Week on the hole for global stocks. Lets get a first word news update. Heres leighann gerrans. Leighann president macron of france has appointed a new Prime Minister. Macron is preparing to reshuffle his government in the widely expected relaunch of his presidency for the final two years of his term. North Korean Leader kim jongun urging people to stay alert of coronavirus. He warned that complacency could lead to unimaginable and irreversible crisis or get despite the warning, he has reaffirmed north koreas claim to not have had a single case of covid19. This is widely doubted by Global Health officials. European president christine crisiss signature fighting tool is becoming the focus of disagreement among policymakers. Governing councilmembers face a potential risk over how much their emergency Bond Purchase Program should stay weighted toward weaker countries such as italy. That is according to multiple conversations with central bank officials. And hong kong, police have charged a
Very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour we begin as always with the latest figures on kobe had 19 the Global Pandemic is still raging the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now surpassed 3000000 when the 925000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 211000. Now germany has mortality rate from code 1000. 00 has been much lower than some other e. U. States thats and encouraged it to reopen small shops and some schools but with political pressure growing to go much further to kick start the economy scientists fear that could trigger a deadly 2nd wave so to fully lift the lockdown or not at all the reports. One of german politics as elder statesman has ruffled a few feathers with his comments putting economics of the health when it comes to the corona pandemic if there is an absolute value in our base ignore toll it is Human Dignity it is untouchable but it doesnt rule out that w
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