The latest. Dani definitely a mixed session. The stoxx 600 down. It is a macro heavy trading day between the u. K. Election, Central Bank Decisions and that the tariff deadline, we have traders on the sideline. Expandedy has really for sterling. Cable down about 0. 1 , but still trading at that 1. 31 handle. This is a conservative government priced in. Upside is really limited. We have seen sterling fall after the poll showed the conservatively it cut by about half and the concern is the Hung Parliament that would throw into concern the outcome of brexit. Some strategists have said that sterling may fall as low as 1. 22 if we do get a Hung Parliament. Brent down about 0. 5 tonight. We are seeing brent trade just under 64 a barrel. The aramco ipo hitting the 10 limit with shares surging so far today. Looking at some of the individual movers we have seen in the market. Jd sports is one of the biggest lacquers in the stoxx 600 laggers in the stoxx 600. Its biggest shareholder sold 2. 4 of
Fortt and leslie picker. Interesting morning as we await the fed decision this afternoon. Tim cook speaking with japans nikkei while visiting some apple stores and ink suppliers defending the companys job creation in the u. S. And complaints the company has faced over competition cook saying, quote, a monopoly by itself isnt bad if its not abused the question for those companies is do they abuse it. That is for regulators to decide, not for me to decide joining us to talk about this and a lot more, managing partner susan line and ciscos chairman emeritus, john chambers. Good morning, guys. Good morning. How you doing good. Lets try to put these comments in some context. Why do you think theyre happening now out of cook, at least . Well, i think theyre happening because theres a general concern over privacy and over moves to increase privacy at both facebook and apple products but i think for him, this was an interesting moment because its the first time hes really tried to defend a mon
Anything and i have nothing to add to that. Because that seems absolutely positively correct the fed will keep rates unchanged and possibly have a message that they are kind of encouraging inflation to go higher one of the most important statements that i think has gotten less play than it should is jay powell said in late october we would have to see rise inflation persistent to consider raising Interest Rates to fight inflation so the fed wants inflation to be higher actually. And theyve contextualized this by saying 2 was our target for many years and we fell short and now we need to fill the gap of which makes no sense to me whatsoever i think it is cover for wanting Interest Rates to basically be below the inflation rate which is the game planner for central bangs and developed countries really around the world and so now we have the tenyear treasury yield and the core cpi is up higher than 2 and yet the Interest Rates are kept below that so foed knows that we have a det roche in
You told me things were very frothy a lots happened since then. The wework had just come out. We know what happened with the wework blowup theres been this sense that you saw with the wag news. Theres been these companies have raised an extraordinary amount of money and pitching themselves as Tech Companies that really went Tech Companies. Wework was not a Technology Company. Swag not really a Technology Company, and the combination of trying to get the technology valuations on companies that shouldnt be trading that way and companies that are just raising too much money and have no financial discipline. Hopefully some of that is coming to an end but i still think valuations are going to be crazy for a while. I think, if anything, this signals the beginning of the end of these shoot the moon sort of Business Plans what i mean by that is we just they dont work for two reasons. One, companies are raising a tremendous amount of money and they do that primarily to try and have some sort of
Rosengren. And speaking of the fed, yes, there is more. We have an exclusive interview coming up. Loretta mester is the president of the cleveland fed right after the close. Joining us for the hour is charlie with aerial investments. Was this a big sigh of relief after the data from earlier in the week yeah, you know the markets was really nervous about a recession. Thats the conventional wisdom in the market. Theres a lot of evidence that bulls like me keep pointing to that were not, but you can see when we get even a soso number, the markets react very positively Services Growth is slowing and thats the point of contention right now, is does the manufacturing upset bleed into the consumer . And it does, you have a problem. You had a very strong wage growth its not even the fact that unemployment is going down, its that people feel secure in their job. Its a tight job market. People are not worried about losing their job theyre spending more and were still 70 of consumer economy. If t