Fight between president Theodore Roosevelt and financier j. P. Morganover the size of corporations and Government Intervention at the turn of the 20th century. I wanted to sort of ask you to paint a picture of j. P. Morgan. Obviously youre telling a story about roosevelt but a large amount of the book is about j. P. Morgan. For a lot of americans hes one of those, i dont mean this in a demeaning way but hes out of an empty household name area will know his name from public institutions, obviously from the banking legacy. They dont know a lot about him. Can you tell us about him and why, what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape that your drawing. So when i first started looking into this time period , i think i knew a lot more about roosevelt than i did about morgan. As is probably true of most people. And what i realized is i began researching that this was really morgans world, that roosevelt very kind of quickly and abruptly and u
Open, london benefiting from a wea ker open, london benefiting from a weaker pound, rest of europe weaker pound, the rest of europe treading water. And when is a cake, not a cake . When it means a 365,000 difference in your tax bill. We meet the firm that asked a judge to rule on whether their product fell foul of uk tax laws. Well explain why a little later. Today we want to know how soon is too soon . As one Famous London Department store opens its Christmas Store 149 shopping days before christmas would you be tempted to buy . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive personally, imjingling personally, im jingling all the way to that well known Department Store hello and welcome to business live. We start with the pound, which has fallen further in asian trading overnight, as investors worry about the increasing likelihood of a no deal brexit. Its now at a 30 month low against the us dollar. It comes as the uk Prime Minister borisjohnson has toughened his rhetoric on brexit. Micha
Speak. Numbers will move around this morning. Dow would open 150 points off. Nasdaq down 60 s p would open off 18 points treasury yields. 10year treasury at 4. 223. It moved up. 2year treasury at 4. 96. As joe mentioned, in the last half hour, fitch warning it may downgrade dozens of banks. The Agency Cutting assessment of the Industry Health in june. Fitch rating stating if the industry is downgraded again, that translates to negative reaction fitch wants to significaal that downgrades not a foregone conclusion he will join us in the next hour to breakdown what with is happening here. Im looking for a trade, courtney i dont see it yet home depot is saying things are crappy in line with the crappiness they talked about you saw it yes fiscal earnings down Single Digits you want to go through the numbers . I dont know if the stock is impacted by the comments exactly we knew they had been looking for the year of moderation fiscal year earnings down it could. Home depot is reporting earnin
At whatstake a look going on in to those brexit talks. The pound is up by. 2 . Stronger dollar story throughout the day and dollaryen is up to. 6 . 58 basis points. Thats really steep. Time for the morning brief. Ahead. A look at the week today theresa may is scheduled to meet with Jeanclaude Juncker. Then social democrats hold their convention. Congress has to act to avoid a Government Shutdown and we are also going to get on friday u. S. Jobs numbers. Big week ahead. Topics tax, u. K. , cvs buying aetna. The talk on the talk shows was all about taxes. Had towhat the senators say. When you heard the president say we are very close to the finish line you know he has wanted a 15 right from the beginning. Is parted to a 20 rate of the discussion. The house as a 20 right now. We are happy with both of those numbers. If something small happens in conference that gets us across the finish line we will look at it on a casebycase basis. Business tax all the way down from 35 to 20. It could be
Weekend. Greece wants the bailout talks to be done by early tomorrow at the latest. The key date to watch, folks, august 20th that is when greece has a repayment due to the ecb. And gloomy data on trait inflation. Investors show that beijing is about to roll out more stimulus. And watching oil. Prices falling for six straight weeks. Oil slightly low again. The latest lundberg survey shows gas prices down 11 cents over the past two weeks. That puts the National Average for a regular gallon of gasoline at 2. 71. Gas down 81 cents a gallon from last year. The dow and oil have gone in the exact same direction so thats why stock investors should care about oil. You know, its interesting because weve talked so much about how this is a huge tax cut for consumers. You just mentioned prices at the pumps down 11 cents at the pump over the last few weeks. You keep wondering when that payoff hits. We know what its done for highpaying jobs but its been less likely to show up in some of the weaker s