Steve engle at Standard Chartered with a blistering note about the fed minutes being reinterpreted. Weve got some breaking news. I dont know if you see it there i home in london, but this is critical. Alone,leaves the rate and we get turkish weakness of that headline. Mr. Erdogan simply doesnt want to raise rates, does he . Anna absolutely. They are leaving their oneweek repo rate. The big picture here is that many economists saw this coming, but also thought the Turkish Central Bank should hike rates because the Interest Rate in turkey is well below inflation, and that kind of makes turkey stand out on a number of measures. They are also spending fx reserves to try and prop up that lira. We were talking about a turkish crisis back in 2018. The lira is weaker now than it was then. We will talk more about emerging markets later in the program. Lira has been stronger the last one he for hours. It weakens demonstrably off of this leaving of rates. Right now, i can do the data check right
The cash trade is one hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off the bloomberg terminal. Trump signsnald executive orders blocking u. S. Residents from doing business with tiktok and wechat. Shares in tencent plummet. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. Trumps chief of staff says the differences are still significant as the july jobs report looms. We will speak shortly with Standard Life aberdeens deals, flows,bout and his successor. Results are crossing the wire as we speak. Annmarie, what do you see . Annmarie looks like it is a beach. Eps comes in at 7. 0 pounds. And then the first half adjusted pretax is 190 5 Million Pounds. The estimate was just under 180 so that is a beach and we will dig down deeper into these earnings when we have the ceo, next. I know you have some news coming out of berlin right now. Matt that is right. We have Industrial Production right now out of germany. Pretty backward looking because it is data from the month of j
We are looking at currencies, strength coming through for the yuan. Dollar weakness is a big factor. Of the planthe back signed off or agreed to on 0. 1 . Us, the euro is up weaknessollar again, down 0. 2 . Hade is still value to be when it comes to chinas bonds, 2. 96 is the yield the. Is the yield. Gold is closing in on 1900 an its spot price. Future is pointing to 1900 in the near future. Il down 0. 7 demandweakness is a factor. Rishaad lets get some sense in all of this. Joining us is frank benzimra, head of asia equity strategy, societe generale. Thank you for joining us. How was your strategy evolving . The last couple of months europe become bullish on , and here politics is playing an Important Role in closing the gap in terms of undervaluation. In asia we have been reinforcing the view on hong kong liquidity. Our remaining strategy is on china. Is that all down to this Recovery Fund and what that presents in terms of a more united cents in europe and the eu itself . A relation
Financials all higher by 2 or there abouts shares of Sonic Automotive up 200 from the march low as the demand for used cars skyrocket during the pandemic. The ceo david smith will join us well welcome him as power lunch begins right now thanks the stocks are still on track for a week in the red bob was more on the moves for us we were moving down quickly at the open. We turned around at 10 00. Thats when we got the headline that the regulators were easing part of the rule we had word that texas was pausing the roping plans we drifted lower again thats what i mean about dualing headlines that we have been seeing its been drifting lower they are delaying the california theme park they have been on a down trend for a while. Nice to see Energy Bounce back we had a bad day yesterday on energy as oil dropped about 5 they are all bouncing back today. Thats helpful all five of the big names advancing, theyll be up on the day. Back to you. Lets go to the bond market where yields are lower rick
That is higher today theres been that move into value of late. Money is coming back in as stocks are on pace for their second positive month in a row the dow is on track for its best week since early april josh brown, you can take stock in this for me weve been talking about a rotation we have talked about growth into value. On a day where you have red in a lot of place, ive got apple, amazon, microsoft, facebook and netflix and i got all of them higher today can we end the talk about a rotation out of those names . Well, i dont know if its the end but this is what has continued to happen. If you look, 29 s p 500 stocks that are up 20 on the year or more, 25 of those are up today its back to the winners 30. 25 on the s p, broadly speaking looks like a logical place to see a pause that was if you remember, resistance back in both july and september. We got through it that made sense for that old resistance to now become support. The technicians i talk to when theyre looking at internals