National security and tiktok says it is pure politics. And the official nomination of President Trump at the republican convention. He says his opponents want to steal the election. Haidi we have again u. S. ,arkets with fresh record highs a little relief given expectations of the fasttrack process when it comes to vaccines and therapeutics as well. The s p 500 notching another alltime high, there is optimism the virus will not hamper growth. We are seeing a muted session on it comes to the futures sessions, flat at the moment. Little negative when it comes to the start of trading in asia. The nikkei to do five trading in chicago seeing downside about 1 10 of 1 . Dollaryen holding. The biggest declines in the g10 space was the kiwi and looney. We are also watching the price of crude as we have twin storms approaching. 80 of refinery output in the gulf of mexico has been halted, potentially seeing some impact when it comes to crude prices, which did rise, gasoline hitting the five month
They hit the take and have full analyst with panel. We have the latest on the deadlock coming up. Turning to markets this morning, futures under pressure ahead of july jobs report. Take a look. We are expecting a decline right out of the gate on dow industrials, nasdaq down 55, s p down 17 after markets ended yesterday near session highs, in fact, nasdaq scoring a fourth record close in a row. Dow industrials up 185 points yesterday and nasdaq 110 and s p up 21 at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Unrest in america, portland plagued by violence and fires overnight. Federal agents headed to two more cities as part of operation legend. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning under selling pressure. Take a look at up european indices, dax index in germany lower by 28. Germany showing some signs of recovery, 8. 9 in the month of june. In asia overnight markets were mostly lower following President Trumps executive orders. Shanghai composite down 1 , hang seng and hong
2. 95 . There were talks yesterday about another policy easing soon. There we have it today. The china 10 year bond futures rising on the back of that. The taiex currently down by 2 10 of 1 . T mnc will build the new mac chip. Apple is working on its own mac processes. It will be faster than the processors in the iphone as well as the ipad. The benchmark in new zealand currently bucking the trend, up a marginal 1 10 of 1 . Rishaad absolutely. Getting more details on that. The pboc acting in order to show sufficient liquidity in the system. Injecting merely a billion dollars worth of you want into the banking system. Weve got that declining or cut by 20 basis points. 3. 15 . Direction from our chief asian market strategist. Money intoue to pump the system, the financial system. Does it end up in the right places . This is targeted, hence the name. As the we. Look at chinas policy execution in the past six months. Lot that emphasized a these liquidities need to go to the real economy, to
Gets underway at 7 20 a. M. Eastern. Whip steveity scalise was among the speakers at the annual conservative Political Action conference. He talked about socialized medicine and health care around the world. [applause] rep. Scalise good morning tell to all my friends at cpac. Welcome. Are you all fired up for 2020 . You ready for november . [cheers and applause] rep. Scalise yall know whats at stake. 2020 will be a contrast election, and there is no sharper contrast between the conservative principles and values our country is built upon , what President Trump has done to deliver for families through individual freedom and socialism on the others that you can see on full display in these debates. I hope they have a debate every other day said the country can see every aspect of your lives they want the government to take over. You dont want socialism. You surely dont want socialized medicine. There is going to be no sharper contrast between these battles, freedom versus covert and vers
Can you guess what company just passed facebook to become the second most downloaded app in the world well goat you the answer a bit later in the show. Its a busy hour were kicking it off with target missing the mark a once red hot retailer posting the worst day since november 2018 after reporting sluggish electronics sales. Target which had been a bright spot for the sector and market in general joins kohl as jcpenney five below and l brands failing to meet holiday expectations. The xrt, the etf tracking the group, down more than 1 to kick off the year. Guy. Yes, zwlier do you think there are cracks in the consumer showing . I dont think its an indictment of the consumer at all. I think in this case one off misses we have have a consumer conversation but i dont think its about target the stock went from 80 to 130 in a Straight Line and finally valuation catching up to walmart compsy disappointing you cant say they were not. They reiterated Fourth Quarter guidance and margins down. Sto