While ago. A flat yuan on the session. Lets have a quick look at whats going on in the United States. A whipsaw of a session. S p 500 down once again. We were higher a moment ago. Down about half a percent. Chairman powell speaking at the jackson hole symposium. The 10year, not a lot of movement. There was some movement in soybeans. We had a big drop only got this china headlines to the effect that china is retaliating for u. S. Tariffs. Publishable soybeans now about three quarters of a percent lower. Crude went down we got those headlines that exporting crude will be more expensive for exporters. We are still down about 1. 9 on wti. Lets get back to fed chairman powells speech in jackson hole. Joining us is matt. I make point to President Trumps tweets for thanking the fed for doing a big nothing and saying it is unclear who the u. S. s bigger enemy is, Jerome Powell or chairman xi. Very strange tweet. Atmagine thats a topic jackson hole people are talking about. The president s infl
James freeman. Much made of the inversion of the yield curve between twoyear yield on the treasury and the 10year, but what do you make of the markets right now . Well, we had really a trifecta, the poor numbers out of china with Industrial Production worst numbers in 17 years. We had a poor number for germany, gdp negative, second time in four quarters, fourth largest economy, the Worlds Largest economy in europe, of course, the inversion of the 2s to 10s that weve all been waiting on. We have seen other parts invert. This is the one recognized being symbolic for, predictor of possible recession and i think that most of the reaction was about. But as we look at the numbers and relative, mixed Economic Data, unemployment is still low, wage gains are still there, i think yesterday was reaction to a lot of scary data that came in, but we are still positive about the markets and we think that weve got some runway head here. Dagen lindsey to that point, the 10year yield closed 1. 596 . I w
With us and former president ial candidate Mike Huckabee and chairman of Laffer Associates, art laffer. Weve got an amazing lineup. You dont want to miss it. The top story is china trade. U. S. China negotiations picking up again tomorrow. Robert lighthizer and Steven Mnuchin arriving in china, theyll meet tomorrow with chinas vice premier. Talks this time are around what theyre going to look at Agricultural Products and huawei technologies. Jack, i want to go to you first. A lot of controversy over huawei being included in these talks. Its so interesting, because seven months ago i dont think too few people knew what huawei was in america. Or how to pronounce it. Im still learning. What do you make of the new trade talks with lowered expectations. If youre a stock investor, i think this is a good starting point for you with expectations low. We had past talks where we expected a big, grand deal. I dont expect anyone talking about that now. Theyre talking about Agricultural Products an
With a but of Dollar Strength of their in advance of the ecb on thursday. A quick look at u. S. Stocks, i huge day for earnings both good and not so good. Here we have some of the better ones, leading the s p 500 is hasbro, aladdin toys were very successful. After it is up 5. 6 Beat Estimates as well. Those stocks are higher now so you might think why isnt the s p doing even better than that . Still below 3000, but that is because some earnings stories were not so good. This is their worst performer in the s p 500. Guy getting back to our top story, Boris Johnson has won the race to lead the party and by extension become the next Prime Minister and he has made it clear what his top priority will be. Theres a mantra for the campaign the adjustment by case you have forgotten it. Deliver brexit, unite the country, and defeat jeremy corbyn. That is what we are going to do. Bit of insight now on what exactly is going to happen next, for that we are joined by our Bloomberg Government u. K. R
Subsidiaries in the massive corru ptions scandal surrounding the state fund. It isa it is a bit ofa it is a bit of a negative picture gcioss it is a bit of a negative picture across europe on the markets at the start of friday, all the benchmarks edging into the red. Its been a busy week in Business News with everything from bas system meltdown to the slugfest between uber and lyft making the headlines. Our correspondent theo leggett will he here to help make sense of it all. Also, Deutsche Bank is cutting some perks for workers outside germany, like rolling over unused annual leave. Today wed like to know, what workplace perks are most important to you, and which would you most hate to lose . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Let us know about those workplace perks. Welcome to the programme. We start with big tech, which is under the spotlight today, with leading firms summoned to the white house for a meeting on curbing violent online ex