See its the ace of hearts s that embedded on the cards when something is coming in the future, its in the cards. Im sara eisen im wilfred frost were continuing our iciness from power lunch. Its warm and loving i missed you in the early mornings lets check in on the Global Market picture futures, coming off a decent day yesterday. Small gains led up by the nasdaq tech sector, the best performer in the s p positivity despite negative headlines in the course of the week the dow 45 points higher the s p 5. Nasdaq 15. The real take away, the dow and nasdaq in positive territory for the month of august. The month thats been framed by commentators as being negative, showing signs this market is due a pull back, yet we are positive for those two indices for the month. 8 out of 11 sectors are negative for the month of august, utilities is the best performer, the boring safe haven sector which points to the fact that its not been a gang buster month. Not to pick on you too much, the dow is up 0.
News of more pipeline and refinery disruptions are all in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey now reports of more storms brewing. Well break down the impact on energy prices. And explosion and fire at a Chemical Plant in texas. Were live on the scene with the impact. Scary stuff trying to figure out if its toxic or not we bring with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin picking up President Trumps baton who spoke to our Steve Liesman earlier with hoy lights of that conversation. Thank you very much u. S. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin sitting down exclusively with cnbc saying the detailed plan cometh despite criticism that President Trump was promoting a plan without detail. Mnuchin says there is a plan, and it will be released within the next few weeks. Originally our goal had been august unfortunately, things got delayed a bit, but were on a track to get this done by the end of the year, so youre going to see the details come out later this month its going to go through a committee proces
Warning from russian president Vladimir Putin to north korea as he uses his speech at the become r ishgbric summit good morning we have a lot to get through lets kick things off with a look at the markets. The stoxx 600 is up by 0. 3 , recovering from yesterdays small losses to the tune of 0. 5 yesterday we were under the spell of the latest aggression coming out of north korea, but it seems like were moving on today. When it comes to the insdices on by one, when it comes to the ftse, dax and cac, theyre all in the green the xetra dax is eking out a gain of respectable 0. 6 merck is one of the top performers there the ftse 100 up by 0. 3 . We have that big m a deal this morning which is pushing the mid cap index higher aveva jumping nicely there, up by more than 20 schneider doing well on the french market. When it comes to the sectors, this is the picture autos, foods, beverages, basic resources among the best f performers quick look at the latest data out of the eurozone eurozone aug
Thank everyone else who has just arrived. Im barbara slavin. I direct the future of iran initiative. We just had a fascinating discussion with the e3 ambassadors and the Eu Ambassador about the iran nuclear deal. And the challenges that are currently being presented to it from the United States. So were now going to look at the attitudes of the region toward the iran nuclear deal. Were going to examine whether there is support, strong support for the agreement, reservations about the agreement, concerned about u. S. Policy or support for u. S. Policy on the part of some of the main regional players. And im really delighted. I have three fabulous panelists to discuss these issues. First, were going to hear from hussein, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in washington. Arab gulf states. Its a modifier of the states, not the gulf. Okay. Okay, the arab gulf states that are across the persian gulf from iran. It doesnt say that either. Its neutral on the gulf. Hussein
Okay, thank you to those who came this morning. Thank you for staying. Thank everyone else who has just arrived. Im barbara slavin. I direct the future of iran initiative. We just had a fascinating discussion with the e3 ambassadors and the Eu Ambassador about the iran nuclear deal. And the challenges that are currently being presented to it from the United States. So were now going to look at the attitudes of the region toward the iran nuclear deal. Were going to examine whether there is support, strong support for the agreement, reservations about the agreement, concerned about u. S. Policy or support for u. S. Policy on the part of some of the main regional players. And im really delighted. I have three fabulous panelists to discuss these issues. First, were going to hear from hussein, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in washington. Arab gulf states. Its a modifier of the states, not the gulf. Okay. Okay, the arab gulf states that are across the persian gulf