Rishaad we are looking at Southeast Asian banks. A very competitive market out there. We have new entries to make it even more competitive. Have a look at this. This is a bloomberg chart. As jack ma changing lines of partnerships around the world. 450 Million People have limited access to Banking Services and, buying vying for core customers. We have seen how sales at alibaba have been going up exponentially. This will go up with other internet superstars out of china getting into the action. Absolutely. We are always still watching for that potential ipo, that crown jewel of alibaba. Look at the numbers compared to amazon prime day, we are expecting somewhere south of one billion. 18aw sales of almost billion last year for alibabas day. We are around 30 minutes from the open in hong kong and china. Janet yellens testimony to congress is on everyones mind. We are kicking off Earnings Seasons for the Second Quarter as well. Singapore, taiwan, and malaysia are coming on as well. Sophie t
What stocks staen to benefit from tax reform . Goldman sachs has a basket of names set to outperform. Elon musk is trolling his haters on twitter after the companys stock surge pushed its market cap above ford for the first time. The president scheduled to hold a town hall meeting with 50 Business Leaders. Among those slated the ceo of citigroup, blackstone, mast ecard and jetblue, it he will focus on improving the Business Climate discussions about infrastructure and jobs. Beth comstock from ge, tom farley from the nyse, john paulson, steve roth, largely new yorkbased. Jim . Got some wall people there and private equity, mike corbett obviously someone who would be able to talk about deregulation. Yesterday theres full scale assault halftime i think the deregulation is so important. Please, with enit comes to the banks, its pretty much everything. Maybe this is back on track. Maybe this is what was doing well. Now there are a lot of people who feel that what happened with health care w
Demand outlet. We begin with a bshb inbev agre to a deal. Johnson johnson has a mixed quarter. And twitter raising their guidance for the Third Quarter but making job cuts official as well. First up, anheuser busch, inbev and miller agreeing in personal on a deal in which ab would inquire sab for 104 million. That would have about onethird of the global beer market. Its the biggest deal ever in consumer staples. The fifth biggest mma transaction in history. Well see if if happt happens. It probably is going to happen at this point. A couple weeks we will have a definitive agreement what they call in the uk a rule 2. 7 filing. Simply giving us more details on the deal. For most peoples purposes, this deal is done. Lets consider is a done deal in terms of papering. Well see from here some of the more specifics. This then starts a process by which both companies certainly will need to go about divesting assets around the globe. One of the keys, as our viewers know, jim and i talked about