Been interesting. Not just value but also small caps. Also industrials, also cyclicals. They wound up beating estimates, coming in at over 600,000. The earnings went up slightly as well. If you have a miss, you get punished. For global exchange. We will bring you todays market news from around the world, from hong kong to brussels to london. First, we start off in asia where china is firing back at the u. S. Mike pences criticism of his actions against protesters in hong kong. He said chinas actions in hong kong curtail liberty rights. The Foreign Ministry blasted the remotes remarks and said we hope they can get their own house in order. I was quite surprised by their response today. Their response yesterday was much more consolatory consolatory from chinese news outlets. They accused Vice President pence of line. They accused him of arrogance. Y said his speech was and the like. As you mentioned, they said the u. S. Has to look itself in the mirror. To your point about consolatory to
Broadcasts of preseason games are suspended in china while the nba commissioner says profit can come before principles. And as we said, boeing under pressure, the company sued by the Union Representing pilots at southwest over the now grounded 737 max. So tensions between the u. S. And china ahead of trade talks expen scheduled for thursday in washington targets include ai startups, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign ministry quoted as saying stay tuned for retaliation. And then there is additional reports out of the Chinese Press theyre going to cut their visit short by a day not carrying the official title of envoy, they havent been given official instructions from xi. You couldnt have a worse way to start these talks lets go back, run the tape back to friday. Larry kudlow was optimistic something would happen and there were other members of the administration saying what the heck no they havent agreed to any of the seven deadly sins to roll back the intellectual property, someth
Developments. Reporter reporters are staged just outside the oval office now ready to go into the oval whenever the president invites them in for his discussion obviously a much anticipated moment at the white house. Do they have a deal . Do they not have a deal . Do they have something in between that might be an interim step along the way to a deal we dont know as we stand here right now. A lot of rumors swirling around washington and wall street but the chinese delegation is here, theyre in the oval office now. We expect to see the president at some point we just dont know exactly what theyre going to stay Stephen Mnuchin came to the Briefing Room a short time ago, i asked him for an update on the talks and whether or not its possible we get to the end of the day today without an announcement of any developments at all we declined to answer the question he said the talks so far have been productive and that time of the day they were going in to brief the president but no specific in
Center stage and treasuries weaken with the curve flattening after last weeks definitive move higher. Joining us for the hour, dan nathan a real Holding Pattern here today. Are we waiting for news out of washington heres the good news, right we had this big rip up off of the lows last week on optimism that there would be some sort of grand deal as far as trade is concerned. The fact that it doesnt look like that were going to get that at the end of the day, the fact that were not down in a meaningful manner is fairly establish. Could things change pretty quickly if the fed decides top pull our negotiators away and we know were dead in the water for a couple of months no doubt about it. Its kind of interesting on a day like today, where we dont see staples and utilities. These are two of the bestperforming groups, deemed to be defensei you dont see them rallying and dont see the s p 500 down a lot either it seems like a lot of nothing despite some really potential for volatility later i
Senator Bernie Sanders and senator Elizabeth Warren at the debate last night tackling topics like Climate Change, tariffs and trade. You outcompete them and put chief manufacturing officer in place to make sure we rebuild the manufacturing base, we have to fill the factories, we have to fill them with workers that are making batteries, charging stations, making sure making solar panels. Senator warrens plan basically that she would put out we would not be able to trade with the United Kingdom. We would not be able to trade with the eu, its so extreme. Thank you, congressman. What the congressman is describing as extreme is having deals negotiated by the American Workers for American Workers. American workers want those jobs and we can build the trade deals that do it, people want access to our markets all around the world, then the answer is lets make them raise their standards, let their workers unionize, Environmental Standards before they come to us and say they want to be able to s