Well take you live as impeachment proceedings, of course, continue in the house. And a china trade deal hangs in the balance. Welcome to closing bell, everyone, on this big day. Im wilfred frost. And im Morgan Brennan in for sara eisen phase one trade deal may not be completed this year. Retail is recovering with target and lows shooting higher on strong earnings and fed minutes just out officials seeing little need for further rate cuts. Joining us for the hour, josh brown, ceo for Wealth Management. Whats happening . The president stepping off the plane. Yeah. Look at this. Dow is down 142 points, s p is lower, too. Trade, is trade once again dictating the action again today . At the margins. I dont think the majority of Market Participants are making big changes in what theyre buying and elling. Even if theres resolution on, quote, unquote, phase one, will be with us for the duration. If you are somebody who was going to make a radical change to portfolio based on trade, youve had t
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. Todays opening prayer will be offered by monsignor anthony j. Marcaccio, pastor of st. Pius the tenth from greensboro, north carolina. The guest chaplain let us pray. Blessed are you, lord god, of all creation. You are the gifter of ever good gift, of life and liberty, of peace and prosperity, of wisdom, understanding, and right judgment. We ask that in your divine mercy you would bless our republic and in a special way the work of our senators, that they may discern all that is true, all that is honorable, all that is right, all that is excellent and worthy of praise for our nation. In this moment, make us mindful of all that has brought us together as a country and how it foster passes that which can divide us. So when all is deliberated and done here, we may be preserved as one nation under god. Amen and amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the
Financial sector to its part in fighting lemon change. Climate change. A lot of the focus is on trade or what will happen between the u. S. And china. Gold, always a good litmus test for risk. We can see the yield at 1. 85. Stocks gaining 0. 4 . A lot of focus is on earnings. Loose of ex conversation with the commerzbank she chief Financial Officer. Dont miss that conversation after 10 30 a. M. London time. First, lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. In the u. K. , the first cabinet resignation during an Election Campaign in a century. Quit after aretary report that he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. Ae labour party also suffered blow with deputy leader tom watson announcing he will leave politics after 35 years. He has long clashed with Jeremy Corbyn over the direction of the party. Willank of england probably keep rates on hold as brexit continues to plague the economy. It is expected to cut forecasts. Be nexttion is who will to lead the ban
Plus huber, mcdonalds and under all fall on earnings. A it is decision day, a Bloomberg Survey is 100 certain rates will be kept at hold. Markets have opened for trade. Any he stocksouse are faring. Is undere dollar pressure up a 10th of 1 with bond yields higher. A largely anticipated hold. The aussie dollar reversing a to . 70. A move lets get a quick check on futures elsewhere. Futures hitting gains and a little change for the japanese markets as they reopened there. The cost could snap a threeday event while kiwi shares are extending mondays gains ahead of vika data from the region. Ocbc, the Bank Reporting at 1. 7arter income billion. Thirdquarter net income coming in at 1. 17 billion. We are seeing the Interest Income coming in at 1. 6 billion. Income at just over one billion singapore dollars. Thirdquarter allowances for loans and other assets coming in at 179 million. See,e expecting to particularly when it comes to wealth related assets, seasonal benefit when it comes to hong
Getting hit. Hi, eamon. Yeah, as of this moment, the feel iing in the building is th they are still tracking and expecting some kind of response from the president to the chinese tariff escalation of this morning which happen nd the premarket hours. Now aides are telling me they dont know what the president is going to do here they dont know when hes going to do it and they dont know what the format is going to be are we going to get a tweet from the president this afternoon see him behind a lectern here at the white house . A piece of paper from the press office no real planning for what thats going to look like but the expectation a is that the president is going to respond. We know the meeting with the president s team has wrapped up now and you can take a look at policy advisers who were in the room with the president as they talked about all this. Mnuchin, larry kudlow then Robert Lighthizer and Peter Navarro on the trade team specifically all in the room with the president for a