Pointing upward the wall street journal is calling the last four months a melt up and thats what it looks like. Dow up by 83 points. S p 500 looking to open 12 points higher. Treasury yields as well. Were at. 572. Theres a mix of what theyre thinking and what the equity markets think, right melissa okay we have a we will work on the audio and hopefully get that a busy week ahead. A twoday fed meeting with a policy announcement. No major change is expected. That will tell you that but investors will watch for clues about what the central bank might do next and then on the corporate front earnings season kicks into overdrive 167 of the s p 500 companies will report. Well hear from 12 dow components and among the names likely to get a lot of attention, apple, amazon, boeing, mcdonalds, 3m, exxon and many others. This is if you like earnings, if youre excited by earnings this is going to be a big week. So far this season we heard from 128 of the s p 500 companies so well more than double t
We are up 96. Just a second ago we were kind of below that so youve got to stay with us with the whole hour. The dow, by the way, which had been up as many as 219 points earlier, was down, up, down, up, now it is better by 72 points. We are watching all of this as investors weigh rising coronavirus cases which now top three million and balancing that, positive news on the vaccine front. As businesses wait and wonder when they can reopen, one of the nations hottest franchises is warming up its massage oils. The hand and stone massage and facial spa ceo, there are hundreds of them, he is here to tell us what hes seeing at his 460 plus locations and if hes hanging out the help wanted sign. A fox business alert, we are minutes away from President Trump and mexican president Andres Obrador signing a joint declaration celebrating the yearslong fight to recraft the u. S. Mexico canada trade deal. How closely will not just china but u. S. Auto companies be watching and maybe worrying . Plus, w
Joe, the big story is oil prices once again im ready to move out past june move out where . June is too close if we are not going to open anything up, no reason to think it will be anything different than minus 38 a barrel it is related to the price of gold and the price of a suit, so i should have been buying andrew, you are spending 10 times what you are on a suit with those hugo boss things. Which none of them have belt loops for 4,000, you could get a couple of belt loops no hugo boss. It is ralph. Ralph who oil prices, it is not funny. This is out of the realm of anything weve ever seen brent crude only a 20year low you look at wti or what may was before the contract rolls. It is incredible supply shortage spiked overseas. The u. S. Movement, wtis june contract the price giving up earlier gains. Up 11 see, im ready to move to september. August at some point what does this mean for the saudis youve had your picture taken there on a sand dune youve got a feel. They should have done
Shrinks, but it doesnt set the u. K. Up for a good spot Going Forward. We are seeing the relationship between fiscal and Monetary Policy really evolve the u. K. We will break that down over the next few hours. You are seeing bond markets bid across the board, as we are koff develop. We want to kick it off with Michael Mckee. Theld central bank mike,entral banks if i say mmt, am i wrong . Anyway. Yeah, [laughter] its confusing, though, what is going on with the economic philosophy called mmt. Yes, it is unlimited cash in unlimited amounts for unlimited periods of time until we get through this. Youre still going to work your tail off today before we get to 4 00 p. M. Lets start in london come over the bank of england is going to finance Government Spending for the time being by lending money directly to the treasury. It is called the ways and means facility, a shortterm credit the last used during great financial crisis. Government and the bank say any borrowing will be repaid by the en
In and welcome the United States has again stead of war is over International Trade by announcing more tariffs washington says it could slap additional duties of up to 100 percent on the early 2 and a half 1000000000. 00 worth of french imports would affect imports of champagne handbags cheese and other tariffs would be a reprisal for new French Digital Services tax on Companies Like Google Facebook and amazon the u. S. Trade Representatives Office says frances digital tax is inconsistent with prevailing principles of International Tax cuts. President donald trump on monday also announced tariffs on u. S. Steel and aluminum imports from brazil and argentina in reaction to both announcements wall street and european exchanges closed lower on monday and shanghai stocks hit a 3 month low now lets check in on the markets with our financial correspondent charles the delaney in frankfurt chelsea france is not the only you country with plans for a Digital Detox could other countries soon face