That continues a down trend but only just. A spike in new virus cases, especially arizona and texas. The words second wave have some investors worried. The Federal Reserve, well, jay powell sees the effects of the virus dragging on the economy until 2022. Thats not the rapid recovery the administration sees. Larry kudlow joins us in our 11 00 hour. So what do you do . Do you hold on to the stocks youve got, do you buy this dip . That was successful in the past. Or do you get out and take your profit while you can . We will try to answer at least some of those questions. Politics. Joe biden says President Trump may try to steal the election and joe biden says the president promotes racism. His words. This as demonstrators create what they call a no cop zone in downtown seattle. It was created overnight. The president is not happy about that. And this afternoon, mr. Trump heads to dallas, texas. We expect to hear from him about Police Reform and maybe about any new help for the economy f
Industrial data out of germany. Desha back to that euro. Within back to that euro. We have seen Christine Lagarde speak for the first time. She has been talking about the impact that the coronavirus has had. She said that the policymakers that the ecb have done what is justified but she continues to push for this idea that we do need this fiscal pop package to come through. The european commissions proposal for a revised financial train work and the next he generation eu are decided in this regard. It it is association it is associated with the proposal and could have an impact on the International Role of the euro. It will important to adopt that package quickly. Christine lagarde speaking a little earlier today. She will speak at the bottom of this hour as well. Speaking to us from washington is adam pozen. Banks,alk about central particularly the ecb given the fact that Christine Lagarde has just been speaking. Herhe doing enough and are calls for greater fiscal policy out of europe
Moment of negative Interest Rates as well. As you leave the hour, francine, the United States excuse me by theington transfixed battle between the president and mr. Bolton. It has changed overnight into new legal action by the president. Francine nothing like an injunction to sell a new book. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Take a coke china is vowing retaliation for u. S. Ritika china is vowing the government of the u. S. Has set , sanctions for any oppression of uighurs or muslims. John boltons book says the president meanwhile, bolton also wrote that President Trump asked xi jinping to help him we reading help him win reelection. Thevastating betrayal of president s Foreign Policy. President trump called bolton a the book tos asked stopping publish. Economists predict the central bank will expand its Bond Buying Program by 125 billion dollars. Meanwhile, investors will watch for any hint of radical policies such as negative Interest
Major breakthrough in treating the coronavirus, a steroid that could cut deaths significantly among the sickest patients jay powell assuring the market is willing and able to backstop the economy. And finally, fiscal stimulus reports the white house is preparing a trillion dollar infrastructure package for everything from roads and bridges to 5g network. So, were these the three things the market needed to hit it big today . The three horsemen. Hi, mel. Hi, guy how are you well, i mean, they definitely helped, and im looking forward to Jerome Powells testimony tomorrow when somebody asks him what his favorite hardhitting question, what his favorite color is thats always riveting to me its all about the fed i think we all agree with that their commentary has been nothing short of astonishing the infrastructure supposed infrastructure bill, obviously, caught everybodys attention im hard pressed to believe that will get through this year given the divide we have, politically. The covid ne
Is slightly better than economists were expecting an better than the previous month. Leasing Property Investment looking better. Fixed assets investments, also a drop of 6. 3 . Aonomists were looking at drop of 6 , but the trend seems to be better than the previous month. I guess it continues to show that this could still be an uneven recovery we are seeing in china. Uneven recovery but a broadening of chinas recovery, as well. We heard new home prices, the most in six months. That is a good sign as the economy reopens. We are seeing how home prices in terms of growth has accelerated. Easing on credit, helping a lot. Just to recap, retail sales, 2. 8 . Retail sales, still contracting, retail sales have collapsed. Consumers are pretty cautious when it comes to coming back to spending. Beijing and other chinese cities are giving up consumption vouchers to its people. They encourage them to spend in the fiscal month of the year. Retail sales slumped 16 nationwide so as long as retail back