Airline stocks are popping after the government gave approval to a different way to disinfect surface onz planes american, united, delta, theyre all up 8 or so. S p 500, nasdaq set for a record close. With he have 59 minutes left of trade. Brian, good to have you onboard. Yeah. Good to be here on a day where there seems to be a lot gf news. The markets are powering higher again. We have a long way to go two hours. Coming up, you remember herbalife. They sparked wall streets most epic battles on the Halftime Report it is reinvigorated, more than doubling from the march lows and our interview with the ceo is coming up later on. Were going to be joined by Penny Pritzker and ask her about the democrats economic platform and how a Biden Administration would tackle the coronavirus are your taxes going up . Were going to ask her directly. Right now lets focus in on the big stories that were watching to day mike santoli, as always, watching all the Market Action joining us to talk about the la
Tiff movement for 2021 we also see clearly the paces coming in for the third and Fourth Quarter in reverse, the volkswagen numbers fall Retail Therapy shares in the dutch super market giant jump to the top after earnings rise almost 80 in the Second Quarter on the lockdown spending the death toll rises after a massive explosion. President trump suggesting the blast could have been intentional. Our prayers go out to all the families the United States stands with the people of lebanon and well be there to help it looks like a terrible attack. Lets kick off the show with fresh data just crossing the wires. This is the final composite pmi that has come in at 54. 9 that is a touch better than 54. 8, a little color for you on the numbers for july Services Come in at 54. 7 that was a little light. The suppressing strength has come from the Manufacturing Sector which we got earlier this week in terms of the commentary which provides this data, Business Activity rebounded to grow at a rate not
Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Land israels plans to. Territory in the occupied west bank which the u. N. Is urging israel to abandon now it is carrying on right now representative from vietnam is speaking in about i would say the next 5 to 10 minutes we will hear from the u. S. Representative at the United Nations kelly craft u. S. Ambassador kelly craft that will be interesting obviously the one Security Council member which we know backs israels position of. Already though we have heard from the likes of nickell who is the uns middle east peace envoy. Who is the arab League Secretary general but 1st it was the u. N. Secretary general and tony a good terrace he summed it up in calling for nothing short of israel abandoning its annexation plans. If implemented and accession of course into the most serious violation of International Law grievously harmed the prospect of a to spend solution and the current possibilities of a new will of negotiations. I call on the Israeli Government would ban is an exception class. S
To gains ahead of todays fed decision. Investors consider the possibility of a return to 1930s era yield curve control. Kowtows. Teaus mike pompeo accuses a company of bowing to beijing. A top investor adds its voice in the rebuke of hsbcs decision. Time is running out. Cerberus is tired of waiting for a turnaround at commerzbank, calling the banks performance an abject failure, the activist investor seeking two seats on the Supervisory Board to turn things around. We are just an hour away from the cash in europe and the u. K. Let us take a look at futures first. We have turned from losses to gains, now looking at green arrows on european futures after dropne to two plus percent we saw in cash trade yesterday, we are also looking against in u. S. Futures, right now 0. 5 , no matter which contract you look at across the dow, the s p, and the nasdaq. Anna . Of breakingle bit news coming through on the spanish clothing retailer inditex. Delaying its dividend for 2021, but we are waiting f