We are seeing a markets trading sideways. A lot of the focus is on potential risks and the potential headwinds that could hit the markets quite hard. A lot of it to do with geopolitics. Keep an eye on the u. S. China trade talks. You can see the stocks europe 600 gaining. A similar move for the s p 500 futures and the 10 year yield is at 1. 54. Coming up, we will be speaking to the shell chief executive. Dont miss that exclusive interview just after half past 10 this morning. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city. Balance sheet growth resumes for the Federal Reserve chairman Federal Reserve, chairman Jerome Powell says dont confuse this for qe. In no way beuld confused with the largescale asset purchases. Neither are the recent technical issues nor purchases of treasury bills we are contemplating to resolve should materially alter the stance of monetary policy. Chairman powell also hinted at the possibility of another rate cut. He was confidence the economic expansion c
Another 75 billion on repo operations as investors expect a cut in Interest Rates at todays fomc meeting. Damaged goods. Fedex delivers the latest warning that the trade war is hurting americas corporate titans. Larry kudlow says progress is being made on u. S. China straight you. As saudi arabia attempts to move beyond the worst Oil Disruption in its history, saudi aramco says it will be fully back in business soon. September, ourf gate will be at capacity. Matt good morning. Take a look first off at a onemonth chart of treasuries i have got here in my terminal. I took friday, monday, and tuesday off, so i missed this peak. 1. 9 . Ped up to thats one of the things we will be talking about today. We are all over the repo issues, also a big peak, a much bigger spike over a shorter time period. Take a look at the futures. We are looking at a negative yearre in terms of u. S. 10 in terms of equity futures. This follows gains yesterday certainly in u. S. Stocks as we get closer and closer
As a report so much so many things that. Yes you know i notice that its basically crash season upon us and you could tell that because how dark it is outside all the time in the morning late into the morning that it stays dark and everything on the surface seems a ok but under the surface theres some sort of turmoil brewing in the Financial Markets in oh weve been looking at this repo situation and you know something apparently like at least one bank survived going under in the past week or 2 according to nick. But heres an interesting interpretation as well from Rick Ackerman at Rick Ackerman dot com hes a former market maker and financial journalist and he says repo rumpus foreshadows a short squeeze on the dollar the feds so far 128000000000 dollar intervention in the repo market slipped off the wall street journals front page thursday evening hardly a concern dont be surprised if years from now the squeeze on short term borrowers that cause this flurry of excitement is recall as an
A short squeeze on the dollar in this way but you know rick is probably correct and you know the its just a corpse basically and they they cant keep it animated weve had so much money printing we have negative rates we have all these things to keep the system alive and most people feel like really great about the economy jobs are booming wages are rising house prices are booming everything is ok we also felt like that in 20062007 when we were reporting in the Financial News at that time we did you know i remember you going on france 24 when in january of 2007 there was a flash crash in the chinese stock markets it went down Something Like 1520 percent in one day and everybody around the world including wall street they were all like what is going on so they were like crazy movements leading up to the financial crash of 2008 and. This is before they begin to paper over really violence will he and aggressively but so here were looking at. Similar movements this could be something or it c
Treasuries are up in the pound is strengthening. Eurodollar, you can see 1. 10 52. As the focus shifts to Central Banks, a lot is coming up with news this week. We also have to look at renminbi. At seven. 08 7. 08. Some breaking news, a new chief executive at the royal bank of scotland. Alison rose will start at the position from november 1. And makes her the first woman to become one of the big for the over to hong kong, thats where Amnesty International is alleging the police beat be prodemocracy protesters. They also accuse the police of committing acts that amount to torture they would not comment, but say they respect the rights of people in custody. This weekend, demonstrations are expected to continue. And allout war in the case of iran in the country, thats according to the foreign minister speaking to cnn. She denies irans involvement and says he hopes to avoid a conflict and adds iran is serious about defending itself. Benjamin netanyahus days as Prime Minister may be numbere