Neil: all right, steady as she goes, not too bad, the economy moving head at about a 2.1% clip in the second quarter, that beat estimates, and was down from the 3.1% in the first quarter which the president largely blamed on the federal reserve, and we had the nasdac and the s&p closing out the week in record territory , the dow not far from that, so what to make of all of this, now we have fox s own susan li and chief investment officer, wealth management aaron gibbs. so, it s almost like a goldie locks number, if you think about it not too strong or weak but just enough for the federal reserve to cut rates. yes, wall street is going ya y, we re getting cut so yes it is sweet in that it wasn t too strong, we re definitely expect ing that rate cut on wednesday. it slightly beat expectations but it s not surprising because
Have a fox news update on facebook watch. it s a minute s long news cast online with unique content that streams live on the facebook watch home page a few minutes from now. once it s over, it s available on demand. neil cavuto, your world next. neil: it s happening again. more violent protests in hong kong as riot police were using tear gas to clubs to disperse crowds upset with china s growing dominance. all of this as the president is trying to jump start trade talks with china. the two go a long way deciding whether the talks succeed or china erupts. welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your confusing world food. none of this we should stress impacting the markets. the dow hit its highest level ever. the s&p closing out at a record as well believing that cooler heads will prevail, this
Violence in hong kong has accelerated ever since that suspended this extradition order. in china, if you re if you have seen to have a problem or say something or something criminal in hong kong, they can haul your butt to china to reprimand you or as some of the protesters feel imprison you. that was suspended. they wanted it permanently moved. we re getting word from the state department looking into this that they re closely monitoring this and urging americans to exercise extreme caution if they re in hong kong and avoid crowds like these. good advice. we re going to look at this from a number of areas. this of all days, where the
Actu actual demilitarization zone. it s what happens after, this trying to get north korea to a pathway to denuclearization. neil: don t i don t remember worry, there s a reason that no president steps into north korea because of the fear there s a lot of violence at the dmz zone. i m wondering, obviously he took that risk. obviously there were plenty of soldiers on both sides. but it could have been dicey. could have been dicey. we have to look at the fact that diplomacy is good. we see high officials like this meeting together. i was never discrediting that. there s a lot of atmosphere surrounding this issue surrounding nuclear proliferation where the north koreans are looking to grow their nuclear material. you also have some sort of military tensions still going on.