Karen lee, as well as in france, maria tadeo, and in jackson, karen hole, wyoming, Michael Mckee. First, we want to start in asia. China willorts that soon unveil retaliatory tariffs. Karen . Reporter based on what we know, china will take further retaliatory measures on billions of dollars of chinese goods measures in retaliation to tariffs on billions of dollars of chinese goods. At the same time, we have unrest in hong kong. We will be looking to see what those tariffs are. No details were revealed. Alix and hong kong, political turmoil potentially triggering a world recession. That was the conversation yesterday at jackson hole. These are not segmented regional effects. These have really global consequences. Pointould be a tipping that could trigger a very significant global slowdown, even a recession. Alix what is the talk over there . Thats Harvard University economist Carmen Reinhart saying it could be a detriment for the world economy. There are mobile shocks that could rattle
Italy at a record low. We will be going to italy in the next little bit to talk to maria tadeo about those talks. The lira down 6 10 of 1 . 8 10 of 1 germany lower. On a flurry of geopolitical headlines, we are joined by tom globalndstrat advisors head of research. Anything in the last couple of weeks to do with the fed, to do with earnings, that has changed your outlook fundamentally on yearend s p 500 . Tom i think theres been a lot of stresses to our base case. Our base case is assuming there is going to be china trade tensions and there isnt going a fed change. Vonnie how much is that a problem . Clearly we are seeing business spending cut back. We are also seeing businesses blame china, like autodesk, for example. How much is it actually impacting the economy . Tom i think the Downside Risk is really escalation. If we are talking about what was implement it even just in the past week, i think the levels of tariffs are still something businesses can work around. I think theyve prov
Josh brown its been a safe spot for august its entirely to be expected where bond yields. I was asking people today, you can have a 30year treasury, or and whatever up side you might get. Yielding 4. 17 , plus a buyback, which one do you want . I was amaze d you dont think tl is volatile . Or look at the balance sheet, too much dead. Theyre supposed to have a lot of debt. The other pushback is the bond picture details something recessionary but there are some categories better than Others Companies that have a business that seems to be less reliant on discretionary Consumer Spending. Its that they will provide padding or cushioning. I dont know how much cushioning there is left at these prices. Bo pisani is diving back into new controversial brexit headlines, and mike santoli nice rally. Energy stocking keep going down okay, most of the stocks are down, and many are near lows routinely. They had very missioned everyone results. Look at the months, and dillards and khols down, most of t
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The day. This is sort of translating over into the equity markets as well. The risk off tone continues after a 3 selloff yesterday. We got some of that tension in the last two hours or so, with china saying we violated the agreement given the 10 tariffs. They are vowing to retaliate. We have a read now on the u. S. Consumer. Walmart earnings are coming out. Let me jump over to that. The risk off sentiment continues. David earningspershare was a beat, 1. 27. Their target comps beat estimates, samestore sales. International sales were down a bit 1. 1 ,. A little bit of a leavening there. Also a beat on the revenues. Good numbers here, and it looks like in the premarket, it is up well, that has it down 3 10. My terminal has it up. Taylor i think it is because they are boosting their fullyear growth target. Analysts were hoping for a beat, hoping for them to shrug off some of the trade concerns and tariff concerns and boost that fullyear adjusted earningspershare growth. Indeed, that is wh