Joel weber. A solitary figure on the cover this week, chairman jay powell. We often try to take something complicated and simple it down. The cover is an expression of that this week. Jay powell, fed chair, probably the most important person in the world of finance. He heads the Financial Institution that is probably the most important anywhere in the world and for a year now, hes been the target of trumps twitter ire, because trump wants lower rates, lower rates, and jay powell has basically been a stoic figure through all of that. Carol we believe this is an independent organization and for the first time, we are wondering is it going to remain independent . And can they continue to fend off the executive branchs desire for lower rates . We will see what happens this next week with rate cuts. The market basically thinks there will be a rate cut. The bigger story is one we wanted to ask to dig into, which is for a year now, weve lived through the tension between trump and powell, more
2. 5 and maybe more. 1. 5 for the 10 year. Someone saying we will see tremendous reinflation over the next 10 years, buy gold. And on the other side, and have someone saying, 10year yields are going to zero. I dont want to think of a world of zero interest rates. That is where we are heading over the next couple years. 0 for the u. S. Treasury seems like an excessively pessimistic forecast. We have had the recovery, its coming to an end. If you believe that the Business Cycle is coming to an end, that call makes sense. Now the Central Banks are falling into line and cutting rates, one after another. When we start to get this polarization of views, it tend to be close to regime changes. I am not saying we will get there right away. Something is going to give. That is the journey we are on until Something Different happens. Jonathan joining us to discuss lisa hornsby from schroders, Gershon Distenfeld from alliancebernstein, and noelle from invesco, over in atlanta. It is a big call from
Steven mnuchin steps in for new york bancorp. And boeing having issues are regulators over the door plug blowout. Its thursday, march 7th, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Thank you for being with us. We get you ready for the trading day ahead. The major averaging snapped a threeday leez losing streak. This action in the premarket after we heard from jay powell saying he continues to expect Interest Rates to come down this year, but not ready to say when yet. It will depend on the path of the economy. Our focus is on maximum employment and price stability and the incoming data as you look at the outlook. We checkfor treasuries. We continue to watch yields throughout the hour. We are watching the Energy Market and oil with wti hovering close to 80 a barrel. Tensions in the middle east continue to rise after the Houthi Missile attack yesterday that killed three on the cargo ship in the gulf of aden. Take a look at
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Good morning. Welcome to the may 8, 2024 meeting of budget and finance. Im connie chan, chair of the committee joined by vice chair mandelman and supervisor melgar. Our clerk is brent jalipa i would like to thank kaleena mendoza for broadcasting the meeting. A reminder those in attendance to make sure to silent all Electronic Device prevent interpretations. Should you have documents to be included submitted to myself the clerk. Public comment will be taken on each item. When your item come up and Public Comment is called lineup to the west side to your right my left. And while not necessary to provide comment we invite to you fill out a comment card and leave them by the doors if you wish to be recorded for the minutes. You may submit comment in writing e mail them to myself the clerk at brent. Jalipa sfgov. Org. If you submit comment via e mail tell be forwarded and included part of the fortunately file. You may also send written comments u. S. Postal service to 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodl