Whether jay powell will cut Interest Rates further. And big earnings on deck, disney and wynn after the bell joining us courtney. Tell us how youve navigated the last 24 hours. You know, its been really, really interesting when you look at where the vix has been in august, were hitting 25 i think in july we ended around 12 that volatility is incredibly interesting. For someone like me thats looking to buy positions on the dip that i think are quality positions to buy and hold, it was a really good time in my opinion to do that interestingly enough on our desk at Loop Capital Markets we saw a tremendous amount of low, probably in the overnight markets, probably the most active weve seen all year. Buying or selling interestingly enough, buying. Some very balanced program bus we also saw a number of our fundamental clients buying in developed markets and a little bit of selling or less buying, well say, in some of the emerging markets so were starting to see some of that flight to quality
Continue to drive Growth Stocks are poised to rally ahead of what could be the feds first rate cut since the crisis. And gaming headwinds, amd delivering a revenue warning first up, apple rising on the better than expected results iphone down from a year ago and now represent less than half of quarterly revenue for the first time in about seven years. Yeah, headlines today in the papers are staggering. New york times, apple reports declining profits and stagnant growth again wall street journal quotes richard cramer, no relation. Were these people on the same call maybe they were on the rotten apple call, i was on the straight apple call. I heard a situation where you are going to if you actually think out in the out years, it is a Service Company with the best Customer Satisfaction there is and when you get an appliance of which there are about 1. 5 billion, you are beginning to take either apple cloud or the app store, the ads, i think that you will be looking at the credit card star
Thatdominated yesterdays action, that along with chinas currency move. Overnight Chinas Central Bank setting the yuan mid point firmer than many expected. That happened at 9 00. We saw a turnaround in u. S. Equity futures which were down overnight as much as 600 points at the lows. Right now a positive open across the board. S p looking to be up by 11 points dow jones up by 102. The nasdaq looking to recoup 44 points as for u. S. Treasury yields, we saw a 2016 low also. We had the tenyear note at 1. 758 overnight we breached that 1. 7 level. A key level here. We have cnbc reporters everywhere this morning covering the Market Reaction to this escalating trade war willem marx is in london well get to him in a moment, but across the world to china. Eunice yoon is on the ground in beijing. Reporter china strongly opposes being labeled a currency manipulator. The central bank, which manages a floating currentry cy exchang rate called the move unilateral protectionist behavior that violates
Some level of that in the numbers. Its hard to say how much when the countries are meeting and talking, it is better than not cook telling me he sees no evidence that his products are being boycotted in china and that he has made no significant changes to his supply chain in response to potential new tariffs. We also talked about services up 18 when adjusted for currency in a onetime gain last year i asked cook about his new Video Streaming Service thats on the way and how he will judge its success by what metrics, cook saying the most important thing is one, the product, and two the number of subscribers and whether we are going to announce that or not, i dont know. We dont aspire to have the biggest audience working in cooks favor for these new services leveraging that massive install base or the number of active guys devices in peoples hands he says the active install base of iphones reached a new high. I asked cook about new regulatory scrutiny here in the u. S. He says he does not
Since may, cross currents have reemerged it was almost a year ago today, july 18th, 2018, that the president first levied his criticism against the chair in an interview on cnbc im not thrilled because, you know, we go up and every time you go up, they want to raise rates again. I dont really i am not happy about it but at the same time, im letting them do what they feel is best. But i dont like all of this work that goes into doing what were doing. Since then, dozens of tweets and quotes going back to the fall obviously things like are you listening, fed, they dont have a clue, we would be thousands of points higher on the dow like a stubborn child blew it is this going to be enough i do, i thought the statement was written by larry kudlow had i first read it. It was written by fed chairman powell the key thing is he does blame the tariffs because he says domestic is good he lays it on trade tensions, which is therefore saying listen president trump, the fault isnt in trump, it is the