Less normally. Lets start there, jim, in terms of the market overall. I have a lot of insight this morning to share on the credit markets where i tend to be focused of late. Like to come to you. When you see a rally, the likes of which we may at the open this morning, what are you thinking what i think about when i see this, the market got oversold, people last night went home thinking theres no possibility of any sort of deal. Without a deal all you have is the fed making sure theres liquidity but nothing in the hands of the people. If you dont get money in the hands of people, people will look at the landscape and say its really just falling apart something has to get done. Now theres an expectation that something will get done. If we dont get something done today with the senate, youll give up this whole rally youre banking on the politics getting together for something, otherwise this rally will be comical and you will wish you never bought in. Well be able to offer hopefully peopl
Showed that chinas trade exports contracted for the month of august largely because entirely because of the trade war with china and the United States well hear more about that from eunice yoon in a moment. Look at whats happening with the european markets that are open and actively trading a in the point. Right now most of these markets are in the green ftse is the exception down by a quarter of a percentage point. Also f you check out the treasury market here in the United States, youll see the yields that we have been watching oh so closely as we get ready for fed next week and ecb this year, ten year under 1. 6 , 30 at 2. 07 . Some news out this morning saudi arabia now confirming it has removed its Energy Minister from the position over the weekend replacing him with the kings son and that move breaking with long time tradition and convention that members of the royal family are not appointed to that position and comes just days after al falih was removed from his role after chair
The committee will come to order. We welcome our witnesses. Were here to have testimony from a range of industries to tell us about the importance of the United Statesmexicocanada agreement, and we soon are referring that to always as usmca. We look forward to hearing from our witnesses about the significance of the agreement to american businesses, both small and large, the workers, the farmers that we all represent. Thank you for being here. Mexico and canada are our countrys most important trading partners. According to the International Trade commission for the year 2017, more than onethird of americas merchandise exports went to mexico and canada. In that year mexico and canada imported more than half a trillion dollars of American Goods plus more than 91 billion of american services. For iowa our six and sixtenths billion of exports to canada supported 130,000 jobs. The foundation of our strong trading relationship with mexico and canada have been, thus far, nafta. The United Sta
Street hands in its worst day of the year the selling was widespread all 11 sectors finishing the day deep in the red led lower by technology the cause china. That nation effective i. Weaponizing its currency sending the yuan lower, turning the the trade war into what many are considering right now a fullblown currency war. Weve got full Team Coverage of this dramatic turn of events lets things off with bob pisani live on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Hey, bob and melissa, we had a tough day here i want to give a sense of what happened last time china devalued its currency. This was about five years ago in august 2015. The last time china devalued its currency was in august 2015. That happened on three consecutive days of devaluations that was beginning on august 11th the market was very different back then. It was a different picture for the overall markets. Chinas currency was appreciating back then thats a big difference to now the stock market in china was just roaring
730 7. 3 . Of i want to bring you this. What do we have at the start of the year . We are just 52 basis points now. That is probably factoring armageddon. What could possibly be going on in the eurozone to have yields that far out that flow . That is a thought. To new york and join su keenan. With germany,t this is a could muster 55 million in stimulus funding. The governmenth says it spent last time a crisis hit more than a decade ago. And it says it has the reserves to do the same again if necessary. The Prime Minister says action is not needed yet. The biggest problem is uncertainty costs in ongoing u. S. China trade wars. Senior white house advisers fanned out across the sunday talk show circuit to push back at fears of recession here in the u. S. They said the economy remains robust and consumers are still spending. Top economic aid larry kudlow and trade advisor Peter Navarro said there are no additional plans for not staying the course. I sure do not see a recession. We had some