Repeatedly pointed to the period during the late 1990s, when the fed cut rates multiple times at consecutive meetings, but not for an extended period of time he said that experience was successful but, of course, policy is not on a preset course. On the other hand a couple officials at the meeting and in the minutes, argued for a bigger rate cut of 50 basis points. And possibly even guidance now, throughout the meeting, there were references to trade tensions and there was this gnawing concern that the uncertainty has been weighing on Business Investment and manufacturing, could lead to a slowdown in hiring, and that could ultimately end up hitting the consumer on this volatility and the repo markets. The fed had a discussion about that, there were staff presentations about it, but the fed ultimately just agreed on the need to discuss the appropriate level of reserves in the future back over to you thank you very much essentially we are unchanged right now, still up 27 points. Bank sto
Magic. Power lunch gets started right now. And lets check where we stand at this hour were off the highs of the day the dow up 200 points right now, but the session highs were about 100 points above that when we were up more than 300. S p and nasdaq both up about a percent as well. Even though asian markets were down 2 overnight, so a real turnaround for our markets today. And take a look at apple, the stock is jumping after one top analyst says that the tech giant might be tariff proof. Well explore that a little later this hour, kelly thank you, bill the big news affecting the markets today coming from the g7 meeting in france. Its been changing quickly hourly lets go to eamon javers for the latest yeah, kelly, thats right the president has left the country, air force one was wheels up from biarritz france a short time ago, and that brings to a conclusion the g7 where everybody involved was at pains to strike a message of unity it ended with a Fascinating Press Conference between Emm
Dow fell about 150 points as President Trump says this morning theres no trade deal with china just yet. Shares of p g, Procter Gamble, up 4 after its Earnings Report. This is a record high for this stock. Well have much hoar on that later on thank you very much with the dow just above 27,000, the president this morning saying we would be 10,000 points higher at 37,000 on the dow if not for the feds actions. So with 24 hours to go until the fed decision, we know the president would give jay powell an f for his performance as fed chair, but how did chair powell do in the cnbc fed survey . Mr. Liesman knows. Steve. Yeah, im not doing the grading. Our panelists. About 40 or so economists and fund mangers in the survey, giving powell a bminus. You can see how this compares with the final grade of yellen, a bplus, and bernanke at a straight b and you know what, powell had to navigate hikingerates and then going to hold and then going to what looks like a cutting modality here, mode for the
But competition was set to restrain the ability of the manufacturing of those payment tariffs or higher Labor Compensation to pass that along. Some of the details we saw was like philly and cleveland. Richmond said there was strong volume at ports as there were a lot of imports to get ahead of some of the expected tariffs st. Louis and kansas city said farmers suffered because of depressed crop prices because of tariffs. Lets talk about the job situation, which is a completely different picture of the economy. Employment grew at a modest pace labor markets, however, set to be tight and there was a lot of difficulty filling open positions. Youve heard that before but they went on to say there were continued worker shortages across most sectors, especially construction, technology and health care. A staffing worker in the minneapolis district said its the toughest market they have ever seen. There were concerns about renewing and securing work visas. Compensation, however, grew at a mode
Edwin star, war, what is it good for. Welcome to power lunch, im Tyler Mathisen and i date myself proudly, ladies and gentlemen the dow at its low, now down 123 or about a half percent. But why . Well, its basically boeing and caterpillar. S p 500, it is higher by about a fifth of a percent and nasdaq higher about a half percent. Those are sitting at record levels the nasdaq, i should say, despite the hurdles facing big tech as the doj takes aim at the industry more broadly launching a broad review of Big Tech Companies over fresh anticompetitive concerns. Elon moy with more the Justice Department plans to look at three areas of concern. Are the Big Tech Companies stifling innovation or harming consumers . The doj said there are widespread concerns about practices related to search, social media and some retail the doj does not name specific companies, but google, facebook, am amazon and apple could get caught up in this. Without the discipline of meaningful, marketbased competition, d