Nasdaq indicated up by 1. 2 for the week to date for what we have seen. Look at the treasury market. You see treasuries here with 10year treasury at 2. 3 . Wti climbing above 90 a barrel. Right now, 90. 43. Of course, we have seen big news in other places. New overnight, positive data on china recovery overnight. Retail sales raising 4. 6 in august. The Unemployment Rate ticking down by. 10 . Chinas Central Bank Cut a shortterm lending rate one day after it lowered the reserves the commercial banks need to hold against deposits. That will free up funding to lend to houses and businesses sdpbusinesses. Im happy we have this guy around. Phil lebeau. It he iis interesting, the phil. You are in detroit. I saw you talking to one of the guys earlier. This is very interesting today. Especially where we have you perched. Reporter joe, it will be interesting to see how long the strike goes. Maybe a week or two weeks or looking at something extended out over seven or eight weeks. That remains to
Dow was down 2. 25 . If you look at what has been happening with treasury yields, this is the question. Will the fed cut and by how much the question is when. The tenyear note at 4. 44. We have seen yields push up. I think traders are actually betting that two rate cuts are more likely this year. Just seeing that in the fed futures at this point. We get inflation data this week with the cpi. That is key. Last week, we were talking about the jobs report and people were saying the Inflation Numbers are more important. The jobs number is big. We will talk to Mohamed Elerian about the topic later. And breaking news. The Biden Administration announcing funding from the chips act. Taiwan semiconductor is giving 6 billion in grants and 5 billion this loans for the factory in phoenix and then a third was announced. Gina raimondo will be on squawk on the street to talk about the chips act and the award at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. That is good news for Taiwan Semiconductor and good news for america.
And the parent of this network challenging 21st century fox by offering to acquire uk Broadcaster Sky for 31 billion. The share is higher than the portion to buy sky it doesnt already own. Comcasts chairman and ceo spoke about the bid on a Conference Call moments ago take a listen to Brian Roberts. When it became clear it was not only sky for sale but that every share was potentially going to have a change of ownership, we thought now was the time to make a superior cash proposal and that is exactly what they are calling it a superior cash proposal and it is now, that proposal word is important having to do with uk takeover law this is actually a proposal under 2. 4. They need to go to 2. 7 but it doesnt mean or take away from the significance or seriousness. They just have to get their financing together they havent gotten the board approval that is all technicalities for the bigger picture, which is as carl just said, the 31 billion cash all 50 versus the 1075. Timing was the key for
Been near 0 and feds been printing money like never before jay powell has to unweekend that without damaging the economy. Lets see how that Opening Statement is being received on the stock market. Fairly well, dow industrials and the s p 500 and the nasdaq they will all open ever so slielgtly lower. Remember, this follows two day of gigantic tbains. Theres other news, fedex will not join the boycott nra movement that is intimidated several other Big Companies and the state of georgia threatens to take away a sales tax benefit from delta if that airline continues its nra boycott. The state to play is this, boycott that will be hashtagged boycott nra as politicized business. And it is trying to silence anyone who supports Second Amendment rights. And then theres the nfl. Commissioner Roger Goodell will reportedly demand 2 million from cowboys oiner jerry jones for his activities during last seasons anthem protests. That is not over. But Varney Company were about to begin. Stay there plea
Missing estimates and comcast dividend boost well go through the report and tell you everything you need to do the Big Bank Ceos are speaking out on everything from taxes to bitcoin, well hear from jamie dimon. First up, ge missing its Fourth Quarter results of weakness and Power Division its cash flow is improving this is John Flannery on the Conference Call talking about some of the early challenges that the company has faced you heard a lot from us since i came ceo in august i recognize the news we share in that time, power and insurance have been tough. We have moved to tackle the issues our responsibility is to reshape this company and ensure that ge matters as much in the next century as it has in the past. They did say we expect more challenges to continue at least for power right, the relevance of ge is largely going to be aerospace and power is a disaster. Sometimes you wonder whether what did they do to make you feel that power is good. You know who seems to be as interested