Away with blaming this on the coronavirus when we know that the entire bail reform was changed he basically whats taken the largest city in america, and now were challenging chicago as a killing field. Its a tragedy. The man is a disgrace. Maria crime is surging in our largest city. New york city saw a a violent fourth of july weekend, 44 shootings, don. I saw weekend statistics, i thought i was looking at one of the Second Quarter statistics. I couldnt believe the damage of one weekend of activity. Maria should states and cities be reaching out to the federal government for help in terms of these spikes in crimes . Absolutely. And the president s been very clear about that, that localities and states, if they need assistance, then they should certainly call on the federal government. Maria broadly speaking, whether its china or tech or sectors, tell me where you want to allocate capital today. I think its time to start adding a little more defense to the portfolio now that weve alread
The pain for struggling retailers, but some Companies Found creative ways to engage consumers. On the round table the, ben levisohn, carlton english and al root. Ben, you used a great phrase earlier this week when we were talking about the market, you said this week the market was violently flat. Whatd you mean by that . Right. So the market, it seems like every day the dow is going up 400 points or is dropping 400 points, or it looks like its going to drop 400 points but then does an about face and heads higher. Were seeing coronavirus cases spike in many states, and some days the headlines seem to matter and other days they dont. And its really not clear what is going to get the market sort of knocked out of this range that its been in. The s p 500 did finish higher this week, but its still below the june 8th high from the rally off the marlo. So its going to be march low. Its going to be interesting to watch as these headlines continue to keep the stock market in place or if market
Fed president Robert Kaplan this hour. President trump orders chinese to shutdeo app tiktok down in the u. S. Next month unless there is a deal with microsoft or another leading american company. Breaking news out of south korea. The cpi numbers for the month of july year on year, a growth of 0. 3 . This is of course after inflation remains flat for the previous month year on year. We have seen somewhat muted demand. Perhaps weighing on the month on month numbers. We are seeing inflation at zero growth. This really missing expectations that prices would rise 0. 1 if also inflation is decelerating from the previous month of june. Core cpi take out oil prices, and you get a rise of 0. 7 , in line with estimates, and slight acceleration from the previous month. We have seen brent crude prices recover somewhat from aprils slump but still down 38 year on year also. The are also expecting tokyo Inflation Numbers within the hour so take a look at what japanese futures are doing at the moment.
Around. The nasdaq with a 1. 4 gain. The dow and the s p following suit, not quite as strongly, thanks to apple and microsoft. The 10year yield back up 256 basis points. Gold taking a little breather. To 56 basis points. To point out some of those companies i was microsoft is up. Adt is up with google taking a substantial stake in adt. Apple accounting for much of todays game. Is up as wellrck on the vaccine part of the pipeline. The markets are up today, some good signs but also some questionable signs. Manufacturing and new orders coming in above 50, so expansionary territory. Englander, in steven Standard Chartered bank, g10 fx research. Huge dynamics at play. How are you reading the current data . Tends toirstly, ism report what is happening among big manufacturing firms. The employment component was. Till soft the commentary around the strong numbers was also very cautious. I would say the impact of the numbers were a lot less than the upside surprise. Definitely, 44. 3 reading fo
Away with blaming this on the coronavirus when we know that the entire bail reform was changed he basically whats taken the largest city in america, and now were challenging chicago as a killing field. Its a tragedy. The man is a disgrace. Maria crime is surging in our largest city. New york city saw a a violent fourth of july weekend, 44 shootings, don. I saw weekend statistics, i thought i was looking at one of the Second Quarter statistics. I couldnt believe the damage of one weekend of activity. Maria should states and cities be reaching out to the federal government for help in terms of these spikes in crimes . Absolutely. And the president s been very clear about that, that localities and states, if they need assistance, then they should certainly call on the federal government. Maria broadly speaking, whether its china or tech or sectors, tell me where you want to allocate capital today. I think its time to start adding a little more defense to the portfolio now that weve alread