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Balance of opening our business, but they will only be as successful as the Customer Confidence that is there to patronize those businesses. That is not just for the hospitality. That is true for all business. Retail has been the hardest hit. My understanding is over 2 of businesses have closed permanently already. How are we to address this Consumer Health issue . I know this is something you have talked about. What should we be doing . Chairman powell it affects different sectors of the economy differently. The ones we talked about are the ones we are exposed to. Other sectors of the economy may be able to recover much more quickly, and we certainly hope so. Thing is people believing it is safe to go back to work. That is about having a sensible, thoughtful reopening of the country, something we all want. Something we are in the early stages of. That is what it will take for people regain confidence and resume their activities. At a different pace depending on the nature of the busin
Debt. Joining us to discuss is a high veteran, Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors chief Investment Officer martin fridson. I want to talk about this wave of downgrades we have had. Yet, itenomenal, and seems like we have not reached the apex. Do you anticipate more double and triple downgrades . Martin i think we will see that continue for some time. If is such a dramatic change in environment, it is taking a while to get through all the companies, but in addition to aat, some Companies Just had light switch turning off kind of change. Historically, you have some finance companies go down quickly if they lost their ability to borrow, they could sell quickly. Industrial companies historically have taken a long time to make the migration that we observed recently. 1100 basis points around march 23, and then we had a bit of easing. What do you see in terms of levels, spread wise, and default wise . Martin default will clearly rise. Defaults will clearly rise. We think double digits. The high
Rates. Not want negative the bank of englands own debate with subzero policy continues. Andrew bailey testifies today as the u. K. Chancellor sees a recession unprecedented in scale. 6 00 a. M. In london, 9 00 a. M. In dubai. The global debate on negative rates. Rbnz thatt was the shifted the dial in terms of monetary policy. Only thing i learned is steven major comes and gives me one phrase which is, what the aussies and the kiwis do, bets the global agenda or pushes back on negative rates. I think it will be interesting to see where the fed would be with the ecb. Their rhetoric is shifting further away from the and irp domain nirp domain. Lets see what happens with the bank of england. Nejra you love that phrase and i do remember it well. Absolutely saying that negative rates have got to jump the hurdles. When we heard from powell yesterday as well, where the focus was much more from the take away with him not being so gung ho about talking about fiscal the way he was in the past but
Ready and waiting. Jerome powell says the fed is willing to use all weapons to combat the coronavirus downturn. Philip lane says the ecb is prepared to boost bond buying. Andrew bailey testifies in front of lawmakers today. A lot of centralbank action. Global coronavirus cases near 5 million, as one report throws cold water on modernas vaccine testing. That is what drove stocks lower yesterday and now we see futures down here, up in the u. S. And asia, say mixed picture. J. P. Morgan joins a Goldman Sachs in saying that further quantitative easing is needed to cap bond yields. The u. S. Is so strong a billion dollars of 20 year treasuries today and it looks like a lot more supply is getting mopped up by the central bank. An hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Take a look at the picture here. Arrowslooking at all red in terms of futures, euro stoxx, ftse futures and dax futures are down. If you take a look at the u. S. Futures picture after the downturn yesterday,