His personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and the u. S. Attorney general william barr, to look into his little look into his political rival joe biden. This is according to the rough transcript, not the exact transcript, and it has just been released. Lets get to chief washington correspondent Kevin Cirilli for more details. It looks like it is a rough transcript, and not all of the details. Kevin precisely. Right now we are just getting a link to the transcript of President Trumps call with the ukrainian president. Lets go through some of those headlines crossing the bloomberg terminal now. The transcript shows trump pushing him to reopen the biden probe, and President Trump at one point asking his ukrainian counterpart to look into joe bidens son. President trump also reminding zelensky that the u. S. Sends aid to ukraine, and that this is not a verbatim, but this was based off of notes and recollections of officials. A statement now coming from White House Press secretary Stephanie Grisha
Of impeachment still hangs over the president. He releases the ukraine transcript. Shery lets get a check of how markets close. As you mentioned, we saw impeachment drama play out in washington. That weighed on markets a little bit, but there was more optimism for potential trade deals, not only with china, but that limited trade deal with japan also boosting market sentiment. We had the s p 500 gaining. 6 , to stop a threeday decline. Banks consumer stocks, leading the gains. Also tech stocks, nasdaq gaining 1 . The Energy Sector was unchanged in the session. We had crude following for the last two sessions. At the moment, opening higher, up. 3 , but Still Holding at that 56 a barrel level as we heard from saudi arabia that they are ahead of schedule in restarting operations after drone attacks on their facilities. Futures at the moment not doing much. Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Hintingasia futures are at a risk on start to the session, but emergency currencies may come u
Costs in the slowing economy. The loan prime rate tracks credit of trustworthy customers. Shery we will discuss the crackdown by social media giants and what they called a china backed effort to undermine the protests in hong kong. First, lets get you started with a quick check of how the markets closed the monday session in the u. S. The s p 500 gaining more than 1 for a second session. Every sector in the green, led higher by energy and tech stocks. Oil rallying after a drone attack in saudi arabia. That really highlighting middle east tensions in the oil market. The dow gaining 250 points. The nasdaq up 1. 4 . More optimism over the trade fund. That is filtering in through the u. S. Dollar which was higher throughout the session. Taken to another level, the highest this year after the boston chief eric rosenkrantz sounded a more hawkish tone. See how things are shaping up for the as markets. Sophie asian futures are trading mixed with tech very much in focus after semis rallied on w
Who is falling behind . Weve got the latest l polls ahead of the big democratic debates coming up, and end of the month and then spacex reach for stars two big successes lodging rocket to space station and getting the giants space hop per, that even elon musk says looks like a water tower to blast off a the ground. Mornings with maria beginsing right now. Weve got a big program this morning joining conversation Fox Business Network Dagen Mcdowell and the brewer group investsment banker nfl star jack brewer great to see everybody today. Great to see you happy friday. My name better than you Maria Bartiromo. [laughter] rally up everybody. Dagen is in the house. Come on. So sweet. All right weve got gdp this morning that is important. Going to dig into that. So were expecting almost 2 growth 1. growth so things to watch out for ill jump ahead. Household spending infrastructure, investment and military buildup could contradict 4 percentage point to gdp but get a reversal inventory draw dow
The moves weve seen markets everywhere were rattled by this news look at the treasury market. The tepyenyear went all the w down to 1. 89 . This morning the yield is lower, 1. 847 this is happening as you look at yields rolling back to levels we have not seen since november of 2016 the 30year is yielding 2. 377 the twoyear is at 1. 70 the five year at 1. 648 overnight in asia, stock theres took it hard you will see that the nikkei was down 2. 1 . The hang sens off by 2. 35 the shanghai was down by 1. 4 . In europe this morning, there are red arrows there as well with significant losses. The cac is down by 2. 75 the dax is off by 2. 6 the ftse off by 1. 9 so around the world all of this, people are watching closely to see what this means for the economy. Maybe no better market to see that in than the move in crude oil prices yesterday wti was off by more than 4. A decline of 7. 9 . Thats the worst single day performance since february of 2015 concerns about what this all will mean for t