Day for the Federal Reserve system. It is a meeting of mystery. Our Michael Mckee will be there for the press conference, special coverage this afternoon. But right now, a great conversation on some of the challenges that we are going to see. Jon ferro, to me, the major challenge, with futures up 17, you mentioned this earlier, this morning, is the two americans that are out there, that two americans that are out there right now, jon ferro, are nothing like what john edwards ever thought he would see. Jonathan just compare and contrast, tom, take the airlines on one hand you can take any sector, the retail sector, and compare it to fintech right now. Big tech on fire. Other companies, tom, literally slashing in tens of thousands, and a central bank that has to set policy for both economies. That is a tremendously difficult position to be in as a central bank right now, and that will create distortion. Some would argue that is already happening. Tom Lisa Abramowicz, within your reading,
The in that canasdaq at 2. 3 the stocks are all flavors and sizes and including stocks that is rallying the same time from a certain perspective this move looks like it is driven by contradictory theories about the future take the election. Today the market trended both trump and biden are going to win. Seemingly impossible let me give you both perspectives on the republicans side, the president is feeling better and theyre betting a big bound. Trump is expected to leave walter reed medical at 6 00 p. M. We are monitoring the situation and keep you updated maybe he can make a come back and win the election thats the argument he started making today you should not worry so much about covid because we got great drugs that can beat this thing on the democratic side, biden has been getting strong pollings, much better than hillary clinton. A landslide victory. Thats some real possibility the democrats want this election to be a referendum on covid. Even the president is fine, the white hou
That broadly speaking if we dont get that, there would certainly be Downside Risks certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you cnn. Thanks for taking my question chairman powell, give us an update to the policy framework and repeated calls for this and this event, is the fed open to other parts of the economy such as income inequality and Affordable Housing we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy. In a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy you mentioned inequality so disparities in income and Financial Wellbeing demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality, which i would point to its a multifaceted thing, stagnation of nat the lower end of the income and lower mobility those are things that hold back our economy. They are the thing is we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get a
Session with the dow plunges 406 points, the s p prlummets 1. 6 i an absolute nightmare. The house of pain but its good to have some cash so tonight, were holding a coronation because right now, cash is king. Our viewers know this market has been making me nervous for a while. Ive been telling you to take profits for the last three weeks. We have sold some of every single tech stock we know, including some very, very good favorites that you are aware of. Every single one, first time in 15 years because bulls make money, bears make money. But hogs, they get slaughtered i love these tech companies, but i looked at the Charitable Trust cost basis, i looked at the pricetoearnings multiples and said you know what we are out of our minds with greed youve got to be disciplined in my book, that means taking profits while you have them. Some of you will say this violates everything you heard about investing, buy and hold, think longterm. Or most recently, or i should say, stocks or stonks only
Amazon billion offer to goes from rivals to partners as jeff bezos is willing to take a 40 stake in his indian retail revolution. At thelets take a look set up for the session of trading in asia. We saw that resumption of the loss in the u. S. How are we setting up in this part of the world . Sophie a pickup in volatility once again. In asia, futures are mixed, but we are seeing s p eminis. Chicago adding. 3 . The yen is stuck in the range with brexit risk also a consideration. We are watching tiktok reaction to trumps extension of that tiktok watching reaction to trumps extension of that tiktok sale. Jupiter Asset Management is cutting its exposure to debt of Chinese State linked borrowers so that is something to consider as well. Ahead of the u. S. Election, you are seeing one vol bets can yuan vol bets. Keeping an eye on korean bonds with potentially 6. 3 billion of supply coming through. The government may submit its proposal to parliament this friday. The global rush of Corporate