President trump says hes considering sanctions on streamrom ii nord ii. Their handsies get on 5g services. Watch Telecom Stocks at the open. Lawmakers say they wont discuss controversial extradition deal as tensions remain high and hong kong between protesters and police. Matt less than half hour from the start of european trading area look at the trading. Look at the spike of oil, a tanker fire in the gulf of oman leading to a 1. 5 gain. Oil had fallen to a fourmonth low and is bouncing back up on this fire. Futures are down. Dax teachers often little bit or a little bits off more than a quarter of 1 . Looks like a risk off day. Anna the risk off story writ large. We are selling off on stocks, not to an enormous extent. The treasury market is gaining ground. Yields are weaker. We see money going into the yen. Hong kong is weaker once again, tensions still on the radar of investors. More broadly, the concern is around the trade story. President trump lashing out at Angela Merkel in the
Sides, janet yellen does not want a boom bust economy. She just wrapped up remarks. Itnne that q a just ending and. A fireside chat more than a question and answer panel. Very lighthearted moments, talking about her first days and weeks as fed chair as she does wrap up one of the last speeches we will hear from her before she steps down as fed chair. A lot of talk about inflation as well. Betty saying the fed is not certain low inflation is indeed transitory. Pretty significant headline coming from her. Mention, wideranging talk from everything from her first days at the fed, do the most interesting person is she has ever met. Certainly covered a lot of bases. As we digest these headlines from janet yellen, lets get to the first word news with jessica summers. Jessica the mexican peso weakened against the dollar. Robert lighthizer says there is no evidence canada and mexico will seriously engage in renegotiating nafta. This follows a fifth round of talks. They fell short of working on
Check things out today because we have now seen already 69 record closes for the dow this year if there is another record close today, as you would indicate if you see these gains again, this would be the most record closes weve ever seen in any year for the dow. Last record watts set in 1995 and that was a record of 69. The s p is already in record territory. Weve seen 61 record closes for the s p and thats compared to 18. The dow indicates almost 24,800. You see what im looking for. I cant see your screen. Its a map of south america because the train the sorkin train was oh. No, no. You said san paulo. I was down in san paulo where am i now youre down across from the falklands. The train is. Youre still here youre here i missed the train, as you know youre still in jersey, i think, camden or something not even. I havent left the island of manhattan. Seriously. Im stig thinking im like just hanging outside of penn station. The sad thing is, i had to look to figure out which one i knew
Look at the green arrows back this morning, even though the government could potentially be shut down. S p futures up by 4. 5. The nasdaq up by 19. Well talk more about that potential Government Shutdown in a bit. Overnight in asia, the nikkei higher. Up 0. 2 . Hang seng up by 0. 4. So was the shanghai in china in europe, at least right now green arrows across the board. Biggest gainer of the major averages is the dax, which is up by almost 0. 9 percent. The tenyear yield hitting 2. 64 yesterday. Thats the highest level since september of 2014. Again, concerns about the Government Shutdown really pushing things well see what happens to the tenyear when and if a budget deal is found. Right now it looks like its setting in at 2. 63 . Some big headlines this morning. Ibm returning to Revenue Growth for the first time in five years. Shares are down. Theres weaker than expected guidance overshadowing that news the company beating on the top and bottom lines but took a charge of 5. 5 billion
Appreciate all of the support from everyone. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Emily im emily chang. This is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, a bloomberg scoop. Apple dives deeper into ar and could have been augmented reality headset in stores by 2019. How the new device will stack up against competition. Plus, a startup going headtohead with amazon. The ceo, bashed in lemon bastian lehmann, joins us. The l. A. Clippers owner and former microsoft ceo joins us for a wideranging interview. Venture intends to hold the government accountable for achieving tax goals. Bloomberg is reporting that apple is said to be developing an augmented reality headset that could be in stores by 2019. A couple things will set this apart from existing available ar devices. It will contain its own display, so you wont have to insert your smartphone into the rig. It will