Eastern on cspans q and a. White House National economic counselor, larry kudlow, talk to the Washington Post yesterday about the outlook for the u. S. Economy and was asked about the status of Coronavirus Relief negotiations. Robert good to have you here. Thank you for coming. The u. S. Economy grow at a record 7. 4 percent between july and september. It has recovered two thirds of the ground it lost during the first half of the year during the pandemic, but many economists remain wary because the figure comes as the country is still entering this time of rising coronavirus cases and the economy has not entirely healed. So lets begin with these new numbers. Do you acknowledge these record gains follow record losses . Larry of course i do. The shutmic because of ins last spring generated a very heavy economic toll. Very heavy. You have a 33 increase, annualized increase in the third quarter. Thats a record. I want to go underneath the hood here because i think this is a selfsustaining
We need to prevent a collapse of the medical system. Stricter measures are necessary now. The request for establishments that serve alcohol to close early is expected to last for 20 days. Officials sabusiness that comp will be entitled to subsidies. Tokyo officials are also planning to suspend the campaign that offers discounts on dining and are urging residents to refrain from nonessential outings. Pub owners disappointed by the news. This is the third time april they have been asked to close early. Sgltsz the last two times i thought the measure was inevitable, but this time i feel, not again. They shouldnt just ask us to shorten our business hours, but rath take drastic steps to tackle the virus. Otherwise this will happen again. The measures come just a day after the Central Government temporarily excluded sapporo and osaka city from a Domestic Tourism campaign aimed at the stimulating the economy. Despite the spike in tokyo, it will remain part of the campaign. So far on wednesday
Economists remain wary because the figure comes as the country is still entering this time of rising coronavirus cases and the economy has not entirely healed. So lets begin with these new numbers. Do you acknowledge these record gains follow record losses . Larry of course i do. The pandemic contraction because of the shut ins last spring generated a very heavy economic toll. Very heavy. You have a 33 increase, annualized increase in the third quarter. Thats a record. I want to go underneath the hood here because i think this is a selfsustaining recovery. The numbers are gargantuan. I am going to read them off. You have Consumer Spending up 41 , housing up 59 , Business Investment in equipment up 70 and automobile production up almost 1200 . My take is this this is selfsustaining. It is going to spill over into the Current Quarter and next year, policies permitting. But the one missing link and a lot of people have not talked about this, you are going to get a big inventory rebuild. I
Changes ahead of its big hong kong listing. New controversy for one of wall streets most powerful Investment Banks this time over Sexual Misconduct allegations. And then ditching sin city, yes, ditching it, one of the biggest casino operators in the world on a plan that would focus the company entirely on mccaw and singapore. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc on tuesday, october 27th, 2020. Viva las vegas good morning im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan today. Lets begin with stock futures right now showing relative stability after big losses yesterday. You can see here the s p implied higher by just about seven points the dow implied higher by 37 and the nasdaq by 36 not large gains by any measure implied. However, after yesterdays losses they could be viewed as somewhat stable. A closer look at the dow futures over the past 12 hours were well off our session highs as you can see here and just a hair below the lows of the level we saw in the overnight session as yo
Dow 30,000. 2009,were you march 10 of while you were up 16 per year on the dow . Spx i believe better as well. There have been reasons along the way to go to cash, and yet here we are with solid doubledigit returns across 13 years. Jonathan and some houses got it right. One of those houses, Morgan Stanley. It was really uncomfortable to make the call coming out of march 2 remain committed to the recovery in the u. S. Economy. It took some real confidence, and one thing that has frustrated me over the last couple of months is every time someone says the easy money has been made. There was nothing easy about going long in early april during lockdown. Lets be clear about that. We are going to keep this short with mr. Wilkinson keep wilsonort to get mr. Of Morgan Stanley, but we are not even seeing the version of those trends, are we . Jonathan not yet. Bank of america proposes holding the bonus pool flat for traders, this on a year where in the first of nine months, revenues or bank of am