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President trump warns he will smash the turkish economy. Hong kong calms down after a long and difficult weekend. Leadership in beijing should meet protesters. Get you across some breaking news out of south korea right now. This is the current account balance for the month of august, and it is coming in, contacting on the july figure. Billion. In july, it was 6. 9 billion. We have seen rather disappointing export numbers out of south korea, but however, the current account remains in surplus after the chart, dipping into deficit back in may last year. It is trending a little down. The trade war is weighing on career. The current account balance for the month of august, 5. 265 william dollars. Chari. 5. 265 billion dollars. Shery the Trump Administration put 28 chinese entities on a new trade blacklist. The s p 500 was down. 5 in the regular session. Major indices ended in the red and they were fluctuating between gains throu ....
Ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is great to have you with us on this wednesday our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, jon and pete najarian, carrie firestone, kevin oleary, and also with us on set, Kathy Entwistle weve got a full house of advice today. Stocks on track to recover their losses from last week. Being driven by strong earnings from target and lowes target hitting alltime highs topping 100 bucks for the first time ever. Do we continue to bet on this consumer, carrie are there enough unknowns in the back half of the year to make you cautious its a great question and what the market has been telling you for the last year is that its a battle its a tugofwar between deal or no deal recession or no recession. Interest rates up or down. And do we put the money in the mattress or ....
And a tense weekend of protests in hong kong. There are new warnings about the economy. Lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We ended the friday session in the u. S. We some pressure with u. S. Stocks sinking as the u. S. China trade tensions increased. There was such a wild roller as though you on ended the week down half a percent. It is worth noting it was down almost more than 1 at one point, after President Trump says the talks with china could get canceled for next week. Still, it pared back the earlier declines after we heard from a white house official that suggestions that the u. S. Might not do business with huawei anymore, they walked back the comments. Semiconductors were some of the biggest losers in fridays session. The nasdaq down 1 . U. S. Futures at the moment gaining 0. 1 . All eyes now on asia on this monday as we have markets out of action on holiday. Thats right. If you take a look at stock ....
Now boeing is the most expensive stock in the dow, when it cascades, close to 10 bucks a share, disproportionately has a weight on the dow. Accounting for half the loss were seeing in the dow about 135 points. Roughly half of that is just boeing. Meanwhile the Justice Department is ramping up a probe into big tech. Here is what is amazing, the nasdaq is in record territory, it is doing that without the likes of amazon, apple or google. You dont see that very often. Were awaiting a new statement from the the new Prime Minister of britain, Boris Johnson, indicating he will go full speed ahead with the plans to break away from the European Union by hook or crook within the next 60 days. Well see what happens on that front. Deal or no deal he wants out. First to the ....
In some ways. The dax is rejoining the fray. The stoxx 600 up by 9 10 of 1 . Iron ore higher, steel higher as well. Auto stocks trading stronger as a result of germany coming back. The swiss market is into record territory. Some of haven bid and these properties doing really well, lifting that market. Pound is actually getting something of a lift. Vonnie on trade, no response from china to President Trumps warning that he will impose tariffs of 25 or higher on those 300 billion of chinese goods if presidency does not meet with him at the upcoming if president xi does not meet with him at the upcoming g20 summit. How serious is this threat . What will president xi and his of visors and his advisors be talking about . Guest the key to watch is whether this meeting between president s trump and xi takes place. We have seen President Trump signaling that he is very much wanting ....