He wants to work out a trade pact with the United States and has been trying to avoid a trade war but he also warned china is not afraid to retaliate when necessary. Eunice yoon joins us putting in his comments du jour. There is always something for those who think it is going to happen and then a qualifier. What do you think . That is right it is interesting that president xi jinping weighed in. This is the first time weve heard those remarks. Unfortunately, the content were not anything different from the standard government line about the trade discussions. He was speaking with a group of International Visitors including henry kissinger. His point was that china does want to have a phase one trade deal however there does need to be an understanding that u. S. And china are seen as equals and it has to be done with mutual respect. Thats what we had heard repeatedly what was also interesting was how he hinted at some of the tensions saying when it comes to the financial opening, china
Better than that. But it sure gets early by the time we head to next week. Solder, sunny and warm for a while. There was hints of rain and now theyve said were taking that away. Not at the moment. Looks dry for ten days, maybe even longer. 74, 76, santa rosa, five above average this time of the year. A lot of 30s and below freezing. Fairfield was 31. Now 33. 30s for fremont and redwood city. Pen grove is down in the 30s. Novato, and winder, around petaluma and sebastopol. Everyone else is much calmer and the humidity is going up. Thats the only site i can find with gusts like that. Lark and in charge, old coal mornings and the dies are going to get much shorter. Late friday saturday, sunday morning, 70s on the high side. For now, its warm. Im looking at the commute, steve, and i think i like what i see. 22minute drive from the carkinas bridge to the maze is not all that show this time of the morning. Were getting a little bit more slow traffic joining us in the east bay. Were seeing tr
Decoupling markets in asia and europe were slightly weaker but here in the u. S. Were in the green. Treasury yields at this hour as well, we have seen some better than expected german labor data cause some firming in the global bond markets right now the 30 year is just sitting at a 2. 15 yield the tenyear, 169 and the twoyear at 164. That story that really dragged our markets on friday. We finished off the lows on friday any way only down half of 1 on the s p 500 by the close, but clearly if that story is turning around, its unsurprising to see futures up a little bit this morning. Broader market was down 1 last year. The u. S. China trade fight continues to dominate the Global Market headlines friday, stocks dropped amid the report that u. S. Would limit eunice yoon with the latest. Hey, eunice. Hey, guys if its true that the u. S. Officials are clarifying that the Trump Administration is not going to be imposing any restrictions on u. S. Investments into u. S. Companies that would d
Higher than expected. Plus tesla shares, well, they continue to have a very rocky ride this year. In fact, they are the worstperforming stocks so far on the s p for 2024. Another firm cuts their price target on that stock. And former treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin telling cnbc just last hour that he is putting together an Investor Group to try to buy tiktok or the u. S. Business of tiktok. Lets begin with the Market Reaction to ppi and retail sales as well. Last months decline, a little bit tight. As you mentioned, the market trying to look past it, struggling to do so, maybe. Cpi this week, you had these big treasury auctions that maybe we thought it would knock the market potentially off course. Now, there was a hiccup lower in the indexes, and bonds definitely are registering this hotterthanexpected inflation number. Tenyear up to 4. 22 . If this were an acutely feddependent stock market, it might matter more on a daytoday basis to equities. Its not been the case. If you dial bac
Dealt a blow this past month the nasdaq up 5 the russell up 5. 5 . The dow up 1. 5 . So goes the start of the year. So goes the rest i mean, historically, you come out of a great january and most of the time you do get followthrough. Of course nothing is perfect if it were that easy, you would set a formula and there would be no need to think i dont know if its as simple as extrapolating a good january, a good first quarter, what have you, but theres a reason why that kind of thing does tend to persist over the years and decades. The stocks change. The ceos change. The products and services that theyre selling change what doesnt change is human nature and when the indices get a good start, that generally leads to chasing and generally leads to people just feeling more upbeat and better about things and interpreting data points as bullish rather than bearish so they can stay in the game. I like the way the year started. Guarantees us nothing, but probably it does do well the rest of the