At the open. S p looking to be up by 1 point, the nasdaq off by 1 1 4 points overnight in asia, japan was closed for a public holiday. No trading or the nikkei most of asia was digesting Economic Data out of china the Second Quarter Economic Growth gdp slowing to 6. 2 , also coming off 6. 4 in the first quarter. Thats the weakest pace in 27 years. Industrial output, retail sales data also fixed Asset Investments were all above forecast chinese shares were down before the data was released. Then they turned positive. Overnight in europe, we are looking at i thought we were going to follow asias lead, pretty much flat across the board. The dakotas is off by 4 100 of a percent. The treasury yield market, the twoyear note 1. 845 . Just mention on the china data that markets responded better to the data for the first portion of trading in asia and europe and weve just sold off a little bit in the last few hours. As you pointed out that was just for june. Gdp for all three months it did see
Off earnings season. Trade war slowdown, china posting the lowest quarterly growth in 27 years and Silicon Valley tech lash from one of its own, peter teal calling out google, alleging, quote, seemingly treason ous acts well begin a new week, stocks on track to hit fresh record highs. Citi kicks off earnings season with better than expected results held by gains and Consumer Lending also in focus, china, slowest Economic Growth in 27 years in q2 gdp at 6. 2 for june, Industrial Production, retail sales, fixed Asset Investment all beat expectations, leading some guys to think maybe the Central Banks work is starting to filter in. I think so. The bears have the work cut out for them right here. If you watch our crawl underneath, youll see the semiconductors going up. They wont have good quarters. People are looking through why are they looking through not necessarily because of china, they say pc sales will get stronger the economy will get thats western digital. Fairly typical because o