Oil saying washington tramples on basic norms, and from mining to the oceans. In a billionaire tells us his waste andt plastic see the future. And the Global Semiconductor market is not in the clear yet. How global trade tensions are impacting microns future, but first, lets get you started with a quick check of how markets close on this thursday session. We had stocks down, treasuries advancing. We started lower in the session, given that whistleblower complaint at the center of the impeachment drama in washington was released and that was not helped by the fact that we heard from a u. S. Official that potentially the u. S. Could not be extending that temporary wally suppliers to two huawei. The dow lost about two points. The nasdaq also down. 6 . The Energy Sector was also the biggest loser, despite the fact that throughout the session, we did see crude gain back some of those earlier losses after we heard that the u. S. Could be military equipment to saudi arabia. U. S. Futures at t
Fails in his bid to trigger a snap election. China signals more support for the slowing economy indicating a cut in the Bank Reserve Ratio is on the way. Protesters vowed to return to the streets of hong kong and continue their calls for change. They say carrie lam section is too little too late. Shery it was all about k anditics, both in the u hong kong. We saw a risk on sentiment across the board with the dow caning gaining almost 240 points. The nasdaq up 1 . Tech shares leading the gains. They were the biggest losers in the last session. We have the Energy Sector in section gaining ground. We had the dollar falling the most since june. It was all risk on and the geopolitical tensions subsided. Not a lot happening with u. S. Futures. Lets get you across some breaking news on the terminal. We have julys current account of numbers from south korea coming in at a surplus of 6. 95 billion dollars. The current account for south korea in july. This as expectations grow for further easing
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Soaring today. The feds fight over the future playing out realtime in jackson hole the big focus turning to the fed champ powell, to his speech tomorrow morning lets go to Steve Liesman live in jackson hole for us we got a dose of fed speak today at least. We did. We had the First Official to speak at the annual gathering in jackson hole beneath the tee time but they didnt tell the markets what they wanted to hear about the need for deep Interest Rate cuts in the months ahead. I didnt think the cut was appropriate necessarily, but i went along with it to get back to neutral i am on hold right now my forecast is just to hold. My sense was weve added accommodation. Right. And it wasnt it wasnt required in my view. I think were in a good place relative to the mandates that were asked to achieve now, dallas fed president Robert Kaplan said he wants to avoid cutting rates if he can, but he says he is open minded about rate cuts. He also is concerned that the big decline we had in bond yield
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