Over. 1 treasury yields, this morning were taking a look and youll see that its trading at 1. 5 . 1. 543 to be precise the two year a little higher than that in terms of the yield. 1. 518 this is no way to run a business, obviously. Im talking about torte reform and things like that when one judge can say yeah, 17 billion he didnt. No, he didnt but he could have thats what we deal with in todays with trial lawyers. Now to get to a developing story this morning, i got my editorializing out even before. Started at least. Thats what the story was Major Court Ruling this is just one state too this is oklahoma we know about the Opioid Crisis. It was against Johnson Johnson. The judges ordered them to pay 572 million for country bouting to the opioid economic in oklahoma under the public nuisance law theres 50 states by the way. Theres also municipalities. Think about it. It says j and j and its unit repeatedly down played the risk of addiction doctors were targeted as key customers. It cove
The market moving news from around the world. Joining us on the phone from hong kong is karen lee, from london, emma chandra, and here in new york is michael mckee. First we want to kick it off and hong kong come over the chief executive carrie lam spoke at a briefing following 12 straight weekends of protests in the city. Lam the government is confident we can handle a months long disturbance. I think it is a common goal and hong kong to handle this by ourselves. Alix bloombergs karen lee has the latest. Where are we at . Carrie lam speaking publicly after another weekend of violence, saying they can handle unrest without assistance from chinese forces, and that she still wants to hold talks with protesters. This comes after beijing issued its most direct warning yet, saying in a commentary on state media that the government has the Legal Authority to halt what it said had become a revolution, even though analysts still say such a move remains a last resort. There are calls now for an
The 10 year yield has just cracked 50. Twostens spread come as you might imagine, 4 basis points. Altria morris and looking at a merger. Phillip morris owners less pleased. London is andrew sheets, chief cross asset strategist at morgan stanley. Andrew, thanks for joining. Since we last spoke to you, weve had many more headlines, but how have we actually moved the needle on trade talks or any kind of agreement . Andrew im not sure that we have, vonnie. I think we are still unfortunately in the place that we were a week and a month ago where there is still quite a bit of uncertainty. You still have this impending deadline on september 1, with more tariffs that are going to go in, and still conflicting signs over what the path will be. I think the most likely path still being escalation. Directlyts of tariffs on growth and uncertainty, Holding Back Business investment, unfortunately are still there. Vonnie andrew, we just cracked 1. 50 on the 10 year yield. Im curious whether we see some
We stand with the markets. Stocks have bit a bit under pressure but the yield now off the session lows were off the session lows on equities as well the yields are 1. 48 s p 500 is down just fractionally small caps are getting hit the worst there. You see the russell is down by just about a percentage point. Power lunch starts right now and despite growing recession risks, jpmorgan is taking on the bears. The firm saying today that the worst could be over and calling for the market to advance as the year ends. Start with the september surge but goldman, bank of america, and nomura across the market lets get over to bob pisani with more. Bulls versus bears, an old sory, but the bears are getting more vocal in the last couple days a sudden spate of bearish notes. First, Goldman Sachs said the trade war escalation is making them judge down their gdp growth forecast for the third quarter, fourth quarter, and First Quarter of 2020. Probably the most Important Note out there right now. Bank
Yesterdays drop as the yields rise, the s p and nasdaq are now on pace for their worst week since march. Interesting action in bonds as the ten gets back to 4. 2. Weird. Today we got decent productivity data, labor costs were okay, and then prices paid on the ism back to the highest levels since april. So the markets sussing out what is the inflation trend right now. Watching that inflation trend and that commentary we got from Warren Buffett and his confidence in treasuries and the fact hes going to keep buying is just a question of which treasury right and then, of course, a slew of corporate results. We talked media last hour with warner bros. Discovery all eyes are on apple and amazon and their commentary about the back drop. I think were going to be seeing the tea leaves of amazon and what well see in the next quarter. I think thats important. Very big night of results coming their way ahead of the jobs number. Despite our next guest pointing out warning signs in the market, hes n