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Fed set 2022 and what the chairman will say and what i assume will be a Virtual Press conference today. Ofncine we will have plenty market action. We will look at the markets every 15 minutes, including what is happening in treasuries. We had the oecd coming out with their economic outlook. That was released about an hour ago, and the oecd, it is a smarter way of doing it, tom. Forecasting the pandemic would cause a Global Economic slump of 6 here, but if there is a second wave, that becomes a seven point 6 slump. It is a good way of visualizing percent comes a 7. 6 slump. By thewas taken aback differentials between the bar charts of europe and the United States. I did not have in my head how much worse the guesstimate is for gdp decline in the europe verses in the u. S. It is a very good report. Francine it is also because of where europe was in the economic cycle. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. A warning from jeffrey gund
Those gains. Tesla is trading above 1000 a share for the first time. I want to point out the dollar in yields. The dollar has been a proxy for Risk Appetite and Risk Appetite is higher when it is weaker. The fact that the dollar is weaker again signals are not entirely risk off day but you have yields moving lower by about four basis points ahead of the fit decision. Are sensitive to whatever the fed says or does. Yields were moving up yesterday. Seems to have come off a little bit today. Kailey you are seeing yields move lower and the curve flatten out a bit after the dramatic steepening we had seen. The bond market will be hanging on any word the fed may say about possible curve control from economists we talked to on Bloomberg Television. It does not seem like they are expecting a lot on that yield curve control, but that is definitely a market waiting and watching to see if we will get anything there. David thank you so very much. That is kailey leinz reporting on the markets. Toda
It is office highs, but still a. 5 . Not too Much Movement in the dollar index. Just a little weaker before the fomc today. He 10year yield lets get a deeper dive into the market action. Standing by we have k. D. Lang. Katie playing. Hase dollar weakness become a proxy for risk appetite. It is once again weakening signals it is not entirely a risk off day. We are seeing it in equities. Even if crude is office to touch. On the subject of the fed and yields, something the market is paying close attention to for that decision in about an hours commentary on yield curve control. There has been a dramatic steepening of the curve in recent weeks. We have seen some flattening coming in. We are sitting at 115 basis points, the steepest it has been in about three years. We will see if the fed does anything to change that narrative. It is tech that is outperforming at the moment. The s p 500 Information Technology sector is higher for the fourth day in a row, up 5 over that time period even thou
Since the death since the disease emerged. The causing Severe Damage to the global economy. It also says australia is leading developed nations through the economy. Shery lets get a check of how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures under continuous pressure. The futures session right now. This after stocks fluctuated throughout the day. We had the risk on tone fading. This is Economic Projections pointed to the long road back to normal. We had the s p 500 falling half a percent. Finishing lobar display chair powell suggesting the pandemic could inflict permit damage on the American Economy and despite the fact treasury secretary mission says the u. S. Definitely needs additional fiscal stimulus so we could see more measures from the u. S. Government. The nasdaq composite was higher by seven tencent 1 . A similar mixed picture we saw with tech stocks rallying. The nasdaq 100 climbing to a record high finishing above 10,000 for the first time. Take a look at what the dollar i