Commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by calling for each item, the board will take Public Comment first. People attending the meeting in person and then from people attending the meeting remotely. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by phone by calling. 56550001. Access. Code 26605203021. Then pound, then pound again when connected you will hear the meet
Before meeting of august 17, 2023. At this time. Hey, just give me one second here. Get me organized. Im doing my survey. All right. Okay welcome, everyone. Thank you for all the participation on the board level and im madam secretary. Do you want to call the roll, please . Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner connor. Present mr. Thomas. Present. Present. Helfen. Present mr. Driscoll. Here mr. Gandhi. Present commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public c
Plus, well talk the state of electric vehicles as ev maker vinfast goes public via spac. We speak to the ceo about the deal and studio giants offer a new deal to striking writers in hollywood. Well bring you the latest reporting on that matter. But first, we dig into these markets. We look at here in the us, strong Economic Data over in china, a slowing picture, and we try and marry it all together as well as whats happening in the uk. From a macro perspective perspective, the numbers are so strong here in the us. When you look at retail sales rising, more than expected, what does that mean for a Federal Reserve that has to keep on perhaps pushing back against a very Strong Economy . Were off by half a percentage point. The nasdaq gets hit. In fact, all the major benchmarks here in the United States. On the lower side. Interestingly, though, were buying the dip when it comes to bonds. Weve seen, of course, the yields push higher over the last few days. Notable when were thinking about
Abramowicz some Jonathan Ferro your equity market on the s p 500 slightly negative this morning fantastic lineup looking ahead retail sales just around the corner. Earnings from home depot dropping across the bloomberg tomorrow. Numbers from target results from walmart on thursday. But once again this morning, we have to begin in china. Rate cuts bramo and the data not great at all. The biggest rate cuts going back to 2020. The data coming weaker across the board. Whether it has to do with retail sales, whether it has to do with industrial production. They scrapped their youth unemployment metric, which is not exactly encouraging. And now the question is, are they preparing a big enough stimulus to really stave off weakness that is much deeper than people expected . This is the right signal. The big question, youve alluded to it, whats next . Heres the commentary this morning from standard chartered. The cut has been aggressive from sogdian. This is unlikely to be the last measure. So,
Makes the company so far resilient to higher rates. Dom chu has the numbers. To your point, kelly, if you look at the s p 500, thats down roughly 54 to 5, does represent session lows at this point even at the highs of the day, only down about three points so it has been negative. Specifically in tech and communication, thats been driving the down side. 245 points on the down side. For those listening on sirius xm, its 4133 at those leaves do you 2 , 12,555 for the nasdaq each of these major indices is below the longer trend 200day moving average. Another place to keep a close eye on, look at the semiconductor etf again, the chip makers is below the 200day moving average, so something to keep an eye on as well for some of the stocks driving the action, of course, earnings from alphabet, even microsoft sharply up day yet is down about 3. 5 today. And meta platforms, weaker on the heels, and all eyes on amazon this afternoon, given what we have seen, with earns that could be something to