he had health issues in the past that he has managed well during his tenure as prime minister. he resigned abruptly the last time he was prime minister in 2007 because of his health condition. david: he is the longest-serving prime minister, but he was quite influential. one of the things bloomberg is concerned about is abenomics. he came in with three arrows. was that a success? sheila: i think it is a mixed bag. i will leave it to the economist to delve into the details. there two details are two pieces of what he did manage to accomplish. one is structural reforms. he and his government were impressive in agricultural reform, one of the structural impediments to participate in the ttp, the regional trade pact. he tried to increase women s participation in the economy. some people would have liked to see more women, but he managed to make some strides there. progress in slight the labor market reforms he tackled, but he did not accomplish what the japanese wanted, which i
of ubs investment banking. kaiser of ubs investment bank. anything stood out to you so far? this is pretty much as expected. the key is to emphasize there is uncertainty, even though we have the emphatic conservative victory in the election, and we know that brexit is going to happen. there s still uncertainty about what kind of brexit, and short for the bank of england, we don t know what the fiscal policies of this government will be. there is a little bit of stimulus built into their servitors manifesto which was not taken into account in the current bank of england forecast , but they have room to do a great deal more. if you have a budget in the next months from the conservatives which primes the me, has a lot of stem it economy, that has changes the outlook. those seven who voted against change probably had that in mind. alix: are you trading cable at all? stuart: today s decision is pretty much in line with expectations. i think the view is the first half of the ye
cutting back production of the 737 max. could announce a decision as soon as today. the board began a regularly-scheduled meeting yesterday that is set to continue today just last week the head of the faa told us right here on squawk box that the 737 max wouldn t be cleared to fly before the end of the year u.s. regulars then warned boeing that it had been setting unrealistic expectations for the jet to return to service further production cuts would inflate boeing s costs and take a toll on financial results as fixed expenses would be split among fewer planes the ability to effectively amoretize all of those costs and would also be a real pushback on the company and on the company s ceo. to me, if there really is a production halt, then there s going to be a succession story that i think we haven t had yet. the ripple effects of what that means not only for boeing but all their suppliers along the way. that s a much the reason you halt it, i mean, you re just blowing
swing up to 50 points. this is going to be a bit of a wild roller coaster this morning. we are anticipating more comments coming from the president as he continues to have these meetings at the g7. this can be very far, wide ranging and a lot of things can get comment on you ll see the futures potentially move around on all of this. the nasdaq is up by 82 points. s&p up by 20 coming after a big down day on the markets on friday when the dow was down by 623 points that pushed the major average down for four weeks in a row and you are looking at august being a month where we ll see declines very likely. the only other month we have seen declines is the month of may. ten year looks like 1.49%. the two year 1.45% obviously these markets keying off everything that s happening out of the g7, too let s get right to aimen javers in france at what has been a wild and memorable meeting aimen, good luck wrapping this all up for us. reporter: yeah, absolutely, becky. let me start with
ed markets are anxious about what s happening railroad. let s talk about that really quickly. we ll get back to andrew in a minute take a look at the u.s. equities futures. even though the tariffs are, on the market at this point is down, but only by 35 points. dow futures indicated down by just over 35 points. s&p futures off by six the nasdaq down by nine. again, yesterday we did see some declines, but the dow was down by 140 points at the he wanted of the day again, a lot of concern, a lot of questions wondering what comes next, but the market has managed to kind of hold in there every day. the cac up by .3% the ftse up by almost half a percent. then overnight in asia stocks in china soaring after the u.s. hiked tariffs on china we ll get a live report from beijing coming up in just a minute. to put that $8 billion in perspective, guys, that s pretty much what the company lost over the last three years and potentially what could spend over the next two given some of