Jay Gelb News Today

Morning, still below 2. 5 . As for europe, so much discussion over the weekend with what is happening in portugal. Markets responding generally positively that portugal will use some of the leftover rescue funds to try to recapitalize a new bank there and were seeing some credit spreads on the back of that as well. Half an hour away from the market open. Lets begin with the road map today. We take a look at markets with u. S. Futures looking for a comeback, International Tensions temper positive...

France and italy are positive. The dax in germany lower by a fraction of 1 . In asia, major markets are mixed at this hour among the headlines out of the region. Growth in Chinese Services sector slipping to a sixmonth low in july. The nonmanufacturing pmi showed new orders rose at the weakest rate in at least a year. Brian, the nikkei is down slightly but the rest of the major averages across asia are slightly higher. Kayla, thank you very much. Folks do think its a slow summer week. You better...

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