Hsbcs turnaround picks up speed. The bank surges in hong kong as speculation grows around a return to Dividend Payments. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday morning, just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. European equity markets, u. S. Equity markets of by more than 1 . And, of course, we have touched the levels key levels. The dow at 30,000, and the s p touching an alltime high at the close as well. Real strength coming into today, in futures suggest we have some upside to play for. Futures all point higher. European futures also to the upside. Ftse futures up by about 0. 3 . Broadly speaking, it is the same as the last couple of days. We are talking about vaccine optimism. The news about janet yellen picked up the appetite. It is into just stocks. We can look at what has happened through the asia session. Some of the markets in asia have turned increasingly negative as we have gone through the session. Parts of asia now retreating. Th
Orders thats weighing on the dow nasdaq about 4 itself today s p up about 3 , sara. Weve got big news coming up on todays show. Wells fargo ceo joins us to break down the Small Business loans and impact of pandemic on the bank then later, well speak exclusively with the ceo of Carnival Cruise lines as a they take a huge hit. Carnival shares down about 75 this year. Well have the ceo if and when the industry can get back on its feet with 59 minutes left of trading, lets focus in on the big stories. Wilfred has the news on the Bank Earnings meg with the treatments and vaccines and Steve Liesman wi k34e7b9s from two fed officials. Gl they had opened hirer this morning, jpmorgan and wells fargo. Provisions for potentially bad loans spiked 8. 3 billion for jpmorgan, 3. 8 billion for wells fargo. Even that was not the worst case the ceo said could be higher over the next several quarters relative to what we took in the First Quarter while Charlie Schaffer said it wouldnt surprise me to conti
Melissa, kelly, and yours truly, were now at session lows as you see right there. The dow off more than 300 points kicking off the week in the red. Energy financials the worst today check out the big names falling to fresh lows. Trip adviser, macys, pfizer, kraftheinz hitting a record low today. We begin with the turmoil around the world as the trade war between the u. S. And china rages on escalating tensions in hong kong are adding fuel to the fire aman is live with the latest. You get the sense that theres increasing pessimism among some on wall street and at the same time you see this increasing tension in the streets in hong kong over the weekend. Heres the pessimism piece of this this came in the note from Goldman Sachs yesterday. They are changing their 4th quarter growth forecast to 1. 8 . Thats a modest change to the down side they say its caused by sentiment and uncertainty. Also they say contributing here financial conditions and supply chain disruptions from the on going tr
Busiest earnings day of quarter. The treasury secretary on the tax rollout. And the ceos of dow chemical and Southwest Airlines in the next 60 minutes. First up, the white house is pushing what it calls the largest tax cut and reform in history. This morning on the today show, the treasury secretary was grilled about how the plan will be paid for. And mr. Secretary, would you be willing to raise your right hand and look at the American People and say, i Steven Mnuchin promise you that this will be revenue neutral and deficit neutral . So right now, were working with the house and the senate. This is now about taking the president s principles and turning them into a bill that we can get passed and the president can sign this year so we can create Economic Growth. And were going to work closely with congress to get this done. So matt, yes, our principles are, we want to pay for this with Economic Growth and with reducing lots and lots of special interest deductions. Ive got to get your
The fed chair said. Thanks, brian. Janet yellen reinforcing her cautious for the u. S. Economy and emphasized the uncertainty of the brexit vote this thursday and the recent slowdown in u. S. Job growth and Global Economic weakness. A uk vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions. For all of these reasons the committee is closely monitoring Global Economic and financial developments and their implications for domestic Economic Activity, labor markets and inflation. She said the fed is prepared to act depending upon the Economic Impact they assess. Longer term they are optimistic the u. S. Economy will overcome the challenges. Scott wapner asked Senate Bank Committee chairman if yellen is doing a good job . Shes cautious and she should be cautious, but she should know what shes doing. Im not sure the fed knows what they are doing. As for what they seem to be doing now, the big takeaway from yellens testimony, it suggests a chair thats fine with the mar