Why that might be easier said than done. A growing debate over the next steps the white house may or may not take to avoid a downturn in the economy. Were getting mixed signals on the strength of the economy. So we start in this hour with Jackie Deangelis who is here in the studio to lay it all out for us. Reporter connell as recession fears linger, concern over the trade war keeping a lid on optimism, especially today. This is big week for retail. Home depot earnings were in focus. Home depot numbers beat the street. A reminder of the thorn in the markets side. Home depot is worried that the trade war a new round of tariffs will cause Consumer Spending to slow down. It. J max, positive report was dampened by earnings guidance. Numbers were under wall street expectations. Headwinds to consider here, global slow down, europe, china, parts of europe, bond yields continue falling, continued flight to safety less proannounced than last week, fundamentals pretty strong. Gdp more than 2 . Ju
We lower on the douby just 6 points some individual stock moves on the final trading day of august to hit check out ulta beauty on track for the worst day ever down around 30 after missing on earnings, revenue, estimates for the fullyear guidance also coming in light blooming brands seeing a spike around 2 00 p. M. After Jana Partners to take a 9 stake in the company saying in a filing it believes shares are undervalued and intends to have discussions with the company about a possible sale. Nearly 8 pop there. Shares of lions gate falling on a report of comcast dropping starz. Comcast is parent of cnbc. Joining us for the entire hour, final hour of the final month of trading for final day of the month of august is mark tepper to these individual stock moves like an ulta, wilfred mentioned target up 25 , ulta down almost 30 . Why are these such severe reactions to earnings, these reratings of the stocks individual story or the Market Investors are concerned overall about just carrying r
How that turns out and beijings reaction to it may well have an impact on our market today. We will show you that protest. Second, that recession signal, the inverted yield curve, well, as you can see, it is no longer inverted. The tenyear yields more than the twoyear, the way it ought to be. But i want to show you this. Money is pouring into americas 30year bond. Its yield has dropped below 2 again. Why . Well, germanys bond has reached yet another new low, negative yield, minus. 7 . Really crazy stuff. All right. You may think this is a crazy headline, too. President trump, according to the wall street journal has suggested america buy greenland. Varney company is about to begin. No, i think the longer the trade war goes on, the weaker china gets and the stronger we get. Were taking in massive amounts of money, billions and billions of dollars, as you know, and i think the longer it goes, the stronger we get. I have a feeling its going to go fairly short. Chinas lost millions of jobs
The china trade fight is clearly escalated. The president s holding on to a very strong line. Any resolution, it seems to me, pushed down the road. More on that coming up. If you combine the jobs report with the china story, heres how the market opens today. I thought we would be down about 100 points but we are coming back. We are down about 20 points for the dow. That will be 29 minutes from now. Maybe the markets taken the Financial News to mean that the fed can lower rates in the future. 600 points down the last two days, down about nine at the open this morning. The s p down about four, nasdaq down about 44. Tempering the losses. Heres another really big financial story which i dont think gets the right exposure. Interest rates. The tenyear treasury yield all the way down to 1. 88 . Money is pouring into america. Why not . Interest rates in germany today hit a record low. You want interest on a bond, you got to come to america for that and thats exactly whats happening. What a day
Cross their businesses. Businesses saw increase in materials due to tariffs. Higher labor costs act to pass on with higher prices remained constrained due to brisk competition. Worker shortages continue across the country. In the northeast, manufacturers and i. T. Companies reduced workers. Part of that had to do with a visa worker shortage. Overall the out look remains positive despite the trade uncertainty. Bottom line, charles, this report underscores the fed concerns that trade uncertainty is weighing on manufacturers and business spending. Back to you. Neil jennifer, thank you very, very much. Really appreciate it. Markets are moving a little bit on this. The dow is off six or seven points. President trump ramping up his threat saying he is taking toughest action ever to combat chinas chronic trade abuse. Peter navarro is defending possible new tariffs against china unless they take action and fulfill their promise to buy more american goods. Joining me peter navarro. Before we ta