Were the u. S. And china were expected to sign a partial trade deal. Alltimeks hit an high. Apple, lift, and facebook, all top earnings estimates. The start of trading begins in asia. The start of training in sydney trickling online. Trading has already been underway in new zealand. Weekve policy stocks in from the of it. New zealand trading flat at the moment. The kiwi dollar has been on the move. Higher after 1 west bank said the rmb would pause from november from cutting rates. Centralbank action is the name of the game as investors and asia decide for the meaning of what fed chair powell said overnight. It was a hawkish cut, saying things would stay on hold until the material changes to the Economic Outlook. In his press conference, suggesting inflation is key as to whether they would be any hikes down the road. That does not look likely at the moment. As wes looking positive go into a bank of japan decision day. Shery we have south koreas Industrial Production numbers jumping 2 af
Sell in part because were worried that theyll report not so hot earnings that includes early this morning when the market got severely oversold before rebounding the no one wants to own a stock unless it can report whats known as a bte, a bte meaning a better than expected quarter the tyranny of bte has cast a pall over this market. But now the earnings season has actually arrived with pepsico kicking things off, many stocks are down big from their highs, and im starting to think that theyve fallen so far that bte is the wrong concern [ buzzer ] instead, we should be looking for quarters that are not as bad as feared, or nabf, nabf yesterday wall street was concerned that pepsico would fail to deliver and the stock went down in anticipation of that bad number. If there is any degradation at fritolay, any market share lost to cocacola you have to believe that this thing would get clubbed like a baby seal but as it turns out, pepsicos results were not as bad as feared it was a nabf quart
Whats going on with that case and do we expect further attention to that company . Ms. Levine thank you for having me, it is great to be here. Settlement5 billion with facebook, culminating the cambridge Analytical Data scandal, has divided washington. On one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying the 5 billion fine, because it was the largest in the history of the agency, it met facebook was being held accountable. On the others, you have democrats and consumer and privacy advocates blasting the ftcs track record on enforcement and saying that because of facebooks size and how much money it has, this wont deter facebook from bad behavior in the future. Right now in washington, we are in this wait and see mode with facebook. Facebook is still doing damage control to convince skeptics and lawmakers who are, by the way, watching facebooks every move to see if there are any other privacy missteps. Facebook is trying to prove itself to these skeptics and lawmakers. At the sam
Earliest investors. Plus, fedex drops amazon. The delivery giant will not renew their ground delivery contract with amazon as the online retailer expand in its own logistics and shipping gain. We will talk to one of the Founding Members of fedex ground. And, new phones, new features. Samsungs first look at the new galaxy note 10 and 10 plus from its brooklyn event in new york. Weve got all the details. A rebound in tech shares helped fuel recovery in u. S. Equity markets. The day started wednesday with an ugly open as traders hit the eject button without any clear catalyst. But an early turnaround in names like broadcom, apple, helps erase losses among major indices. ,nd speaking of Broadcom Symantec surged in after hours trading on the news, up as much as 20 . Field the gains the s p largest seen since last year. The nasdaq closed in the green, while the dow was fractionally lower. Joining us to dissect the moves is our senior markets editor. Talk to us about broadcom here. The report
Before the open this morning along with twitter overnight in asia, you will see what was happening there the nikkei ended down by almost half a percentage point. Hang seng was down by 0. 7 shanghai in china, you did see stocks higher. Up by a quarter percentage point. In europe, the three major averages had all been in the green. The dax up by 0. 3 the cac up by 0. 4 the ftse up by more than that. Italy and spain stocks there weaker spain down by 0. 7 in the treasury market, again with the gdp number coming up later this morning at 8 30 the tenyear yielding 2. 069 everything that happened with the ecb yesterday what that means for the fed, well talk about all that coming up in a bit. On the squawk planner, we have first look at gdp in the Second Quarter thats on tap. Forecasters expecting an increase of 1. 8 after a surge of 3. 1 in the First Quarter on the calendar we will hear from twitter, mcdonalds before the opening bell next week it gets crazy. It is the busiest week of earnings