Treasuries are up in the pound is strengthening. Eurodollar, you can see 1. 10 52. As the focus shifts to Central Banks, a lot is coming up with news this week. We also have to look at renminbi. At seven. 08 7. 08. Some breaking news, a new chief executive at the royal bank of scotland. Alison rose will start at the position from november 1. And makes her the first woman to become one of the big for the over to hong kong, thats where Amnesty International is alleging the police beat be prodemocracy protesters. They also accuse the police of committing acts that amount to torture they would not comment, but say they respect the rights of people in custody. This weekend, demonstrations are expected to continue. And allout war in the case of iran in the country, thats according to the foreign minister speaking to cnn. She denies irans involvement and says he hopes to avoid a conflict and adds iran is serious about defending itself. Benjamin netanyahus days as Prime Minister may be numbere
I am in for francine lacqua. Lets check in on the markets and get a quick look at what is going on. Yield see an allnew low on the u. S. 30 year bond. The long bond came down to one point 1. 90 . It has bounced back, but still, that paper is weighing on the yield. You can see that across the curve. Brent crude is rising. The nymex wti is as well. It has been a rally for oil as as u. S. Stockpiles came up better than anticipated. And gold, coming off of its highs just a little bit but very little change to the bottom. 1541. 64 as u. S. 10 year yields are negative, making gold more attractive. Now lets get bloomberg first word news in new york. Sees an opportunity to restart bta european union. German and french counterparts. Officials tell as they appeared to relax len which on the need for the irish backstop. Dropping the position language on the need for the irish backstop. These requests are related to Financial Information on donald trump and his family but whose returns are still a
The worlds biggest Investment Banks, what Goldman Sachs has in stores for some of its top partners it is thursday, august 5th and Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Lets go lets go all right, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, welcome. Im Brian Sullivan thank you for joining us on Worldwide Exchange. Here is the stock of the day the ticker may say work. But something isnt working at least for investors right now. Online messaging firm slack shares, theyre down 12 right now in the after hours market. First Quarterly Report as a Public Company disappoints well dig more into these numbers in a moment. First, to the overall markets, where stock futures are going the opposite way, rising, dow futures up a nice 238 now. This is a report says the u. S. And china are set to resume face to face high level trade negotiations next month with preliminary talks happening as soon as next week. As stock futures go up, bonds go down, a little bit benchmark ten year note yield 1. 51 . We are
Court because some guy got stiffed over a sandwich. Its a relationshal story and i happening on this friday, august 30th as Worldwide Exchange, a free range show, begins right now. Stock futures are higher well show that to you in a second but look at this, if youre keeping score at home, these are your three topper forming sectors for the month of august. Its the final trading day after all. These are also the only three set to end the month in the green unless we get a super rally today which hey, we could. Dow futures are upright now. Utilities, real estate and Consumer Staples the worst performers, every month. Its energy. Energy again not a good run this week but it had a terrible run at the beginning of the month and Energy Financials and materials look like they will end the month lower although, i guess we get 3. 5 point run but probably not. As we get ready for the final day of august, trading day of august, lets see if this mini rally that were in can hold all major indexes t
And their currency is under siege. Our problem is a Federal Reserve too proud to admit their mistake of acting too fast and tightening too much and that i was right. They must cut rates bigger and faster and stop the ridiculous quantitative tightening now. Which gets us to the markets this morning, jim. We have been talking about negative rates, they only continued to worsen. It is a strange phenomenon to be sure but it is also a worrisome cycle people believe because you have negative rates that auger for weaker Economic Growth or a lack of growth you have what are it becomes selfreinforcing you have the global coordinated monetary easing going on right now. And you have the first time people talk you about the possibility of rates here falling dramatically from where they are now have you ever seen a ten year whipsawed as much in yield in the half hour period as we did this morning almost as if someone wants to get ahead of even lower yields there is a big short position in bonds. Th