Concerns over production of the 737 max jet. And positive news on the housing front, as home builder confidence jumps to its highest level in two decades coming up next hour, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us to discuss trade and the economy. You do not want to miss that and with us for the whole first hour of theshow, dan nathan from risk reversal advisers. Dan, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Great to be here. More optimism on trade or whatever you want to put it down to is a lot of this news not already out there . Are you surprised to see ongoing rallies to new highs yet again at the end of the day, you like to see followthroughs. So friday, we had a muted react. A lot of investors expected some kind of surge, similar to what we had at the end of 2017 after the big tax cut. A lot of this was priced in. I think the continuation of last weeks rally into this week is obviously pretty establibullish. Also fairly seasonal as we are looking down the barrel of a week
These are your markets we are getting some data. Manufacturing pmi coming in better than expected. Little bit ofa optimism when it comes to the stoxx series the stoxx 600. Treasuries falling with the bonds. U. S. Looking daughters holding dollars holding pretty steady. Coming up tomorrow we speak to the Goldman Sachs chief executive, david solomon. Meantime we will speak about euro markets. As get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. Viviana Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized for failing to deliver brexit by the deadline. Speaking to sky news he took responsibility for the failure but blamed parliament for refusing to back his timetable. One concern for his riot one concern for ryanairs ceo is the upcoming election may not decide a thing. My fear is this election would result in more delay. That could be good in that it means it means the transition to continue on ad infinitum. The economy needs to see in into this uncertainty. Viviana over to hong kong where 200
But the bond proxies are back and they are big, the car sector an similar stories like that are selling off. German tenyear yields catching more of a bid. Something i want to highlight this afternoon is we are seeing emergingmarket currencies being sold off, including the russian ruble and the south korean south american rant. South african rand. For a bloomberg scoop, sources saying Chinese Stateowned entities are in talks to invest 5 billion to 10 billion in aramcos ipo. This comes as saudi arabia seeks commitment from friendlier governments to shore up the sale. We are joined now by our bloomberg reporter. How much is this impacting u. S. Markets and analyst today who might be interested in the ongoing deal . We knew this was going to get attention from a lot of the big sovereign wealth funds, they were going to be the folks to put their money behind it. This is a huge deal for china. Most people want to wait to see what kind of dividends saudi aramco is going to have. They have com
Softbank continues to design a plan for wework despite signs that the startup prefers jpmorgan. Afterflix shares jumping investors concerns are called about a concern back home. We are seeing u. S. Futures unchanged this is after u. S. Stocks fell in the regular session. We had tech and Energy Leading the declines on the s p 500. We also had treasury yields declining today. We have u. S. Retail Sales Numbers that came in and contracted missing expectations. Up the sentiment for potential rate cuts coming later this month from the fed. However, we did see the pressure continued to mount as we also had china saying they would retaliate if u. S. Congress is up to have legislation in hong kong. Sentiment not great across markets. We saw the u. S. Dollar taking a dip. Lets take a look at asia. More of the same with sentiment taking a hit. Take a look at how futures are setting up and asia. We are seeing a mildly positive start when it comes to trading in some parts of asia. We have japanese
They know nothing after a day where the nasdaq climbed. 30 , although we were much higher most of the day, this feels like one of the moments where the bulls are trying to have it both ways on a bunch of key issues. Thats not good. Some things are mutually exclusive. Today was a goodlooking day that was actually quite ugly yes, the inside didnt lock like the outside. And you know i dont think you should judge a book by its cover. I know hope springs eternal. But today we saw too much hope too much hope springing eternal. And some of these hopes simply cant be reconciled. So they wont work in the end. What do i mean you cant have the bank stocks keep going up while the financial tech stocks also go up its either one or the other, because Portfolio Managers only go all in on fintech when theyre scared to own the banks. You shouldnt have a rally in old tech coupled with a rally in new tech that doesnt work. They tend to trade in opposite directions today you had the soft goods stocks runn