At the open. S p looking to be up by 1 point, the nasdaq off by 1 1 4 points overnight in asia, japan was closed for a public holiday. No trading or the nikkei most of asia was digesting Economic Data out of china the Second Quarter Economic Growth gdp slowing to 6. 2 , also coming off 6. 4 in the first quarter. Thats the weakest pace in 27 years. Industrial output, retail sales data also fixed Asset Investments were all above forecast chinese shares were down before the data was released. Then they turned positive. Overnight in europe, we are looking at i thought we were going to follow asias lead, pretty much flat across the board. The dakotas is off by 4 100 of a percent. The treasury yield market, the twoyear note 1. 845 . Just mention on the china data that markets responded better to the data for the first portion of trading in asia and europe and weve just sold off a little bit in the last few hours. As you pointed out that was just for june. Gdp for all three months it did see
2. 14. Our road map begins with apple and new product announcements. Did we see anything that would move the needle . Plus a big change at j. Crew. Mickey drexel is helping down. New chief executive coming from quest elm. The president taking to twitter ahead of congressional meetings today. Lots of buzz surrounding apples answer to the amazon echo and google home, the new home pod unveiled at apples Worldwide Developers conference. Heres tim cook making the case for that product. We have such a great portable music experience, but what about our homes . We think we can do a lot to make this experience much better. Just like we did with portable music, we want to reinvent home music. Jim, we got the ar kit, we got amazon on apple tv, but home pod really stole all the headlines. I have the logitech music system. I have the Harmon Carden music system and i have the echo. I would tell you that the echo is really great. You can talk to the echo, but i talk to my wife. I dont need to talk t
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Good morning. Thank you all very much for joining us today. We are going to talk about a very serious and urgent situation confronting puerto rico, the home of 3. 5 million americans. The territorys economy as we read every day has been declining for a decade. It has accumulated huge debts that it cant possibly pay. Puerto rico owes 72 billion to investors, about 46 billion to Pension Funds. Started missing bond payments in january and is expected to default on nearly 2 billion payment due july 1st. That is roughly 100 of its Gross National product. Thousands of residents are leaving the island for the mainland every month to look for jobs and better public services. The exodus is accelerating. In this context, congress and the Obama Administration have come up with compromise. The bill would establish a financial control board to oversee the island government and help restructure its debt in federal court. Require the government and the board to adequately finance Pension Funds that a
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