Possibility china might make efforts to im pose security measures on hong kong has some worried especially in asia today. My goodness, thats despite the fact that we did actually get some we started with vaccine data driving the markets. Look at the rally on monday to start the week off of the moderna news you had those positive vaccine comments from dr. Fauci saying the data looked promising, but its being overshadowed by everything playing out in china, whether its the situation with hong kong and what is essentially being seen as something of a power grab through a National Security lens or intentions between the u. S. And china more broadly and some of the policies that weve seen start to come in this week as well its interesting to see in general how this week has played out in the markets because reopening from a week to date standpoint has really led the way here it is the russell 2,000, the small caps which are seen as a proxy for the reopening efforts now that we have 50 state
Industry leader this hour. Masayoshi son the company is forecasting a massive loss for the year has investments in startups shery lets get you started with a quick check on the markets. U. S. Futures supported at the moment after u. S. Benchmarks ended the session mixed. This ahead of earnings season kicking off officially tomorrow with j. P. Morgan and wells fargo reporting. Afterutures up. 3 , this the s p 500 rallied almost 25 from its march low. Nikkei futures also gaining ground. 4 . We had a little bit of strength for the japanese yen in the overnight session as we saw more safe haven bids play out during the u. S. Trading session. This of course as we saw japanese stocks falling in the previous session. We have been trading most markets away on holiday. Today, only india is off. Crude prices rebounding from losses in the previous session. We had seen crude under pressure despite opecplus managing to strike a Historic Deal to cut output by nearly. 1. Market sentiment guided by wh
Same with the nasdaq up about 60 points. Close to 1 . Here is the big stock news of the day. To stand out retailers. Target and lows. Both did very well in the profit report earlier this morning and consumers have money to spend and their spending it. It is the giant retailers who are responding best to Amazon Online challenge. Look at the two stocks go. 70 up for target and 12 for lowes. That is valid. This is not a race, i will ask you anyway. How much do you have in your 401k or you are away . I hope youre one of the hundreds of thousands of people who have at least a million. According to fidelity, 196,000 have 1 million bucks in the 401k and 179,000 have a million in their ira. Those are Record Numbers. The u. S. Drone has been shot down over yemen, it was an in queue nine drone otherwise known as you reset. It is been a long time since this kind of incident and that is true today. Without going on in the gulf oil is up just 30 cents. Stay there place, the latest on greenland. Var
China promises a set of tariffs. Jay powell declining to signal more easy Monetary Policy. The yield curve inverting yet again. How will business respond . How will it impact the economy more importantly, what does it mean for the market and investors . And then a news making interview you cannot miss. Federal reserve vice chairman Richard Clarida from jackson hole we are covering the angles with the team of reporters as always. Elan, first to you on the china fears which appear to be trumping the fed speak today. Nice, sara. We are waiting to see if President Trump will make a statement on those latest trade tensions with china and the new 75 billion in retaliatory tariffs that were announced this morning. We know there was a meeting at the white house earlier today with mnuchin, kudlow, navarro and lighthizer and President Trump did tweet that he would issue a response this afternoon. He then went on to order American Companies to look for alternatives to china including bringing bus
American companies should move production out of china and back to the u. S all of this with the eyes of the world on jay powell in wyoming Steve Liesman has been talking with the most powerful central bankers and will join us in a minute but to e lolon where the president lunaunched a tweet storm. On september 1st, the chinese imports supposed to be taxed at 10 will be hit with a 15 tariff on october 1st, the tariffs on 250 billion in chinese goods that were already in place will go from 25 to 30 . And then on december 15th, all of the products that we import from china will start being tariffed the rate will be 15 instead of 10 . In the tweet storm, trump said that china should not have issued retaliation tariffs 75 billion of goods and called the move politically motivated we know trump was huddling earlier today with the top trade and economic advisors how to respond to beijings move. They were all there and just before or just as that meeting was happening, the president went on a