Election that may lead on for a while. Jimthan joining us now is karen of morgan stanley. Lets start with that question on the election. So many things we have been told to care about have not ended up mattering. Is the election any different . The election will matter, i just dont know when. Going into the election, there will be some risk that needs to be taken off the table, but when we think about both candidates, what is the main driver for the Economic Policy . The pandemic. Do we get a vaccine, second lockdown. That will be the main driver. If you think about a bride and presidency, you have to see growth coming from the fiscal side, expansion. If it is a trump presidency, probably more from the private side. Either way, both politicians have a plan to generate growth. It is up to the voters to decide which is better. I think both are going to matter. The point that another person brought up earlier, if there is a contested election, thats a problem. Markets can deal with uncert
Signaling that it may need to do more to the boe, signaling that it may need to do more to combat lower growth. Bloombergs Francine Lacqua spoke to andrew bailey, the bank of england governor, following that policy decision. Gov. Bailey we are keeping options open on that. Im very clear on that. Other members of the committee thought it was a sensible decision to take in our next meeting, when we may have more information. Francine are we any closer to negative rates, or is that not an option right now . Gov. Bailey we are not ruling anything out because it would be unwise of us to rule anything out in terms of responses. I dont want to say we are nearer to negative rates, but we are not ruling anything out. Francine under what circumstances will we get negative rates . Gov. Bailey its a complicated question. You have to view it in the context of the times, also in the context of the financial structure we have, and what are the consequences of it. I just want to caution, we are nowher
Travel and leisure recover after ryanrare continue to slash capacity and bmw ceo adds his company is operating as normal on the supply chains, we dont see any large disrupts. A warm welcome to street signs. Global finance ministers discussing a possible coordination to the responseof coronavirus. Listening to the call at 7 00 a. M. Eastern led by Steven Mnuchin and Jerome Powell. While the group is drafting a statement on countering the economic impact, it does not specifically call for coordinated Interest Rate cuts nevertheless, european markets are surging following wall streets lead yesterday. You can see the dax and the main benchmark up 2 . In italy, the mib facing a strong recovery up 2 . Yesterday, we saw italy underperform, in particular the italian Banking Sector on concerns of the virus weighing sentiment there. The impact this could have on bank balance sheets. We are seeing strong gains across the european session. You can see we have green across every single sector. Chem
Shares boosts as iphone shares surge. The Ukraine Airlines flight that crashed outside tehran was likely shot down by an Iranian Missile, as intelligence from the u. S. , uk and canada suggests the tragedy could have been unintentional. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to this edition of street signs. We made it to the end of the week and what a week it was, starting off with huge concerns that seem to have shifted into the back seats in the last 24 hours. We had record highs yet again for wall street, all of the majors making fresh closes also some of the sub sectors as well, the tech industrials, discretionary and health care all hitting fresh record highs in the u. S the Communications Services has seen its highest close since 2001 so the market has shut off a lot of the concern that we saw earlier on in the week as for european markets, you can see its fairly split, a bit of a mix, 50 50 on the map as were seeing right now but overall, the stock is trading above the flat line,
He will be traveling to washington hell be here a couple of days saying negotiating teams from both sides remain in close communication. President trump saying hes going to later travel to beijing to begin talks on the next phase. I think well talk to eunice we never know until we know. The last thing we heard from eunice was, you know, the president says there is a signing next week but havent heard anything from the chinese side she did point out that it was good for the chinese to have this happening now ahead of the Lunar New Year too my point is that they would never say anything and deliberately stay and let us conjecture it is always bad they never signed off on this the day before the market pulled back a little after someone said something that the chinese are uncomfortable with something until we hear right from the Commerce Ministry. Just a lot of times sitting there, what they looked like. They are more reserved and are tweeting about this stuff. Anyway, looking good. Hope