National security and tiktok says it is pure politics. And the official nomination of President Trump at the republican convention. He says his opponents want to steal the election. Haidi we have again u. S. ,arkets with fresh record highs a little relief given expectations of the fasttrack process when it comes to vaccines and therapeutics as well. The s p 500 notching another alltime high, there is optimism the virus will not hamper growth. We are seeing a muted session on it comes to the futures sessions, flat at the moment. Little negative when it comes to the start of trading in asia. The nikkei to do five trading in chicago seeing downside about 1 10 of 1 . Dollaryen holding. The biggest declines in the g10 space was the kiwi and looney. We are also watching the price of crude as we have twin storms approaching. 80 of refinery output in the gulf of mexico has been halted, potentially seeing some impact when it comes to crude prices, which did rise, gasoline hitting the five month
Word for the day, it kind of governs how i conduct myself often times and just my frame of mind. Today, im going to pick an image of the day. If you look at your screen, one of our commissioners shared with me this image. And i think it really sets the tone and the stage and underscores the importance of why we are here and the significance of this panel. Is a chinese book for kindergartners. Chinese,ou dont speak circled our two letters. Ai. Kindergarten. Textbook. Ai. Us senator talked about tooling ourselves and getting ready from grade school to grad school. Now, we are talking about kindergarten or even prek, if you are going to keep ahead and really stay number one when it comes to ai. I just wanted to start with this image. Because it really, for me underscores the urgency of why this commission was formed and why it is so important that we are here today. Nscai has a broad mandate and working group number three is charged with recommending concrete steps the government should t
Thats just because it is seems unnatural. Every day its up 1 , half a percent, not used to seeing that without any correction overall if you look at the end game and where youre going to be, the market will be higher 10 yesterday. I agree. Theres too many positive tailwinds for it to end here. Gary cohn in an interview today said the following i think the stock market and some other pretty famous investors over the last 24 to 48 hours have agreed with us, that the stock market is not expensive right now. Who do you think he was referenceing warren buffett. I dont think he was talking and david stepper. His former colleague. Buffet came out and said that, too. Buffet has 120 billion in cash no way he thinks the market is cheap, no chance. I dont think no chance. I dont think anybody is saying this is bubble territory, definitely not hearing that. We can make the argument that were maybe above fair value certainly not cheap, but first off bull markets dont die because of valuation, and e
To tap into chinas 40 million on Offline Stores. With its new platform. Betty yvonne, no action here in the u. S. , of course because we are closed for the commemoration of Martin Luther king. Marketsties, the bond are all shot and the currency markets of course, continue to remain open. Shut for the day. It depends whether we will see a government shut down and how that will be priced into the equity markets when they open tomorrow morning. We are definitely watching commodities closely, and currencies, which continued to slide in the u. S. Dollar as well as well with five weeks of losses. Pretty remarkable, given that we are in a rate tightening timeframe here in the u. S. Area commodities, and currencies. We are watching those today. Yvonne yes, the dollar could be optimism for some of the asia traders here, but again, we are missing some fresh catalyst with the u. S. Markets closed. If we take a look at futures, it looks like we will be taking upons with the best we are looking at
Now to the state of the u. S. Economy. Janet yellin getting grilled by lawmakers up on capitol hill. Stocks seem to like what they heard. Investors in stocks. Stocks have no mind in and of themselves. Its the investors who move it. But the investors like what they heard initially. Our senior economic reporter Steve Liesman has the details. Hi, steve. Tyler, thank you. Fed chair janet yellin giving no hint at the first feds first rate hike in nine years is imminent or that its not coming. The only definitive statement on the outlook for Monetary Policy is that it depends on the Economic Data and as long as that word patient is in the statement, there wont be a rite rate hike for at least two meetings. The fomcs assessment that it can be patient beginning to normalize policy means that the Committee Considers it unlikely that Economic Conditions will warrant an increase in the target range for the federal funds rate for at least the next couple of fomc meetings. As tyler said the fixed i