Investors cheer more cost cutting at barclays. The banks new boss says it will accelerate the sale of assets after delivering a sharp rise in q2 net profit. Good morning, everyone. It is 10 00 a. M. Here in london 5 00 a. M. If you are just waking up on the east coast. Heres a look at the u. S. Futures. S p 500 just fractionally higher. The dow jones is up and the nasdaq seen higher by 12 points. This follows yesterdays strong rally. The dow was up by more than 1 s p up by more than 1 . The major averages snapping a fiveday losing streak and closed near the highs of the session. Actually we saw pretty heavy volumes. 4. 1 billion shares were traded on the nyse versus 3. 4 billion that you saw. Today all eyes on the fed and whether the statement will give us any clues on when the fed will move ahead with its first rate hike but also one sector that did extremely well in yesterdays trading session is energy. Saw that up by 3 yesterday because investors came back in and bought some of the
Quickly as possible. This will make it them in there, they can help to mitigate the situation. You are watching ktvu vox 2 news at noon. We are bringing a live update on the firestorms from officials. They are still there and weve been helping them get in to their farms and ranches so they can feed their livestock. We are working with them and the California Department of food and agriculture to do that. With that, as director ghilarducci and the chief said, we understand how this is affecting many people in this area and in Southern California. We will continue to Work Together as a group to mitigate this emergency and help people get back to normal. Thank you very much. And id like to introduce bob baird, the fire aviation director for the u. S. Forest service. Good day. My name is robert baird, the director for fire and aviation for the United States Forest Service for the Pacific Southwest region. Which is california and the pacific islands. We have been working together seamlessly
Shrink the feds Balance Sheet. David . David were goined by mr. Campbell who covers banks for bloomberg and alice williams. She was a banker for Morgan Stanley and u. B. S. Lets start with the numbers because they broke 15 minutes ago now. Theyre basically up across the board according to estimates and last year. Mr. Campbell thats right. Really what this is about is the expense story. It looks like thats our initial read, noninterest expenses are lower than analysts had expected so bank of america did better on that. Credit cost provisions are ower than analysts expected. Thats a good story. People may have questions on Revenue Growth. Bank of america came up short on Net Interest Income with Interest Rates rising a bit during the quarter. Theres interest there. Bond trade chg was going to be there were a lot of good expectations for bond trading this quarter. Bank of america came in short on that. David focus on the trading because it came in low. As you point out the Fourth Quarter
Producers about a planned output cut. Wti has fallen under 50 a barrel. Right now 49. 43. As for stocks to watch, chep ch chipotles Third Quarter profit falling. The samestore sales fell nearly 22 , worse than expected. They have forecast sales to rise in the high Single Digits in 2017. Panera breads Third Quarter results beating forecast. They were helped by price increases on its menu and it is raising the fullyear outlook. That stock seeing a nice pop. Pandoras Third Quarter earnings falling short of estimates. They are also cutting the fullyear guidance as the number of active listeners fall and costs rise. Akamai rising 6 beating forecasts. The company, which helps speed up the delivery of content over the internet was helped by Strong Demand for its Cloud Security products. Pandora, whats the problem . Apple . I dont know if its apple, i think its more of a spotify thing. Spotify is doing well . Its just a fraction just split up now. Its a tiny thing. What are people using . Do y
Why he is endorsing donald trump for president in another exclusive you will see only on bloomberg tv. Jonathan a brilliant morning of conversation. Lets check in with our Bloomberg Team for indepth coverage of the stories. The one minute plunge and chinese stocks, and a look at the job report. Vw still being hit by email and cheating scandals. Lets begin in frankfurt, paul gordon joins us. Inline but still not great for president draghi. Paul inflation just below zero, employment just above 10 , a flight improvement and reason for the ecb to say the stimulus is starting to work at a long way to go. Where did the inflation come from . It has never really come from industrial goods, it used to come from energy and that may return briefly but it is hard to see that sustained. Services inflation is where the ecb needs to see prices increasing and that is a stretch at this moment. Jonathan if you are looking for a company that probably does not need to wait is germany. Qe is germany. Hand,