Barbara doran from b88 Capital Partners good to see you, barbara less than two weeks until the official u. S. China trade talks kick off and a new wrinkle as to what will actually happen when both parties meet. It is definitely a new wri wrinkle today. For me the bigger concern emerging is what happens to the consumer all of the consumer data this week was pretty terrific, except for Consumer Confidence numbers. Housing, et cetera, we continue to have strong wages, growth, that sort of thing but for the first time, were seeing Consumer Confidence down a little bit, consumers and surveys are saying, hey, trade issues have crept into their head and, you know, my real concern is the margins of companies, if they start to do layoffs, that hurts Consumer Confidence, and stops spending and that is the underpinning, which by all accounts, we all agree. By the way, the china has got markets spooked. Nasdaqs down 1. 6, the laggard of those indices. Bob is with us for the full first hour, which
Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Joining us from brussels, bloombergs maria tadeo, from london, ed evans, from the white house, Kevin Cirilli, and Michael Mckee joins me here in new york. First we want to start in brusselss maria tadeo. We are taking a look at euro area confidence falling to the weakest level since 2017. Maria tadeo joins us for more. Maria thats right. The numbers were particularly bad when it comes to industry. Trade uncertainty really weighing on prospects on the outlook. This is particularly bad for germany. This is a very export oriented economy. In europe, germany is coming under huge pressure to engage in fiscal stimulus to drop that black zero, no deficit policy. We are looking for any signs this is going to happen anytime soon. We are just not there yet. Has got to be, brexit. We are just four weeks away from what is supposed to be a hard deadline for a no deal brexit. Officials in brussels tell you the situatio
Why am i smiling, author of upcoming persuasion, lee carter is here, new mom as well. You look amazing. What a day for you to be back, too, i cant wait for calm, rational analysis of the war of words. [laughter] dagen former investment banker and nfl player. Record run, futures are pointing to, take a look, at hope this morning, 16point loss on dow futures, the earning season fully underway, jpmorgan, chase and Goldman Sachs reporting ahead of opening bell while fargo released quarterly number this hour, john, what are you watching for and what are you expecting . I think we will see fairly recent reports, you will probably see Companies Beat expectations, stilet not forget that the consensus view of Equity Analyst is in the Second Quarter we will see roughly 3 drop, we are seeing the first back to back decline by corporate earnings since early 2016, nevertheless, i dont think the current slow do you know will match the severity of global slowdown we had in 2015, 2016, so the market sh
Keith bliss. Keith, welcome thank you very much, morgan good to be with you. Mid averages did hit new records this morning but have drifted back down to the flat line, not really moving very much right now are you surprised by that . Not at all. Im a little suppliesed at trpre lack of action it seems theyve hit their own food coma as we wait for earnings to come through we have 300 companies that are going to report next week. We are on fed watch, of course, waiting for the july 31st Rate Decision a bit like waiting and waiting markets are taking a breather right now. Here in the u. S. And elsewhere around the globe, people are starting to go on their holiday so you have lack of participation. Were going to get into all of that a little more. Secretary mnuchins crackdown. Wilfred is covering citi earnings dion is watching the debt ceiling debate lets begin with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchins comments on crypto moments ago eamon javers has that. The rarely used White House Press Bri
Spiking over those concerns over iran also coming up on the show, House Financial Services chair Maxine Waters on why she wants a hearing over facebooks crypto play, libra. Join us, stephanie link, from levine, welcome. Are you doing buying today little bit. Little bit like what little Semiconductors Semis little broadcom i started a position last week when it fell 8 on the day and i just kind of think that the valuation makes a lot of sense and well see. Its a china proxy for sure, so something good has to happen on trade but i think the valuation is discounting a lot stephanie i was talking to one senior trader who said that the threat of a cut on Interest Rates is more powerful than the cut itself and that therefore its harder to get this same good news again. Likely be dialing back the promise of a cut or it will be the cut itself youre coming from a much lower base than historical levels but it was good news that we got i think the commentary yesterday was exactly what was needed.