225 pulling back after the rally we saw last week. Infections in tokyo hit a daily record on friday. The sti, keeping a watch on banks right now. Dbs said to be among which filed for protection. Flipping the page, the bloomberg dollar index. It does look like investors are looking for havens. New york crude down by 13 . Gold lower as well. We have President Trump upping the ante, suggesting china may have deliberately caused the coronavirus pandemic, saying there will be consequences if the country is known found to be knowingly responsible. Beijing saying the u. S. Is trying to shirk its responsibilities. Another move to ratchet up tension between the two nations and the handling of this pathogen. Tom absolutely. Every markable uturn from the u. S. President. He was praising china handling the coronavirus crisis. Trump see me to suggest the chinese seeming to suggest the chinese may have released theycoronavirus, saying if are knowingly responsible, they will face consequences. Debora
At 1. 08. The unstoppable market as investors digest the details of that china trade deal. Stocks ready to open on new records. Southwest is pulling the boeing 737 max until june. Airlines are digging in for more delays. And shares of Morgan Stanley before the bell. They posted record profit and revenue in 2019. Stocks looking to make more history a day after the dow closes above 29k for the first time and the president signs that phase one deal with china the s p on its way to the seventh weekly gain in eighth. Total holiday, exauto and gas up 44. Names like target might have been an execution issue. Yeah, i have to say that. I just dont find any other excuse i do think that Brian Cornell pretty much said, listen, we screwed up other people, other stores kid better that aggregate number is so much stronger than anything you saw from target. I have to believe they went to walmart, best buy or costco but they sure didnt go to target. Were going to get more earnings as we shift from the
Still waiting for the French Market and the German Market to really get into their stride perhaps this morning. he british pound up around 0. 3 as we hone in on december 12. The Options Market is currently adjusting itself around that kind of timing. The dollar index is down by around 01 . 1 . s look at 0. Lets get a look at the sector perspective. And the outer space, what is good for one company doing m a might be bad for another. Financials looks to be an area of red, as does health care. A couple of areas of green coming through their but essentially read in both of those, as is staples. Utilities and staples looks to be fairly green. That looks a bit defensive on of what we are seeing here from sectors. One of the sectors we have focused in on a lot is the auto sector of course. The vw share price is trading higher, up by 1. 9 . There was no change in revenue on margin guidance from vw. Weve been speaking to the vw ceo, that is frank witter, about the cut to the forecast. Frank ma
Alleged phone call an apparent trade detente that was apparent flipflops leave beijing unsure of u. S. Policy. Is the first of chinas big touted by the u. S. Administration, we saw the yuan banks to report earnings. Six in terms of the senate how the trade war is affecting devaluation was the largest performance. Shery lets get you started since the beginning of august, when we saw the risk of event with a quick check up on how markets closed. Where the yuan bridged the seven level. Theintent is there from it was a wild ride, with u. S. Chinese site. Dogs paring back gains. The s p 500 finished down. 3 . If we see these levees continue to be raised on september 1 and it is a very financials leading the declines with the 10 year yield falling politically important date for below 1. 5 . He dow gave up 120 points the chinese. It is the 70th anniversary of the peoples republic of china. That is not something the chinese are willing to let slide it was a bit of a mixed picture with volatili
Same with the nasdaq up about 60 points. Close to 1 . Here is the big stock news of the day. To stand out retailers. Target and lows. Both did very well in the profit report earlier this morning and consumers have money to spend and their spending it. It is the giant retailers who are responding best to Amazon Online challenge. Look at the two stocks go. 70 up for target and 12 for lowes. That is valid. This is not a race, i will ask you anyway. How much do you have in your 401k or you are away . I hope youre one of the hundreds of thousands of people who have at least a million. According to fidelity, 196,000 have 1 million bucks in the 401k and 179,000 have a million in their ira. Those are Record Numbers. The u. S. Drone has been shot down over yemen, it was an in queue nine drone otherwise known as you reset. It is been a long time since this kind of incident and that is true today. Without going on in the gulf oil is up just 30 cents. Stay there place, the latest on greenland. Var