Working on holiday. When you look at the markets, they are probably range bound and that is where the nudgyness comes from. We have earnings in europe that will give insight and you have the spat between the u. S. And china, which is significant but is not translating into concrete market movement. Tom we will talk about china and a moment. Airlines front and center. Right now, with our first word news, here is ritika gupta. Ritika china may retaliate for the closing of its consulate in houston by targeting the u. S. Consulate in hong kong. That is according to the editor of the Chinese Communist party newspaper, global times. He writes the u. S. Has over 1000 staff and that means it is a spy center. The editors comments have regally been a tipoff to what the government does. They Trump Administration says republicans are considering a shortterm extension of the unemployment stimulus. Millions of americans received several mental payments that were included in the last coronavirus resc
Galveston in 1865, or maybe tulsa this weekend the president. The bolton papers a distraction in washington. Around that, we continue to look at economics, finance, and investment. We have a terrific guest in a moment. To frame all of this is the Interest Rate market. I loved what you said in our previous hour about the continued confusion. I am also trading this june 19 like it is the end of the have, june 30. Jonathan it has been really confusing over what is happening with the United States and china, especially when you throw what is happened with trade. We need to see it in the data. That is my point of view at the moment. Lets see if it comes through in the data. Phase i actually looks like we achieve something. Of delete august mood, course, just the amount of business being done in equities. Lisa abramowicz, you see that in the bond market. What is the distinction you see in the quiet and full faith and credit . Lisa this has been the story for the year, suppressing the borrowi
Total bond purchase target to 745 billion. Beforewaiting until 2 30 the governor comments to journalists. We will get more details on exactly what the bank was thinking at that point, but theres obviously speculation swirling that we could see as far as negative rates. Qe byoted 81 to expand 100 billion. It will be interesting to know whether that one is actually for more qe at that point. The data in the moment very weak. We saw the cpi data earlier this and thatedibly weak, negative gdp print for april. Remember, the bank and the asernor more broadly seen more optimistic on the economy in the u. K. , but the bank is ready to take further action is needed to aid the economy. That is what weve got so far. Jonathan the pound filling the gap lower, turning negative by just 0. 1 against the u. S. Dollar. Get me to august for the next big bank of england sit down. We expanded qe by 100 billion. Do they have to go again . Guy the expectation is they probably do have to go again. In many way
Edition of squawk box, which is starting right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Weve been watching with the u. S. Equity market and things are under pressure dow was down by 600 points on friday and adding to those losses today dow futures right now down by 273 points earlier this morning we were down by 350, so this is some improvement from a half an hour ago. The s p is down by 28 points the nasdaq off by 61 lets get rightto our big stor of the morning that is, of course, the Berkshire Hathaway meeting that was health over the weekend. Warren buffett speaking out about the Global Pandemic and his recent investment moves. This was a little different this year no crowds. Usually theres 40,000 people there. This time it was just buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Vice President on stable but his message was still received loud and clear. Buffett made the case that you should never bet against america, b
Technical people captaining the ship. Better markets, futures up five. The german headline that we just saw really shows a continued stimulus in the air. Francine it is. First of all, well done to our superteam doing a great job. Germany, we had that headline minutes ago which is why i was looking down, the stimulus package to boost the post virus economy. And number of initiatives in europe, and a couple of governments saying not only minimum wage but no company big or small will be left to fail. In france, they made a lot of workers take their holidays last week so if they can reopen they will do so in july and august. The European Union was looking at suspending the budget deficit rules which would be helpful for companies to spend as much as they can. Tom lots going on. We will talk with Kevin Cirilli about that press conference yesterday and dr. Fauci not in attendance. Right now with the news in new york city, viviana hurtado. Viviana republicans and democrats are trying to reach