The Leadership Group right now so joe terranova, i go to you on that note, the melt up in tech seems to be picking up we asked the question whether the growth tech stocks wrestled the market back from value and then thats where the money is going to be made Going Forward clearly the mega cap growth names have wrestled the market back theres an added dimension to it, scott, being popularized in a lot of Research Notes im reading. Pippa stevens of cnbc has a great report element of esg investing and something i didnt think about in prior weeks but if you take all the esg funds, the largest esg etf, its popularized by all the names that youre talking about. The apples, the amazons, the microsofts, so theres an added element to these hyper growth names that are not just about the quality and the cash Balance Sheets and the very visible return to Earnings Growth but an importance as it relates to social and governance and youre seeing a significant amount of fund flows into esg and thats ev
We saw was escalation of the trade war with the latest move being china fixing above seven last night. That is trading at 7. 10 now usdcnh. For adding to the downside, it is the internet and Home Entertainment index in the s p 500, the worst performing group right now. Electronic arts, take two interactive, and Activision Blizzard after the president talked about reframing violence in society, specifically encz and video games as part of the problem specifically mentioning videogames as part of the problem that led to the mass shooting over the weekend. He also condemned white super messy for the first time. The tenured you White Supremacy for the first time. At 1. 77. Ar yield guy lets get back to the china story. China letting its currency go through seven to the u. S. Dollar. Thats a big line in the sand. Has been for a long time. The chinese have never really gone there, not since 2008, and certainly not in the duration of this trade war. However, that has now happened. Spring in h
Slowing. Is said to be china is trying to funnel more credit to private companies. We will assess the implications in beijing. A quick check of our markets close in the u. S. It was a bit of a mixed picture. We saw the dow gained 50 points. The s p 500 erased this mornings gains. Fed officials with a little bit of caution about future rate cuts. To mention we have some soft manufacturing pmi numbers. That did not help sentiment. Cared materials and Health Leading the declines after fluctuated between gains and losses. That fell 0. 4 . U. S. Futures at the moment not doing much. The focus right now is on jackson hole. Lets see how we are shaping up. Steady as we go. Asian futures not doing much when it comes to the potential for how cash trade may start. We are waiting for cues from jackson hole as well as the g7 meeting this weekend. We also have today a busy day of earnings from china as well as from hong kong. We are going to get a cbi data from singapore. Thise checking on the end m
The nikkei 2251. 9 down. Have a look at those currencies. Ave a look at the yen. The situation with regards to the japanese currency. A quarter of 1 up there for the dollar against the japanese currency. On friday there was a warning there would be excessive volatility on Exchange Rates and stock markets as well. Bloomberg u. S. Dollar pretty much flat, after that fix. We head over to new york for a look at the news. We start with the heads of the feds. The last four heads of the Federal Reserve are joining the calling for independence for the u. S. Central bank. They together penned an oped in the wall street journal. They also criticized recent threats to remove fed officials for political reasons. The latest escalation in the ade war has pushed a key treasury indicator to its highest warning levels since 2007. Almost erased the surge that followed President Trumps election. At one point they yielded 32 basis points. The most extreme yield curve inversion since the leadup to the 2008
Pretty hot space survey monkey is in this space as well being able to collect data not just from the world at large, but customers, btoc, part of this whole transformation we keep talking about leslie picker will have the ceo later on in the hour got to start with microsoft, though, this morning, obviously beating the street on the top and the bottom line, upping its guidance and widening its lead jon, you know the Company Really better than anyone are you impressed at this point, at least with growth in cloud . I am, carl, because cloud has become at once so important and then nonsensical at the same time it used to be, you said cloud, you sort of knew what people were talking about oh, its those servers that are out there that are storing enough now cloud has become such a mainstream enterprise story. You have to ask questions two, three layers deep to figure out exactly what is the company talking about when they talk about cloud . Do they really have a fundamental technology are th