We will speak with alex kruger, the head of the private equity firm first reserve. Lets have a look at where european equities are trading when now 30 minutes until the end of the trading session. Stocks falling for the fourth day and tension has been on central bankers. In the meantime, the imf cutting its assessment of the u. S. Economy. Ambitions ofumps 3 growth are possibly pieinthesky come up my words not the imf words. You can see the currencies rising against the dollar and bonds and commodities and cds. Lets get the bloomberg barometer. Wellbeing is positive. Below zero. Shows th shows the opposite. We did have some data today in the u. K. Consumers feeling just as gloomy as they were after the brexit vote a year ago. We had an index of Consumer Confidence dropping to 106. 9 in june, a level only slightly higher than that post referendum low. This is from the center of economic and business research. A fascinating piece of data. This gauge does look at gauges such as inflation,
Point. And that and i dont want im not going to call it, but mr. Mccain was expected yes and johnson was an unknown, sounds like he just voted aye. The democrats are going to vote no, but that should be i know were in closing bell right now. Well stay with this for a few minutes. John harwood and sara fagen still with us, i believe are you there . They have the votes. The ayes do have it, and as i said in my little hot mike moment there in a long conversation like that with Mitch Mcconnell, it sounds to me like ron johnson wanted to vent a little bit at some of his frustrations with Mitch Mcconnell but not so much that he was going to walk away and vote no so hes voted aye to proceed which means this Health Debate is going to happen and what weve got is a some attempt to rewrite the Senate Health bill which had been stalled for lack of support. If that fails, they are ultimately going to try to get to this bare bones repeal which would be a vehicle to get to conference with the house,
Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. Great to be with you on this august morning lets check in on global markets. Yesterday we did have some risk aversion in the marketplace because of these elevated war of words between north korea and the United States of america but we came off the session lows and in the end the decline in equities wasnt too pronounced down about 0. 3 for the nasdaq 0. 2 for the dow and the s p was flat as for the risk aversion, utilities often a safe haven sector was the worst performing sector down 0. 5 but it is true to say there were safe haven trades which well talk about when we get to the currency markets and the bond markets. This morning were called lower again. Down about 32 points for the dow. Again, a muted negative reaction to the ongoing tensions in north korea overnight. Lets have a look at what its done to asian trade which is a little bit more pronounced to the negative side. Hong kong in particular down over 1 . But elsewhere, you ha
Steve bannon, controversial adviser to president is leaving the white house. Bannon has been on shaky grounds. Or weeks heres what President Trump said about bennett on tuesday during a News Conference at trump tower. President trump i like him, hes a good man. Hes not a racist, i can tell you that. He actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. Hes a good person. A good person but he is out. That craigjoins us gordon joins us from our washington bureau. Theres a lot of speculation of steve anna being on thin ice. That steve bannon being on thin ice. Thinve bannon a being ice. A couple of interviews he gave, want to the states, where he essentially said some angst that are in line with Donald Trumps agenda and some things that werent. He said essentially a war with gary cohn, steve mnuchin, this is generally not the thing you say when you have a job at the white house and you openly air this dirty laundry. Like a protest highlights bennetts position. Abandon is said to be clear t
Steve bannon, controversial adviser to president is leaving the white house. Bannon has been on shaky grounds. Or weeks heres what President Trump said about bennett on tuesday during a News Conference at trump tower. President trump i like him, hes a good man. Hes not a racist, i can tell you that. He actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. Hes a good person. A good person but he is out. That craigjoins us gordon joins us from our washington bureau. Theres a lot of speculation of steve anna being on thin ice. That steve bannon being on thin ice. Thinve bannon a being ice. A couple of interviews he gave, want to the states, where he essentially said some angst that are in line with Donald Trumps agenda and some things that werent. He said essentially a war with gary cohn, steve mnuchin, this is generally not the thing you say when you have a job at the white house and you openly air this dirty laundry. Like a protest highlights bennetts position. Abandon is said to be clear t