Morning everyone the committee will come to order, we are meeting this morning to examine the evolving Global Natural gas markets, the increasingly Important Role of u. S. Liquefied natural gas as well as the Competitive Outlook for elegy. America natural Gas Production has literally change the game, we say that a lot around here about that, but, it has been a game changer. Our production has started to the levels that many never even thought possible a decade ago. This in turn is boosting our economy as well as our National Security. It is providing a longterm low cost low emissions source of energy for our manufacturers and residential consumers alike. We have such a massive Resource Base and that we can send substantial values abroad. We are now leading the world and natural Gas Production, hopefully soon we will also lead in exports. Mobile demand for lng, we know is increasing. More u. S. Lng export facilities are coming online and more of our friends and allies around the world a
Alongside tom keene and lisa abramowicz, i am Jonathan Ferro. The s p 500 positive by 0. 22 . Tomorrow morning, retail sales, thursday from walmart. How many times have we done this from august . Talking about china. China the headline once again. Tom it starts and ends in china with a set of news. What is interesting to me is it is not one story. You have to get briefed on this to get up to speed on three, 4, 5 stories. Chinese equities in the tank, iron or somewhat in the tank. A lot of moving parts going on in china and that comes back to jackson hole. Jonathan one chinese developer, Country Garden holdings seeking to extend for the first time ever. Away from that we have a wealth manager missing payments. This is starting to mount in a bigger way. Lisa which begs the question of when this becomes financial contagion in china. Why are we not seeing more trickle out affects . Is that what we are seeing in germany or parts of europe . A lot of u. S. Companies are rationing back expect
Session. The French Market has been up 1. 3 for the week. Fresh alltime intraday high yesterday. Although there is softness on the dax, we are seeing fresh territory. As we get going this morning, we are seeing green moving on the board of the stoxx 600 and fresh alltime highs yesterday. We are looking for the levels to be breached today. Stateside, data is expected which is producer prices. The last seven, the market was questioning the theory of the deep disinflationary cycle. Just challenging the narrative on that perhaps thinking we may have sticky inflation. What we are reading the ppi prices is key. On the consumer, we will see how resilient main street is at this stage as we continue to see pressure on the household wallets. Retail sales will be important. We have a little bit of green on the boards. Up modestly at the sector level which suggests we are mostly positive. A couple of red arrows at the start. Basic resources down. 25 . Shuffling weaker with the banking names. Stand
Was the third negative week. On the s p 500, down. 10 . Second negative week in a row for the u. S. Markets. We continue to see the strength in the boards with wall street fading. We bounced over. 10 . The decent appetite moving on to the poboard. The slippage in the basket of media names. You have Universal Music Group and ung at the bottom of the chart. That stock down more than 1 . The travel and leisure basket at the bottom. Te telcos reversing. Vodafone is weaker at the start. The chemicals basket are giving back territory. Real estate is below the flat line. We push higher. Banks with 1. 7 bounce for the italian lender. 1. 5 pop for the commerce maker. We have retail out pacing industrial. Household goods up. 25 . We have autos with strength. All trading higher. Oil and gas also seeing a further improvement and technology with the top position and modest uptick in europe. Lets take stock with the ftse 100 this morning at 7,731. We are trading above the 7 threshold. Descent bounce
For u. S. Steel teslas awful august rolls on and the casino stocks crapping out, after a monster heater. Im melissa lee, this is fast money, live from the Nasdaq Market site. And we start off with a surprising reaction to a pretty disappointing earnings report. Shares of target rising nearly 9 immediately after posting q2 results. The stock closing off those highs, but still up nearly 3 on the day. The move despite some big negatives in the numbers the company reporting its biggest revenue drop in seven years. First samestore sales decline in six it slashed fullyear revenue and profit guidance. Still, even with todays gains, target is far underperforming its retail peers, down over 13 versus double digit gains for the likes of walmart, which reports tomorrow morning so, does targets warning raise a red flag for the entire consumer space or is this a targeted issue karen, what did you make of these numbers . I was surprised at the reaction we talked about this in the green room it wasnt