President tells bloomberg positive news on the vaccine isnt a major game changer for its forecaster. She says the focus remains on stopping the economic slump from worsening. Judy sheldons nomination to the fed board is blocked. Set tome as the sec is move ahead for plans that could delist chinese companies. A warm welcome to the show. Welcome back. I hope you had a good rest become because you come back to many warning signs. From the equity markets, sell the top. Markets, the dean of debt a little to get suspect on distressed debt markets. Marie. Orning, ann annmarie good morning. When this level of optimism is high, there is usually more room for disappointment and that seems to be what we are seeing. I said facing reality. You had a good term of categorizing that reality and for me, Christine Lagarde saying the vaccine is not a game changer because it is not going to change in terms of the economic fallout we are seeing. If we take a look at where we trade this morning in the monda
Reaches a milestone. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. We have breaking news the last 20 minutes. China says that the u. S. Has abruptly closed its consulate in houston. That is having an impact on the market. Lets get the markets. Risk sentiment looks a lot shakier after china says the u. S. Abruptly ordered the closure of its consulate. Most european indices have extended declines to session lows. S p futures accelerating their dissent. I did want to show you gold and silver. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Ispresident donald trump restarting virus briefings. There was a shift in tone with the president urging americans to wear masks and avoid risky behavior. The death toll for the virus in the u. S. Has topped 140,000. Cases are still growing, especially in southern and western states. President trump it will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better, something i dont like saying about thin
For its purposes and rely on supervisory and regulatory tools, you know, to keep the Financial System resilient so youre not doing something today to help today and then its going to cause problems down the road . Youre not worry about that kind of dynamic theres very few things i dont worry about at all of course we monitor we have every quarter an extensive briefs on financial stable we have that yesterday we look at this on an ongoing basis. We have a great team we liase around the world. Were very much monitoring these things all the time, and we worry about them all the time. Were looking for the thing that we may have missed a lot of the time the things we havent missed, they paint a mixed picture, but not one to prevent us from taking Monetary Policy actions that we think are appropriate to support the economy. Reporter youve talked in this press conference about being data dependent Going Forward and this is not the start of a series of rate cuts, but the Financial Markets seem
This after a day of trading that saw s p 500 hit another alltime high, second straight day of record. Meantime investors are cautiously awaiting upcoming earning season with 80 of s p 500 Companies Reportedly cutting earnings forecast. Joining me research chief macro strategist lenor hawkins, what is driving the market to plus side if you watch the bond market, 10year yield falling and closing below 2 yesterday and then you this percentage of s p 500 Companies Cutting their earnings forecast . This is really all about the fed in the hope that easy money will keep prices going up because this has nothing to do with fundamentals, if you look at what happened at first half of the year, s p 500 rose 17 , the strongest first half of the year since 1997 but if we look at earnings, if we look at whats going on with the fundamentals, earnings declined 4. 4 for the s p 500 for the First Quarter and expect today decline negative 2. 3 in second quarter, you have prices going up while the actual r
Kudlow, im larry kudlow. Donald trump branding the border crisis joe bidens invasion as the president ignores the migrant crime in the u. S. And instead focuses on climate change. Oh. Now were going to call illegals newcomers. Were going to ask senator Marsha Blackburn what she thinks about all that,s plus weve got Mike Faulkender and judy sheldon on is at a 30year low and congressman scott perry on hunt e bide Hunter Bidens admission that the big guy was on his calls. And Katie Pavlich limp Alan Dershowitz on Donald Trumps eight amendment rights and other things. First up, our own griff jenkins, the great, is down in live from brownsville, texas, with more on yesterdays border visit. Griff jenkins, the great. I love that. Reporter hey. Good afternoon, larry. And it was president ial dueling down on the border separated by 300 miles. But area just 9 months ago was the epicenter of the migrant crisis with thousands coming across here to brownsville. Now its one of the slowest in the cou