get to the futures moves in just a second but i first want to show you how we got here. The dow dropped 390 points during yesterdays session fell back below 26,000 bond yields resumed their augustdown tuaugusdown turn the rate cut jumped sharply. Now its up to 100 in september. Thats the betting line right now. And 82 in october some people alt 55 now on recession. So i dont you guys got a feeling on that . I mean, does the yield curve mean theres a recession because is there anything
Thatdominated yesterdays action, that along with chinas currency move. Overnight Chinas Central Bank setting the yuan mid point firmer than many expected. That happened at 9 00. We saw a turnaround in u. S. Equity futures which were down overnight as much as 600 points at the lows. Right now a positive open across the board. S p looking to be up by 11 points dow jones up by 102. The nasdaq looking to recoup 44 points as for u. S. Treasury yields, we saw a 2016 low also. We had the tenyear note at 1. 758 overnight we breached that 1. 7 level. A key level here. We have cnbc reporters everywhere this morning covering the Market Reaction to this escalating trade war willem marx is in london well get to him in a moment, but across the world to china. Eunice yoon is on the ground in beijing. Reporter china strongly opposes being labeled a currency manipulator. The central bank, which manages a floating currentry cy exchang rate called the move unilateral protectionist behavior that violates
Few years, is leaving the business. Apple is trading down by. 8 . I want to take you to the gmm function to see what the big movers have been. Down under, australia and new zealand are doing well. Equity outperformance has been a feature, strong markets in the bond market. But equities have underperformed, and that is worth paying attention to. We will see some rebalancing coming in. To give you an idea of the risk narrative, we have this weird market were equities and bonds have gone up, and the yen has gone up. The british pound, not so much, down by 2. 36 . The front end of the u. S. Curve, something that has been factoring in what has been going on with the fed, bullying the fed and pushing it into maybe some of those big cuts the market is anticipating. Lets get back to Deutsche Bank. Reports out that Deutsche Bank is preparing to cut as much as half its Global Workforce in equities trading, part of a broad, another broad restructuring to boost profitability. Bloombergs german ban
But still well above 1350 right now. Lets get back to that oil story. President trump blaming iran for attacksrecent tanker after u. S. Officials released these pictures, video they say proves the Islamic Republic was involved in an attack indie gulf of oman. We are joined by kepler oil and of paris, andt will kennedy, bloomberg managing editor for oil and commodities. That the americans are right and the iranians are conducting a campaign against tankers in the gulf of oman, and potentially spreading further into the straits of hormuz. What does history tell us about the effect that this could have on pricing . Thanks for having me, first of all. Hello. As you said, it is not the first time that we are seeing tensions between iran and the u. S. In the region. We seen iran many times come up with threats that could close the straits of hormuz. I would be very cautious in looking at exec leawood happened yesterday. To seewe are not able exactly what happened in terms of the attack. I wo
Bows. Sir . Reporter youre exactly right. Everyone thought the hong kong protest issue was settled last week. Controversial bill was suspended. People left the streets. Now it is back, bigger than before, this is pushback against china and their influence in hong kong. Nearly two Million People of hong kong took to the streets on sunday demanding a number of issues. First of all release of people who had been arrested last week, punishment for police who ordered the use of force, resignation of hong kong leader lam and that secretary of state mike pompeo will raise the issue with president xi at the g20 next week. We see what is happening, unfolding in hong kong. Were seeing people of hong kong speak about things they value. Reporter the protest revived of a joshua wong, a prominent activist leader rallied the crowd after being released from prison. He was serving a twomonth sentence taking part in 2014 protest. It is time for us to the ability to step down and she will face two millio