We shifte weeks where from recovering east coast cities with all of our bias there to the rest of america. It is not a pretty picture. What i find fascinating is axios moments ago features new mexico and oregon, where others are featuring arizona and texas. It is a state they are, a state here. I dont buy the second wave stuff. It just sums up to an expanded pandemic. Jonathan for real it is a moment for real humidity. Not a moment to project for real humility. Not a moment to project confidence. I think it was pretty clear in yesterdays News Conference the fed is not going to do any tightening anytime soon. Tom i sort of blew it yesterday. You know i am not a fan of the dot plot, and i never looked at dots on the bloomberg. It looks like an old line hockey stick from my youth. To 2022. T out and then miraculously, Interest Rates elevate somewhere out there longer term. I dont buy it for a minute. Of a heada bit scratcher for me as well. Lisa abramowicz, which got to talk about the dat
Signaling that it may need to do more to the boe, signaling that it may need to do more to combat lower growth. Bloombergs Francine Lacqua spoke to andrew bailey, the bank of england governor, following that policy decision. Gov. Bailey we are keeping options open on that. Im very clear on that. Other members of the committee thought it was a sensible decision to take in our next meeting, when we may have more information. Francine are we any closer to negative rates, or is that not an option right now . Gov. Bailey we are not ruling anything out because it would be unwise of us to rule anything out in terms of responses. I dont want to say we are nearer to negative rates, but we are not ruling anything out. Francine under what circumstances will we get negative rates . Gov. Bailey its a complicated question. You have to view it in the context of the times, also in the context of the financial structure we have, and what are the consequences of it. I just want to caution, we are nowher
Are right about the Economic Data. This is the point where it is beginning to click in nation to nation, and we are seeing some grim data. I look at the eto screen for the United States later this week, and those are numbers. We l points that where that we have never seen before. Two year yield continues to grind this morning. Francine we also look at renminbi, given what President Trump said about chinese tariffs yesterday. Lets get to first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana as many as 100,000 americans could die from the new coronavirus, this death toll update coming from donald trump. He said he hopes deaths would total less than 60,000. So far more than 67,000 americans have died. President trump accuses china of trying to cover up the coronavirus outbreak. He promises the u. S. Government would release a conclusive report on the pandemics chinese origins. He also says imposing tariffs on chinese imports would the ultimate punishment and an explosive Associated Press report s
Well as in london. We begin with a biggie week a busy week for Central Banks. Bank of japan says they will take on unlimited buying of Government Bonds, lifting the cap also on corporate holdings. I, he joins us now. , kitchen sink, we are still throwing it. Michael Central Banks are all as string the question of what you do when you have throwing the kitchen sink. In the back of japans case, you just make the sink a little bigger. The bank of japan already has negative rates, Corporate Bond and etf buying, and an emergency Lending Program, so they just decided to make those programs a bit bigger. Unchanged at rate 10 basis points. Remember, they do yield curve control. They mentioned they would buy as many Corporate Bonds as they need to and expanding access to its Emergency Loan Program for a wider range of banks. For analysts, theres a bit less here than meets the eye. They dropped their ¥80 trillion limit on Government Bond buying, but they werent buying anywhere trillion, so it d
Outperformance of small caps for a sixth straight day, so that is sort of the good news, but it is all a waitandsee game as we head into the ecb. Underperformance happening with btps in europe. Twitter earnings breaking as well. Revenue coming in stronger than estimated at it hundred 7. 6 million. 876are shifting at. Illion has a look at the monitor bullet daily active users, they came in at 166 million. That did beat estimates. They did add 14 million average monthly daily active users since the previous quarter. Seeing more activity. Now it is about monetizing that activity. Twitter is up by about 10 in premarket. More coming out later on in the show. We do want to give you a snapshot of all that is moving the market from our team in new york. We are going to begin with the data overnight in europe. Recession,s record plunging into record contraction, shrinking about 3. 8 . The slump adding a lot more urgency for joint physical support and puts more pressure on Christine Lagarde late