Good wednesday morning im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin with us dow down 800, worst drop since about june 11th, on covid worries in the europe and United States, lockdown worries in france and germany oil is down about 6 vix getting closer to 40 were monitoring the ceos of twitter, facebook as they testify on section 230 well begin with dominic chu on more on what is driving the downswing. A lot of narrative around the rising covid cases, not just in the United States but europe as well markets may be taking their cues from whats happening in europe. Theyre talking about wider spread lockdowns in germany and france and whats if it happens here in the United States. Thats playing out in the markets right now. For the s p 500 specifically, below the 3300 mark, that is below both the 50day average price and the 100day average price for those indices, so many traders looking for technical or chart pattern levels as they look at trades today the s p 500, this little rol
Identify other key issues the governing council will aim to address in the next few months there is however, one issue on which i can decide today all members of the governing council will agree with me we must complain much bet tort general public what we are doing and why we are doing it and we must talk to people that we do not normally reach this has to case cade through our review, inflation name, inflation measure, tools and effectiveness and how they take into account new challenges that people actually care about housing cost, Climate Change and inequality im fully committed to that. Monitory policy can only be credible if we are sure our goals are true and shared by the people we serve. As an independent central bank, we are and we will remain accountable to them. Thank you very much for your attention. A warm welcome to street signs. If you are just joining us, im Julianna Tatelbaum lets kick off with what we just heard from madam lagarde she was delivering a speech at the ec
That the feds tools dont appear to be capable of reaching this the people who are out of work which is why hes asking congress to help out with passing fresh fiscal stimulus legislation. Sensually todays meeting wasnt full of surprises if anything it only demonstrated that the fed is not planning to take its foot off the monetary gas pedal is that a correct assessment. I think it is i think what we heard more than anything else today was more of the same right is not going to change the fed essentially thinks its policies are working overall but at the same time what danielle just said is so absolutely true and its really imperative to this discussion which is that ultimately what the fed is doing does not trickle down necessarily the main street its not helping people who are unemployed right now its not helping businesses businesses and Small Business owners who are struggling mostly it helps wall street mostly it helps banks thats essentially what of the Federal Reserve is doing and
All right, welcome everybody to power lunch. Kevin is with us dominic too. Welcome, dom good to see you. Here is whats on tap. Stocks are at session highs right now after four weeks of losses the dow is up 500 points both the dow and s p on track for their biggest two day gains since june high stakes stimulus how Speaker Pelosi says she thinks, think, republicans and democrats can get a deal done before the election and tom lee says thats just one reason to buy stocks he will join us very shortly later, which president ial candidate could be better for the economy and the markets . Moodys is out with a new report that takes a look at those questions investors need to know power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Looks look at the bigger wins today. You have fedex leading the industrials over at Deutsche Bank raising target price to 318 a share both those stocks up around 2 Virgin Galactic getting two more buy recommendations. Eight wall street analysts say the same thing bu
Well i dont know maybe they dont mean. I will go down a great. Part. Around one. Route. This is the one business show you cant afford to miss from bridgeboro in washington coming up the Federal Reserve has spoken and now its a plan to hold rates steady as the u. S. Economy is slowly bell. Think back straight ahead we think an indepth look at the moves of the nations central bank has the future of volatility in the wake of copan 1000 remains uncertain gold has seen a spike in value as investors flee to safe haven assets but what does the future hold but well get into that with a packed show today so lets dive right in. The Federal Reserve held another policy meeting wednesday as part of an effort to determine where to go with u. S. Interest rates and what it will take to get the economy moving again overall there was some positive news as members of the Federal Reserve board upgraded their forecast for the economy to show a smaller contraction in Gross Domestic Product and a lower Unemp