Singapore also in the red. Currency markets certainly, we have the sea and why in the frame at the moment. This is as we got the story today about beijing crossing gains in the yuan as it seeks to cheapen exports and bolster weak spending. That is a theory being compounded, saying a stronger yuan is ideal for beijing at a time when president xi is pushing for a more selfreliant economy. That is where we are with the currency markets. Yvonne yeah. Interesting call there. Thats more analysis with eddie cheung, e. M. Strategist. This all about shifting to more selfreliant economy in china. Given the gains we have seen in the renminbi, is it sustainable and how much tolerance is there for further yen strength . Eddie well, i think we certainly do believe there is more room for the cn wide to gain. First in terms of the dollar view, we think the dollar still has more room to go lower. We look at the indices, we are only at about three month highs. We are still below where we are in terms of
If its covid19 vaccine is effective. Jim, i know that citi news popped for you. Yeah, i candidly mike and donna are friends of mine and friends of my executive producer so i have to reveal that because i say its not about friends its about money this is jarring for those of us older than mike who is 60 but he did work there for 38 years, not retiring until february, but how great. When i spoke to him this morning, how great, jane fraser coming in. The Glass Ceiling in banking maybe a is finally cracking and its a great legacy for mike a period where net income increased from 7. 5 billion to 19. 4 billion, tangible common equity 12. 0 to 12. 5 and returned 80 in capital during mikes reign all those numbers havent necessarily led to great performance a of the stock but they are great numbers mike is a much loved figure as is donna, his wife and i regard them as a team and i know he wants to do many, many things in life and this is a soul searching time, he appointed jane last year, he ma
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Plus, nordstrom and Dicks Sporting Goods both surging in the premarket as the Consumer Sector coming off what was its best day in nearly two weeks and teslas second largest shareholder suggesting elon musk should step down as ceo. We have details. Central bankers and economists from around the world are gathering at the kansas city feds annual symposium in Jackson Hole Investors bracing for tomorrows speech by fed chair powell among the president s repeated calls for additional rate cuts some big live interviews coming up today and tomorrow from the summit our Steve Liesman will have harker in about an hour. Hes got bullard tomorrow. But we know what the minutes did to odds of a 50basis point cut yesterday. Yeah, everyone is a little talking at different moments here you have the president saying things, the economy is fantastic, which is why we need to cut rates but now hes focused on germany. You have the fed focused on the data and a little more torn. The fed is clearly thinking abo
Nasdaq up by 33. However the new york fed, bullard as you mentioned and others are pushing back on this idea that a bigger cut will be coming the new york fed itself putting out headlines saying that speech was not about potential policy actions at the upcoming fomc meeting, this was based on Academic Research done by John Williams i dont ever recall hearing the fed walking back what somebody was out there saying a lot of fed president s have spoken to us over the last 10, 12 years at this point pushing become a bit on that. Lets look at what happened overnight in asia. You will see the nikkei was up by 2 . Big swing back for it. Hang seng was up by 1 the shanghai up by 0. 8 . Again, the nikkei reversing course after the weakness we had seen the day before. European equities this morning, you will be seeing green arrows there. The dax is up by 0. 3 . The cac and ftse up by 0. 2 . Italy and spain weaker italy down by 0. 9 look at the treasury market. Right now on this friday were headin