Continues in solidarity. We will have the latest. Global stocks rally, and then filing just a little bit as we count down to jackson hole and the highly anticipated speech by the fed chair, jerome powell. Here is the state of play. European stocks a little bit lower, dragged down by rollsroyce, in particular, with record highs throughout the week. 68 basis points. We look at that later in the day, we might get more traction. Space, if you are looking for a quiet complex, it is the currency right now. The movement is contained, the dollar barely halting a loss. Wti, at the moment, just barely below the flat line. High, whereemonth they are looking out for live images from the area to get a better sense of the potential damage that might be inflicted. Morgan stanley says the extent of the impact on oil refining will be evolving in the coming weeks with the risk of higher or extended outages, mandatory evacuations in place in some of the coastal areas. You are looking at live pictures now
Community pushed back. Call this a red carpet alert the first one in months as movie theaters continue to reopen. And later, more than 800 return on a 400,000 investment it has nothing to do with the stock marketment all of that ahead on this monday, august 24th and this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. We are ready to play. Brian sullivan good to see you on this very busy monday morning. Thanks for joining us. Theyre setting up their day and their week and they are setting it up strong or on that big graphic right in front of your face stock futures are solidly higher dow futures up 215 points right now. Overall you know the headlines they say stocks keep going up. Thats only half true. Big cap tech keeps going up. The only sector to close those stocks as we well know by now are so big look no further than apple apple ending last week up 8 taking it along for the ride but the majority of the market is actually going down last week but when you got the biggest of the big going
We are looking at currencies, strength coming through for the yuan. Dollar weakness is a big factor. Of the planthe back signed off or agreed to on 0. 1 . Us, the euro is up weaknessollar again, down 0. 2 . Hade is still value to be when it comes to chinas bonds, 2. 96 is the yield the. Is the yield. Gold is closing in on 1900 an its spot price. Future is pointing to 1900 in the near future. Il down 0. 7 demandweakness is a factor. Rishaad lets get some sense in all of this. Joining us is frank benzimra, head of asia equity strategy, societe generale. Thank you for joining us. How was your strategy evolving . The last couple of months europe become bullish on , and here politics is playing an Important Role in closing the gap in terms of undervaluation. In asia we have been reinforcing the view on hong kong liquidity. Our remaining strategy is on china. Is that all down to this Recovery Fund and what that presents in terms of a more united cents in europe and the eu itself . A relation
Onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following from around the world. Ecb president Christine Lagarde five to support the euro economic recovery from coronavirus all not. She vows to maintain the flood of liquidity that has so far calmed markets. Morgan stanley wraps up the week for bank earnings. Big gains for the trading desk. Helped thedfall that group survived the brunt of the pandemic. The u. S. ,ntioned, u. K. , and cannot say russian state intelligence is hacking into research enters working to develop a covid19 vaccine. We will dig into the reports. Lets get a quick check on the markets. Certainly a risk off day. 500 off of itsp lows of the day, still down about two thirds of a percent. The dollar index, not too much rea
David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . After you left as secretary of treasury, hank, you did something that was unusual for many secretaries of treasury. Many of them go back into the finance world or go into the finance world if they have not been there before. You chose not to do that. Hank i really enjoyed my business career. I had 32 years there. I had an opportunity to serve my country. What i really wanted to do was take my experiences and apply them to addressing two of what i believe are the most pressing issues of our time. U. S. China relations and Climate Change. David many people say that when you are in the financial world you get on a merrygoround and cannot stop making money, but you said when you left treasury, i have enough money an