Let us quickly check on the markets. Quite a lot going on. I am looking at the stoxx 600 in europe which is gaining a touch on the backs of gains in Energy Companies and a bullish outlook from one of the sectors bellwether. Looking at the dollar. And the fed and what we will hear from powell. Therude oil including impact of the opec meeting. We need to wait a little more to see how long we will cut production. A lineup our lineup today is looking pretty good. We feature some of the top names in banking and economics including Tidjane Thiam. We speak strategy and outlook on the Global Economy. And jim oneill. He speaks u. K. And emerging markets. Later, we will also speak with John Studzinski from blackstone. Let us get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra in the u. S. , the Senate Tax Bill is headed for a debate. Should it pass, Republican Leaders will have to hammer out a compromise. Two republican members of the senate what your say they may not agree to vote the measure
Difficult it will be to get that measure passed. But we do have the story covered. Julia chatterley is in brussels. Michelle carusocabrera is in athens. And Steve Liesman. Well have more from the three of them. As higher up on the news. But it looks like a deal is going to be reached. You can see the dow jones up 125 points. S p up close to 15 points. The nasdaq is up by 37. This is all coming as the markets in europe are higher. Dags up 1. 5 in germany. The cac is up 2 . The ftse higher. Italy 1. 5 . Portugal up 2. 75 . And the dollar is up. The euro despite the news it looks like the euro is kept together. Trading higher at 1. 1075. Part of the fact if you deep greek economies in thats going to add pressure over time. Also you can see whats happening to the yields in the european markets. In greece be the fiveyear yielding 17 . If you look to the bund thats the german tenyear thats trading at. 927 . If you check out whats happening with treasuries here in the United States youll see
Much power. Yeah. Black rock was beat. Later this morning we do have more delivering alpha stars stopping by our set this morning including your Capital Management founder. This conference could start at 8 30 eastern time and the preshow starts right now. Dont miss them. They will be on stage together later this morning so a very busy day ahead but first up to speed on the top deadlines. Three big Global Market stories developing at this hour. Parliament is in session. The government must vote on reforms that have creditors insisting on a bailout. Then overnight in asia chinese gdp data coming in stronger than expected. 7 year over year in the Second Quarter. In other reports retail sales also topping forecasts and the main index is down about 3 . The boj leaving Monetary Policy unchanged today. That comes as expected. It continues to expect the economy to continue with a modest recovery. Chair janet yellen will begin two days of semiannual congressional testimony. Shell appear before
Again. So youre not looking at a bounce back. At least not in the early trade. After you have such rough seas like that its not unusual to see it the next morning. But right now at least it looks like the dow is indicated to open down another 77 points. Yesterday closing below 17,000 for the First Time Since october. The s p 500 is down another 8 points after closing down by 2 yesterday. Check this out, though, the dow negative on the year. S p is negative on the year as well. This is decline of 2 yesterday for the dow. 16990 is where it closed at the end. Its at risk of the annual winning streak for six years in a row. We should point out the five dow components hitting 52 week lows yesterday includes utx, conoco, exxon and Procter Gamble an intel. Japan was down by 3 as well. Shanghai composite down and hang seng composite down by 1. 5. Chinas august flash factor pmi. Thats a key Manufacturing Index. It dropped to a 77 month low. Do the math on that, thats more than six years. Domest
Volatility is up 10 alone. The tenyear is sitting at 2. 036 . Were seeing if it gets to that key 2 or even below. Thats a very key level. As for wti, crude is down by 3 , currently hitting shy of 40 even. Gold is a winner. A little bit of a safe haven, currently sitting at 1159. Well bring you more on the gains weve been seeing recently in gold and the dollar is lower today. That is also helping gold. Who would have thunk that the tenyear note would have been right there at 2 and crude might dip into the 30s this summer . Im tyler math sin. Mandy drury here as well. Lets get right to the nyse and bob pisani. We had a very modest attempt at a rally mid morning and its basically failed. Were sitting at the lows pour the day. The s p 500, a bit of aa surprise at the open. We got down about ten points. Suddenly we were much weaker. Heavy selling at the open. Many people thought this was probably european sellers that were unhappy with what was going on over there as well. We attempt add br