Locked and loaded for a response and hong kong protesters say that the government must do more. Lets get started with a quick check of u. S. Futures down. 4 after the saudi arabia drone attacks. , gaining ground by 11 . At one point, jumping 19 , which would be the biggest jump since 1991. That is 68 a barrel level. Gaining ground, seeing the biggest jump in a month. All of this a given that geoPolitical Risks are back again. We have seen oil prices under pressure lately, given the fact we have seen trade negotiations and tensions weighing on the demand. Some ofes paring back the earlier decline after President Trump said he would allow the release of Strategic Petroleum reserves. All of this playing into the market. Lets see how this will impact the open. Lets get over. Severe do we know how severe the damage is to this facility in saudi arabia . Analyst we have been talking to think that almost half of the lost supply could be tomorrow,as early as but in order to have the full supply
Usually, but i had to take one i kept reminding you that good things can still happen. Sure enough today we got a confluence of great news that made people want to buy hand over fist. Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. S p up 1. 3 and the nasdaq pulled 1. 75 hallelujah. What happened what happened . Remember the consensus on wall street we were headed for recession, right well, then we learned that the white house has restarted trade talks with china we got some strong Economic Data terrific jobless claims number wrap it up i should have gotten a bow, wrap up a box and you have all the ingredients for a spectacular rally. So where do we go from here . Isnt that what matters . That was history before i break down my current world view let me give you some anecdotal evidence about where we are or at least where we thought we were until today. Im walking down the street going over to my small mexican place san miguel, you know what im talking about. A very nice neighbor stopped me and said, wi
Companies dont have exposure to china, with the exception of amazon, which as a retailer and a distributor has a lot of exposure there they have the most china risk, outside of if you leave f. A. A. N. G. , of course theres alibaba, which its all china exposure i guess thats how i would answer the question. I would also make the simple point if you look at the f. A. A. N. G. Names, you pretty much had acceleration growth, Revenue Growth acceleration for all four names but theres a couple of very specific issues in the back half of the year. The ones with the best fundamentals right now with the easiest valuations is facebook and google krish, whats the next irobot i mean, looking at hardware, whos got an amount of china exposure that could be really damaging you know, apple clearly has a pretty high china exposure and as you mentioned before in this program, anytime theres negative news on u. S. china trade, apple becomes kind of the punching bag what i would characterize as overall wh
We have the Semiconductor Equipment index up on upgrades from the street. Upertheless, the s p is only 1 10 of 1 . The 10 year yield at 2. 03 . I know we are going to be sticking with markets. A lot to talk about today because we are smack bang in the middle of a earnings season, but there is the whole backdrop of the Central Banks and their moves as well. Forill speak to mervyn king a very interesting conversation in the last half of this hour. Theres fed talk, European Central bank later this week. It is happening on all fronts right now. Guy lets get a take on that. Alberto gallo joins us now from algebris to give us his take this morning. What are we going to bid from what are we going to get from the ecb this week . Are they going to deliver, or talk about delivering this week . Alberto they are going to talk about it, and potentially a rate cut which may come in september, and then an extension of duration of qe. Buying longer dated bonds and more of each single bond, moving from
President biden imposes limits on u. S. Investments in china. Alibaba returns to growth across all of the main divisions, defying chinas economic turbulence. We will take a deeper look at the Supreme Court ruling in the epic case siding with apple, at least for now. The other big story was inflation, gaining 0. 2 last month. The slowest pace of gains for two years. The market starts thinking about the fed and then says maybe the fed will skip a rate hike in the next meeting. Why do we care about the fed . Higher rates discount the valuations for future cash flows for names on the nasdaq 100. The main text the main tech index outperforming but we are basically treading water. The other big risk as it is bitcoin. We are the same level we have out for two weeks. The u. S. 10 year yield climbing back up. Remember the story we keep reiterating. Yields have been coming slightly lower from 4. 2 on the 10 year to now nero took now nearer to 4 . The earnings story is disney. So many stories in