And their currency is under siege. Our problem is a Federal Reserve too proud to admit their mistake of acting too fast and tightening too much and that i was right. They must cut rates bigger and faster and stop the ridiculous quantitative tightening now. Which gets us to the markets this morning, jim. We have been talking about negative rates, they only continued to worsen. It is a strange phenomenon to be sure but it is also a worrisome cycle people believe because you have negative rates that auger for weaker Economic Growth or a lack of growth you have what are it becomes selfreinforcing you have the global coordinated monetary easing going on right now. And you have the first time people talk you about the possibility of rates here falling dramatically from where they are now have you ever seen a ten year whipsawed as much in yield in the half hour period as we did this morning almost as if someone wants to get ahead of even lower yields there is a big short position in bonds. Th
Restarting next week thathelped things in asia. In europe, its a bit of a mixed picture. The dax up by 0. 1 you do see red arrows for both the cac and the ftse the ftse, well talk more about Boris Johnson who will become the Prime Minister there today ftse now down about 0. 8 stocks are flat in italy and in spain. If you check out the treasury yields here in the United States, you will see this morning the tenyear is yielding 2. 057 the big story of the morning, shares of Big Tech Companies like google, amazon and facebook, theyre under pressure after the u. S. Justice Department Said theyre opening a broad antitrust review of Technology Firms the review was scrutinikru desie if these companies are stifling information and harming consumers. The Justice Department does not name specific companies, but it is likely to encompass google, foos facebook this is the real first shot across the bow by william barr and the doj. You know you have the democrats, you have the republicans also afte
Tariffs yet. China and the u. S. Reach a truce and stocks are set to surge at the open we do have those new records within striking distance plus, President Trump easing restrictions on u. S. Companies from selling products to, of course, the Chinese Telecom giant Huawei Semiconductor stocks are rallying sharply ahead of the bell on that news. And oil prices, well, theyre up, this after russia and saudi arabia agree to extend opecs deal to cut Oil Production by another 6 to 9 months. Stocks rising around the globe the s p 500 poised to open at a record high after the u. S. And china agree to resume trade talks. President donald trump offered concessions to his chinese counterpart xi jinping over the weekend, when they met at the sidelines of the g20 summit in japan. They include no new tariffs, and an easing of restrictions on the Huge Technology Telecom Company huawei china did agree to make what are unspecified new purchases of u. S. Farm products and return to the negotiating table.
The tenyear bull market makes new history as the fed chair appears to make the case for a rate cut plus big tech is at the center of the president s tariff fights as france vows to tax some of the largest American Companies. The white house hits back. And forget f. A. N. G. Jim has a new basket of stocks to watch you saw it here on squawk on the street. The s p surpassing 3,000 yesterday for the First Time Ever after the fed chair did signal a rate cut is on the horizon. This morning it goes back to the hill, testify before Senate Banking. Yesterday in front of that house panel, he was asked if a strong case could be made for lowering rates due to trade uncertainty and inflation short of the target this was his response. Yes, as i mentioned, we think that uncertainty around trade policy and also Global Growth, its not all down to trade policy theres something going on with growth around the world, particularly around manufacturing and investment and trade. And so that uncertainty is, w
Magnificent seven are in correction territory but nvidias getting a boost ahead of its earnings. And were going to keep focused on those economic challenges in china. The countrys central bank cutting a key Interest Rate by less, though, than many had been anticipating. Oh, yeah, who is many anymore . Slew of press over the weekend as well. The journal writing kind of a devastating headline. Is it over after 40 years . Yes, definitely over. Who can say this stuff . We were here. We were lucky enough to witness the fundamental change in the chinese economy. It happened over the weekend. Happened over the weekend. Theyre trying to be a service economy. That was it. Done. Maybe president xi has just said, you know what . Every bankrupt artist, every ridiculous guy who built too much and every ridiculous person who tried to get extra yield, sorry. Why not . Why not clean up the excess . Well, but the question, of course, is, contagion. Oh, contagion. Yeah, some of the huge promote companie