Hurricane irma cause devastation as it rips through the caribbean islands on a path to florida, where its expected to strike this weekend good morning glad to have you on the show once again its thursday, not just any thursday, its ecb day weve been waiting for the first fall meeting of the ecb, whether or not we get a tapering announcement today, that remains to be seen majority of economists expect more details in the month of october, but an update to growth and Inflation Forecasts today. Lets look at how the markets are faring ahead of that theyre not doing much at all. Were a fraction lower on the stoxx 600, roughly an hour and 50 minutes into the trading session. Lets look at the indices one by one. You can see a bit of a mixed picture. Ftse 100 is flat the xetra dax is higher to 0. 2 . The auto sector is doing well. Its been higher for a fifth day in a row we saw a couple upgrades from jpmorgan and Goldman Sachs, so theres renewed interest in the german auto sector the cac 40 is
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Im sara eisen with mark san toll i filling in for wilfred frost. Good monday morning. New month of trading. Lets show you where Global Market are starting the month of august. July was one of the best months weve seen since back in march. A gain of more than 3 for the dow, s p, double that for the nasdaq and were starting on a high note. Fractional gains. S p futures up 3. 5. Nasdaq futures up 6. As for the tenyear treasury note yield, it was the first look at the second quarter. It came in way below economist estimation. That pushed the yields down. Theres some selling pushing bond yields higher. Were still below that 150 mark. Well talk about at that later. Lets get a look at the european markets right now. We did have European Data coming out. The manufacturing pmis in general coming in roughly as expected. You see there germany up marge ally. That pmi was better than expected. And then a little below the flat line in italy and spain. Those banking concerns hover over the market. Le
Program. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection. Mr. Tillis mr. President , i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Tillis mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its Business Today it adjourn until 9 30 a. M. , thursday, july 7. Following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later that day. Further, that following leader remarks the senate resume consideration of house message Accompanying Senate 764. Finally, that all time during morning business, recess or adjournment of the senate count postcloture on the motion to concur. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr.
Also showing the rising stress levels as chinas big banks. No more mr. Nice guy, china no longer wants to portray the president as a populist hero. They will drop the nickname xi dada. You can follow me on twitter. Underway in 30 minutes time in hong kong. Shanghai getting going, as well. No trading in japan today. When it comes to equities, here is heidi. Japanese we are seeing continuing to take a beating. Down. Is is how japan is continuing to come under upside pressure. This is how we are looking at in terms of the markets that have just joined the trading day. Another down day. Similar losses when it comes to markets in kuala lumpur. Quarter gdp numbers missing the contraction of the 10th 7 , worse than expected. Of 1 , worse than expected. Kiwi markets up. Cindy flattening out. Ney flattening out. Search in crude prices overnight. Inventory continues to evolve. Upsaw asian currencies alongside that enormous surge in the yen yesterday. The new taiwan dollar reacting to that number