Which will hit in b about an hours time. The s p up by just three basis points coming up on todays show, former National Economic council dr director, gary kohn, will join us about reopening the the economy. The debate over funding for states and the Small Business ppp funding. Plus, a flood of big name earnings set to hit this afternoon including as you mentioned, alphabet. Starbucks, ford, am well also speak with the ceo after his Company Reports earnings, what consumers are doing and how much theyre snacking around the world. Lets focus on one hour of trade. Mike is tracking the Market Action in whats shaped up for a volatile day meg has Quarterly Results from big pharma names mike, start us off with the brorder market of what you seeing some pretty strong opposing currents holding the index in a steady mode. Look at the s p 500. This goes back a couple o years because i want to point out the areas that were encountering with this rally. Here we are around 2880. That takes us back t
Saying the u. S. Is winning the trade war with china, but the u. S. Deficit is set to balloon. Toeing Warns Companies to the line if they want access to the mainland economy. Get you started with a quick check of how markets closed the window session. Stocks were higher. They pared back some earlier gains. The s p 500 ended. 8 higher with every sector on the s p 500 and the green. Retailers were also hired. Today, we saw the bloomberg retail index at a threeweek high as we saw some positive s and target, lowe not to mention we saw that rally after we saw home depots stronger second half. That theyes signaling were ready to ease but not really hinting that this july rate cut was the start of an easing cycle, so twoyear treasury yields rallied. Treasury yields unchanged at the moment, so lets see where we are starting out the asian session. Sophie we are setting up for potentially positive gains with more earnings on tap for the region as well. We have a new zealands report card to consi
The early 1980s when it was not clear the fed could control inflation and the 1990s when the fed controlled inflation. Inflation today is under control, but there are new challenges from trade. Inhave much experience addressing typical macroeconomic developments, but fitting trade policy uncertainty into this framework is a new challenge. Unemployment is near a 50 year low. Inflation is not rising as the old model suggested it would. With Inflation Expectations so w, the neutral of rate neutral rate has fallen. Incorporating a lower right into policymaking does not require a significant change in our approach, but it may demand more fundamental change. How they change will depend on the policy review the fed is conducting this year. He takes no position on where they will end up. Does a promise to act as appropriate meet wall streets test . Vonnie i know we have to let you go in a moment. I want to get reaction from you to this speech. It says a lot for the jackson hole speech. The fed
While ago. A flat yuan on the session. Lets have a quick look at whats going on in the United States. A whipsaw of a session. S p 500 down once again. We were higher a moment ago. Down about half a percent. Chairman powell speaking at the jackson hole symposium. The 10year, not a lot of movement. There was some movement in soybeans. We had a big drop only got this china headlines to the effect that china is retaliating for u. S. Tariffs. Publishable soybeans now about three quarters of a percent lower. Crude went down we got those headlines that exporting crude will be more expensive for exporters. We are still down about 1. 9 on wti. Lets get back to fed chairman powells speech in jackson hole. Joining us is matt. I make point to President Trumps tweets for thanking the fed for doing a big nothing and saying it is unclear who the u. S. s bigger enemy is, Jerome Powell or chairman xi. Very strange tweet. Atmagine thats a topic jackson hole people are talking about. The president s infl
Moment right now the dow is down by 33 points take a look at what happened to equity markets overnight in asia youll see that the nikkei was flat the hang seng was down by. 8 and the shanghai composite up by. 1 in europe theres active trading taking place in the markets. Youll see its a little bit of a mixed picture. Three major averages are weaker with the ftse down by. 5 . Italy and spain are seeing stocks higher and then finally check out the treasury market here in the United States. This has been the thing we started watching so closely yesterday. You did see an inversion of the yield curve with the ten year yield challenging the 2 year yield. Right nowits slightly above the 2year as it should be at least. That inverted slightly yesterday late in the session. Right now 10year is yielding 1. 581 the two year is yielding 1. 561 . Were getting close on that again. That and maybe this as well investors suffering a bit of whiplash this morning as President Trump changed his messaging o