A 5 billionwith fine off it scandal. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how the markets closed in the u. S. To recordor indices saw a highs with the s p 500 topping 3000 for the first time. The dow gained. 9 . Tech in industrials leading the gains. The Energy Sector saw some gains as we had crude rallying on the potential impact of Tropical Storm bailey very. Barry. \ we had Producer Price inflation looking affecting the outlook of the Federal Reserve. Witht seeing record games the s p 500 gaining for a second consecutive week. Lets see how the markets are setting up as japan is away on holiday. Sophie investors wanted to contend with a stronger yen, which is below 1. 08 against the greenback. Eased theirhave earlier advance. Marginally higher. Could be set for another day of gains. Could see another day of close record closes. Tested as the be japan and korea spat wears on. We were expecting a cautious a data dump await from china, economists predicting the slowest annua
Doing. The one thing that has not rallied in this everything rally are long dated bond prices. Investors have been positioning for continued divergence in that correlation. We have had some better data recently. Inflation data did see a reversal of some of the weakness. A pretty positive environment for yields. We have seen an astronomical amount of data in this year. It is not in short dated treasuries, it is an longer dated. One of the most crowded markets is duration. You may be better off at the short end of the curve. If you get yields higher and equities higher, that is the pain trade. Jonathan joining me around the table to discuss is mike schumacher, kathy jones, and matthew hornbach. Kathy, lets begin with you. Maybe the biggest risk is the one in duration, not in credit. Thoughts . Kathy every once in a while they do ring the bell. I think with all of the easing, if we look back at previous quantitative easing cycles we have seen, we have seen the curve steepen and long rates
Thank you for watching bloomberg surveillance. The stocks europe 600 down a touch. A lot of the focus is on the jay powell. You can see the u. S. 10 year yield at 2. 10. And we are looking at the pound. Boris johnson is the person who will probably become the Prime Minister and keep saying no deal brexit should still be on the table. We seeing Market Movement with the pound extending. You can see cable at 1. 2458. Coming up, we talk commodities with blackrock at 10 30 a. M. London time. But first, lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. China are. And holding the first highlevel talks since a truce was called in the trade war. Top trade officials are speaking on the phone. Larry kudlow says the initial talks were positive. There was headway last winter and spring, then it stopped. Hopefully, we can pick up where we left off. Ambassador lighthizer and secretary mnuchin are exploring all that. Discussions today went constructively. But its too soon for details. Factories and bare
Leaked that were very frank about his assessment of the president , and it was not very flattering. It was business as usual, but five hours later that proves not to be the case. David but President Trump really had gone after him, even calling him stupid and things like that. At the same time, the British Government backed him. But it is hard to do your job if they are not going to talk to you. Alix for sure. But also the leaking. He was supposed to report back. That was the point. In the markets, we are seeing a bond selloff headed into the fed , particularly on the long end and in europe. German bund yields are at their highest level since three weeks ago. You have persistent weakness in the equity markets, down 2 10 of 1 . It is a mixed dollar story. Some industrial output from europe. Eurodollar goes nowhere. Yields up by about three basis points, 2. 1 . We havent seen that in about a month. Crude, lots of things boosting crew today. Russian production is down. More harsh words fr
Diversity officer. She tells us how facebook plans to double the number of female employees globally over the next five years, and why the company is setting such an ambitious target in the middle of a media firestorm. First to our top story. Facebooks plans to create its own Cryptocurrency Libra is not , getting love from lawmakers. And you can add fed chair Jerome Powell to the list. Take a listen to what he told the House Financial Services committee. While the project sponsors Public Benefits including improved Financial Access for consumers, libra raises serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed. Facebook has a couple billion for thers so you have first time the possibility of a very broad adoption. If there were problems associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, any of the things we are all focused on, including the company, they would rise to