Banks mixed. Carmax, the worst performer. 2. 13 , crude up to oil below 65 a barrel. Trucking index, s p, best performer today, more than 8 up. That is relieving investors. European markets now. A better day in europe. The dax up a quarter of 1 , cac upup 6 10 of 1 , ftse 100 for tenths of 1 4 10 of 1 . Questions about barbary moving over. First quarter doing well in china. That stock is up 13 . Thank earnings season, j. P. Banks, wells fargo, reported earnings this morning. Lets bring in our Investment Banking reporter. It seems pressure on margins not affecting banks much. Reporter it is affecting them in that wells fargo revised projections downward and the lowest net income in three years. Theres will come down contingent on how many rate hikes there are. Jamie dimon is saying it is like wind blowing. Investors are following the news well. Vonnie what are we seeing in terms of indications for u. S. Consumer . Reporter so far so good. Jp morgans long growth swelling, close to 7 last
Free cspan radio app. Earlier today facebooks david marcus testified before the Senate Banking committee to address concerns over the companys proposed Digital Currency. This is 2 hours and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus, head of libra at facebook. On may 9, senator brown and i sent a letter to facebook shortly after it was reported that the company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to help launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using its social network. Our letter asked facebook for more information about how the system would work. Its access to and use of Consumer Financial information, and facebooks access to and use of information on individuals or groups of individuals in credit, insure, employment or housing. I appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent, facebook formally announce ds its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white pape
That gives you much better sense of where it is the dow slipped and s p declined and nasdaq lost 7. 4 because of an escalation of tensions in the mideast against britain, the United States and iran and before that the market was doing well you need to understand were about to embark on the busiest week of the year for industrial earnings we will be flooded with new information. If you cant handle it if there is some sort of congregation in the gulf, this might be the perfect weak to take your Summer Vacation on monday we have two important quarters we hear from whirlpool, the appliance maker and hall l halln if the latest reports and revolutionary guards, Republican Guard seize. They seize British Royal tanker. The price of crude barely budged for heavens sake. Maybe halliburton confirms what schlumberger told us this market is not the least bit excited about oil. The banks have told us that the consumer is flushed. We heard that the other day at bank of america but how flushed . Wi wh
Back over to you thats going to be a topic of more importance as we get through the back half of the year ylan, thank you. A move to crypto now, especially facebooks libra. The president took to twitter to say hes not a fan of bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies adding, quote, facebooks will have little standing or credibility. Libra a major topic on capitol hill during the fed chairs testimony. Take a listen. We agree that libra raises a lot of serious concerns. And those would include around privacy, money laundering, consumer protection, financial stability, and those are going to need to be thoroughly and publicly assessed and evaluated before this proceeds now weve got mark cuban sitting down with deirdre last night, saying that facebook is out over its skis. Im not a big fan of what theyre doing there. I think its a big mistake not so much because of what will happen here in the United States, but what will happen globally theres going to be some despot in some african country that
Law. Our investigation weed killer is ahead. Power lunch starts right now all three of the major markets are up the dow up triple digits the this hour. New high there at 27,240 and change all three of the major averages on track now to post their second straight week of gains and their fifth positive week in the last six kelly. Thanks. Lets forget the fed and trade wars for now investors are focusing on just one thing and earnings citi kicks off on monday morning. Jpmorgan, wells fargo, ibm, bank of america, netflix, america express are among the names that will report next week and it looks like this earnings season will be a cloudy one bob . Yes, kelly. Jay powell kicked us into new record highs in all three indices. Now its up to earnings. This is going to be a tricky earnings season. Not really about Second Quarter earnings its about the guidance in the second half. Weve got the central banlgs behind us and there will be a trade deal and that will help lift earnings. Heres the prob