About financial repression. This has been widely predicted by a lot of people, deals have to be made. Revenue isnt there, so youve got to go out and buy it. You got to get better. Bigger. Athave not confirmed it here bloomberg, bob but that is a story tom nine tom whats john, lisa and i do is we go to bloomberg experts on this. John farrell, jonathan tice said exactly the same thing. Yeah right, but there are all sorts of reasons why that combination could be the giant bank of the continent of europe. Ritika a lot Jonathan Jonathan a lot to get through including lisa getting excited about tiktok. [laughter] we know lisa does tiktok often with the kids. Youve got a decent excuse. Lisa it is a verb. Do you tiktok or not tiktok . Politics front and center today. Including tiktok and oracle being the likely bidder. We now are talking about brexit. Boris johnson putting his controversial brexit vote to a vote. We will hear about whether or not he will get immunity if you go against the agre
Moving news from all around the world. Delhi, newg to new jersey and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground todays top stories. In asia, you had the pboc lowering the rate it charges on shorterterm loans to lenders. Index added 150 billion yuan into the banking system. Joining us is tom mackenzie. Is this the start of an easing cycle, or a shortterm term liquidity crunch into the new year . Tom it seems like more of a shortterm liquidity crunch. We are looking ahead to january, what it looks like you will get a withdrawal of cash out of the Financial System here of about 450 billion. They take that liquidity out ahead of the chinese new year, which comes in towards the end of january. It does seem like it is more of a seasonal effect. More broadly in the economy, credit has been tightening. We saw today from the pboc was some gradual measures to try and address this queasy liquidity, and a couple of basis points and a sevenday reverse repo as well. About 28ly, you got b
Dow adding 77 points. People waiting on the feds decision. Earnings today facebook, northrop grumman. A lot of earnings. Olivia all eyes on 2 00 p. M. Yesterday, the s p posted its biggest gain in two weeks. Lets show you whats happening the fedollar ahead of statement. Nothing, essentially pure little changed. 96. 78. Dex euro above 1. 10. A surprise in the Housing Market last month. Pending home sales fell by 1. 8 for june. First drop this year. Economists forecasted sales will rise. The Housing Market is not going as many expected due to tighter lending standards and a limited selection of properties. Lloyd blankfein is bullish on u. S. Markets. Thelopment sachs Ceo Goldman Sachs ceo took part in an interview with Mike Bloomberg. He was asked why he was optimistic. Consumers have to leveraged, banks have de leveraged. Housing prices are starting to stabilize and move higher. Were in for a long, positive market. Olivia glenn fine says the u. S. Lloyd blankfein says the u. S. Will get
Cookbook. Stephanie what a way to start off with a great show and eriks haircut. Erik the top business stories of the day. General electric getting back to its roots. Sawing off the bulk of its finance unit to refocus on the industrial businesses. Ge will sell almost 27 billion dollars of real estate assets and most of it is going to blackstone. Some going to wells fargo. Ge announced the Share Buyback of about 50 billion which would tie apple for the largest of all time. The ceo spoke on a Conference Call earlier. This is an excellent time to sell financial assets. We think the performance in the Australian Consumer value demonstrated our platforms may be worth more outside the company. Erik ge shares up a. 7 five quarters a. 7 a. 75 . If you have not bought the computer for a while, you are not alone. According to Market Research more consumers are turning to smartphones and tablets when they went to go online. Corporate spending helped slow declines and the cycles will be over. Hill
Gas, rubber bullets, and possibly live me mission. Irans government has denied shooting protesters. [chancing] angry crowds chanting fight with us, we will fight back and calling irans Supreme Leader a murderer. Meanwhile, back at home, the Trump Administration continues to face tough questions about what it calls an imminent threat, which it used to justify killing around stop general. President trump has defended the killing and claimed Qasem Soleimani was planning to attack for u. S. Embassies. Secretary of state mike pompeo is apparently refusing to testify in front of the House Foreign Affairs committee tomorrow. We have fox coverage, we we begin with Benjamin Hall reporting live from them on jordan. Benjamin . Trace, over the weekend these protests spread their round to 17 different processes. The anger that continues to mount after ron acknowledged that it was behind the shooting down and the ukrainian jet that left 176 people died, most of them iranian. Thousands took to the st