Abigail looking at mixed trading action for the major averages. Week, the major averages having their best Weekly Performance in years. With, a bit of a pause investors looking for direction and consolidation here. The dow down. 6 at session lows. The nasdaq ever so slightly higher. The dow being weighed on by the shares of walmart. Lets look at shares of walmart and home depot. Walmart down 9 . The company put up a disappointing fourthquarter this, theirhind ecommerce efforts with jet. Com not doing so well. They dont know the full effects of the tax overhaul. Overall, a disappointing quarter for walmart. Home depot has been higher, up 2 . They put up a solid quarter. The Earnings Guidance for the full year a bit below the forecast. Looking past the result and the fact that they had forecasts for shares ever so, slightly higher. Shares of righty trading higher on the news that albertsons is buying the company for 24 billion. Teaid tradingrigh higher. This will give private investors a
Rishaad looking at the state of the markets, in flux in this part of the world. On wall street, equities ending a winning streak, and this time we cant point the finger at the bond market. Earnings are the primary culprit this time around. A major blow as it has really had some missteps taking on amazon. Haidi a pretty mixed picture going into the proper asian trading session that is underway. We are still watching the bond market. A huge week as u. S. Markets came back from president s day. We had a round of treasury auctions. Take a look at this chart. Pretty staidlly a session. 2. 9 ,year hitting about inching closer to 3 . Twoyear, twomonth and threemonth, they went up to rates we havent seen since 2008. Something of a litmus test in terms of how quickly and how disruptively these yields could rise. It is not how high the yields will go, but how quickly the bond markets will selloff, that will have implications. We will have that 30 minutes away from the open in hong kong. Singapor
This is what i am looking at, the 10 year yield. We are a little bit thin in terms of Economic Data this week, so a lot of focus will be on this mega auction sale. The first one kicks off today. That may actually hurt, or change the 10 year yield. Above 3 . About 3 600 the stoxx 600 basically unchanged. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance. , we talk the business of private jets with start up. We have an exclusive conversation with bp ceo bob dudley. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Isra the u. K. Government said to have plans to withhold billions of dollars if the eu does not give the u. K. The deal that they want. In a speech later today, brexit secretariat will reassure the European Union will not try to undercut the bloc by tearing up regulations. Signalhas sent a strong about her preferred successor as german chancellor by appointing a close ally. Critics on the right have called for more conservative policies as a way to win back voters. The unexcited move is a
Left in asias once a dominant commodities trade off. Kong markets are getting set to come back online after the Lunar New Year long weekend. Chinese markets are still away until thursday. We take a look at what is going on in the hong kong stock exchange. In terms of a handover, not much of one after that stellar performance by asia shares on a monday driven largely by Japanese Equities that had their second best day of the year. We saw a little bit of a failure to extend those gains in the european session. We are also seeing u. S. Futures trading down as well. Lets take a look at where we are moving in terms of markets. A big week when it comes to markets. It over to sophie for a look at how things are going. Ie as you pointed out, u. S. Futures are declining. Taiwan and a vietnam also closed for the extended holiday. The nikkei and topics snap a topix snap amb threeday climb. Seoul, and for decline. In kuala lumpur, stocks are sliding after a fiveday bend. We will see whether or not
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