It is seen as a trade war olive branch. American farmers remain under pressure. Bid from thees a hong Kong Exchange. Lawmakers are concerned about potential National Security questions. Shery lets get you started with a quick check on how markets closed. We saw the s p 500 gain ground and close above that 3000 level for the first time in six weeks. We had Health Care Stocks and tech leading the gains. Interesting, the nasdaq finishing at the highest level since july, rising for the first time in four sessions. Into valuee rotation stocks. They subside a little bit. The u. S. Futures unchanged, but lets see how we are setting up for asia. Sophie south korea closed until monday. We are seeing futures knowledge higher nudge higher. The nzx 50 treading water. Euro, it isthe little changed after briefly theing below that ahead of ecb meeting which bank of America Merrill lynch is calling the most unpredictable of the past five years. In asia, switching the board, the highlight will be malay
The french president tells Boris Johnson a new brexit deal is not likely and italy has a few more days to cobble together a coalition. We are live from g7. Week japanese inflation stokes talks of further boj easing. Meanwhile, the rbnz governor tells bloomberg it can afford to be in wait and see mode. We can afford to watch and observe what is happening. We have taken a preemptive double cut. Matt good morning. Matt here in berlin. We had a slew of fed speakers yesterday that pulled back expectations for a big rate cut, if any at all. That really changes things in markets. Nejra you saw adjustment in pricing in terms of futures. Have we just heard from the hawks . What is jay powell going to do . Is he going to push back from we know historically jackson hole speeches can give signals of Monetary Policy in the future. Matt interesting we continued to see gains in u. S. Stocks. The s p 500 closed down a little bit, but it was not too bad. Now we see futures pointing to gains at the open
Is this a turning point for yields around the world. Well get fed minutes later on today. Road map begins with retail earnings, target and lowes soaring in the premarket on their results bucking the downward trend in retail. One week since the dows 800 point drop were close to recovering the losses well take a look at the wild ride over the last week. And what you can expect next. As the september 1st tariffs aapproach, well take a look at the companies that may be in your portfolio with the most exposure first up, target set to open at all time high, lowes surging on the better than expected quarterly earnings, revenues and comps. Digital sales drove more than half of the growth in q2 comps lowes reporting positive comps in all of their geographic regions in the United States and outpacing depot for the second consecutive quarter. We got to focus on execution. And risk taking. Both Marvin Ellison at lowes and Brian Cornell at target took big risks. Some people say they blew up the way
Guest in just a few moments. I want to point out a couple of stocks and individuals stories. Theands, immediately got to epstein point of interest, he did not mention him by name, but talk about having and taking advantage of her theres a lot going on, and facebook is down are botht and they getting some disconcerting news this morning with the news that margaret will continue in her job in the european commission, and she is also getting expended power and will be head of all of the digital tragedy density strategy. Guy what we have seen over the last 20 four hours has been really amazing considering where we have been as of late. Because value is catching a bit. I cannot remember this, but its been weeks ago, but yesterday it happened, huge move, some continuation of that. On both sides of the atlantic it is still negative. Does this mean that maybe the bond yields have bought some so again,0 year we are seeing this bond story dominating. Banks are catching a bit here in you up europ
Bank of america has more net Brian Moynihan seems little see little chance of a recession. Shery in the u. S. It was another relief rally with the dow gaining one. 2 . Every sector in the s p 500 in the green, chipmakers pacing the gains, nvidia positive resultss helping not mention circulation european officials could come to the rescue if economic numbers deteriorate more in the continent. We saw more optimistic. Optimism. The nasdaq was up. The future will be on jackson the fed chair has to say when he gives a speech on friday. In the meantime we have u. S. Futures up. 3 . Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Stocks this monday asian are ramping up for a positive start, kiwi shares adding. 2 percent while kiwi 10 year yields are above 1 level amid prospects for stimulus to counter some of these growth fears. Repairinghe pboc is borrowing costs. The rate refund. In hong kong, the warning of economic typhoon after we saw gdp contract more than expected. Switching the board on the c