Import and inflation data. Lets have a look at other price action, some of the stocks to watch. As the yield is lurching lower, some changes, but look at the dollar spot index as it moves to the psychologically important 100 level. A bit of appreciation as we had malaysian bonds kept on watch. The ftse index weve been talking about. 9 sinceices are down september 15. Thats currently what we have and we are seeing prices recovering a little bit, two cents. 17. 84 for an ounce of silver. Lets take a look at what else is going on. Weve got events in hong kong, certainly leading to corporate there. Perhaps trying to get on the right side of the narrative, which is the subtext behind the protests on the streets of the territory. Heres su keenan with the first word news out of new york. Su lets get to it. Second hong kong developer says it will offer land for Affordable Homes if the government moves to invoke legislation. The South China Morning Post says Henderson Land will provide one mill
The dow eyeing eight Straight Days of gains on growing optimism around u. S. china trade. Weworks rocky road to an initial Public Offering. And the democratic faceoff, warren, biden, sanders dominating the debate stage. Just what their plans could mean for your portfolio stocks are chasing history this morning the dow and the s p each within 1 of hitting record intraday highs. The blue chips in the midst of a sevenday win streak for First Time Since may of last year. You have signs of a health y consumer, Government Data shows retail sales up. 4 in august, double expectations. Core unchanged, looking for. 1 but july even after that upside surprise revised higher. Is this ever putting the pressure on jay . I think jay powell is uniquely faced with a difficult decision. You posted some stuff the other day about you raised rates and the economy is not being hurt so why should we just want to cut them i continue to say he raised rates too much and i want i want to go for the full on 3 on e
And, what i plan to do today is have dr. Griffin give opening remarks about his priorities and things that may or may not have changed since the last time we spoke and had a conversation. He and i will engage in backandforth and talk about what he mentioned in his opening remarks, and it is my hope to allow time for questions. Without further ado, dr. Griffin. Dr. Griffin it is a pleasure to be here. The last time i was here was in april of 2018. After i was two months was confirmed as the undersecretary, and it was still three months before i was the head of an actual Legal Organization within the department of defense. We were still working on establishing a charter and all of the bureaucratic things one does to convert legislation into executive branch institutions. Months since i have been here, we have been busy. We have filled out the senior bank levels of our organ senior levels of our organization. Porter you know dr. Lisa as well as our directors for Defense Research and engin
Lisa but interestingly, they also took down their loan loss estimate, so that basically speaks to the strong consumer. The question is if wall street revenues dont pick up and trading volumes dont pick up, will it be enough to have a strong consumer to drive Bank Earnings Going Forward . David it is not just jp morgan. It is also Johnson Johnson. We got earnings from them, and they beat on earningspershare and revenue. 2. 58,spershare was revenue was 22 billion. It was driven by pharmaceuticals, but most of the queries will be about the legal complications from opioids and talchis asbestos in allegation. Lisa it will be interesting how they frame that. David we will have more on j js earnings later this hour with joseph wolk, Johnson Johnsons cfo. Climbing a little bit. The dollar getting a bid, and to year yields up just a basis point. David at 7 30 this morning, Goldman Sachs reports secondquarter earnings, followed by wells fargo at 8 00. At 8 30, the u. S. Releases retail Sales Num
Listen to the exchange. Sen. Harris i do not believe you are a racist. It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputational two ors whostates senat built their career on the segregation of race in this country. This campaignhave litigated on who supports civil rights, im happy to do that. David number one, you dont want to be saying im not a racist. Number two, the thing that struck me as i think a lot of democratic voters in the primaries are saying, who can beat President Trump . Joe biden did not come across as someone who can beat donald trump on the debate stage. Alix it is the optics of a split screen like that. It just shows how much the Democratic Party has really changed in the last 30 years. David that was pointed out very explicitly, saying it is time to pass the torch. Alix which they kind of already said it some point before. In the markets, nothing is happening. Wait till sunday, when markets start opening for trading. Maybe a little volatility because the russell rebal