Will have the looming brexit vote on the hill, and other events to influence the outcome of where the major averages head from here. And steve weiss, the stocks had started to sell off a little bit into the program, and what are you making it, amid the bullard comments that it is a full capitulation . Yes, the second capitulation that we have had, and first yellen came out and had the press conference, and before in the fed note that came out with the meeting basically said, hold on. We are not ready. The economy is weakening and that put the market back on its heels after the jobs number of course that we saw. All bets are off. What is stark is that there is no playbook for anything that is happening. We have had jer areman 10year bunds at zero, and now back to two basis points, and the brexit is hanging over everything. So, as i said, no playbook, and no way to hedge the brexit whatsoever, because it is a true binary event, and if you are going to be taking the risk off and go negati
Addressing his departure on twitter this morning. And brexit polls from the uk cant seem to lock down which way thursday will go. And then theres George Sorros issuing a major warning against a departure, even David Beckham is weighing in. But first up in about an hour from now on capitol hill fed chair yellen will kick off two days of semiannual testimony on Monetary Policy and the economy. Today its before the Senate Banking committee which is expected to grill her on everything from rates to brexit. Of course well bring you live coverage once the fed chair begins her remarks followed by the q a session with lawmakers. Some discussion it might be more contentious than usual even with her recent comments in the meeting last week. On both sides a lot of people saying get it over with. Admit things are weak and what are you going to do about it. What is she going to do about it . Its not up to her. Look at germany last quarter very interesting what the finance minister say. Look, we had
Nasdaq up by close to 20. Overnight in asia, the nikkei up by 0. 6 . The shanghai deposit was flat. In europe, some of the early trading, youre seeing those positive gains are continuing here the dax is the biggest gainer of the major averages up by 1. 7 . The ftse is up 0. 6 . They finally decided if the economy is is not going to get better, at least we got glory. You almost heard both messages from yellen. The economy is doing okay. She wants something to confirm in one number, i dont think one month would confirm. July, like 20 now. I think its still on the table. We also want to see what happens with brexit. For eight years its been look. The economy hasnt really been getting any better but we got the free money. Weve got the low rates. Lets buy stocks. That still works. There no alternative to move, right . Yeah. There is some corporate news. Some corporate news, not so great news for yahoo this morning. Verizon going to submit a bit of only around 3 billion. The wall street jour
Wellcome to squawk alley for this thursday. Kayla tausche, and along with vanity fair correspondent nick out west. Good morning to you. Good morning. And now, redstone says that he no longer trusts the ceo, and he says that he is determined to trust in the company and not the shareholders to do the best for them. And so yesterday on fast money we spoke to tom freston. Well, the lawsuits and Everything Else has been a side show compared to the real story which is the fall of viacom from grace over the last several years that have been really one of the leading Television Networking companies in the business and now it is falling to a level below the peers on almost every metric plagued by all problems including the creative departures. And freston is outspoken, nick, and how does this move the ball forward . To what degree will we see any resolution in this saga . I, all i can hope for is that there is someone in that building with a video camera filming this whole thing, because it is
Portfolio. But first we start off with the news alert out of london on the impending brexit vote. The latest polls show an increase in the stay movement. Wilfred is on the ground with the latest. Melissa, thank you very much. This poll out in the last 15 minutes or so for orb, and the Daily Telegraph newspaper. It puts the stay vote on 53, the leave vote on 46. So a sevenpoint lead on the poll that comes out today for stay. This same poll last carried out on june the 13th was on 48 to stay, to 49 leave. So leave had been ahead on this poll. Its a net reversal of eight points. Quite a significant shift in fortunes between the two camps, stay very much in the lead now. That is a poll of those who consider themselves certain to vote. Its not quite as pronounced when all voters are included, remain is stable on. The intention to vote, the rise in turnout has been expected for remain over the last week. Traditionally we argued the leave would most likely vote within this portion of voters t