Address in the next few months. One issue onver which i can be decisive today. And i think all members of the governing council will agree with me. We must explain much better to the general public what we are doing and why we are doing it. People thattalk to we do not normally reach. This imperative has to cascade the role elements of our review, our inflation name, our inflation measure, our tools, and their effectiveness, and how we take into account new challenges that people actually care about. The housing costs, but also Climate Change and inequality. Im fully committed to that. Monetary policy can only be credible, mind you, if we ensure that our goals are truly understood and shared by the people we serve. I think you very much for your attention. That was Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central bank with an important speech of about 4045 minutes. The focus has been on inflation. There are a couple of things we need to look into and we have reaction from laura
Identify other key issues the governing council will aim to address in the next few months there is however, one issue on which i can decide today all members of the governing council will agree with me we must complain much bet tort general public what we are doing and why we are doing it and we must talk to people that we do not normally reach this has to case cade through our review, inflation name, inflation measure, tools and effectiveness and how they take into account new challenges that people actually care about housing cost, Climate Change and inequality im fully committed to that. Monitory policy can only be credible if we are sure our goals are true and shared by the people we serve. As an independent central bank, we are and we will remain accountable to them. Thank you very much for your attention. A warm welcome to street signs. If you are just joining us, im Julianna Tatelbaum lets kick off with what we just heard from madam lagarde she was delivering a speech at the ec
Worldwide as well. Good morning to all of you working from home during this endemic and listening to our pandemicontent this and listening to our digital speak torea we will Kevin Cirilli about the events in washington over the last 24 hours, and certainly the comments of various members of the military about the commanderinchief. We will also look at the ecb, that Important Press conference coming up. Jon will brief us on the difference between 500 billion on dollars. Illi it is extraordinary. To be honest, i have lost of the a million here and a million there of an white of unemployed americans. Jonathan everyone has, not through malice. What we are hoping to see is claims rollover. I thought yesterday was absolutely remarkable, to get that adp report of negative 2. 6 million, and to call that an upside surprise you imagine me telling you at the start of this year that a number like that would be called a big beat, a massive upside surprise . Tom of course, the backdrop is the s p ma
Expecting 8. 6 and were getting 17. 7 . Those numbers getting close to the new years chinese holiday. Maybe there is a seasonal effect on these numbers. Rishaad these are good numbers, 17 . Lets have a look. We will have a look at what is going on with dollar numbers. Lets wait for that. Exports, in dollar terms. Do not have the dollar number yet. Nikkei up 0. 8 . At 29,000. Asx moving tohe the upside. Front andd the yuan center. 110 since may 24 or Something Like that. Getting more and more strong. 6. 87 . More strength coming through with the yuan. That could be down to what we are seeing with export, import and trade numbers. Yvonne these numbers when it comes to 2019, exports rising 5 from a year ago. Imports rising 1. 6 . The trade balance coming to 2. 92 billion renminbi. It seemshole year, things were looking better and not as bad as forecasted. Still in the green. David people would say it is backward looking data, but when you look at the trend, things are getting better. That
Its chinamade model 3 just a year after they broke ground teheran condemns what it calls terrorist attacks on iranallied militia. We continue to demand the Islamic Republic iran act consistent in a wi i laid back in may 2018 for what it is we expect iran to do so it can rejoin the community of nations. So lets take a look at the European Markets now that they had a bit of time to warm up, although warming up is the opposite of whats going on here because they are cooling down. Nikkei down 2 ftse mib in italy down and germany down by 4. 5 its been a very good year for all of these markets year to date lets take a look at how the overnight action was while we were all fast c markets. Im looking in the correct perspective now. The nikkei 225 did finish down but has closed for the year. Year to date its tally was up by 18 . The shanghai composite was the stand out performer for the asia pacific markets up over the past ten years down by just over 7 the hang seng in Congress Hong was an und