Pizza. One stock serving up serious game thanks to leftovers the dow was up over 500 points the rally, driven in part by President Trump who made an about face on stimulus, putting aid back in play before the november election. So, can we expect this rally to continue you know what struck me about todays rally is that we what is that, mel that we closed nine points higher than when we closed yesterday. We are better off today hoping for piecemeal parts to the stimulus plan than yesterday i made it a point, albeit clumsy, that President Trump, in my opinion, is extraordinarily focused on the stock market. The administration has said it for years, the stock market is a report how well hes doing so for him to tweet something and then watch the dow jones g straight line, it had to be upsetting. I thoughi didnt think it wouldn six hours later, but we are here i think they have learned how to speak the language of the stock market to your point, nothing has changed, but here we are increment
Moving news from all around the world. Delhi, newg to new jersey and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground todays top stories. In asia, you had the pboc lowering the rate it charges on shorterterm loans to lenders. Index added 150 billion yuan into the banking system. Joining us is tom mackenzie. Is this the start of an easing cycle, or a shortterm term liquidity crunch into the new year . Tom it seems like more of a shortterm liquidity crunch. We are looking ahead to january, what it looks like you will get a withdrawal of cash out of the Financial System here of about 450 billion. They take that liquidity out ahead of the chinese new year, which comes in towards the end of january. It does seem like it is more of a seasonal effect. More broadly in the economy, credit has been tightening. We saw today from the pboc was some gradual measures to try and address this queasy liquidity, and a couple of basis points and a sevenday reverse repo as well. About 28ly, you got b
On tv and radio. Im Jonathan Ferro. Tk taking a break, equity market soft, down a 30 on the s p 500. The bowls on wall street getting more bullish. Now looking for 4900 on the 400, the price target set at the end of december. He was bullish and right to be. He raises his price target. City are looking for 5000 by the middle of next year. It is record high watch on the street. Lisa and the potential for a 28 gain this year, the biggest going back to one to 19. Can we get the start of a new bull market given some of the increasing credit contraction, the softening in Economic Indicators check out could this be the start of a new bull market as many are calling for . Jonathan i loved what scott cronin had to say. Clearly we were chasing the tape. Growing conviction in years earnings acceleration is a key point of differentiation. He is looking for earnings to accelerate into 2024. Lisa a key underpinning for a lot of these, more broadly, is that the softness will cause the fed to pivot. I
Seven words, im Jonathan Ferro. U. S. Retail sales before we get there, an ecb retail story. It deadline for taking on the detroit three. Tom ill start with the cut up clock for inflation, people digging into inflation, could be shows many significant disinflation and that is what Christine Lagarde is to confront. If there is rates, are they doing the wrong time . Jonathan we are split down the middle. Tom citigroup, bnp paribas, there is a long list and i think that list is growing after we heard the last couple of days. Lisa the market has been pressing since the midyear that the ecb is would you raise rates for the current 3. 75 . The question is how are they going to do it . Are they going to into get a hold and then indicate theyre going to raise rates further . Is there any variation from that particular iteration of decisions . Tom American Airlines and what we are seeing there, i think Helane Becker joins us today, but there is disinflation in the air and yet in europe we are t
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