We got a boost from the bank of england a little early around. We will hear from the governor in just a moment. The cable rate, 1. 31. Keep an eye on the critical lines in the sand as we come through tomorrows session. We are starting to see yields a little bit higher here in europe today. A little bit of stabilization may be in the bond market after yesterdays big move, but a much flatter curve. Lets dive into the bank of england decision to boost its bond buying program. 150 billion, a little bit of a surprise. The market was expected 100 billion to be added to the program. Why the bigger number . That was the question i put to the governor. Gov. Bailey i think that was what we learn from our earlier experiences with covid. It is important that we act both quickly and that we act clearly in scale. That was an important consideration for us. The second thing is that we have to meet the inflation target sustainably over time. So a lot of work we did on our forecasts, employing the pers
And see where they stand creeping up. Over the seven handle at. 713. Well see what kind of core relation that may have with the equities market. Melissa, welcome to the club this morning it is great to be here and start the morning with you guys. I say that with a hint of sa sarkasm. Shes a regular you are ready to play. Always, you got to bring it each time. No i in team. Theres only a me upgrading laura overnight and learned it is rapidly intensifying and bracing for great winds. A category 4 with winds of 130 miles an hour. More than half a Million People have been ordered to evacuate from these areas 84 of off shore gulf production has been shut in compared to 90 in katrina not only is this having an impact on Oil Productions and industries from this storm that could impact tonight salesforce shares soaring after the Company Reported earnings of 1. 44. More than doubling revenue is above estimates core sales of the cloud road by 13 . The company got a big boost on investments. Guid
In europe, also watching what has been happening there, you will also see just like yesterday europe is down across the board. The biggest declines coming from france and london. The cac off 1. 6 among the big market themes, momentum stocks outperform, some momentum factor er, etf up on pace for the best ever launch since 2016 we are going to have a technical analysts on. I was distracted i asked the analyst whether it works like this with the outliar. They insist, no matter what, they did bounce off the level. The ones they mention. It hit exactly and bounced off it we have bleakly here lets say this, we manage 6 billion of assets. We want that to go up. It is risk management. We need p emto worry. We have a lot of them around today. Including me burgon county, the first presumptive case of coronavirus. Energy is in a bare market off from its high in april industrials also in correction territory. Gold on pace for its best performance. Looking at prices this morning, youll see they ar
Time for Global Exchange and bring you todays market moving news from around the world from hong kong to frankfurt to london to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Were going to start with the latest in asia. Trade uncertainty appeared to take its toll on china. The countrys economy losing more steam in october, factory input and fixed asset sales missing estimates and joining me from hong kong is bloombergs chief asian economics correspondent. Give me the rundown of the data weve got. It was a mix across the board with a slump in investment and industrial output miss expectations and on the retail spending part of things we saw the weakness go from auto and turnt and cuggetting the consumer is starting to book now none the pressure of trade war and slowing economy. There were two big takeaways from economists and onen one hand the numbers suggest were probably looking at 6 growth in this Current Quarter and probably shows the
Who are very active in looking at technology and product 50 and the implications for the labor force. It will depend over time on workers having the skills and aptitudes to benefit from technology. Hashistory for 250 years been that Technology Enables higher productivity and those who have the skills and aptitude to operate and benefit from that technology, their wages go up. Their stated of living goes up. Youre at a place where there may be a period and there have been periods where there could be several decades that is not the case. Where the evolution of ofhnology leads to periods bad distributional effects. Over time, it has always led to lifting all boats. This particular period is one of concern. Ought to beress, we thinking about the potential impact at whether there are any policy moves we ought to make to anticipate or to try to accommodate Artificial Intelligence and other technologies. Chair powell i think it is hard to imagine you can stop the march of technology. It will