Can i get everybodys attention please westmark all right. Welcome to the met club, thank you for coming out on this rainy evening and theres a lot of scrap and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were delighted, im not doing the introduction yet but were delighted to have vic martin here tonight, vic, welcome to the club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here so thats pretty cool. Thanks to the guys at cspan. Just a couple of quick announcements, our next event here at the club will be first thursday. He loves them too. Our next event is first thursday, october 5 and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman and l malthus who, she and her husband moved to washington, her husband david was a noted economist is part of the, easy undersecretary of the treasury or International Monetary affairs been confirmed as undersecretary so they moved, and he apparently is going to be here that night so i think its a great opportunity for us to celebrate them and
News het trump told nbc would have fired james comey even without recommendations from the justice department. Is the u. S. On the right rate path . The market seems confident, but will consumers support the case . Theill ask Charles Evans of chicago fed in an exclusive interview. To the program, everybody. We are less than half an hour to the european open. Let us have a look at what is happening on european futures market. We will be a little bit starter at the start of trade. The ftse 100 could be a bit of a laggard this morning. M a this morning and france. A little bit of oxide coming upside coming in from the cac and the dax. Gmm function, in better perspective. We are standard deviations away from standard moves. We have the Chinese Market up by. 6 . It dropped off the far left hand of your screen. That was a standout performer because as you can see from the index picture, which features a some of the asian equity session, the australian market, for example, the general move wa
Emails for a break for a prankster pretending to be the chairman. Im guy johnson alongside tom king. Been quite a week. Quite a week. Had im not sure there is a correlation between your being here. Tom it has been an exhausting week. I cannot remember a week like that. We have got more reporting on that to all of surveillance. There is still a lot of other news out there including the german election. To the big one. Lets take a look at what is happening with the data. These are the numbers you need to know. The stoxx 600 barely budging. Tom, do you know what . We have had the biggest info into european equities on record this week. An in some ways, it has been incredible week but the equity markets have not reflected it. The german 10year is not moving very much. Tom maybe an oil lift. Guy up by. 2 . Tom i decided to do a data check. There is not much going on. That in itself is news. Let me get to my chart. A bloomberg chart on the atlanta gdp. For those of you not familiar, vyediffe
Today. Thank god youre here. We have some news comcast is reporting and when you report on a company like comcast, there are many Different Things that people watch. Not necessarily the bottom line number but let me give that to you any way. Earnings per share, 52 cents that was up almost 27 year over year it was 3 cents ahead of expectations consolidated revenue grew 10 . 9. 8 to 21 21. 2 billion. That is above expectations of 20. 855 consolidateded revenue was one of the things that people might look at, but maybe more so is ebita growth Strong Revenue and ebita growth increasing by 10 . First half ebita growth the best in six years a lot of this, sorkin you see the main cylinder . Squawk box. Part of it. Film revenue up crazy Nbc Universal, outstanding quarter according to the company, grew ebita by 20 Comcast Cable delivered what the company is calling a great quarter is a strong balance between financial growth and solid subscriber metrics you watched this over the years. What do
But it said for trump thats independence from responsibility to play a central role in affairs. Might create global chaos, especially in europe. It said china sees the change in u. S. Leadership as an opportunity to advance its interests in asia. It noted this may raise tensions between the two countries. The report added the secondlargest risk for 2017 is china overreacting to external challenges. As president xi jinping tries to tighten his grip on power ra head of the communist Party Congress later this year hes likely to respond forcefully to Foreign Policy changes. North korea came in ninth on the list. The paper says the country is closer to mastering miniature warheads and intercontinental with stick missiles that could strike the u. S. West coast. The report suggests this year will be the most politically volatile in the postwar period. Nhk has learned the president elect is considering appointing a top member of his Transition Team to be the ambassador to japan, replacing caro