Increase sanctions on iran road map begins with watching the fed. Investors expect the second rate cut in a decade. Stocks mostly lower ahead of the open. Fedex is falling this morning. Shares down in the premarket over trade worries policy uncertainty, of course, as well continuing to weigh on the delivery giant and right idea, wrong approach, House Speaker nancy pelosi sitting down with jim youll hear what she had to say about the president s china trade strategy as we said, a few moments ago, the president tweets, ive just instructed the secretary of the treasury to substantially increase sanctions on the country of iran. So nice that our country is now Energy Independent the u. S. Is in better shape than ever before, Strongest Military by far, biggest economy, no longer even close, number one in energy, maga equals kag. The story is going to be about the attacks and what else the saudis can tell us about it as aramco had that statement out yesterday. Right i think we have to were f
Economy. Well be looking for things affecting the outlook of the u. S. Economy, particularly as it relates to zblrchlts all those things in principle can affect the achievement of our goals its an unusual situation because you know the u. S. Economy itself, the largest part of it, the consumer part of it, is in strong shape the manufacturing part, less so. Overall you see an economy that generally forecast shows growth similar to our own forecast coming in at about 2 . Significant risks to that outlook from not just the geopolitical events but slowing Global Growth. Well be looking at all of that and also Financial Market conditions and how they are affecting the outlook. I cant it is a challenging time i admit it were not on a preset course well be making decisions meeting by meeting as we see this and well try to be as trance parent as we can, as we go. Sparent as we can, as we go with the rate cut today and modest adjustment coming down the road, do you worry about lessening the fed
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Carl quintanilla with jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange morgan has the morning off were going to start this morning with apple, with the companys latest slate of iphones hitting shelves this morning. Josh lipton is at the apple store in San Francisco where i think theyre just opening, right, josh . Reporter thats correct, carl were here at one of Apples Stores in San Francisco. Doors are just opening i will step out of the way so you can check it out three new iphones officially hitting shelves today, carl. Faster processor, longer lasting battery, better camera, the toughest glass in a smart phone, not just an iphone, but smart phone, period, according to the company. The big question for our audience, traders, investors, business people, did apple do enough to keep the iphone franchise stable over the next few quarters i checked in with mike olson he bets apple has done just that he is looking for iphone revenue to be
Arrows across the board. Nothing by more than a percentage point the dax is up just over a 10th a percentage point not surprising anyone with any expectations more rate cuts could come if the economy slows. 10year yielding 2. 237 . I saw there were three dissents they failed to point out one of them wanted to go 50 the future Federal Reserve, in raining. Right wanted the cut by 50 basis points a Job Interview right in the general news, they said, the Federal Reserve was doing okay it looks like a great economy but there are things to consider beyond the globe i thought that was his best perfo performance yet. Maybe not what you were hoping for and ending up on the day, you were effective am i here over there. Smile for the camera okay. New reports about how was that was that fake . New reports about at t plans for direct tv. Stock moving a little bit. Reporting the giant is considering options including spinoff. Fake news is it fake . I have taken calls on this. This is fake news. I sh
Gaining speed. A live report for that region next. Later commemorating the street that may have saved americas favorite past time its your rbi and its actually baseball related its all on this friday september 6th as Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome from where ever in the world you may be watching. Happy friday thanks for being with us we start with morning from breaking news out of europe. The latest gdp numbers in the Second Quarter thats right for you certainly the focus has been on politics the last couple of weeks but lets not also forget about the data its now been confirmed at. 2 on an annualized basis a significant slow down from the First Quarter which is. 4 quarter on quarter and 1. 3 on an annualized basis. The devil is in the detail theres two main weaknesses. One is germany and one is italy. So let me just remind the viewers that the german gdp fell in the Second Quarter of this year to minus 0. 1 0. 4 on an annual