Restarting next week thathelped things in asia. In europe, its a bit of a mixed picture. The dax up by 0. 1 you do see red arrows for both the cac and the ftse the ftse, well talk more about Boris Johnson who will become the Prime Minister there today ftse now down about 0. 8 stocks are flat in italy and in spain. If you check out the treasury yields here in the United States, you will see this morning the tenyear is yielding 2. 057 the big story of the morning, shares of Big Tech Companies like google, amazon and facebook, theyre under pressure after the u. S. Justice Department Said theyre opening a broad antitrust review of Technology Firms the review was scrutinikru desie if these companies are stifling information and harming consumers. The Justice Department does not name specific companies, but it is likely to encompass google, foos facebook this is the real first shot across the bow by william barr and the doj. You know you have the democrats, you have the republicans also afte
25 of the jobs in america and close to 25 of the nations gdp. Right now, they are feeling good about the economy. A brt survey came out which suggested the rating right now in terms of how they feel about the economy climbed 11 points to85. That is a little above the reading83. Feeling good about the capital sales. Those are up double digits from the last quarter. Plans for hires have particulared higher. They sent out a survey asking ceos and if they think Government Policies are undermining American Free enterprise. 75 of ceos think that. Of those who answered yes, 92 partly s92 cited over regulation. We will talk to the ceo as and what they would like to hear from the administration and what they feel is most important to growth policies in the United States. Thats what we are talking about with the ceos today. I can forecast whats coming. Some buyback stuff. They dont like those. Corporate ceo compensation stuff. A lot of different populous rhetoric coming out of it. What is weird
Last week, it fell 5 . The threeweek losing run seems to be coming to a finish. Sovereign bond yields, commodities. The difference between long and short data yields in european government bonds, investors say it will narrow this year, similar to Global Investors benefiting from a finding in the bunker, the german 530 year spread trading to the lowest level since 2016 led by increases in the shorter amid expectations the ecb will raise rates in the next year or so for the First Time Since 2011. By atrended is abetted inflation limiting the increase in longerterm yields. A wonderful chart. This is another wonderful chart, u. S. Dividend payouts may have lost their luster as 10 year treasury bond yields advanced to multiyear highs. Some say approaching a threshold , a pain threshold for equities. Europe, however, holds the theard with companies in stoxx 600 offering dividend yields and the 6. 3 is the blue line, the highest among main markets across the globe. Close to 300 basis points a
Tyler is out today, but as i mentioned, brian is live in l. A. They there, brian. Reporter hey, mandy. Happy friday. That comcast Time Warner Cable deal is off, disconnected, if you will. Comcast is the Parent Company of this network and it is ending its deal to buy Time Warner Cable. This is following regulatory scrutiny. Our ceo, Brian Roberts, on cnbcs squawk box earlier today saying it is simply time to move on. So where did it all fall apart and what now . David faber joining us with more. David . With its deal to be acquired by comcast no longer on the table, one of the key questions is what does Time Warner Cable do . The company will be report earnings next week well see how good they look and whether or not, of course Charter Communications, which had pursued Time Warner Cable so much so that it found itself in the arms of comcast eventually will come back to try to do that. Charter, for its part finds itself without any of the subs it expected to be taking in. Whether through
Bahrain. Add sudan to the list and its our understanding that this would deepen sudans engagement in the west and follows the president s conditional agreement to remove the north african nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism if, in fact, sudan pays compensation to american victims of terror attacks. I almost want to repeat that. Thats a huge headline. When you take away that tag of statesponsored terrorism, and do so with a strong condition. Compensation for american victims, families of terror attacks. That is something that is a headline as much as the fact that israel now has a fifth nation total because remember before President Trump it have been many years. 1978, 1994. You had jordan and egypt and now you add to that list. Just the recent news, i would add, saudi arabia has been talking about what it would take that nation to come to the table and do some of what we are looking at now with israel. Also in that region, that part of the world, would be ground shaking