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bigger bonuses at his office. but there is a catch. we ll tell you what it is. it s a great story. a new battle between apple and google and this time google is beating on the latest back to school shipments and the impact it s having on the tech giants and their laptop offerings. first let s have reaction to the fed s minutes that were released about an hour ago. there, we ve done it. no, let s have bob posani tell us about it. he s tracking the movement on the floor. not much different, right? the headlines look pretty normal, the case for rate hike as strengthened. that was the headline. the fed risked credibility by not acting, she said that before, so it all sounds fairly hawkish but the market did not react much, even though most people, 70% or so of traders believe the odds of a rate hike are 70% going into december. mr. dudley said i think we can be quite gentle as we go in terms of gradually removing monetary policy accommodation. in other words, the glid ....
conversation. scarlet: let s check in with julie hyman. are you going to stand in lines with the tsa? julie: i will be in traffic, but i will not be in the tsa line. at least i get to listen to my music in the car. let s look at the stocks heading into the holiday weekend. we are seeing a bit of a live we await comments from janet yellen. we are seeing a bit of optimism and stocks. health care is at the top spot at the current time followed by consumer discretionary and financials. a list for those cyclical groups after they took a positive yesterday. if you look individually at the stocks contributing the most in point terms to the games today, you have alphabet rising after google s victory in court over oracle late yesterday. it was a patent fight that had to do with the genesis of android . it looks like european regulators are coming out with different regulations for drugs. dragging or limiting stocks gains today are apple. analysts said that despite the come for ....
a second scottish independence referendum is very much on the table. those comments came after a the cabinet hi te.er the brexit vo lower the uk say a one credit rating after the country voted to leave the eu. uk s a1it may lower the credit rating. we will be speaking to the managing director of credit strategy at moody s investor timece at 5:20 p.m. u.k. later. want to recap the big market moves yesterday. the pound falling the most on record against the dollar to its lowest level since 1985. it had dropped as much as 11%. european stocks something most since 2008 after falling as much as 9%. the yen was the haven currency biggestce with its one-day move against the dollar since 1998. gold had its best day since 2009 , rising 8% earlier on friday. let s get an update on the latest news on the brexit vote with anna in westminster. sow significant was sturgeon statement. anna: an independence referendum could be on the table or was on the table and she took it on the st ....
we are getting a headline from it is a of japan and significant number because it is double yesterday s amount. we are seeing bank of england and bank of japan. are we seeing the limit of what they can do? tom: i am kind of amazed. francine, it is the most interesting day and then we go into the jobs report tomorrow. everybody will recalibrate. theve one item that shows central bank dysfunction that you talk about. francine: if we compare, which i know we will do. mark carney on the speech june 30 was very careful. let s get to the bloomberg first word news. taylor: sticking with central banks, economists predict the bank of england over deuce the benchmark rate to a record low. mark carney surprised investors by keeping rates unchanged and they signaled they would cut this month. the central bank will publish the first full assessment of what the brexit vote means for the economy. in london, one person was killed and others injured in a knife attack. police are looki ....
now, they are mixed in trading. they pretty much have been for most of the day. volume has been pretty off, as well, especially as we head towards tomorrow and the july jobs report. earnings are back-and-forth today, and this is what we are getting. training s&p 500 within a band of only about 10 points or soap you right now, the dow is down .1%. let s take a look at the s&p sectors. let s look at the sector health in my bloomberg. generally speaking, a majority of our sectors are in negative territory, financial done the most, by about .3%. energy also down by about .3% to technology is up the most, by about .5%. materials up .4%. taking a look at what is happening in terms of the biggest loser, metlife scraping the bottom of the barrel right now, down about 10%. lifeis the u.s biggest insurance appeared second-quarter profit fell on the order of 90%. it plans to cut costs by $1 million by the inbound of 2019. this is its biggest fall in six weeks. leslie get energy i ....