8 up. A bit of a conundrum, it weaker than anticipated growth number when weve got Industrial Production and retail sales beating what was going on. Graphically, there you go. Retail sales, 3. 3 to the upside and that is what has been going on in aggregate. A mixed bag, a miss on the headline gdp but certainly a beat for Industrial Production and retail sales. Yeah, the topline picture is that China Remains the only major economy that is recovering at a pace like this but nonetheless, yeartodate, growth around 0. 7 . Year, beginning of the officials had hoped to get around 6 growth for 2020. Nonetheless, the fact retail sales came in well above the estimates will for economists who say we should see a broader economic recovery in china fueled by infrastructure. Straight cap to the pandemic, there would be focus on whether or not the consumer would step up and the numbers suggest that is happening. Ubss headore from of asia economics and achieve china economist. Always great to get your
Lets get straight to steve liesman. Jay powell testimony before the House Services committee will note improvement in the economy saying Household Spending has recovered three quarters of the decline and say this is in part response to federal spending and higher Unemployment Benefits which is running down he said housing has rebounded and Business Investment showing signs of improvement but overall employment and Business Activity with well below the prepandemic levels an the out light is uncertain. He makes special mention of the feds main Street Lending program, a 600 billion program with a backstop from the troo z treasury hell be speaking tomorrow before the house financial Services Committee with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and this is required testimony about the cares act where they have to quarterly appear before congress and discuss progress with the lending programs. The terminology, highly uncertain, is that different from what the clair has used in the past. This is t
This follows the fed chair powells comments on an uncertain economic recovery. Airline stocks are lore wer as e group pushes for more money. Time we got the details on that. Later moderna laying out its time line for vaccine as President Trump and the cdc contradict each other about when one will be fully available to americans. Maybe were splitting hairs a little bit maybe not. Well separate fact from fiction. Kelly, bye it feels strange to be this close to someone other than any husband. Lets take a look at the big board behind me. Whats leading the way industrials and materials. The only two sec sotors in the frie green. Thats the trend we have been seeing this week its the opposite story for tech down today down about 8 in september after an epic run for this group. Lets get over to bob. Hello most of the big megacap tech stock amazon, facebook, apple are down were getting one of these periodic boost from the cyclical slash value, slash reopening look at these material names and in
Hear from mike roman later on today, july has been very good i think you will continue to get a positive from housing, this horton number is the number people should be focusing on because it was stellar you will get a lot of people talking about how there is a lot of good news in anything involving personal fun, polaris, but just were just in such dim tidings when it comes to aero space thats what im focused on greg hayes, 2023, oh, my. You were just talking about that and then iata, the International Air transport association is saying 2024 for precovid traffic levels they also point out that airlines are adding capacity, jim, ahead of demand which is coming back slower than they thought. Personal travel, people want toful tra, we know that. Great Conference Call by American Express on friday about what people want to do, but the Business Travelers is where they make all the money and the Business Traveler is zooming they just arent going i dont know what its going to take to bring t
Chips made by their own engineers. Apple integrating hardware and software together is what makes our bankrupt so great. Having a world dallas silicon design team is a game changer. For apple, analysts say the transition should be a significant benefitbecause it gives the company that much more control over its hardware and it should translate to improved performance and performance. There is a broader insurgency because there are rivalries. Josh, that is a great set up today to bring in our next guest. Talking about apple, google ad revenue, good morning, dick, good to sue yee you how are you . Good, how are you good. Apple, it is amazing we didnt get any grand announcements, but the platform gets more vertical and stickier and i guess that is leading to the alltime highs. What do you think . Yeah, the hardware news was surprising to me i think it is worse news for intel than it is good news for apple. It was just surprising when people are trying to focus more on their Core Competenc