Would cut more than this. Alix but it looks like they actually cut more than expectations because it was 19. 75 , go into 16. 50 . It appears they did actually cut, so50 basis point it seems like it was a little deeper than even the most dovish expectations. 19. 75 , and was they cut it to 16. 5 percent. So it did exceed expectations. Alix but yet, you have the lira moving higher. I think that is never a good sign, when you have the currency moving higher when you have a 325 basis point cut. Interesting. We will have to watch that currency. That feels very much like the playbook last time we saw a cut from the turkish central bank. You have the, yes, turkish central bank. Now we are pushing ahead to the ecb. S p futures unreal, up over the 3000 mark. Hold . He rotation we seen we took a pause yesterday. Odollar euro firmer eurodollar a little firmer this morning into the ecb. A little bit of wiggle room when he market. Youre seeing a little bit of buying in the bond market in the u. S.
Street. Investors were encouraged by the white house announcemen that it would delay planned tariffs on some chinese goods. The decisiond hopes that the trade talks between the two economic superpowersould be revived. As one strategist said, the stock market reactions more proof that the trade war has been hanging over this market, and at least for today that liftewas the Dow Jones Industrial average rose 372 points to 26,279, pretty much wiping out yesterdays lossq. The nasas up 152 and the s p 500 added 42. Kayla tausche has the details on todays cooling of tensions. Reporter after days of no news and increasing investor worry on the trade front, tensions thawed with a phone call between u. S. And chinese negotiating principles, which china state tv came at washingtons invitation. Both treasury and usdr declined to comment on whether in negotiations were confirmed, but the two sides are expected to speak by phone again in two weeks justefore a september 1st tariff deadline. In the me
Of one of the worlds biggest banks leaving after less than two years on the job it is a busy monday, august 5th, 2019 Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning good afternoon good evening welcome from wherever you are watching i am brian sullivan. We have breaking news with regard to chinas currency it is sinking in a big way the chinese yuan traded offshore is now sliding below 7 to the u. S. Dollar. That is a threshold thats not been breached in more than a decade tough go to 2008 and the financial crisis now, as that currency falls, remember, what does it do . It makes chinese exports less expensi expensive, which some say could mitigate any positive impact from the u. S. Tariffs. Analysts are quick to note, china could retaliate more against President Trumps tariffs by further devaluing the currency you can see where it is 7. 08 this is a fouryear chart. Remember, it is inverted as that goes up, thats the dollar against chinas currency. Thats a weakening of china. Look at t
No surprise. That risk on rally. It felt like oil helped in some ways to turn the market around, too. You had a sloppy 10 year auction and reporting from bloomberg that said saudi arabia is hey,ng its buddies, saying we need some help. David the u. S. Will report jobless claims for the past week. At 1 00, the u. S. Treasury will auction 19 billion 19 million in 30 year bonds. Cbs and yelp will report quarterly earnings. We are joined by luke kawa and Michael Mckee taylor and Michael Mckee. Lets start with that china data. As you know, exports actually went up. Theiris another line on on the imports which shows they are negative, but better off than it had been. Michael the numbers are a bit of an anomaly because we did see in june president put additional tariffs on. Economists are expecting this to turn around because of the threat of new terror of new tariffs. Bloomberg had a very interesting story yesterday that said warehouses in the u. S. Would fall. Not chart where you put anythi
Leaked that were very frank about his assessment of the president , and it was not very flattering. It was business as usual, but five hours later that proves not to be the case. David but President Trump really had gone after him, even calling him stupid and things like that. At the same time, the British Government backed him. But it is hard to do your job if they are not going to talk to you. Alix for sure. But also the leaking. He was supposed to report back. That was the point. In the markets, we are seeing a bond selloff headed into the fed , particularly on the long end and in europe. German bund yields are at their highest level since three weeks ago. You have persistent weakness in the equity markets, down 2 10 of 1 . It is a mixed dollar story. Some industrial output from europe. Eurodollar goes nowhere. Yields up by about three basis points, 2. 1 . We havent seen that in about a month. Crude, lots of things boosting crew today. Russian production is down. More harsh words fr