Heres what to watch for for equities for the second half of the year. Stock Market Investors are having to deal with a few bumps during the First Six Months and while volatility is low for now, there are a host of reasons why it could pick up. First, the greek debt situation has now gotten bad enough to spark Global Market concerns. Stoc across europe and asia have caused big swings which could cause a voter referendum in greece on whether to stay part of the euro currency. However, many experts believe the u. S. Will remain rather eninsud from the worries there. The next one is the fed whether they will raise Interest Rates. Look for that kind of uncertai continue. And then theres corporate profits. S showing signs of slowing. They expect a decline for the Third Quarter and u. S. Stock markets have not seen a pull back since 2011. Those are a few sparks to a fresh downside move in the second half of the year. For nightly busine im dominic chu. As dominic just said investors will be wa
Firm has no intention of tlashing outtlash thrashing out a takeover deal. Theres nothing to negotiation. Unilever too sales rebound despite emerging markets. The ceo is planning on another year of growth. Overall results 2. 9 underlying growth. This is the 7th year in a row that we have top and bottom line growth. Strong internals as well. And welcome everyone to the show. A number of earnings out of switzerland to cover. First, Credit Suisse beat expectations in the Second Quarter with profit of over 1 billion swiss francs. Earnings continue to suggest weakness in the Investment Bank. Lets get more with carolyn froms urich. As you said numbers were better than expected but the credit doesnt go out to him. Hes only been on the job for a couple of weeks. Yes he might have been very well prepared for that job but were talking about the Second Quarter here and that credit obviously still goes out to the outgoing ceo and im a little surprised to see that the Second Quarter shaped up better
Fascinating conversation and content out of those interviews. Cant wait to see them all. I amme to daybreak asia, haidi lun here in sydney. Betty i am betty lou at the Global Headquarters in new york. Before we get to the great therviews, a recap of markets. We sell the dollar gain, oil markets higher, oil touching above the 50 a barrel level. That led to stocks rising. Lets pull up the board to show where markets closed. The dow added on 40 points. S p gaining. The nasdaq higher, as well. We continued to digest lots of news in the u. S. We will be watching economic numbers that are key for the market. Haidi we spent so many days talking about the weather, north korea, geopolitical risks. We are now focusing back on monetary policies and the macro environment. Check out how we are setting up ahead of the data. New zealand, trading sideways, up 1 10 of 1 . The kiwi dollar at. 7252. The dollar rising for a third day, expectations that may be a fed rate hike in december, pushing to almost
Large employers. These are large multistate, and in many cases, global employers. They provide Health Benefits for over 50 million americans in the u. S. This is more of a convener. Together, butyers leaders together, and industry stakeholders together to bring reform,ents to deliver expanded health innovation, and share best practices amongst each other on how to control Health Care Costs to manage conditions, tomatoes pharmacy benefits, plan design, valuebased plan design, and engage employee wellbeing. We also play a role in washington on Public Policy issues related to health care. Packs that you can follow along with the Key Highlights were going to walk through as well as a more of a detailed report available. Spend 20 minutes on comments and then open it up for a q a toward the end. I would like to start before we get into specific findings about three highlevel observations on what i took out of the survey this particular year. First is in relation to the employerbased system.
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