After yesterdays strong rally following on the heels of wednesdays strong rally, were up about 1 on the dow. I dont like to talk about the dow but unless the s p stronger. China did all right. Shanghai up 1. 8 . Shenzhen up, and nikkei at a 3 gain. We were below 2 at one point on monday in the craziness, but now were hovering in the 1. 2. Crude had its best day in many years. Well above 40 again. Monday, we fell below 40. It has been, to say the least, a volatile week in many markets. Lets get to our road map this morning, and it starts with the last trading day of this wild week. The dow coming off its biggest twoday point gain ever, not percentage but point gain. Equity futures, slipping. Carl icahn has his next target. Why commodities . Why now . Well talk about a company weve talked a lot about and mr. Akahcarl icahn himself, and the takeover continues. Pa perrigo is saying were not interested. Ill have more on what to expect as the Companies Battle it out. Futures moving to the do
Economic losses of 42 billion, something not to be possible. Up 12 billion from monday. The trip follows the potentially surpassing Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Secretarygenerals meeting yesterday in jerusalemit less than 30 of harveys losses are likely to be covered by private insurance. Life flooding will continue in southeast texas, according to the governor, and he is urging residents to listen to state and local officials and spoke on radio stations in san antonio and corpus christi. Trumps 2020 Reelection Campaign urges supporters to donate to Disaster Relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey. The email urges people to help fellow americans in need. President says he hopes that the administrations response will be regarded as a model. At a briefing with texas officials, Governor Greg Abbott called the response so far very effective, to which the president replied we will congratulate each other when its all finished. Global news powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 count
Crisis management. Russias Central Bank Governors as the Global Economy is coping with political turmoil. We have interviews with her and the finance minister. We are less than half an hour from the european open. I am looking at losses in equity index, futures, really across the board. You can see the the Index Futures down. 2 , as our ftse futures, dax futures down a little more. That doesnt show the picture of what a risk off they it is shaping up to be. If you look at bunds, you see it there, coming below a three handle. Bunds trading at zero point 2992 0. 2992. Get aroundiling to the world. Investors getting into treasuries, as well. The 2 level, i think it is turning out to be a big risk off friday. Anna looking interesting to see we didnt really see such a risk off vibe from the asian session, things were mixed there. Japanese markets weighed down by what was going on in the currency market as we see money piling into the yen, but elsewhere, gains for asian equities. Perhaps tha
Take a look at what is dragging on the transports. Its worth noting the major averages are on pace for weekly gains. The dow the best since the end of april. Relative to transports, weakness for shares of American Airlines come united, with a downgrade over and jpmorgan to neutral with analysts saying estimates seem unachievable. Royal caribbean down 1. 8 . This on a downgrade at credit suisse. Analyst cutting shares to a neutral, saying the outlook is uncertain. We had that terror attack in london. That could be impacting some of these stocks as well. At two otherlook big movers, oracle, fax. Oracle down 6 after they Beat Estimates for the quarter but it is that cloud outlook weighing. Fax down once again as senator Elizabeth Moran setting her sights on them, proposing legislation around the company today. Shares down once again. Overall, it has been a risk on week. This is an index of risk onrisk off. On the week, big risk on. Going into the weekend, on that terror attack in london,
Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im Courtney Reagan in for sara eisen glad to be with you on this happy friday lets get to that breaking news north koreas foreign minister threatening to detonate a Hydrogen Bomb over the Pacific Ocean, this hours after the u. S. Imposed the toughest sanctions yet on north korea irans president said his country will strengthen missile capabilities without seeking permission from the community. The country has already unveiled a new Ballistic Missile capable of carrying several warheads a live report from iran coming up lets start with this new threat from north korea chery kang joins us with the latest good morning good morning so lets put that comment coming out of north koreas foreign minister who is in new york attending the u. N. General assembly into context here because he was first asked by reporters about what its leader, kim jongun meant by the hi highest level of hard line measure in his statement in reaction to the trump speech at the u. N