Paying more than 1 billion australian to settle a Money Laundering allegation, the largest corporate find never levied in australia. Tiktok drama turns another page, owner bytedance asking a judge to halt the ban in america, Chinese State media slamming u. S. Dirty trip u. S. 30 tricks. We heard from larry kudlow in the last few minutes, downplaying expectations we will be getting any more fiscal stimulus through the pipeline, larry kudlow saying he doesnt think the u. S. Needs another stimulus package and that they will be doing targeted measures only and need to be smart about this measures. This comes after course of fed officials, including chair powell, saying there is a long way to go for the economic rebound, we heard from several others, all saying there is further need of more fiscal stimulus to do that heavy lifting. And that comes after congress ended its pursuit of a bipartisan spending bill and are now focused on replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the supreme expected thisin
Little ahead of expectation. The employment number has picked up a little bit as well. But you need some real analysis on what is happening here. Theres one man to ask, mike mckee, bloombergs International Economics and policy correspondent. Michael read into it what you want. The numbers for ism do come in at a headline level lower than the last month. 56 last month, 55. 4 this month. It would suggest a be a little slowing, but that is the statistical anomaly probably. It isnt a major change. We see drops in new orders and production, but those were very healthy. For for new orders, 61 production. It is not positive. There is still some contraction, but it is up to 49. 6 from 46. 4 . It does suggest some progress in adding back some of the jobs that were lost. Customer inventories is an interesting category a lot of people has been what a lot of people have been watching. Do you need to increase manufacturing to replenish those inventories . That would suggest that you do. New export
Joining us for the hour stephanie link from nuveen, a tiaa company so we lost the gains is it on fears ha a trade 2k5e8s getting pushed snout is the market expecting a trade deal at this point i think were a little more optimistic about a trade deal most recently and thats why we rallied as much as we did and thats why rates actually increased over the last couple of weeks but yeah, i think the commentary today about trade kind of pushed us down. But i really think were still trying to digest what the fed said yesterday i do think it was a hawkish cut but i also thought that powell walked it back why was it a hawkish cut . Because you have the dissenters and you were talking about it yesterday you were right on it as soon as it came out yesterday about the dissenters and i totally agree with you on that heres the quandary. The Economic Data in the sfats is not bad we had great housing data yesterday, pretty good data on housing, i. P. , retail sales. Jobs continues to be good. So if he
Emission said they will break up the tech company. Get ready for things to get messy if he tries to be u. S. Stocks suffering another the selloff in treasuries. Surging as mountain signs of an economic slowdown still fears a recession. The s p 500 has big tech driving the losses. , amazon allsoft closing deep in the red. It has gripped the index since President Trump rekindled the trade war with china at the start of august. The s p 500 has gone 1 for 11 straight sessions and is now down 6 from a july record. We are joined by our Bloomberg Cross asset reporter in new york. A lot of bond buying today. What does that mean for tech . Longerf you look at dated bond yields with 30 year sawing to a record low, we a yield curve inversion between the two year treasury yield to a 10 year treasury yields for the First Time Since 2007. We were no longer in negative territory. We should mention that. That means for tech going if you think about the high data areas of the market, tech is largely pu
Points you were talking about down about 1. 8 for the dow and s p, down 2 for the nasdaq s p indicated up by 7 points this morning nasdaq indicated up by 30 points overnight in asia, some weakness in stocks there, too probably started by what happened here. The nikkei actually ended flat the hang seng was off by three quarters of a percent. The shanghai was down 0. 8 in europe, where there is active trading taking place at this hour, you will see there are green arrows across the board. The biggest gainer of the three major averages is the cac up three quarters of a spent. More modest advances for the ftse and the dax treasury yields will be watched closely. Treasury yields went into a free fall on the feds report yesterday or the idea that it would be one and done. You can see the tenyear barely held on to a yield of 2 that was the weakest level in three weeks. This morning trading back to 2. 04 . There were two key words that sparked a strong reaction from the markets and President T