Fed vice chair. Richard clarida is out of the running. Betty we are watching for the fed news. We continue to watch the gains in the equity markets. I want to pull up a chart that basically everyone can go home, right . What i mean by that is that already with the record rise we have seen in the s p, a lot of these yearend targets are already being blown out of hsbc, Morgan Stanley, bank of america. Already being reached. Everyone can go home, they have made their money, right . [laughter] yvonne i guess so. It was interesting in that it has been four days but it really feels like 40 days in how much we have gained in the last couple of days in 2018. Big question is will we see a revision higher from analyst or are things good as it is or are there for the risks ahead . Betty that might have been what hung over the markets today. Lets pull of the boards on where we end up for u. S. Trades. A mixed trade. The markets trying to eek out. The s p by 2 10 of 1 . The dow essentially falling
Ipoint banks for the aramco and allows women to attend football matches. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. I am yousef gamal eldin in dubai. Remember the handoff from the United States, gains for a fifth straight session. The european session was strong. We saw the biggest weekly advance since april. We are seeing risk assets continuing with strength into 2018. Outlook from companies will dictate the next move for indices. The u. S. Dollar weaker after pretty much snapping a set of declines. Youre looking at again story standing out. The yen up the most in a week after boj reduced purchases of superlong bonds. Yen slide is looking like a risk aversion team. S p futures a little retreat. Zinc futures outcome of the story around supply side risks, the squeeze around those stockpiles. Lets look at other key risk assets. We have a story on brent crude. Just above 68 a barrel, up 1 . U. S. Inventories have decline for an eighth week. U. S. 10 year study at 2. 49 . This is a story of tr
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im john quicarl quintanilla tensions between north korea and the u. S. Continue to escalate. Kim jongun threatens to release a missile on the u. S. Base guam, but the u. S. Threatens that they will see fury like no one has ever seen. Good morning, good to see you both brian, do you think the change of the market has changed over the medium term here . I think they do a little bit. Especially if you look at the performance of the s p 500 since july 19th. For all intents and purposes, it is august. We have had other potential negative headlines hitting the market in september with respect to the debt ceiling and the fed and a potential taper tantrum, but it doesnt derail the longer term side of things. Were still steadfastly bullish in the 20year call for the bull market to remain in u. S. Stocks, but things have gotten frothy here the way that the market responded, i mean didnt respond to positive earnings and positive macro, kind of tells
Welcome to the Democratic National Committee Chair form. Im amy allison and we are so thrilled that youre here. Along with our partners me to an inclusive we want to welcome you here today. Take you for joining us at George Washington university for this historic and important conversation about the future of the Democratic Party. We want to welcome our viewers on live stream who are joining us across the country from ohio, to nevada. We look forward to your comments and perspectives and if you dont mind using hashtags we can follow along in the conversations, and another note, we we have some voting members of the Democratic National committee thank you for being here for this conversation we want to thank you for your service were talk about the elected and reelected presiden oba, they frame our nversation today. To get us started i want to want to bring to the stage former Nevada State Assembly met in Vice President of public affairs. Please give a round of applause. [applause] hell
Welcome to the Democratic National Committee Chair form. Im amy allison and we are so thrilled that youre here. Along with our partners me to an inclusive we want to welcome you here today. Take you for joining us at George Washington university for this historic and important conversation about the future of the Democratic Party. We want to welcome our viewers on live stream who are joining us across the country from ohio, to nevada. We look forward to your comments and perspectives and if you dont mind using hashtags we can follow along in the conversations, and another note, we we have some voting members of the Democratic National committee thank you for being here for this conversation we want to thank you for your service were talk about the elected and reelected presiden oba, they frame our nversation today. To get us started i want to want to bring to the stage former Nevada State Assembly met in Vice President of public affairs. Please give a round of applause. [applause] hell