And apple inking a 1 billion deal with intel over its mobile smartphone business what it means for both companies. Its friday, july 26th Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning im dominic chu. The four main stocks were watching this morning, its about earnings and m a, much more on these headlines coming up first heres how your money and the Global Markets are setting the day up stock futures indicating the dow will open up fractionally, just about 25 points or so. The s p up by 7. The nasdaq just by 62 after stocks ended lower yesterday on fears the fed will not cut rates as aggressively as previously thought. For the week, the dow is the only major index still in the red. The bond market now is moving slightly stronger here that benchmark slightly higher, just a hair below 2. 8 let us now go worldwide. On the asian side of things, the nikkei in japan down a half percent. The hang seng off twothirds of a percent. The shanghai up a quarter of a percent. In european trading, s
Conference. Standard chartered shrugs off trade tensions to surpass expectations with firsthalf underlying revenue. Please speak to the cfo and next. Societe generale beats but revenue for fixed income dips in the quarter. We will hear from the ceo imminently. Matt the Federal Reserve has cut rates for the first time is really, but that only half the story. After the quarterpoint cut was announced, the chairman gave investors more than a little food for thought in what is widely described as a muddled press conference. He described the cut as essentially in the nature of a midcycle adjustment. Stocks hit session lows and the closely watched twoyear and 10 year spread flattened to the narrowest since march of this year. To say the move had an insurance aspect rather than signaling the start of an extended easing cycle. To thefurther adding confusion it with the comment that said i didnt say it is just one cut. The president said on twitter powell let us down. Keepovernors voted to rates
Trim apple and sold off paramount at a loss. Speaking of paramount, the company is, or its special committee is opening up negotiations with sony and apollo. Theyre also talking with skydance as well about their bid for the overall company. From here at the Milken Institute global conference in los angeles, the next two hours, were going to be joined by marc rowan, David Solomon, and darren woods. So, nice lineup ahead, guys. Lets begin, david, with buffett and apple after that stocks friday rally. Berkshire says it did trim its stake by about 13 to just over 135 billion in q1. Didnt stop buffett from praising apple at the meeting over the weekend. Take a listen. At the end of the year, i would think it extremely likely that apple is the largest common Stock Holding we have now. When we look at cocacola and American Express and apple, we look at them as businesses. Now, theres differences in tax factors, managerial responsibilities, all sorts of things, but in terms of pulling your mon
Livex is higher three quarters of 1 . All these currencies are falling on the second column against the dollar. The u. K. Fiveyear yield is lower by five basis points. Climbing in the u. K. To its highest rate in five years in september, boosted by the cost of food and transport. 3 , the prices rising fastest pace since april 2012. The increase in tense of five the squeeze on households. Could strengthen the case for the bank of england to hike rates next month for the first time in more than a decade. That view was given some backing by governor mark carney earlier in testimony. He reiterated his views that a rate hike may be coming. Lets stick with the u. K. , the year we officials have convinced economists a rate hike is imminent. More than three quarters of Analysts Expect the boe to raise in november. Up from one in five last month. They predicted that could be the banks last move for some time. The green line is the new forecast trajectory. The blue line is the previous forecast
Lets quickly check of the markets, global Stocks Holding near a oneyear high as we are seeing more and more rising oil prices, now above 45 a barrel. If you look at wti, you can see it around 45 currently. Its pointing to a resurgence in the emerging markets, and to a saudi stabilization. They keep on saying they want some price decrease, but there rhetoric is certainly filtering through to the markets. This is the big picture for the e markets. The yen lower after slow forecast, a lot of investors thinking the boj will have to do more. Lets get more of the markets with nejra cehic. Nejra the chinese yuan has suffered its sharpest drop in six weeks after there were concerns raised about Economic Growth in china. Figures showed new credit growth in july was the weakest in two years. And investment also we get, indicating that the reason stabilization may be faltering. Two terminals. At new yorks jfk airport were evacuated after initial reports of shots fired. The nypd tweeted that all t