Taken since yesterdays 3,000 point drop jim, you have never been a huge fan of futures, but you think they are especially irrelevant now. Right these are fraught. I got up three, the market looked great it was up like looked like we would make up half of what we lost yesterday i come back, were down. Lets stay focused on individual stocks individual stocks are all being brought down by the indices. The great opportunities, i want to use that word, come from the obliteration of the futures, mean while there are companies who are doing well theres companies doing quite poorly well go over both there will be opportunities today. Theres a lot of give up yeah. I want to get i have a lot of specific questions for you i know you have regeneron tonight. Signs of hope, whether its test kits from roche, therapeutics, you heard gottlieb a moment ago talking about it those three things, test, therapeutics, vaccines we are starting to see very early signs of progress. Absolutely. You look at tesla.
Usually, but i had to take one i kept reminding you that good things can still happen. Sure enough today we got a confluence of great news that made people want to buy hand over fist. Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. S p up 1. 3 and the nasdaq pulled 1. 75 hallelujah. What happened what happened . Remember the consensus on wall street we were headed for recession, right well, then we learned that the white house has restarted trade talks with china we got some strong Economic Data terrific jobless claims number wrap it up i should have gotten a bow, wrap up a box and you have all the ingredients for a spectacular rally. So where do we go from here . Isnt that what matters . That was history before i break down my current world view let me give you some anecdotal evidence about where we are or at least where we thought we were until today. Im walking down the street going over to my small mexican place san miguel, you know what im talking about. A very nice neighbor stopped me and said, wi
Expectations china vowed to retaliate against u. S. Tariffs set to go into effect september 1 were now on track for a higher open lighthizer said its not possible given your past behavior so an awful lot to absorb today. Very interesting that the futures are up exactly the amount they are right now. They issued a very strident set of words toward us at the same time, announced stick l stimulus for hong kong where is what the president said on twitter what happened and without that, i think theyre going to view the olive branch of moving back to december as an illadvised move because the chinese arent playing ball were going to have Chuck Robbins later on this hour the chinese derailed their outlook. Asking them not to bid on business things are getting very, very tense. If we let that dominate the headlines and forget to look at what walmart said today, i think well have a false narrative because of how bad things are. Remember, we are not a big export nation. But yeah, the gloom is pr
At 1. 9s coming in billion. Investment banking revenue at 1. 3 8 billion. We will discuss later in the hour. Well get Goldman Sachs. David time for the morning brief. We will give you you as production data. The greek Prime Minister will be visiting the white house today. There will be a joint News Conference at 1 30 this afternoon. At 3 00 we will get an idea of how the fourth round of nafta investigations have gone on. President trump will deliver a major policy speech on tax reform tonight in washington. Thats coming up at 7 30 this evening eastern time. In the u. K. Data came out showing the highest inflation right in more than five years in september. Increasing the odds for boe policymakers to raise rates for the first time in a decade. Earlier this morning mark carney reiterated the bank expects inflation to peak above 3 around october. After the data came out the pound raced in advance. Hsbcrevised forecast expects the pound to reach 135 of from the initial call of 120. Now we
Going on. Afteran stocks slipping we had a mixed session over in asia. Government bonds followed treasuries higher. Investors trying to figure out what the reduced odds of another Interest Rate hike mean for them. Euro drifting lower before the ecb releases minutes of its latest policy meeting. Zinc trading near a 10year high. That is a very quick snapshot of the markets. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian south koreas president says donald trump has agreed to ask for consent before taking any military action against north korea. Gameirst News Conference and he said only his country could greenlight a strike. He warned that kim jonguns regime is approaching a red line. White house chief strategist steve bannon has gone public with his long simmering feud with some of trumps top economic advisers. Prospecthe american that he often battles with Steven Mnuchin and gary cohn. Benin did not immediately respond to request for comment on the interview. Minutes from the f