Recession. Blockbuster have mr. Kudlow we have blockbuster retail sales. Most economists on wall street towards the end of the week had been marking up their forecasts for the third and fourth quarter. David do you think they had a message . Alix a little bit. That was just a little bit of the networks they were on. Markets, the question really becomes where are the actual recession fears, and where are we actually ok . You can see that playing out in eurodollar right now. Living a bit higher, we can take a look at where the markets are trading. After the news broke that germany is potentially looking at stimulus, specifically targeting job creation, that is giving a lift to the markets. David big news as we were coming to the air. Alix we sort of knew this. David but now they are signaling targeting job creation. Lets get to the morning brief, where we look at the week ahead. Home depot, t. J. Maxx, and kohls reporting tuesday earnings. We get to see the fomc minutes from the last mee
The outlook for the u. S. Economy remains terrible, and this action is designed to support the outlook. From weak Global Growth and to promote a faster return of inflation to our symmetric 2 objective. Objectives will support achievement of our overall goal, to sustain for the benefit of the american people. Conclude theed to runoff of our securities portfolio rather than and september as previously planned. I will discuss the thinking behind todays Interest Rate reduction and then turn to the path forward. As the year began, both the economy and Monetary Policy were in a good place. Below 4 ,oyment rate inflation had been running there are 2 objective for nine months. Our interestrate target was at the low end of estimates for neutral. Over the first half of the year, the economy grew at a healthy pace and job gains pushed unemployment to near a halfcentury low. We just have been rising for lower paying jobs. People who live and work and lower income communities telling us that many w
Again and bet, bath, and beyond with the street gone its thursday, july 11th and World Wide Exchange begins right now. Good morning awelcome to World Wide Exchange. And dow higher by 54 points and s p higher by almost six points and the nasdaq almost 20 weve been at this level for most of the morning. We have the dow, the s p 500 in the nasdaq and not necessarily closing there, the nasdaq dedid and trauszs for the First Time Ever so that was good, crossing 3,for the First Time Ever. Didnt actually close there. Its relatively quiet today although we did see some yesterday as oindicated a raich kit was coming maybe 50 basis points. But right now the yield on the 10year is sitting at 2. 0. And thats see what the action looks like its green, basically all the way around the world with in asia as you can see higher by a 1 2 a percent and the south korean cospy added on a whole percent and change were green across the board as well like yesterday the strongest action up 7 10 off a percent bu
Im peter erwin at the new york times, also author of the new book how to win in a winner take all world. Im presiding over todays discussion. Its a great honor to have jerome h. Powell with us today. He joins us today at a fraught moment for the World Economy and for the fed. Previously, he was a fed governor. Before that, he worked for the bipartisan policy center, carlisle group, and the u. S. Treasury department. Well begin with a few prepared remarks by chairman powell. [ applause ] thank you, neil, and good afternoon. Its a pleasure to be here today. So im going to begin with a Progress Report on the broad public review my Federal Reserve colleagues and i are conducting of the strategy, tools, and communication practices we used to achieve the objectives that congress has assigned to us by law. Maximum employment and price stability. The dual mn datmandate. Then i will discuss the outlook for the u. S. Economy and Monetary Policy. I look forward to our discussion that will follow.
Welcome todays counsel on international economics. Im neil irwin at the New York Times and author of a new book called health when in a winner take world and i preside over todays discussion. Great honor to have Jerome H Powell with us today and the 16th person to chair the board of governors at the Federal Reserve system and joins us today for the World Economy and previously he was a fed governor that he worked in Bipartisan Policy Center and u. S. Treasury department and we begin with a few remarks by german powell. [applause] thank you, neil. Good afternoon. Its a pleasure to be here today so i will begin with a Progress Report on broad public review by the Federal Reserve colleagues and i are conducting of the strategy, tools and mediation practices we use to achieve the objectives congress has assigned to us by law i will discuss the outlook for the u. S. Economy and Monetary Policy and i look forward to our discussion that will follow. During our public review we are seeking per