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Stifle from the strength of swiss franc. And the reverse takeover in the British Assets in a 1. 3 billion pound deal. Good morning, everyone. Another episode of Worldwide Exchange. Good morning to you, seema . Yeah very good how about you . A lot happening in the gold market overnight. Absolutely. Lets get to the stop story. The price of gold has slump tide fiveyear low. The precious metal was trading as much as 4 lower after the asian markets posted. That mood with randall resources hit the hardest. Spot gold currently off at 1. 6 . And s p down 10 . Northern star down by 0. 2 . And the chinese selling and triggering stop loss orders. 1 million being traded on that very exchange. Thats after the government said on friday that the gold reserves were up 57 from six years ago, abdomen that was a lot less than people had had anticipated. A lot of factors seem to be weighing on the price of gold right now. You also have the fed indicating that they will raise rates sometime this year in th
Us in an exclusive interview. Theres talk of a bubble in the retail industry. Now being acknowledged. Biotech boom. Moves from 25 to 30 to 74 . And well see whether there might be still more up side for the companies youre looking at. But we start with the big news out of washington. Youve been watching it on cnbc. Fbi director james comey testifying on capitol hill about the investigations underway of russias influence in the u. S. Elections. Eamon javers has been following along. He has more details on what was said today. Eamon . Reporter bill, thats right. Going into the hearing there was some question about whether fbi director james comey would, in fact, confirm that there is a federal Law Enforcement investigation into russian influence in the 2016 elections. James comey did exactly that today to the surprise of some. Heres what he said. The fbi as part of our Counter Intelligence mission is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial ele
Future is going, and goldman taking down the numbers today, and all raises the new questions for the investors to consider, and steve weiss, you considered it and shorted apple this morning . Yes, the second time short this week, and there is a story ta broke from nike saying that it is going from the twoyear cycle refresh to threefyear, and that is news that they are running out of technology, and innovation, so, that is why i did that. I went back today, because the analysts typically seem to follow the herd, and not all of them, but some. Goldman is cutting the number, and mary meeker who used to be a real, real force in the business on the sell side that is, and she is in private equity or venture, and goldman, and so analysts will now look at their numbers and come out and do the same thing, and cut estimates, and so it is purely a momentum trade from the longer term holding standpoint and going out a year or two, it is a hold, but it is nothing that i am excited about right now.
A slightly lower open. European markets have, well, weve been hearing from the ecb although not much action, there it is, at least the equity markets at this point lower, though fractionally so you have to say. How is the 10year note yield doing and crude oil, theres a look. 1. 6, 1. 6. Wow. Things are getting crazy there. Crazy. Wti you can see is right around 45, 50 or so this morning. Lets get to our road map. It starts with day four of the Republican National convention in cleveland. Ted cruz was booed, mike pence delivered his speech, and they are gearing up for trumps speech tonight. We will go there live. Elon musk is revealing his master plan for tesla. Part two, by the way. How realistic are his bigtime ambitions for this company . Qualcomm, intel, ebay, southwest, and more, all are on the move this morning after earnings. In fact, i mean it goes on and on biogen, travelers, american express. We will try to get to all of them or as many as we can, give you the numbers you need