Here as well. Also want to point out some breaking news. Macys says their cfo paula price is going to leave the company. They are looking at an external search currently. Premarket withn the overall market. Exxon mobil also coming out, finally the last of the big majors to cut their capex. They see overall Capital Investments for this year about 23 billion. They saw up to 33 billion. They are also cutting operating expenses by about 15 . They are maintaining their longterm outlook. They say Capital Allocation priorities remain unchanged. The longest chunk of all these cuts are going to be spending in the permian basin. That is interesting. We heard something very similar with chevron, a little easier to shale. Ex within they are dealing with the fallout of the crisis. Watching those stocks as we head into the open. U. S. , as wellthe as the markets, but the collapse of the Small Business optimism i was just talking about. Gauge falling by 8. 18 points in march. Michael mckee joins us w
The Federal Reserve announcing another program that primary dealer Credit Facility this is one of the biggest programs the Federal Reserve has yet to do. It is call the kitchen sink of lending programs it provides shortterm, overnight, and term funding up to 90 days for a broad range of assets i can tell you the kinds of assets that now primary dealers can bring to the fed to get funding. Investment grade corporate debt, securities, commercial paper, municipal securities, mortgagebacked securities, assetbacked securities, even Equity Securities excludeing etf. Bring us your poor, tired, hungry, weak the fed is saying bring us your paper, well, obviously, give it a haircut but well also lend it overnight. So now the fed, implementing almost all, still a few left of the financial crisis era programs from the Great Recession that had in place today. It put in place the commercial paper facility and has really long Quantitative Easing Program and bringing rates down to zero. What is left i
Now we are reporting this morning, that they are not a currency manipulator at all. If you remember last year, the president between in a moment of heightened tensions, they declared themselves they were declared a currency manipulator, and now it looks like it is being lifted, part of a warming trend with relations. David when will we know whether the chinese are actually complying with this . There are a lot of questions if they will really follow through on the deal. N the main commitments are on intellectual property and there are signs that the chinese have already done what is already in the deal. They have a new law in place come in they have some new courts set up for the question is whether they enforce the law and whether they crackdown on the cases. One of the things we will be looking for our highprofile cases, whether they come around for the second thing is the big purchase commitment from the chinese, 200 billion over two we will purchases, and not know whether we are re
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