Im sara eisen look at whens driving the action higher. A thaw in the trade war again. U. S. And china resuming tariff negotiations in october. Strong Economic Data helping ease some recession fears and the s p moving back above the 50day moving average. Key technical level. Tech stocks are leading the rally. Two big interviews coming up on closing bell. Box Ceo Aaron Levie and with Consumer Staples near alltime highs kimberlyclark ceo michael hsu will join us see both interviews only right here on closing bell. Joining us for the entire final hour of trade is stephanie link. Welcome back, stephanie. Thank you. So are you a buyer on this trade rally . I bought a couple things today. I added to a few positions, nothing new, nothing big, but i think the debate will continue are we going into a recession or seeing Slower Growth i have been saying i think Slower Growth mode and a lot of that because the consumer has been quite strong. I know a lot of people talking about that i spent this w
They see an increase in the price of steel thanks to tariffs , so conagra is not doing well today. Down 2. 1 . There is a takeover attempt. It is being bought primarily for some of its features. Guy . Guy g20 leaders meeting in osaka this weekend. We seen the chinese president arrive in the u. S. President arrive. Investors watching for the outcome of the bilateral discussion between these two gentlemen, in particular whether or not we are going to make progress when it comes to the trade war. We are joined now by Neil Ferguson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. Good afternoon. What is your expectation for what is going to come out of this meeting . Neil i dont think a great deal is going to come out of it because i dont really see that either of the two leaders, trump and xi, have a strong incentive to make concessions. Trump i think senses that the chinese are on the back foot, that he has the upper hand here. Hes playing them, as he loves to do, by saying on one hand he is in
In europe, also eagerly anticipating the jobs report fractional losses across the board with the dax down 0. 2 a check on treasury yields, we have yields, the tenyear specifically, the lowest level since november of 2016 1. 96 on the tenyear. The 30year at 2. 47. The countdown to the employment report is on. Forecasters polled say the u. S. Likely added 165,000 nonfarm jobs in june the Unemployment Rate is expected to hold steady at 3. 6 . If those predictions are right, it wont likely be enough to discourage the fed from cutting Interest Rates later this month. Well have a lot of predictions about all of this. A developing story off the coast of gibraltar British Royal marines interce interceptintercep intercepted a super tanker they believed the super tachktar was heading to a syrian oil rig. Iran has demanded the tankers release. U. S. National security adviser john bolton praised the move calling it excellent news. Wti is down a percent. And samsung saying its Second Quarter profit
Earthquake rattling california, the strongest quake in two decades. And trouble for big tech names out there. Apple and facebook both experiencing outages over the fourth of july holiday its friday, july 5th. Worldwide exchange begins right now. Good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im dominic chu. Brian sullivan is off today. Here is how your money and the Global Markets are setting up. Stock futures now pointing to a slightly lower open. The dow will go down by 38 points if these futures losses hold into regular cash trading you can see the s p off by 5 points the nasdaq down by 10. The bond market right now in focus ahead of that big jobs number in the United States. Tenyear u. S. Government note yields ticking slightly higher, just a hair below 1. 97 . 1. 78 for the twoyear note yield. On the european side of things, worth noting whats going on with the european bonds especially the german tenyear government bund. You can see there that bund trading at negative 39 basis point
Rate. That meeting, 2day meeting beginning trade, trade in focus, Robert Lighthizer testifying before Senate House Committee today and ways and means tomorrow. Jeff, great to have you. Thank you, glad to be here. Maria thanks for joining us, i remember when you first went public, a lot of conversation of where the growth is coming for and since then the stock is up 1,000 , congratulations. Thank you so much. You bet, last year i move today hong kong for most of the year trying to understand better the market, but in that time we figured out something thats perhaps obvious which is thethe biggest brands in the world want to advertise more in china, largest surge in middle class in china, in fact, over 1 years 10 years they will create middle class. Maria wow. Cocacola, nike, you want to be tapping into a large surge in middle class because they are Global Companies and we help Global Companies . Given the fact that companies that want to get a foothold in china so far can only do it thr