Estimates by about 0. 30. Revenue was also better than estimated, and they see revenue up, so that stock jumping in the premarket. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. From hong kong to brussels, des moines, iowa and new york, our bloomberg forces are on the ground with the latest top stories. Chinese growth and imports beat expectations. With us from hong kong is in the curran. Is enda walk us through the numbers. Numbers. Ty good a couple of factors behind these good trade numbers, sentiment was much better in the month of december and late last year in advance of the trade agreement that is going to be signed this week. There was an element of front running of the orders because in Chinese New Year falls january. A base effect gives the numbers a bit of a polish, but also importantly, china found new markets even as it suffered from tariffs on its goods going into , and even into europe. Nd Southeast Asia total chinese exp
We went to a bull steepener from a bear steepener. Time never global exchange. We bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Joining us from hong kongs frombergs karen leigh, mumbai are bloomberg executive producer, and Michael Mckee is in washington. We want to kick it off in hong kong, where chief executive carrie lam invoked Emergency Powers and banned facemasks as protests continue. Not an easyis decision to legislate to ban the masks, but given the Current Situation in hong kong, this is a necessary decision. Alix karen leigh has more. Whats been the response . Not a great response from protesters. People are gathering in the city center as we speak. They started gathering while carrie lam was still speaking. People worried this would give police power to go and arrest people, search without a warrant , and in an extreme situation, shut down the internet. It has a huge potential to impact life here. It is something people are upset about. It could fuel proteste
Here and pw partner mitch rochell. Happy monday everybody. Good to see you. Congress back in session, weve got markets trading up, deal on china in terms of a meeting, of course, early october, lot to talk about this morning. Also on deck, my interview with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. Were going to talk about trade, the fed, fannie and freddy, reform, fannie mae and freddy reform, the latest iteration of a plan, certainly out of the treasury this morning, about Housing Finance and housing reform. Well talk about fannie mae and freddie mac. And the founder of papa johns pizza speaking out this morning exclusively to me in his first interview since being pushed out of the company that he founded. John bar a aso is here talking about peace talks with afghanistan, Niles Gardner is here talking brexit and senior judicial analyst judge Andrew Napolitano on big techs antitrust suit and doug collins on the upcoming Inspector General report as well as the new move out of the judiciary to
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The United States mexico canada trade agreement. Trumps comments pouring cold water on the market. The dow is off its high of 257 points to the upside. Its now trading to the upside by 215. Now the broader market, the s p 500 did hit an alltime intraday record high at the beginning of the session. Now its about 50 points from that, at 2949, a gain of 23 points. Nasdaq above 8,000, up 48 points. Oil, huge story today. Surging on worries about the situation in the gulf. We have seen the biggest percent gain of the year. The u. S. Chamber of commerce looking at Economic Optimism on main street. We are live in beijing, china exploring the challenge of china and charlie breaks it on the potential boost that the tmobile sprint deal might be getting. We are less than an hour to the closing bell. Im Lauren Simonetti in for liz claman. Lets start the countdown. Lauren breaking news. Walmart agreeing to pay 282 million to settle a bribery investigation. The department of justice and the securiti