Is life with more. The white house put huawei on the blacklist a year ago, but the administration is still worried that it is relying too heavily on u. S. Technology and on u. S. Software so today the white house is tightening the restrictions around a supply chain. Companies will now be banned from providing huawei with chips made using American Parts or American Design unless they receive special permission from the commerce department. Of course, this also applies not just to huawei, but also to its affiliate including its inhouse chipmaker silicon and it comes at a time when the white house is trying to blame china for spreading the coronavirus. Just today this afternoon President Trump told reporters that he is not thrilled with the possibility that china wont fulfill its obligations under the phase one trade deal and on this move against huawei, the president does have the backing of the gop china hawks on twitter senator rubio said the u. S. Has to take strong action to cut off
We are down across the board these would be losses for the week that will end four weeks of gain weve seen up to this point. Does this count as the first week of 2020, even though it is only two days . We could look at the fiveday thing and if it is up, we could say that is the first week this is up as we see crude oil prices jumping we see that wti is up 4. 1 the gain to 63. 72 a barrel ice brent up by 4. 3 Natural Gas Prices up. Crude is the real focus as tensions are on the rise in the middle east. The market is up 30 from last year that is a place for people to look this year as for gains. We are moving crude from 60. We are not moving from 62 but based on the tensions rising you think about the heighten tensions and what this will mean for the potential repercussions in the middle east the idea of additional strikes of any ships going through the straits of hormuz, people will be watching that closely theyve been blessing with the Oil Production for months. We always look forward
Cnbc news lauren hurst was the first to report this story she joins us now. The attorney are prepared to expand their probe beyond the companys advertising business to its search business, people familiar with the matter tell me texas which is leading the probe announced the investigation earlier this year but so far, the investigation has centered on googles advertising business texas has issued subpoenas for materials relating to that business now other states will lead the charge in investigating Google Search and android units separately people familiar the with the matter tell me they will issue subpoenas on those businesses. The attorney general investigation is running concurrent to a doj led inquiry which google confirmed earlier this year. Lauren, just quickly, what is the implication of separating an investigation into search versus android. Reporter so the key point is they are very serious about the investigation. Its not shocking they would be curious to learn more about e
Hour of trade, barry knapp back. Certainly the tone feels better. Do you think its fundamental with the trade tensions or some month end rebalancing stuff . I suspect theres a bit of month end rebalancing going on i think its too early to tell whether the Macro Economic fallout from the latest negative Business Confidence shock has what degree of effect its had next weeks ism on tuesday, payrolls on friday, will be much more important bempl marks to see whether were over the hump sort to speak on this i tend to be cautious and not chase the move today. On the big stories that we are watching today, kayla has the story. Josh lipton is tracking tariff concerns for apple kayla . The hope began when chinese officials said there was some Effective Communication of the two countries and it continued this morning when President Trump said in a radio interview theres a conversation scheduled today. I have talked scheduled theres a talk scheduled for today at a different level and yeah, they ha
Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla live with Morgan Brennan at post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Jon fortt has the morning off. The markets have lost some gains as all eyes are turning to jackson hole Steve Liesman is there as the feds twoday annual economic symposium kicks off. Hey, steve hey, carl this is from our icon. But the september fed fund futures has now flipped from a small probability of a 50 basis point cut in september to a small probability that the fed remains on old just to be clear, a 98 probability that the fed does cut by a quarter, but it was like a 2 probability of a fed now its a 2 cut that the fed remains on hold in september maybe some of that coming from the sort of hawkish talk or less dovish talk weve gotten from two Federal Reserve officials here in jackson hole so far. I say so far, because theres a lot yet to come. Ill get to that in a second before we get to that, i want to show all of this sort of emphasizes the challenge of Federal Reser