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10 things you need to know before the opening bell (SPY, SPX, QQQ, DIA, T, TWC)

Trump and Kim
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un leave after signing documents that acknowledge the progress of the talks and pledge to keep momentum going, after their summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore.
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

Here is what you need to know.

Trump meets Kim in Singapore. President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un held historic talks in Singapore on Monday evening and signed an unspecified “comprehensive” letter.

Trump’s top economic adviser is “in good condition” after suffering a heart attack. “Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack,” Trump tweeted. “He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center.”

The IMF says clouds over the global economy are “darker by the day.” IMF head Christine Lagarde said on Monday that the “biggest and darkest cloud” over the global economy is the risk of eroded confidence “by attempts to challenge the way in which trade has been conducted, in which relationships have been handled, and the way in which multilateral organizations have been operating.”

Net neutrality is dead. Internet providers now have the authority to block or slow access to particular internet services, and to create a “fast lane” to them.

Wall Street is firing a warning shot on red-hot tech stocks, and many investors don’t see it coming. “Analysts’ forecasts may be too low, but if they are in the right ballpark, such patterns may be disappointing to very long investors,” Tobias Levkovich, Citi’s chief US equity strategist, wrote in a recent note.

A ruling on the AT&T-Time Warner merger is coming. Judge Richard J. Leon will hand down the decision as to whether AT&T can acquire Time Warner for $85 billion, and what, if any, conditions must be met before a deal can proceed, Axios says.

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Robots could replace as many as 10,000 jobs at Citi’s investment bank. The areas “most fertile for machine processing” include technology and operations, which account for about 40% of the bank’s headcount, Jamie Forese, president of Citi and chief executive of the bank’s institutional clients group, told the Financial Times.

Goldman Sachs used AI to simulate 1 million possible World Cup outcomes — and arrived at a clear winner. The 2018 World Cup kicks off on Thursday and Goldman Sachs says Brazil will beat Germany in the championship match.

Stock markets around the world trade mixed. China’s Shanghai Composite (+0.89%) led the gains in Asia and Britain’s FTSE (-0.36%) trails in Europe. The S&P 500 is set to open little changed near 2,780.

US economic is light. CPI will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET. The US 10-year yield is up 1 basis point at 2.96%.

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