Irans Oil Industry after comments by President Biden. Welcome to business today, live from new york, i m ritika gupta. Share prices in the us have been searching after great news regarding the us economy. The strike on the East Coast ports has also been suspended. It is not all positive news, though. Oil markets are still reeling from a comment by President Biden on thursday that the White House is discussing whether to support an attack by israel on Irans Oil facilities. This is how one of the key benchmarks Brent Crude was trading in the last 15 minutes if it stays at these levels it will be up around 10 per cent this week. One Oil Market Watcher told us he is astounded by the president s comment. In over 15 years of covering the energy markets, reporting them and dare i say, trading on the markets as well, i have never seen anything. This is quite unprecedented. Whether its off the cuff or not, for a sitting us president , just a little over four weeks from the american president i
As the us exchanges open here in new york. Lets cross live now to Shams Afzal, Managing Director at carnegie investment counsel. Of course, in the last hour, we had that adp data out. How are the markets reacting to this . I think this number, as well as tomorrows total data will probably not change the narrative that has been set already that the Jobs Market has softened quite a bit compared to a year ago. I think the more important data that came out earlier showed the number ofjobs available. If number of jobs available. If you number ofjobs available. If you went back to february 2023, there were almost two jobs open every Wedding Work out there, now that number has shrunk to every 1. 1 jobs to every willing work out there. They are finally getting these numbers so this put the Rate Cut Regime very much intact starting from september and that will be on benefit to the overall capital markets. . Benefit to the overall capital markets. ,. , benefit to the overall capital markets. . ,
Thats a 13. 8 increase month on month. Pretty good, alix. Israel alix can it last . And coming up this hour well speak to valley grant, Senior Vice President and henry mcveigh, ahead of global maam row and Asset Allocation with his report on economy and investments. The main macronews that happened was beijing following through on the threat of retaliation, china ordering the u. S. To close the consulate in chengdu and comes after the foreed closer of a Chinese Mission in houston. Sharon chin the asian bureau chief, how big of a disruption is it between the two countries . Sharon i mean the whole dispute over the consulates, the u. S. Asking china to shut its houston consulate and china asking the u. S. To shut down its consulate in chengdu has en a severe reaction and the worst theyve taken in the last few years. Here it was immediate, people on the ground expressing support for the chinese government. There was a lot of security on the scene in front of the consulate in chengdu and a
The dow up. 2 . Moves. Elping those , back above 42. The dollar index at 92. 74. Stronger sterling, stronger euro, stronger yen. Pandemic an interesting time for investors, distressed investors among them. Erik schatzker is speaking to howard marks of oaktree. Always terrific to have howard marks with us on bloomberg television. Weigh in on tenterhooks for your memos. A lot of them in march and april. Not so many as of late. You are out with another one, time for thinking. You raise a number of provocative points and questions. Them states the obvious, the Financial Markets are at the center of a titanic struggle between the pandemic on the one hand, and the government effectively on the other, recession versus the fed and treasury department. You and i have talked about this before. As recently as may, youre thinking was that the fed could not keep it up forever. Am i to divine that perhaps youre thinking has changed on that subject . No, i still dont know if they can keep it up forev
The bill nar has the blews these days he will explain why his businesses are struggling and the things that could get worse beyond that and what hes trying to do about that power lunch starts right now yes, it does the nasdaq hitting another all time high today. Its on strachan for its sixth straight day in the green. Bob has more for us. Modest weakness on the day. That tends to mean tech will still out perform. Thats happening today. Its airlines under perform and transports and Logistics Companies like jb hunt and fedex tend to out perform. This has been going on since the coronavirus issue back in february and march and again you can see that happening today. Ben carlson pointed this out the top ten stocks by market caps are up 10 so far this year the top 50 are up 2 but look at the bottom 50. Down 39 thats not a typo. Thats a huge disparity. Its true big stocks tend to be important. They always move the market. Bottom line is they have never been more important than they are right