About this episode
Swiss banking giant UBS posts a second-quarter beat on both the top and bottom line with a net profit of $1.1bn. The lender’s global wealth management arm also notched $27bn of net new assets. Japanese PM Fumio Kishida has stepped down and will not contest next month’s election. U.S. stocks rally after softer-than-expected PPI numbers raise hopes the Fed will cut by 50 basis points next month. The U.S. CPI print will be released later today. And in tech news, the DoJ is reportedly seeking to break up Google after a court judges that the company has an illegal online search monopoly. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .