Guy johnson in london. Lets get the first word news. China is on a mission to create an Aircraft Carriersized investment bank. They are opening up 45 trillion financial industry would also wants to beef up its own players to go toe to tell giants. At the moment chinas brokers dont have much of an international presence. Adding together the 131 brokers have about as many assets as Goldman Sachs by itself. Germany expects the nord stream 2 two gas pipeline to be delayed but it should be completed in the second half of next year. Costs are rising after sanctions u. S. Sanctions on the project. Of japan and south korea are holding their first formal meeting in 15 months amid a longstanding historical dispute that hit trade in the region. It also had a trilateral meeting between the three. Theyve reached International Cooperation on dealing with north korea. 2019 has been a good year for the superrich. Almostrichest man added 17 billion to his wealth this year. Over 11 billion. , bernard,nn
Saying the u. S. Is winning the trade war with china, but the u. S. Deficit is set to balloon. Toeing Warns Companies to the line if they want access to the mainland economy. Get you started with a quick check of how markets closed the window session. Stocks were higher. They pared back some earlier gains. The s p 500 ended. 8 higher with every sector on the s p 500 and the green. Retailers were also hired. Today, we saw the bloomberg retail index at a threeweek high as we saw some positive s and target, lowe not to mention we saw that rally after we saw home depots stronger second half. That theyes signaling were ready to ease but not really hinting that this july rate cut was the start of an easing cycle, so twoyear treasury yields rallied. Treasury yields unchanged at the moment, so lets see where we are starting out the asian session. Sophie we are setting up for potentially positive gains with more earnings on tap for the region as well. We have a new zealands report card to consi
Google, amazon, intel, and many others after the bell. Coming up in just a few moments, well talk about todays pullback much more with Hayman Capital Management founder kyle bass will be good to get his thoughts especially on china. Joining us for the hour, cnbc contributor stephanie link is back from nubene are you taking a chance from this pullback to do anything today . Its an earnings bonanza. Im still way behind in the Conference Calls that started last night but yeah, during earnings season, you always get exaggerated moves. So i actually am looking at the fundamentals and trying to identify where there is opportunity. Zille yix this morning was indicated down 6 last night and only opened up down three, but i still think that is an opportunity because they derisked the numbers bristolmyers opened flat, but actually that quarter was really good, bought a little bit of that so im lacking for opportunities slowly, because the macro, obviously, weve got a lot of questions still. So,
That we saw yesterday, increasing concerns about whether or not the fed is going to raise rates in june. Does the fed threat then rally . I dont think. So im not going to speculate on when theyre going to raise rates. The bottom line is you know theyre going to raise rates. It could be june or september, next year. What the real important question is what are you doing in the fixed income market if the feds raise rates you . Know theyre going to go up. Its just a matter of time. And i get very, very concerned about the 3. 5 trillion that is sitting in fixed income mutual funds as i look forward into a higher rate environment. They could be potentially at risk. Talk to me about stocks. Do you do anything differently with your stock portfolio . No, not at all. If you look at the market, i think the market is in great shape here. Reminds me of 1982 to 2000 market where it was up each and every year. Except for 1990 when down. 5 . One thing that you have to look at this market is theres no
There is always something to worry about. At the moment, there are a lot of uncertainties. Scarlet the worlds most influential financial actors come to a global summit. I think it is tragic that we have taken rates down thus far. I have not seen bubble prices in most assets. The pressure is great on everybody. Ultimately, youve got to produce. Scarlet its all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello and welcome. Im scarlet fu. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important business news, analysis, and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets start with the day by day look at the top headlines. The week began with reports from germany that created considerable worry for investors in one of the Worlds Largest investment banks. Deutsche bank shares dropping to a record low in germany today amid further concerns about its financial stability, whether the government will save the bank if needed. How long can the government distance itself from Deutsche Ba