Frame on over how long of a period of time will they hit that 50 billion figure. The president also saying here to reporters that the chinese wanted to start phase two talks right away he says thats fine with him the president also saying the tariffs that remain on chinese imports will be used on negotiations for that phase two deal so that president here implying he hasnt given up all of his leverage in further negotiationegotiation negotiations no time lyline for when that phe two deal had been completed. That seems to be where things are headed now were getting some tape coming in of the president s comments well bring you that as soon as we have it meanwhile, were getting a bunch of very supportive statements from business groups, crincludi from former treasury secretary hank paulson, saying this is the first bilat rahal trade deal in to years it was hard fought and long overdueth overdue. This is a first step toward completing a comprehensive trade agreement. Scott, reading that s
Expectations china vowed to retaliate against u. S. Tariffs set to go into effect september 1 were now on track for a higher open lighthizer said its not possible given your past behavior so an awful lot to absorb today. Very interesting that the futures are up exactly the amount they are right now. They issued a very strident set of words toward us at the same time, announced stick l stimulus for hong kong where is what the president said on twitter what happened and without that, i think theyre going to view the olive branch of moving back to december as an illadvised move because the chinese arent playing ball were going to have Chuck Robbins later on this hour the chinese derailed their outlook. Asking them not to bid on business things are getting very, very tense. If we let that dominate the headlines and forget to look at what walmart said today, i think well have a false narrative because of how bad things are. Remember, we are not a big export nation. But yeah, the gloom is pr
Yesterday thanks to walmart and the good numbers we saw there. S p futures are indicated up by 28 points. The nasdaq up by 96 points again we are on the worst week for the stock market since may well see what happens today with the gains, or if they can hold on to them through the opening and the close later on today. The treasury market was different story. A lot of concern about whats happening with yields. The 30year fell below 2 for the first time in history. This morning its yielding 2. 026 the tenyear fell to the left level in three years this morning that yield is slightly higher, 1. 564 . Tenyear twoyear no longer inverted overnight in asia, we saw some green arrows some gains there the nikkei up barely the hang seng was up a percent the shanghai was up by a third of a percent in europe, londons ftse ohm ed higher after a nearly twohour delay because of a Technical Glitch elsewhere in europe, you can see the green arrows are there across the board the smallest advancer is the f
Relatively mixed loyal shares on track for their worst day in nine months after top line growth misses the mark in the Second Quarter dont miss our interview with jeanpaul agon at 11 30 Central European time. And apple shares jump in afterhours trade after beating expectations and returning to growth in the Third Quarter but iphone sales miss estimates. A bit of a mixed message in the european markets the xetra dax performing relatively well as is the ftse mib in italy the cac 40 in paris and the ftse in london in the red its the thick of earnings season in europe a lot of these numbers being driven by whats going on in those various markets. As we talk about some of the companies that are in focus in the thick of therapyings season, you have major reports from the financi airli airlines airfranceklm up strongly after posting a 15 rise in quarterly operating profit loreal over here in the far right corner for me is trading near the bottom of the index after posting weaker than expected
Year increases after reports that budweiser will delay sending it lower. And shares plummet to their lowest level on record after it reveals its in talks with china over a 750 Million Pound rescue plan it comes by so quickly every single month the decision, they say their output agreement does not change the output of an oversupplies market that is according to the International Energy agency. So in its latest report the iea says supply exceeded demand in the first half of 2019 and that rebalancing in the oil market has begun to slow. As ever, lets bring in nei neil atkinson. And just reading the major take away from the report is that essentially oil supply the first half of the year has exceeded demand you say that that number is 900,000 barrels. So despite opecs best efforts we still have the supplydemand mismatch we do thats a mismatch thats actually grown as new data has come in. And through the rest of 2019 well see how the demand issue plays out but as we move into 2020 the outl