Hour of trade, barry knapp back. Certainly the tone feels better. Do you think its fundamental with the trade tensions or some month end rebalancing stuff . I suspect theres a bit of month end rebalancing going on i think its too early to tell whether the Macro Economic fallout from the latest negative Business Confidence shock has what degree of effect its had next weeks ism on tuesday, payrolls on friday, will be much more important bempl marks to see whether were over the hump sort to speak on this i tend to be cautious and not chase the move today. On the big stories that we are watching today, kayla has the story. Josh lipton is tracking tariff concerns for apple kayla . The hope began when chinese officials said there was some Effective Communication of the two countries and it continued this morning when President Trump said in a radio interview theres a conversation scheduled today. I have talked scheduled theres a talk scheduled for today at a different level and yeah, they ha
57. 4. The forecast was 56. 3. Better, bothng in for manufacturing actually, services a little below estimates that 54. 9. We will hear from mario draghi, speaking in germany. He says Forward Guidance is a useful instrument, but the effectiveness can be improved. Lets listen. Its easier to explain to the general public. Clear. Change is insider change. Saying, when the facts change, i change my mind. What do you do, sir . For policymakers, its not that simple and Research Helps us to decide whether a change deserves a policy response, or as we say, we should work through it. Fourth, when the world changes, as it did 10 years ago, policies, especially Monetary Policy need to be adjusted. Thats true for most people, but not for everybody. Such an adjustment is never easy. It requires and im prejudiced, a new assessment of the new realities with clear eyes, ofncumbered by the defense previously held paradigms that have lost any explanatory power. Fifth, we mus tbt be aware of te ours that
Toll is rising topping 700 with an american now added to the list for the first time, the u. S. Embassy in beijing saying unidentified 60yearold died in china which is the epicenter, you know this comes as two flights arrived yesterday, they evacuated it, about 300 americans from wuhan, those passengers now quarantined by military bases or nearby hospitals for at least and trying to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, here is how President Trump handled the outbreak. We had a good talk with president xi and we talked mostly about the coronavirus, they are working really hard and i think they are doing a very professional job, we are working together but working with them, cdc is working with them. Christina coleman with the latest there. The First American to die from the virus was a woman with Underlying Health conditions, embassy in beijing says the 60yearold died this week, officials did not identify this person. As the death toll continues to rise, the Chinese Government is now
Presence among these demonstrations and protests. Jeremy bash served at the pentagon. Mark esper broke on the question of injecting into these largely peaceful protests all over this country now a military presence. Jeremy. Nicolle, this was a very important statement by the secretary of defense saying he manifestly imposes invocation of the insurrection act, what donald trump wanted to invoke in order to have active duty military go out against the protesters. In our historical tradition dating all the way back to George Washington who was, of course, general of the United States army and then resigned his commission as general of the army to become the civilian president and leader of our country, since that moment, and theres an oil painting of that moment that hangs in the capitol dome rotunda, since that moment weve had a division between civilian authority and military authority. I think the secretary of defense made clear we are not going to have active duty military troops perf
tell take place in northern virginia. bill clinton is helping the president in other ways, too. in that campaign ad, he took part in that controversial ad highlighting the president s decision to bring down osama bin laden a year ago and questioning whether a president mitt romney would have made the same decision. republicans are slamming the president s campaign for politicizing the killing of osama bin laden. this is one of the reasons president obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in american history. he took a unifying event for op all american, an event that governor romney congratulated him and the military and the intelligence analysts in our government for completing the mission in terms of killing osama bin laden. and he has managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack that former defense secretary frank carlucci called sad, john mccain called shameful. i think most americans will see it as a sign of a desperate campaign. eric: