Yield down to basis points, the crude off 3 10 of 1 . Soggy is how i would put the market action. Time for your morning brief. Time for a look at the busy week ahead. Robert lighthizer and u. S. Officials travel to china for the first facetoface meeting since may. Tuesday, the bank of japan Rate Decision plus earnings from bp and apple and on wednesday we will get the fed Rate Decision followed by the chairs News Conference and earnings. Thursday we will get the bank of england Rate Decision as well as earnings from barclays and general motors. Friday it is jobs day for exxon and chevron earnings. Time for the bloomberg first. Ake the question is, the trade deal. On the agenda are still many things, from hallway to soybean huawei hallway wal to soybean buying. Low barthink that the for expectations is that they will agree to meet again, but no one is expecting breakthrough on the stalks and the best case is that they agree to continue them. Perfectly correct. The situation with the mee
Wake of his tweet about the china tariffs. The president said he wasnt worried about it he, in fact, expected it he said it is because people dont fully understand what his tariff strategy is in fact, the president here blaming the market for not understanding exactly what his approach is to tariffs and to china. He was also asked by me exactly why he picked 10 as opposed to 25 or 5 on the tafrs he tariffs here is what he had to say. I did more than anybody thought with the first 250 billion and the 10 is for a shortterm period, and then i can always do much more or i can do less, depending on what happens with respect to a deal but im very happy the way it is right now. So the president there saying that he could go up to above 25 if he felt that was necessary, but he said he doesnt see that as being necessary at this point. So that puts a lot of tension now on those negotiations between the u. S. Side and the chinese side here in washington in Early September the president was also a
Musk and ford, a rough road ahead for the automaker. Those shares head for a lower open today well tell you why all this earnings news plus an ecb meeting. The European Central bank expected to lay out the ground work for policy easing down the road and this could put more pressure on fed chair Jerome Powell to do the same. Its thursday, july 25th Worldwide Exchange on cnbc begins right now good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan the dow looks to be hovering around flat at the open. We would open up around 24 points for the dow if these futures gains hold into the start of regular cash trading. The nasdaq and the s p 500 coming off alltime intraday record highs and closes. The dow is less than a percentage point away from joining that alltime high club as well. On the bond market side of things, were watching yields as we do every morning here a tick lower tenyear note yields moving to 2. 3 thats a sharp move to the down side the twoyear note yi
Restarting next week thathelped things in asia. In europe, its a bit of a mixed picture. The dax up by 0. 1 you do see red arrows for both the cac and the ftse the ftse, well talk more about Boris Johnson who will become the Prime Minister there today ftse now down about 0. 8 stocks are flat in italy and in spain. If you check out the treasury yields here in the United States, you will see this morning the tenyear is yielding 2. 057 the big story of the morning, shares of Big Tech Companies like google, amazon and facebook, theyre under pressure after the u. S. Justice Department Said theyre opening a broad antitrust review of Technology Firms the review was scrutinikru desie if these companies are stifling information and harming consumers. The Justice Department does not name specific companies, but it is likely to encompass google, foos facebook this is the real first shot across the bow by william barr and the doj. You know you have the democrats, you have the republicans also afte
Back over to you thats going to be a topic of more importance as we get through the back half of the year ylan, thank you. A move to crypto now, especially facebooks libra. The president took to twitter to say hes not a fan of bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies adding, quote, facebooks will have little standing or credibility. Libra a major topic on capitol hill during the fed chairs testimony. Take a listen. We agree that libra raises a lot of serious concerns. And those would include around privacy, money laundering, consumer protection, financial stability, and those are going to need to be thoroughly and publicly assessed and evaluated before this proceeds now weve got mark cuban sitting down with deirdre last night, saying that facebook is out over its skis. Im not a big fan of what theyre doing there. I think its a big mistake not so much because of what will happen here in the United States, but what will happen globally theres going to be some despot in some african country that