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,
Crude down. It was up at one point this morning at 95 per barrel for west texas intermediate. A real rally for oil. Despite todays equity rally, september is shaping up to be the worst months of 2023 with one more trading day on the calendar. Abigail doolittle joins us to talk about this. September is historically not a great month for equities and this month is not an exception. Abigail september is the worst month of the year for the s p 500 for the last 30 years, down. 8 . We are down a lot more than that and we are off of the lows because of the rally. We are down 4. 3 . This makes for the worst month since december of last year. We were heading to the worst month since september. We are down two months in a row. The first time we have seen that this year. About a year ago was when this happened. It is not just the s p 500. We take a look at other equity indexes, we will see a lot of red on the screen and this does not even account for the full month because of the way the graphic
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our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, looks back at king charles first year on the throne. the end came amid the tranquillity of balmoral, exactly as the late queen had wanted. at 3:10, at the moment of her death, the crown passed and the reign of charles iii began. no british monarch had waited longer to succeed to the throne and few monarchs can have been as aware as he was of the scale of the challenge. to succeed such a revered sovereign and maintain the monarchy s position. on this, the first anniversary of the late queen s death, the king paid tribute to her. we recall with great affection, her long life, devoted service and all she meant to so many of us. i am deeply grateful too for the love and support that has been shown to my wife and myself during this year, as we do our utmost to be of service to you all. in the year since the late queen s death, the transition to charles has gone smoothly, perhaps more smoothly than many had expected. there s been a chang
Prefixes are important markers for meaning in many words. Today on Everyday Grammar, we learn about prefixes used with large numbers or amounts, especially as they appear in stories about science or industry.