We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We are going to start with the latest in asia, where chinese officials concluded the biggest meeting of the year in china. The gathering of the communist Partys Central Committee focused on the economy and hong kong protests. Going me is and occur in joining me is enda curran. What did we learn . ,nda it was a fourday closeddoor meeting. They spoke mostly about rising domestic and international risks, and of course, the backed up domestically being the slowing economy, unrest in hong kong, and internationally, trade war with the u. S. We didnt get any Major Economic initiatives out of it, but we did get some signals that it is doubling down on party control, and ensuring much stricter oversight of hong kong. There was no sense of compromise when it comes to dealing with protesters. Alix thank you so much. Now we went to head to germany, w
Order. Today treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin will testify on 2017 annual report and the operations and actions. Identified potentially threats. One of the recommendations urged congress to reform Housing Finance system and boost role of private capital. I have repeatedly stated that the status quo is not a viable option and reforming is one of my key priorities. Four years ago a Bipartisan Group of senators passed Housing Finance reform bill in this committee. We have an opportunity now to build on that effort and create a broader coalition of republicans and democrats to pass a bill into law i look forward to continuing to work with the other members of this committee with secretary mnuchin and other stake holders throughout this process. Another focus was Cyber Security. The list of significant tieber attacks in the public and private sector keeps growing at an alarming rate and seems to have impacted the majority of all americans. Its critical that personal data is protected and w
A new plan to revamp them expected to be announced this week by president ial candidate Hillary Clinton. Cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood is in d. C. Now with details. Reporter mandy, Hillary Clintons beginning to lay out all of the components of her Economic Program to try to relink middle class incomes with the profits of Corporate America. Last week she talked about a plan to link employee tax policy or employer tax policy toward Profit Sharing with employers. Now shes trying to encourage longterm investment. I just want to go back to the history of Capital Gains rates to illustrate what shes the system that shes trying to tweak. Back in 1986 when Ronald Reagan was president , we had a tax reform plan. The Capital Gains and top marginal income tax rates were the same 28 . Then when you move to the bill clinton balanced budget deal in 1997 you had the top income tax rate up to 39. 6 . The top Capital Gains rate had gone down. So they brought back the separation betwee
Conversation with the chairman of estee lauder about sustainability. This is the picture for your markets. Bonds, edging low. The dollar is dipping. Treasury ahead of the federal reserves last meeting. When you look at the euro, its mainly drifting on the back of what investors proceed as a possible risk of catalonia. You can see the common currency in europe gaining for the Third Straight day. Lets get the first word news. The u. S. Has blamed turkey for the instigation of the crisis between the two countries and a resolution will be needed on why americans were detained in this year. The u. S. Ambassador to turkey issued a video statement on youtube. The embassies stop issuing nonimmigrant visas which prompted a metallic terry retaliatory response by turkey. Theresa may has one support. Gois johnson and michael praised her strategy after outlining contingency plans to leave the eu without a deal, asking businesses to prepare for the worst. May said it was in the eus court, although t
If you check out crude oil, which is probably the biggest market story weve been watching for a week or so crude Oil Yesterday was up slightly to 42. 74. This morning up to 42. 84 youre still talking about wti below 43 a barrel. Americas 34 largest banks did well in the stress test. The results show even during a large recession large banks would be well capitalized and could support homes and businesses when times are tough. The second part of the stress test will be released next wednesday. There are talks about whether things might have loosened up a bit with the fed. Doug parker says he is not happy with Qatar Airlines plan to buy a 10 stake in the company. Parker telling phil lebeau he found out about it yesterday parker telling cnbcs phil lebeau he found yesterdays offer confusing, adding why an airline were aggressively fighting would want to take a stake makes no sense he wonders if the motivations were misguided and ill conceived. They have been fighting over policy in washing