We are waiting for a 10 45 press meeting with the signatory of state the secretary of state. Guy that is going to be fascinating. We have an emergency meeting of european Foreign Ministers as well today, but that story in washington is one to watch. Im sure the crude market will be. European stocks up a little bit today. We saw a little bit of action around the payrolls number, but not much. Saw our way back from earlier highs. The dollar continues to push on up. I am going to show you some charts later on talking about some of the Technical Levels the. Ollar is facing now to the upside. 1. 11 now. A little bit of movement in the bond market. We are looking for next weekend the signing of the phase one trade deal. How good could that be for europe, and what is already priced in . Vonnie sticking with jobs, the u. S. Labor market closed the year with a little less momentum. Nonfarm payrolls rising hundred 45,000, compared with a median estimate higher than that. Unemployment held steady
Need and it is energy and tesla, paypal, square a lot to talk about. Your traders are not here. But i still know who they are. And the top story has been Energy Following the killing of the iran general on friday and the last couple sessions, the loss has been wiped out because the world is still awash andoff supplied in the price of oil. Weve been speaking to the biggest names about what is going on and why we did not see a bigger spike weve chatted with ceos of chevron, patterson gti, marathon oil, their first interview in more than five years and pioneer will be airing on Worldwide Exchange tomorrow. Lets talk about oil and gas as well speaking of chevron, that stock fell along with oil. Not just because crude oil fell, but because bank of america and Merrill Lynch downgrading to an underperform so guy, are you surprised at like the question we asked every ceo here that the price of oil has not spiked higher given what happened on friday enjoy yourself down there, thanks for invitin
House Economic Advisor larry kudlow someone we know and love worked here a long time. Saying that the u. S. And china are getting close to an agreement. He described the talks being very constructive in his words saying the mood music is very nice that has not always been so in these things. He sded that the president is not ready to sign the deal just yet. Also getting word in china, vice premier lu will be holding principal level calls today we are up 60 points about all it is worth, i would say. Right now, hong kong confirming overnight that they have plunged into the first recession in a decade. That marks the second straight quarterly decline. The Financial Hub has been suffering from violent protests, the u. S. china trade war the week of rage continues to boil over. Well get over to matt bradley for more on that andrew, yes you are right. This has been six months of protests this started with the extra diction bill that started over the summer that has been drawn. You can see un
Underneath we saw a radical devaluation of all sorts of stocks we were forced to reconsider how much well pay for a certain amount of stocks now and certain amount of growth now and how much we will pay in the future or do we sell . Most dramatic example. This morning an activist group Elliott Management took a 3. 2 billion stake in at t, gigantic, and sent a letter to the board of directors stock trading at just under 37 they think they can get it to 60 plus by the end of 2021 if the changes are made that will be huge. At t has been a real lager at t blames ill advised decisions by management, like overpaying for directv what would the failed acquisition of tmobile which ended up jump starting their competitor with a gigantic breakup. With some changes elliott argues at t can be worth a great deal more than its selling for they want the company to distract itself from side businesses cut the fat. Emphasize changes. Stop doing willynilly acquisitions at every turn put it altogether and
My eyes are all on the bond market, both the 10 year and 30 year perhaps approaching the record low. Im taking a look at Cathay Pacific shares. We had reports about the airport in hong kong, whether flights or canceled flights were canceled or not. Right now it looks like only check ins were canceled. Dollaryen continues to strengthen come of strongest yen has been in the last 18 months or so strengthen, the strongest yen has been in the last 18 months or so. David we are joined by bloombergs Marty Schenker and sarah ponczek. Lets start with argentina. A chart here shows the price of credit default swaps in argentina. You dont need to know calculus to know that is not a good thing. So why are people so nervous about mr. Macri going out of office . Marty because they are very protectionist, and everybody is heading for the exits. Taylor i spoke to damian who covers aerday, lot of the emerging markets, and asking him what gauge measures the risk the most. What in your area you are resear