I know youre loathe to lay into fiscal policy but given forecast for Unemployment Rates, do you think its important that congress extend the extra unemployment benefits. I think were trying to keep our comments on fiscal policy at a high level ill come to your specific question let me just say this, this is the biggest economic shock in the u. S. And in the world really in living memory we went from the lowest level of unemployment in 50 years to the highest level in close to 90 years and we did it in two months extraordinary. Appropriately the response there fiscal authorities has been large, forceful, and very quick by the standards of these things roughly 3 trillion congress has authorized, and thats benefiting households, laid off workers, small and medium businesses, hospitals, state and local governments, 14 of gdp, its in a class by itself in terms of both the size and the speed of it. Its also pretty innovative. Both the ppp and Unemployment Insurance are quite innovative in th
Point on renault. There is no question the labor economy overwhelms everything else. The depression of labor is absolutely front and center into this week. With all the other news and distractions as well, the labor economy, globally, is stunningly week. Francine we will have a lot of folks on unemployment across the world. Ritika in minneapolis, a third night of violent protests over the death of a black man who died in police custody. Protesters torched a Police Station and a number of businesses were also burned. Demonstrations spread to other cities in kentucky over another police shooting. The president called the rioters thugs and threatened to send in the national guard. This came hours after the president issued an executive order seeking liability protection. Earlier this week, twitter began selected factchecks of his tweets. Today, President Trump will announce his response to chinas crackdown on hong kong. The president says he is not happy with new legislation that curves f
With the dow gaining 6. 8 there has been some controversy about that too explain whats going on behind the numbers. In terms of how many jobs have been lost during the pandemic. Its fifth positive session. Its been up five sessions in a row. Its indicated higher and the 6th day of the week. That was up by 6. 8 . S p was up by 82 points. And then the nasdaq was up by 2 almost 200 points. The s p indicated up by 6. 5. And treasury yields and did see quite a bit of activity there too. The ten year yield picking up substantially last week and this morning its back at 0. 91 i cant remember the last time we had a ten year above 0. 8 let alone 0. 9. It could be a round number some day not that far 1 maybe cross your fingers. Oil too is almost 40. Oil looks like a bad break looks like it went down and it is such a quick one right back up and almost to the levels where it was almost prior to this the journal has the piece when the spiggots are opening here today. We have a huge show again today
That you were giving bad dad jokes in honor of fathers day i hope that you had a very good fathers day. I hope that mat did as well all the invites. We were waiting we had the drinks ready, the smores ready, the whole operation. Did i mess up your address or something . There was nothing at that location it was like. Its hard to find on google the google maps they send you a little bit of an awkward direction. Its the wrong address. Like the phone numbers that i used to try to get. Exactly must have written the number down wrong lets start with markets this morning. The major averages are coming off their fourth week of gains the last five weeks. This is something that we have been watching closely. If you have been watching the markets the dow is more than 10 from the all time high the nasdaq as joe mentioned was closed up for six sessions in a row on friday and the nasdaq at this point is less than 2 from its all time highs we are been watching these very closely. Theyre the only ind
The worst vics from the , to today. It is certainly better today. Francine here is ritika gupta with first word news. Ritika there has never been a month as bad as april for the british economy. Gdp fell more than 20 as the coronavirus lockdown took hold. On a threemonth basis, economic output shrank more than 10 . The imf says the Global Economy is recovering more slowly than expected from the coronavirus. The fund expects it will have lingering scars from the experience. The imf will release economic with injections june 24. It expects them to be worse than the last forecast in april. The imf says in general asian economies are further along in the recovery path. President trump is rejecting calls to overall Law Enforcement to cut funding. He says a Strong Economy will be the fix for racial injustice. The president is working on an executive order that he says asks police to meet the most current standards. There are few details on what that program will look like. North korea accuse