Wilbur ross tells bloomberg the china agreement is near periods tries President Trump wants this signing to take place in the u. S. The worlds Top Oil Company presses go on its longawaited share shale. They brought five brush off concern and says the price is right. Shery all change at the golden arches are the ceo is fired after breaking the policy. Markets have opened for trade lets. Lets get you straight to the Market Action. Sophie shares opening higher by 2 10 of 1 . This happened with the drop we saw for the benchmark. Keeping a close eye on westpac after a disappointing set of earnings. Ozzie yields tracking fridays drop in treasuries, rising six basis points amid trade optimism and a stronger jobs report. The aussie dollar is firmer. Offshorein on the yuan, trading below 704, building on fridays gains amid signs of stabilization. Asian stocks broadly looks to rises monday. Japan is offline for the weekend. Semiconductor players will be on watch on a report that the u. S. Govern
Flat that really does obscure a lot of drama up at least 2 s that has been pretty dramatic. Also why the nasdaq has been down so a lot of those profits are coming out of there. The hang seng up by 1 3 4 mentioning those tariffs that china will be taking off those goods. We have more on that front in a moment also an American Chamber of commercesaut u. S. Chamber services have been getting hurt and many of them are moving away more quickly than anticipated redirecting businesses there in the meantime, lets look at what has been happening. For the most part, green arrows. The ftse is up the dax up about. 75 . And cac is up. The trezy market and yields, they have firmed up. The 30year trading almost 2. 2 . 10year at 1. 714 . Twoyear note at 1. 67 breaking deal news, Hong Kong Exchange proposing a 36. 6 billion cash and stock offer for the London Stock Exchange saying it approached the lse with a bid last year, they agreed to buy refinative in a deal peloton says it plans to price shares b
The dow eyeing eight Straight Days of gains on growing optimism around u. S. china trade. Weworks rocky road to an initial Public Offering. And the democratic faceoff, warren, biden, sanders dominating the debate stage. Just what their plans could mean for your portfolio stocks are chasing history this morning the dow and the s p each within 1 of hitting record intraday highs. The blue chips in the midst of a sevenday win streak for First Time Since may of last year. You have signs of a health y consumer, Government Data shows retail sales up. 4 in august, double expectations. Core unchanged, looking for. 1 but july even after that upside surprise revised higher. Is this ever putting the pressure on jay . I think jay powell is uniquely faced with a difficult decision. You posted some stuff the other day about you raised rates and the economy is not being hurt so why should we just want to cut them i continue to say he raised rates too much and i want i want to go for the full on 3 on e
Confidence votes. Dorian has weakened, making it a category two hurricane. That is still Strong Enough to cause damage along the coast of the carolinas where the storm is not close enough for Hurricane Force winds to hit land. Forecasters say dorians center is 50 miles south southeast of charleston, south carolina. In the bahamas, one estimate says damages from dorian made total 7 billion. At least 20 people were killed there. Pope francis is in mozambique, where he praised the country for its courage in signing a landmark peace accord. The 15 year civil war which ended in 1992 killed in estimated one Million People and devastated the former portuguese colony. Ceasefire signed august 1 was the culmination of years of negotiations to end the fighting that has flared sporadically in the 27 years since. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Shery live from blo
Launch is the next leg of the rally all about the fed . I think it has been all about the fed. Tariffs were maybe 20 of the story. I think for me its about the fed. The fed is in the back pocket of the market the tariff story can only get better from here yes its about the fed higher markets from here Going Forward. Why can the tariff story only get better from here we factored in the negativity on the tariff headlines. Weve already seen those at worst, right or you dont agree. I do tell you what i think youre right in terms of headlines, mark. Its digested months and months and years of headlines what we dont have is ceos and the real impact. When you throw the trade war into a war, leading indicators have been moving lower in the last 18 months you can make an argument this trade war has done things to ceos and businesses and earnings that we still havent seen yet in terms of a market event i can agree with what steve said where are we were at may 3rd, the last time we got some big n