Maria welcome back. Good thursday morning, everybody. Thanks very much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo. It is thursday, august 3. It is 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Breaking news, the bank of england raised Interest Rates by 25 basis points as expected. Ft 100 down 53, cac quarante down 54, dax lower by 120 right now. It is time for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money. Joining me now is al lore. Also with me is mark tepper all morning long. Mark lets watch the market on the heels of the Interest Rate hike by the boe, futures indicating a decline at the start of trading. Look at the earnings, we have after the close the most highly valued Company Apple reporting earnings tonight, 3 trillion company. Amazon is reporting quarterly earnings. I want to get your take on this. Because apple gives us a window into the consumer, the u. S. Economy, business, china, amazon gives us a window into the cloud. Were going to get a lot of info tonight. When you l
Bloomberg exclusive, three hours to set you up, but first, a look at the markets. Yields moving higher from here. Mark lets get you up to speed. Futures on the front foot at the moment, firmer on the s p 500 after yesterdays alltime high. Look at the moves in japan. The nikkei up by two point five Percentage Points and it is a twoday rally up over six fourth Percentage Points. More stimulus potentially from the japanese government. The nikkei rallied and the yen declined. Weaker japanese yen and the dollar yen trading with a 103 handle an approaching one of four. Cable rates gaining as well. The pound doing very well. It is a firmer story for risk assets, but this is what i find the most interesting. We talked about highly correlated markets, equity markets at record highs and bond yields at record lows. Today is different. Equities on the front, bond on the back, little defensive. Yields going much higher. 30 year yields up seven basis points. Yesterday, there was an auction of threey
37. 86 the quote there. The ten year note, right there, hovering just below 2 at 1. 9. Lets get to Steve Liesman. For a meeting, not much is supposed to happen, were looking for a lot to happen. Were looking for signals about rate hikes. Smoke signals, verbal signals, hand signals, some kind of signal about where the fed is going. Fed expected to stand pat today. Let me look at the keys to the Federal Reserve here and the statement that is coming out as well as the press conference. Looking for something of an upgrade to the economy. Perhaps the risk becomes balanced again. Remember in january, in the statement, the fed said it couldnt judge if the risk to the upside or downside which way they were because of the uncertainty in the global environment. Does it drop those Global Concerns from the statement . Were looking for the fed to bring down its rate forecast, the average fomc member looking for four rate hikes this year. The market looking for two or even fewer than that. Well see
President obama is urging congress to take actions. Sdplp ive been pushing for years to elimi some of the injustices in our tax system. Im very pleased that the Treasury Department has taken new action to prevent more corporations for taking advantage of one of the most insidious tax loopholes out there and fleeing the country just to get out of paying their taxes. While congress has been slow to act, many see the treasure departments new rules as taking direct aim at pfizers p aim. That send them tumbling more than 14 while pfizer shares rows. It was the third set of rules as urged by the Treasury Department to curb inversion. Many say this time they will succeed in stopping the biggest inversion deal of all. Im leaning with the market which suggests the deal looks mostly done as in not going to happen. Reporter the deal was worth 160 billion when it was announced last november. Thats a more stringent structure required by treasury rules to allow pfizer to invert. The new provisions w
Minutes. All righty so we shall convene the Board Meeting all right. Thank you all for coming mr. Clerk would i like to call roll please. Commissioner cohen will be joining us later commissioner meiberger commissioner bridges commissioner driscoll commissioner makras commissioner paskinjordan i believe is here commissioner stansbury a quorum is present thank you well start with the announcement first of all, we will go into closed session be our first item for the day any members of the public here okay. Good on the ground well go into Public Session after the closed session any members of the public will be letting you know well go into closed session so the chair will entertain a motion to go into closed session commissioner confirm Public Comment. With any members of the public like to comment to into closed session to discuss the matters hearing none. Public comment is closed. A vote is not required okay. So well go into executive sessions any members of the public your excused we