We bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to begin with china. The government has agreed to cut import tariffs on a wide range. F goods joining us is stephen engle. Break down what we know about the tariffs, why now, etc. Stephen this comes fresh after a trade one agreement a phase one trade agreement. A gesture, yes, to show its lowering trade barriers, but it also wants to spur domestic spending for those 859 products he mentioned, from smartphone parts to food, in particular, frozen pork. All of these products will enjoy lower tariffs, and it comes as china hosts a critical trilateral summit this week that has already kicked off in beijing between china and japan. South korea will also take part. Trade, territorial disputes, military maneuverings, of course, exacerbated by north thoses posturing, and all historical animosities still persist. So those talks should be welcome. Been korea
Plus, there are fewer than 50 days until christmas and wall street is concerned about a retail apocalypse. We have the details about that, and later, its been choppy waters for Royal Caribbean the stock is cruising higher the ce will be here for an exclusive interview. Power lunch starts right now welcome toll power lunch. Im melissa lee. The major averages are recovering somewhat after falling in the red on reports of a delayed trade deal we have the dow and the s p 500 marginally higher right now. The nasdaq is down by a third of a the russell taking it the hardest. Lets get over to bob pisani for more theres been reports theres no clear deal yet over the terms of a phase one deal with china, or even whether president xi is going to come to the table on the deal industrials, theres your classic one, caterpillar, 3m, united technologies, theyre all down a bit today some of the semiconductors like micron also a little weaker as you mentioned, coming off their lows we had a buildup in c
Later, chipotle, one of the best stocks the ceo will join us power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch check out the markets and the performance here today the record rally hitting a roadblo roadblock. Hanging onto gains ever so slightly here. Take a look at microsoft that stock hitting a fresh record high today. Its now up 50 so far this year well have more on that later. Tech stock really on tear having the best year since 2009 up about 41 bill, over to you. Thank you we start with two of the big movers today kohls and home depot. Accounting for nearly all the declines today both stocks sinking after slowing in sales are these retail reality check lets head over to bob for more on todays retail wreck. Hello good to see you. This is a difficult question right now because there was a lot of questions on the Conference Call about this home depot sales missed to what they call timing of certain Investment Initiatives whats that all about . Its up almost 40 for the year. Now its
World. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to start in hong kong, where the chaos continues. Police and protesters clashed again after violent weekend standups. The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman reiterated beijings support for the police force, calling the protesters extremely violent criminals. Precedent, you can see what is happening in hong kong right now is not a peaceful demonstration. It has turned into a violent protest against ordinary people led by a small group of extreme violent criminals. Alix joining me from hong kong is karen leigh. Walk us through the significance of what happened over the weekend in terms of escalation at the university. Anotherong kong had week of chaos after a week that has paralyzed part of the city. Carrie lam and other officials are urging protesters at the university to surrender, even as activists are calling for more rallies near the campus to support these demonstrators cured police and protesters
A major setback for boeing to get the 737 max back on the air. A trader took depositions on the stock. Halftime reports starts now. Hey everybody, it is good to have you with us on this tuesday. Good to be here. Your investment committee. And your special guest, Asset Management and forbes top 100 financial county, in the country. Wow hes walking off right now. It is going to be a great show i am done. Here is the percentages stocks they are sliding down dow is down 300 points right now. More than 1 concerned of trade talks and s p as you heard rick talks about breaking key support and struggling to stay above 2900 s p 2902 rob, i will start with you my friend here is one of the top in the county. A rich county one of the top in the county. Here is my question. At what point does the trade fight becomes trade. What i mean by that is this has been going on for two years. We keep on waiting for it to end. At what point do we think of the market and structuring our portfolio. Maybe this i