Cfo about why all the m a is going on and how billionsof dollars vanished in hollywood as the screening giant shuts down completely it is thursday, october 22, and this is Worldwide Exchange. I think video killed the video star, answer that the anyway, welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Thank you for joining us well get to that squibby story in a few minutes but right now here is how the Global Markets are setting up their day. Stock market, well call them done to maybe flat nasdaq a little bit in the green, all this after stocks closed down yesterday, dow slipping 100 Investors Holding out hope for a stimulus deal and also starting to worry more about the election more on that in a few minutes. Major indexes all on pace to snap their multiweek win streaks. Nasdaq down slightly more. And today well get jobless claims number out at 8 30 as they always are on a thursday. For the first Time Applications may be coming in at 875,000 like they did in the latest week. Las
Daniel booth author of fed up and inside his take on why the Federal Reserve is bad for america and former Federal Reserve insider so danielle starting off this is the 2nd time that the fed has made a move that the market has now interpreted as being panicked so instead of boosting confidence it actually spooked the market causing this massive selloff right off the open so was the feds response here appropriate could have they have done anything else differently here. Well i think what we have to really focus on is that the fed didnt have very much of a choice the asian markets had priced in a much messier day than weve had today bearing in mind that today was the worst selloff since 1987 but again markets had already priced in the fed coming in and making an emergency move i think at the fed ben silent that we might have even seen more disruption in Financial Markets than what we did see today so they sadly theyve backed themselves into a corner and they had to deploy all of the weapo
Intervention such as Circuit Breakers and bailouts now on the other far end of the spectrum of market intervention many are calling for the markets to shut down temporarily to prevent further selling and quote own the shorts the Philippine Stock Exchange has become the 1st to implement this and announce that its suspending trading until further notice after the market wiped out just over a 3rd of market value since the november highs. Is back below 30. 00 after opec canceled their technical meeting this week that was meant to mediate between saudi arabia and russia sources said that it will be hard for both sides to reach a compromise now and then i guess market warns that extreme oil surplus is possible Monetary Policy is now being discounted as cheap or money does little to restore confidence in the average consumer in the face of a deadly pandemic 0 percent Interest Rates wont make up for much of the massive loss of activity and income for companies and consumers. And were now joine
A casualty of the recent economic slowdown if you havent planned as hard as oil sector we have a live report on how falling demand and a price war has. Been a jam packed show today so lets jump right and. Futures his limit down before market opened monday as the fed said the markets panicking yet again there are technical meeting this week that was meant to mediate between saudi arabia and russia sources so that it will be hard for both sides to reach a compromise now and then i just mark a warrant that extreme oil surplus is possible Monetary Policy is now being discounted as cheap or money does little to restore confidence in the average consumer in the face of a deadly pandemic 0 percent Interest Rates wont make up for much of the massive loss of activity and income for companies and consumers. And for more were now joined by danielle de martino book author of fed up an insiders take on why the Federal Reserve is bad for america and former Federal Reserve insider so danielle startin
Weekend cutting its key Interest Rate by a full percentage point to near 0 and boosting its Bond Holdings by 700000000000. 00 markets are still getting slammed triggering a 15 minute hold again right off the open. Target range for our own Interest Rate by one percentage point bringing it closer or further we expect to maintain the rate at this one and who were confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is going to try to achieve our maximum employment and productivity go. Equities saying deeper into bear territory as the dow is now about 30 percent off its all time highs investors are digesting nonstop news full of companies shutting down operations countries sealing borders and infections spreading in normal circumstances a large policy response such as this weekend would put a floor under risk assets and support recovery however the fear is exponential and markets are questioning what else Monetary Policy can do in mitigating coronavirus induced risks investors are li