There and that continues, at least. No rally 37 bucks. So many different stories to choose from. Lets start with oracle. Those shares are jumping ahead of the bell. Apparently beat out microsoft and walmart in a deal for tiktok and jim and i will go over this and find out what represents a deal nvidia arm holdings. Jensen huang will join us later this and verizon ceo, yeah, why not. Talk to us about that deal, as well verizon buying track phone maybe as much as 7 billion with certain targets met. Jim, no shortage of m a and didnt even get to the gilead deal give me your take on where we stand on the markets before we Start Talking specifically about this tiktok transaction. I can argue i want older people who keep saying the market is too high to cover their ears i could argue that all these deals this morning add up to a market that some people think is too cheap. The amount of money that is going into stocks that i think many people felt were overvalued is astonishing, david. And i t
Oil, 41. 40 we talked for a long time about mike pences hawkish speech on china from a year or two ago but pompeo yesterday oneupped that and this consulate news from china is weighing on sentiment too. Yeah, he upped the ante jim did focus us at the time on Vice President pences speech because it was quite truck lant would be a word to describe it at the time but it continues to go up in terms of the tensions, carl weve talked about it pretty much every day, whether its a backandforth over huawei, whether it has to do with conversations about closing down the app tiktok in the United States, whether it is the closing of consulates here and the response from the chinese. This is not going in a direction that many, who at least are invested in the idea of global trade, certainly, mike, would wanting to see. For sure. On the one hand the market is not necessarily overly focused to this point on these relationships and not really counting on anything to come out of it. Its not quite like
Plus, verizons 5g focus. The ceo says 50 of consumers will have access to that technology and beyond meat is tumbling in the premarket, pricing a secondary at six times the ipo price and has new competition on the way. Stocks are looking to open higher after their worst day in two months yesterday the fed cuts rates by a quarter point, but the chair dampens expectations for more easing despite the selloff, the major indices still finished july in the green, their sixth positive month in seven, although were headed into the historically weakest two months of the year well, look, were making much too much of this mid cycle were going to forget what that means five days from now we wont be thinking about that. Well be thinking about it today until the market goes up then we say forget about it. He was in a spot hes in a spot because he has a president who cant fire him but would fire him, right . And send him down the elevator he wants to make it so that its not personal so he comes up wi
Being unhappy with policy. The drum beats louder for rate cuts. And people working closely together to protect interests in the escalating trade war, we are live in bangkok. You a check oft the markets at the close. It was a turbulent day with not only iranu. S. Tensions but futures and options expiring together on quadruple witching day. There was a record intraday high only to close lower by. 1 , industrials and real estate stocks leading the declines. We have one sector gaining ground, the energy sector. The biggest winner of the session. Wti rally 10 last week on heightening middle east tensions. U. S. Futures up. 2 . Lets see how we are setting up. Sophie with the event risks sex g20, we could see asian asian stocks set for a softer open. Look at kiwi shares continuing to climb while flipping the board, checking the kiwi dollar, it is slightly higher for a succession as funds go bearish the currency ahead of the rbnz decision. The kiwi could be limited if central bank stays dovish
It was a late night on twitter. An exchange between President Trump who backed down to House Speaker nancy pelosi on the state of the union this tuesday. Acknowledging that she controls the real estate on capitol hill. A tweet sent after 11 00 p. M. In washington, the president wrote, as the shutdown was going on, nancy pelosi asked me to give the state of the Union Address. I agreed. She then changed her mind because of the shutdown, suggesting a later date. This is her prerogative. I will do the address when the shutdown is over. I am not looking for an alternative venue for the address because there is no venue to compete with the history and importance of the house chamber. I look forward to giving a great state of the Union Address in the the near future. A response, i hope near future you mean you will support the housepassed package to end the shutdown tomorrow. Ploez accept this proposal so we can reopen government and pay federal workers and then negotiate our differences. Ear