Im lucky to be one of the 13 members of the annual Meeting Program committee. We are pleased to have a panel with us today. The committee itself is from around the country, practicing areas from construction, commercial, business, criminal law and our charge is to put together a small selection of the best cuttingedge programs every year. In the fall of 2018 we started with 50 submissions, looked for those that would be the most special, the most exceptional and we were lucky to have a proposal from the science and Technology Section and our moderator, heather rafter, entitled shaping our future, tech Company Lawyers on innovation and social responsibility. The program isnt is an all women panel. It happened to work out that way. We have so many amazingly talented women in our Tech Community that it naturally fell together and we are lucky to have this group today. A few housekeeping notes, heather covered one of them, the materials are available in the apps, use your cell phone to sil
Yield down to basis points, the crude off 3 10 of 1 . Soggy is how i would put the market action. Time for your morning brief. Time for a look at the busy week ahead. Robert lighthizer and u. S. Officials travel to china for the first facetoface meeting since may. Tuesday, the bank of japan Rate Decision plus earnings from bp and apple and on wednesday we will get the fed Rate Decision followed by the chairs News Conference and earnings. Thursday we will get the bank of england Rate Decision as well as earnings from barclays and general motors. Friday it is jobs day for exxon and chevron earnings. Time for the bloomberg first. Ake the question is, the trade deal. On the agenda are still many things, from hallway to soybean huawei hallway wal to soybean buying. Low barthink that the for expectations is that they will agree to meet again, but no one is expecting breakthrough on the stalks and the best case is that they agree to continue them. Perfectly correct. The situation with the mee
Happening. I will focus on the u. K. The real story coming in, the markets along with Boris Johnson starting to look at may be no deal brexit. As a result we have the fish found against the u. S. Dollar, we will we have the british pound against the u. S. Dollar. A big move there. That is one of the factors outting the ftse 100, it is forming the rest of europe but it is but there are other factors. M a is one of them. Deal buying a business sold to blackstone and now being bought by the london Stock Exchange. That will put a whole different class when it comes to financial assets. Its trading up there are other deals as well. A big week for the Global Economy with rates decisions from the boj, Federal Reserve and bank of england as well as Economic Data from the u. S. , germany and china. Lets get to someone who can help us size up investor sentiment. He comes to us from boston. Lets begin with the Federal Reserve, do we see basis points decrease and is it warranted . It is the wood v
Minute look at quick u. S. Equity futures at this hour show you how things look to be opening up in about 3 1 2 hours from now dow would be off about 20 points nasdaq looking to open up 15 points s p 500 looking to open off a little off well call it 3 1 2 points right now and also show you whats happening overnight in asia right now as we speak. Youre looking at red arrows across the board but well call it marginal except for the hang sang take a quick look at european equities as well as we flip that board around youre looking at mostly red picture, except the ftse 100 looking up 1 right now and finally treasury yields, tenyear notes unless youre looking for a 30year fixed right now the tenyear note is at 2. 060 joe . Big deal of the morning. Big. Big. Mylan, potential pharma deal to tell you about. Unit of pfizer with mylan. Thats right. Were expecting this news to be announced sometime this morning. What were hearing is that pfizer plans to spin off a unit called up john, off patent
The nasdaq got spanked and slit 1. 6 but the average value 29 points in an it is passion of the upcoming rate cut, the first in ten years allow me to set the stage, on wednesday fed chief jay powell will give us the read on the economy and announce a quarter point rate cut to breathe now life into a business situation for many different industries. I know there will be sticklers that say with unemployment with the lowest level since the 1960s, it is ridiculous for the fed to think about cutting rates. Others like President Trump think a 25 basis cut isnt enough the president endlessly tweeted the Federal Reserve is way too tight monitory policy has been holding back the economy did it again today when your Interest Rates are too high, the currency gets stronger versus the rest of the world our rates are much higher so the dollar is very strong and makes the internationally Oriented Companies far less competitive and can hurt the Auto Industry and housing industry both of which are weak