Strengthening into a category 2 storm. Well hear from the chief hurricane spags from noaa with the very latest on the mega storms coming up. But lets start with various stories that investors are paying close attention to. President trumps comments on the debt ceiling, the future of the fed, tax reform. Eamon javers still there at the white house and Steve Liesman has a look at gary cohms future and ylan mui has been monitoring the opposition thats growing to tax reform eamon, let start with you. I know they will kick you in that room. Whats the story just saw the press conferenced, very international focused press conference you saw the two leaders talking about the dispute between the israelis and palestinians, the dispute between qatar and the rest of the Gulf Community and dispute between north korea an rest of the world. The president expressing some cautious optimism about all of those disputes being resolved at some point in the future but no real specific tangible signs of prog
Follows the release of the white paper from his Firm Yesterday on Procter Gamble in which they have a 3. 5 billion stake. Lets see if we had set up for what appears to be a lower open at this point. The broader averages down ever so slightly. Things were mixed to a certain extent some what mixed action there as for euro zone indices, they have been done and you can see again mixed because i like to add germanys dax is up ever so slightly the ten year note yield has been the story for the entire week and it still is at 2. 05. Of course pressuring equities when you think about the financials theres wti and brent. Lets get to our road map this morning. It does start with that hurricane. Hurricane irma bearing down on florida and government Officials Say it will devastate the United States. Plus that massive data breach equifax reporting a cyberattack potentially compromised the personal data for nearly half of all american adults. And nelson peltz unveils his plans to shake up Procter Gam
I like it watch weeks later. Its relevant yeah. The wisdom. Absolutely. Global markets report lets check in on how were coming out of the overnight session. Looking at u. S. Equity futures the dow, s p a bit lower implied for the open same for the nasdaq. Coming off records again yesterday. How about overnight in asia. Well see how they react to the feds tightening yesterday which did not phase markets. The nikkei is up 0. 2 . I believe they had an earthquake in japan overnight as well the shanghai down about a quarter of a percent european equities, seeing how the theyre continuing, green pretty much across the board. France and italy leading the way with a half percent of gains ftse just a bit higher crude is coming off a flinday win streak you know, crude for wti is over 50 a barrel brent over 56 a barrel both down a quarter of a percent. Small declines for nat gas well talk about Hurricane Maria. Just thinking, japan, mexico, maria. Think about the last 30day period i know. Normall
Yields dont strengthen. Ten year approaching 2. 34. Road map begins with the tax reform push. Tech is under fire. Senate Intelligence Committee is calling for public testimony from executives at twitter, facebook and google. Another equifax apology. The companys interim ceo shares their new strategy to protect users data first up republicans pulling out all the stops to push their tax reform plan which includes cutting the corporate rate 20. Gary cohn said he disagrees with those who say it will cost 2. 2 trillion because it will be paid for with growth. We think we can be substantially be above 3 gdp growth with what well accomplish on deregulation and tax reform said i he agrees they would have preferred 15 but 20 on corporate is a bright red line, a bright line test if they were going to do that and do repatriation this would be like speaker ryan talked about. It could just happen the fact is that those of us who have gone through what looks like a plan have no idea what it means. I
Right now on the russia controversy. Well go there live in a few moments. Major banks out with earnings. Jpmorgan with a quarterly beat stronger loan demand offset a decline in trading revenues. Citis results also above consensus, helped in part by lower costs and better than expected trading revenue they both mentioned brexit a year ago, jim. Really helped trading and yearonyear comp is tough joe asked me earlier which is better and i went with citi no slight to jpmorgan, their quarter was excellent, too theres fantastic growth how about this statistic you know that jamie dimon bought back 4. 5 billion worth of stock, even though the stock is up at 97, scitigroup had every line item better than expected citi gave what was considered an analyst day. And i sat down with mike korbat, the ceo on analyst day, skpeman everyone told me, pie in the sky, he exceeded everything that he said. It is a best in show situation theyre buying back 60 billion worth of stock walmart buys back 20 million