Labeled that in the 1st place according to the im a Commodity Traders and analysts are now doubting these insane amount that china is committing to buy from the us under phase one of the trade deal china will pledge to buy over 50000000000. 00 more in us energy and increase ag purchases by 32000000000 over 2 years which is above the 24000000000 base line these totals will supposedly trim about 300000000000 annually from the trade gap between the 2 countries however commodity experts remain skeptical that china can even absorb these quantities without threatening trade ties with other suppliers Global Markets are lackluster today as they struggle to digest the news and analyze how this deal will affect them how will the chinas commitment to by 200000000000. 00 of trade impact other countries and their access to the worlds biggest economy analysts also point out that depending on the wording and the implementation the agreement could also violate the principle of most big. Nation treatme
Acceleration in investment since june as industrial output eats estimates beats estimates. Could a firmer recovery be underway . Treyew brexit e. U. Chief pulls no punches on his First Washington trip, cautioning President Trump about protectionism and shortterm thinking. We spoke about him exclusively on resetting relations. The objective of the visit is to try to reset the relationship,t ry to understand each other in relation at the moment and find Common Ground with the United States. We started on a positive note. Matt barclays is cutting around 100 senior jobs across corporate and Investment Bank as the lender looks to rein in costs. Morgan stanley plans to 80 dozens of staff at its wealth business in asia. Lets look first at futures. Even after the new record we hit yesterday, were looking at gains in futures, and fairly substantial gains at that. Dax futures up 0. 5 . U. S. Futures, not the same size but the same direction, green a rrows on the nasdaq, s p and dow jones futures
Im max kaiser this is the kind of the report match skies are named by the magazine. The spectator magazine in the United Kingdom one of the most annoying things of 2019 thats right im on the same list as great a thorn bork and a lot of other stuff wow thats awesome take that joe rogan. Yes youre one of the 41 most annoying things about 21000 according to spectator magazine they call you an ex excitable duck sounding economist and con excitable dux voiced economist yes lets quacked on with these have of course the markets ended 21000 with partying like its 1999 you know in 1999 if you recall because you were part of that dot com thing well the nasdaq ended up 85 percent in 1909 it ended up almost 40 percent and 21000. 00 so its boom times again and were going to look at some tweets here about the whole 2019 assessment 21000. 00 just keeps Getting Better and better the nasdaq closed above 9000. 00 for the 1st time ever and is up almost 38 percent for the year that was earlier in december
Percent for the year that was earlier in december before the end of the year so were still looking back at that time going to comparison some 899. 00 youre. Indicating or inferring bubble like qualities i would imagine and it does look bubblicious you know but these are the rest of the world is a dire straits other you know also think about it the venezuelan stock market was up spectacularly recently since you said that im going to jump ahead to some a few another tweet tweet here to indicate what might be happening the rest of the world might be in distress but the fact is the u. S. Federal reserve bank has been printing enormous amounts of money and its going in lockstep with the increase in the nasdaq in the stock market because remember from mid september when the repo market turmoil erupted the fed started printing money and in the last 2. 00 weeks the 2019 here were in 20202020 but theyre still printing the last 2 weeks of 21000. 00 a printed 450000000000. 00 their assets at thei
A right so this is the same thing nasdaq is just a proxy for monopoly and the players that are winning this are both the bank and park avenue and park place the 2 most valuable spots on the board game of monopoly so. Thats this is exactly what ive been saying for a few years now if you keep printing trillions and trillions of dollars and you dont allow it to go into wages you cut them off you you you you you vilify the working person and you just give it to private equity speculators youre going to end up with this enormous bifurcation in the economy of extraordinarily wealthy plutocrats and kleptocrats and surf the surf class the losers the deplorable i might add that is also a hedge funds hedge funds play a big part in the repo market thats where they go for funding and then 10 x. Leverage up into the markets so thats important because of course as i mentioned heres the feds Balance Sheet it had been declining it was down 8 percent on. Year at one point for the 1st 3 quarters of 2019