Were looking at markets moving into the mid morning. Parts of the morning session and we are not getting a lot of momentum coming through, not surprisingly so, given the momentum we have had across various parts of the equity markets. They just one the latest one to join in as the equity shares. We are back to session lows. The hang seng is zero point 3 . Other things we are tracking of course is the move up in treasuries and ironically speaking, of course, given that it may be in the outlook on treasuries, optics wise given the ratings downgrade, unexpectedly we are seeing that ironically going back into the treasury. Rishaad absolutely. This is a haven which is the one which is effectively being downgraded. There are other things at work here. We have refunding projects for wednesday skewing higher. The treasury barring estimates on monday. Financial and Corporate Bonds issuance lower. There are lots of things supporting the treasury market. This is a catalyst ideally i guess with re
Betty i am betty liu in new york, where it is just past 7 00 p. M. On this labor day holiday. We will be looking at chinas role in the crisis. How sanctions may target its oil lifeline to kim jonguns regime. Writing into bitcoin. The cryptocurrency tumbled at the pboc declares coin offerings illegal. Anchor let us get straight to some breaking Economic News coming across the bloomberg involving south korea for the month of july. The balance of payments for south korea, taking up ticking up a bit to 7. 26 billion. The good balance coming in a bit. Igher at 1. 07 billion yvonne, these numbers traditionally may not be that significant, but certainly, a lot more attention is being paid to south korea on the fiscal side and also on the trade side as it looks as if south korea is going to be ramping up defense spending as well as looking towards further trade tensions with the United States, and in particular, given these rising tensions. The good balance coming in at 1. 07 billion, yvonne.
On this story. According to sec documents in my possession, documents right here, pierson sold 288,000 shares on june 30th for proceeds of 5. 7 million. That was filed and is publicly known. Then on july 1st, and this appears to be new. The motherload. 4. 1 million shares, with proceeds of 82. 8 million. There was another sale known by now some 411 million shares, total proceeds from all this, 96. 8 million. My panel with me, and kate on the case. Boy, interesting. I dont think the market knew or knows about this sale of the 4 million shares. Might explain, scott, why were not seeing a down tick in the stock price right now. Very interesting. I think on the one hand, pierson might be expected to want to liquidate holdings, no longer has skin in the game except as a matter of principle. A company he helped build, of course a darling of many hedge fund investors. Their benefit and litter detriment for some time. Sequoia as well. Popular stock for a period of time. Replaced by joseph popp
The buyback of greek debt will in fact work. Were seeing just fractions of a percent in terms of changes there. Our road map this morning starts with the latest in the fiscal cliff negotiations. The white house promptly rebuffs the gop counterproposal which calls for 800 billion in new tax revenue but without tax rate increases for the wealthy. Could this tax issue deadlock the talks . Bank of america ceo warns the cliff must get stalled or the economy could be stifled well into 2014. Even more dividends pushed into 2012. Coach, American Eagle moving up and oracle will play out threequarters of dividends this year. More strength in housing this morning. Toll brothers earnings top expectations. Well begin with the fiscal cliff. Governors are set to meet today with the president and congressional leaders. Governors are concerned about the impact of deficit reduction measures on their state budgebu. The latest gop offer would overhaul the tax code, raise 800 billion in new revenue but see
Ecbs unlimited bondbuying program. And the olympic flame arrived in sochi ahead of tonights ceremony. Many leaders will not be turning up at the 2014 olympics. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. The olympics get its amazing to think the olympics are under way. It seems to far in the future. Yeah. And yanick node is with us. Come in, come in. What did you say . Im going there next week. Are you . Yes. Fantastic. Are you competing . No, no, im not competing. Well talk to you about that. More from him in a few moments time. Plenty of other things coming up on this show. A tough week for social networking stocks, right . Disappointing outlook from linkedin sent shares lower after hour after twitter lost a quarter of its value on thursdays session. What to expect from indias latest gdp reading where growth is expected to accelerate. Purchase, telecoms. Purchase . Well find out. The latest accepting payments in bit coins. Well be in