I write mostly comic novels. We have written seven or eight of those. This book is a memoir probably the only memoir i will never write. I dont have that much to say. May be going out on thin i. C. E. I dont think i will write another book than this one in part because it is so singular in nature. About two Extraordinary People who provided me with some amazing material for a book. Host what was it like to write the book . I sat down shortly after i buried my father last year i woke up in the morning with no intention of writing a book and started writing a book and i wrote a in 40 days. Was accidental there was no biblical collusion but when i looked at the calendar i saw 40 days had lapsed. I work hard to on my writing. It wrote a lot of it itself but we pretty much poured out. Host were you surprised at what poured out . Yes. I think the first sentence read Something Like im not sure how this book is going to turn out. I was indeed surprised at how it turned out. Host thats exactly
Political price to pay. President trump also getting down to business while he prepares his plan to address the issue of racism, policing, and the evolving opinions of america. What should we expect to hear from him . I have one of his top advisors coming right up. All that and so much more on making money. Charles i want to begin the show with the notion of always having to assign a reason to every move in the market beyond the idea of more buyers or sellers or more sellers than buyers. What makes this happen is sometimes pretty obvious what makes the market go around but sometimes it is a mystery. But its also reported as fact as the Financial Media is typically echoing the same talking points, but those talking points are often generated somewhere and often have nothing to do with fact or even honest opinion. Yesterday i got to admit, i was livid at the notion that the market sold off on a quote unquote spike of covid19 cases. The so called spike wasnt even close to numbers in recen
Package may not be needed. Dow industrials down 76, s p down 4 points and nasdaq lower by 2 and a half this after roller coaster week on wall street where we saw dow industrials go back to bull market territory posting largest weekly gain since 1938. Dow, nasdaq, s p 500 up better than 9 on the week. We are now off of the lows at 20. 54 a barrel, down 97 cents, 4 lower. Cases of coronavirus are rising across the country, death toll topping 1,000 in new york. Mayor de blasio says people who do not practice social distancing in the city can face fines up to 500dollars. A Million Dollars raised fox last night including fox business. More Companies Help to go fight the war on coronavirus. Manufacturing, medical supplies to free flight to healthcare workers. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets this morning as u. S. Searches for direction. We have weakness across europe, cac quarant down 41 and dax index in germany lower by 32 points. European leaders conti
Charles at this moment all eyes on the Federal Reserve as coronavirus fears rattle the market. Breaks news from boston fed president aaron, give us the news, jennifer. Good afternoon, charles. Boston fed giving a speech in new york this afternoon saying the fed should consider buying a broaderrange of assets besides treasuries should rates go to zero. That policy would require change to the Federal Reserve act, rosenbrend says a facility that could buy assets if treasury agrees to backstop it and offer and hes one that is caution that lowering rates at the risk of pushing investors into riskier assets could lead to bubbles in markets and now suggesting this policy really taking a page out of japans playbook. That would not stimulate the economy. All of this, of course, on a yield when the year on the 10year hitting alltime new low. This is the last time that fed officials will talk before they meet for their policy meeting next week to determine whether to take further policy action, c
High of the day. Futures were limit up. Westart the session started the session up more than 5 at one point. Only a few days ago, we were wowed when the tenure went through 1 . It is hoping to hold know that it is approaching 1 again. The dollar stronger today. Below 107 on the yen, 106. 94. We will be speaking with john taylor of Stanford University in just a moment. Guy this doesnt even feel like a dead cat. It feels like a dead kitten. The equity markets are bouncing, but not much. Europe is off its session highs. Relative to4 , but the biggest move ever to the downside yesterday, that doesnt feel that impressive. Trading at 307. A lot of action in the german 30 year. You are seeing bid offers tightening up a little bit. Thats good. Liquidity may be starting to come back. That was certainly a focus for the fed yesterday. What is interesting as well, the bdp market is on offer again. We started to see yields coming back down again after yesterdays christine lagardeinduced move. That