Road map begins with china trade concerns, retails biggest sales decline in seven months, corporate earnings in focus. B of a rallying on a beat, futures point to a muted open. Capitalism under fire a bit democratic president ial hopefuls square off and taking aim at big business and personal wealth. And billionaire marc benioff will join us at post nine. Well talk tech regulation, capitalism, ipos and who he is eyeing in the 2020 race. Stocks are on track for a modest open a day after the dow close the above 27 k for the first time in almost a month s p finished shy of 3,000. B of a beats the street with quarterly results. On the economic front, retail sales were down. 3 in september. Revisions were better. Gas stations down. 7 people say maybe this has to do with gas prices. Perhaps it does when i take a look at what is going on, if you read between the lines with bank of america, which is just a gigantic bank, gigantic consumer bank, talking about 5. 7 growth in Consumer Spending ye
It is like a gulf. This is not separated in terms of politics. Actually, ill take this side. Im really not sure you may be closer to me than him this guy is a nut. Im going to need a lifeline. We could put Chris Christie in between us. Lets check on the markets this morning. You know what i didnt look at today, constitutional crisis concerns looking at the stock market, i cant see it there up 115 points on the dow jones the nasdaq up 41 treasury yields up 71. My mind is wandering the predicted volume and money is very small. I checked the odds of impeachment. They are up 60 cents odds that trump does not finish his first term or odds he does finish is 80 . At 4 00, there is a meeting. Maybe it is one of those situations you do it and hes not removed. How do you read that im no expert but saying this is a political decision. Impeachment is a political decision bringing charges is different than a case. They have an election in 2020, they may just want to wait for that i would think so.
Now the ceo of juul is out and tobacco giants Philip Morris and altria call off their merger talks. The Political Risk for stocks, futures pointing to a muted open House Democrats move on impeachment and what the turmoil will mean for ongoing u. S. china trade talks. New products driving sales and double digit growth in china. Big news regarding Philip Morris international and altria. The two companies deciding to end merger talks juul is announcing that kevin berns is stepping down as ceo. It will suspend all broadcast, print and Digital Advertising in the United States as regulators have launched this crackdown on vaping products. Meantime, altria tightens their guidance for the year. Reaffirms domestic cigarette volume down 5 to 6 but it does seem like juul is entering a new chapter here as they try to get fda approval. I think if the fda cares about where was gottlieb on this cnbc contributor why didnt he shut this thing down we cant get cannabis passed in this country we let juul
Dropping below the s p 500 dividend yield which is crazy. You can make more money on the yield on the s p 500 than on the 30 year. Unfortunately the algorithms are utilizing global yields as the correlation to equities and that seems to happen from time to time. Remember prior to that it was the chinese currency any time that traded above a 7 Point Equities move lower. So youre looking at global yields and youre basically understanding that protectionism doesnt exist in global asset pricing. What do you mean . Thats exactly what is going on right now so the United States is blessed with technology. The United States is blessed with low energy. Zero versus the rest of the world. Correct but why is that becky . Because we are seen as the best economy globally and thats where i see protectionism doesnt exist in asset pricing the rest of the world is just driving capital here. So you can see bond yields coming down precipitously but still see it being something that doesnt drag the stock m
The part of republicans in the house and senate, but theres also a republican in the white house. To what do you attribute this change in attitude toward than thepending other fact that republicans were against it when there was a democratic president and now they are for it when there is a republican president . I see a couple of dynamics that go into it. First, the omb is still very much a deficit hawk. From the very hard budgets introduction on to try to keep that lower and i think with the president s encouragement and approval, but you got the big spenders, particularly in the senate, the appropriators on the republican side, who are happy to spend large amounts. They think it is good politics, and they dont mind if some of the money goes to democratic causes and some of it goes to theirs. You also have a complicating dynamic going on among republicans right now where defense hawks have basically made a deal for about five years you let democrats, if us increase the defense spendi