Kong reels from a violent day of protest. Police fire water cannon, tear gas, and rubber bullets as Chinas National Day approaches. Shery lets get you started with how mark how markets are trading. U. S. Futures higher by. 5 . Ons coming after the s p 500 one point on friday fell below the 50 day moving average. Bounced back. Still ended the session down. 5 . We had some traded concerns with a bloomberg report that the u. S. Might be considering restricting those portfolio flows into china. Trade sensitive sectors were hit. The nasdaq. Lost more than 1 we also have oil moving, or seeing its biggest weekly loss since july. Now we are seeing wti starts higher at by a tens of 1 . 56 a barrel. Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Sophie futures are hinting at a cautious session potentially on a busy final trading day of september. The offshore yuan recovering a touch after slipping to a three week low on friday on the u. S. Report falling options. Board ahead of the visit to the u. S. A
Constructive. It needs funds to help reduce a crippling total debt of 130 billion. The streets of hong kong, demonstrators clashing with police for a 16th consecutive weekend. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. Seeing u. S. Futures gaining ground,. 5 . This after the s p 500 lost ground on friday. We have seen stocks higher throughout the session. The we got reports that chinese delegation in the u. S. Had canceled their visit to u. S. Farms. That led markets lower. We had trade sensitive stocks, like consumer stocks and tech, leading the declines. The nasdaq fell the most in over two weeks. After the close, we saw local media reports in china that the cancellation of those trips to u. S. Farms had nothing to do with trade negotiations. Perhaps risk on sentiment being felt across the market. Treasuries rallied throughout the week. 10 year yields now at the moment at 172 level. Lets see how things are shaping up in asia. Japan markets are closed on holiday, but the
Swing up to 50 points. This is going to be a bit of a wild roller coaster this morning. We are anticipating more comments coming from the president as he continues to have these meetings at the g7. This can be very far, wide ranging and a lot of things can get comment on youll see the futures potentially move around on all of this. The nasdaq is up by 82 points. S p up by 20 coming after a big down day on the markets on friday when the dow was down by 623 points that pushed the major average down for four weeks in a row and you are looking at august being a month where well see declines very likely. The only other month we have seen declines is the month of may. Ten year looks like 1. 49 . The two year 1. 45 obviously these markets keying off everything thats happening out of the g7, too lets get right to aimen javers in france at what has been a wild and memorable meeting aimen, good luck wrapping this all up for us. Reporter yeah, absolutely, becky. Let me start with the comments the
Cant believe we didnt tell him it wasnt for sale. I cant believe this is even a conversation. David when this first came out, every one thought it was a joke. Hes just getting hes just kidding. And then maybe not so much of a joke. Alix do we know why he wants greenland . David because the arctic, particularly because of climate change, has become much more important. There are really Strategic Interests in greenland. In fact, president truman tried to buy it in 1948 for similar reasons. You invited meis to my house, im not coming unless you sell me something. Alix in the market, we had retail earnings coming out. We get a nice rally underway here. Eurodollar is flat. It is a mostly weaker dollar story in the g10 space. Selling in the bond market with the exception of italy. Inflation expectations continue to rollover. No one taking any big positions headed into jackson hole. The question is how you hedge this. David time now for the morning brief. At 10 00 this morning, we get u. S. E
President trump tweeting about Jerome Powell again following the fed chairs comments the last hour. Morgan, the president continues to tweet in realtime im reading some of these tweets for the very first time. I can tell you, just a second ago, i was in the west wing and saw Peter Navarro and Robert Lighthizer, just standing just outside of the oval office, presumably set to go in and meet with the president to talk about this chinese retaliation this morning. They didnt talk to me, so i dont know exactly what theyre up to there, but they are within feet of the oval office as of a couple of seconds ago. So the president tweeting, within the past couple of seconds about china, responding here, saying, our country has lost, stupidly, trillions of dollars with china over many years. They have stolen our intellectual property at a rate of hundreds of billions of dollars a year and they want to continue i wont let that happen. We dont need china and frankly would be far better off without t