Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
The dow eyeing eight Straight Days of gains on growing optimism around u. S. china trade. Weworks rocky road to an initial Public Offering. And the democratic faceoff, warren, biden, sanders dominating the debate stage. Just what their plans could mean for your portfolio stocks are chasing history this morning the dow and the s p each within 1 of hitting record intraday highs. The blue chips in the midst of a sevenday win streak for First Time Since may of last year. You have signs of a health y consumer, Government Data shows retail sales up. 4 in august, double expectations. Core unchanged, looking for. 1 but july even after that upside surprise revised higher. Is this ever putting the pressure on jay . I think jay powell is uniquely faced with a difficult decision. You posted some stuff the other day about you raised rates and the economy is not being hurt so why should we just want to cut them i continue to say he raised rates too much and i want i want to go for the full on 3 on e
President. Road map begins with stocks moving lower ahead of the open, investors digesting trade war fears, latest jobs numbers, the uncertainty about the feds next moves. Trump tariff threats, the president promising to tax the hell out of china until a trade deal is reached. Oil prices recovering after the worst trading day in four years. Both exxon and chevron moving higher after reporting Quarterly Results this morning. Along with inline results for july, payroll gains were revised downward for both may and june the Unemployment Rate held steady at 3. 7 for a second straight month wage growth 3. 2 from a year ago, but manufacturing weak, year to date average 8k, works 22k last year and santelli pointed out, manufacturing work hours, the lowest since 2011. We know where this is all coming from. Were continuing to get a tale of two economies. Overall a healthy job report, came in line, better participation, better wage growth, a lot to be encouraged about, but there are pockets of we
Alongside tom keene and lisa abramowicz, i am Jonathan Ferro. The s p 500 positive by 0. 22 . Tomorrow morning, retail sales, thursday from walmart. How many times have we done this from august . Talking about china. China the headline once again. Tom it starts and ends in china with a set of news. What is interesting to me is it is not one story. You have to get briefed on this to get up to speed on three, 4, 5 stories. Chinese equities in the tank, iron or somewhat in the tank. A lot of moving parts going on in china and that comes back to jackson hole. Jonathan one chinese developer, Country Garden holdings seeking to extend for the first time ever. Away from that we have a wealth manager missing payments. This is starting to mount in a bigger way. Lisa which begs the question of when this becomes financial contagion in china. Why are we not seeing more trickle out affects . Is that what we are seeing in germany or parts of europe . A lot of u. S. Companies are rationing back expect
For our audience worldwide, this is bloomberg surveillance on tv and radio. Your equity market on the s p 500 slightly positive. 3 . Cpi thursday, ppi friday. Tom inflation is the key dynamic. It was an odd weekend. It is in the zeitgeist, bloomberg reports bond prices up in china and yields down. In the inflation reports, is this tinge of deflation to come in asset prices worldwide . The theme of the weekend was deflation, beginning of deflationary worries into that key inflation report. Jonathan quite a ride in the bond market last week. Taking back a move from friday session. Lots of fed speak out there in the mix. Over the weekend, maybe another Interest Rate hike in the Federal Reserve. Tom it is going to go by the data. Job support, what do you think . Cut that way, cut that way job report . Jonathan still wages are hot. I think the narrative sticks, Jeff Rosenberg at blackrock talked about it that ultimately where payrolls growth goes, we will eventually follow. The fed says, we