Our north america business correspondent ritika gupta has the details. The 0. 5 percentage cut brings its key interest rate, the federal funds rate down to between 4. 75 and 5%. It comes amid signs of inflation in america is continuing to fall while thejob market america is continuing to fall while the job market remains strong even as unemployment has risen this year. The strong even as unemployment has risen this year. risen this year. The labour market is risen this year. The labour market is actually risen this year. The labour market is actually in risen this year. The labour market is actually in solid| market is actually in solid condition and our intentions with condition and our intentions with our condition and our intentions with our policy move today is to keep with our policy move today is to keep it with our policy move today is to keep it there. You can say that to keep it there. You can say that about to keep it there. You can say that about the whole econo
the reaction in asia so far has been mixed. Our north america business correspondent ritika gupta has the details. The federal reserve has delivered a super sized interest rate cut aimed at bolstering the us labour market. The 0. 5 percentage cut, the first in over four years, brings its key interest rate, the federal funds rate, down to between 4. 75 and 5%. It comes amid signs inflation in america is continuing to fall, while the job market remains strong, even as unemployment has risen this year. The labour market is actually in solid condition and our intention with our policy move today is to keep it there. You can say that about the whole economy. The us economy is in good shape, it s growing at a solid pace, inflation is coming down. The labour market is in a strong pace. We want to keep it there. In addition, the committee setting rates released its latest forecast which showed policymakers expecting to cut rates by a further 0. 5%. That would us interest rates below 4. 5% b
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Theres a live lookin well monditor that for you. The president elect announcing his team today we expect to hear from joe biden at the bottom of the hour and his fed chair nominee, janet yellen josh, i mentioned the dow, best month since 87, russell, best month ever, energy best month since april, industrials best month since 09. Theres a lot of momentum coming into december. Yeah. Look, i think a lot of people are saying this and i actually agree with it and i hate to go along with conventional wisdom but right now it seems as though the biggest risk is that everyones already bullish and there arent that many people left to buy. If you go on like financial social media, you find owl the bears. In real life people are in, regardless of what they might be saying publicly. Right now thats probably the big risk, that things are a little bit too good. You have a great setup with earnings growing, the vaccine being distributed. In london theyll give it out as soon as monday i i dont think w
Child for antitrust how it could become the post posterchild for a market pullback time to risk less. Theres a growing sector of the bank any time theres a growing activity in the banking seccer it to could be time to take a breath carter thats right, with the bump up in rates, regional banks have come back to life in a big way theres been m a in the Asset Management space so were going to look at some of these areas of the market in relation to the republican and zero in on blackrock the first chart you have three lines even though it looks like two. The top line is the s p. The threeyear chart, s p up 38 . The two other lines are tightical and two separate Industry Groups in the s p the first is s p 500 investment banks and brokers, thats goldman sachs, Morgan Stanley and others and the other is s p 500 Asset Managers and trust banks, things like t. Rowe, blackrock, invesco, state street and so forth imagine on a threeyear basis having no gains. Look at a chart since the financial cr