Tuscany. Off, somewhere outside toledo. So Francine Lacqua joins us. That is not toledo, spain. Outside toledo, ohio somewhere. I want to get to the data in a moment, with markets moving. Futures 21. I would say this has really this is really jump circuit by the french pmi numbers. Why was this a surprise . Francine i was reading the breakdown. The sharp slowdown is basically driven by services. It shows that the escape from recession wont be flailing like some economists thought. Guess it is partly seasonal i would also point to the fact that infections are rising quite significantly, especially in france, germany, and other countries. Leaders are saying they dont want to go back into lockdown, especially when you look at these pretty terrible numbers in terms of many factoring pmi, but also services pmi. It might also be difficult not to preimpose measures if the number of people getting infected does rise. So it will be a complicated quarter going into the winter months. Tom a massi
Private sector economists, and members of the news media for this annual gathering. As you well know, it has been our custom for nearly four decades to welcome you to beautiful jackson hole, wyoming, part of the regions served by the kansas city fed. And i look forward to returning to that setting next year. With this years online format, instead of expressing my gratitude to those who travel from around the globe to attend this symposium while managing jet lag, i will offer my appreciation to those attempting to manage local time zones with the current time no ranges from 6 00 a. M. Thursday to 1 00 a. M. Friday. This year has been an extraordinary one for Monetary Policy and central banking. Many of the issues that we talked about for some time, including the low level of Interest Rates, slower case of growth, effects of heightened uncertainty, and how to effectively communicate Monetary Policy, have been amplified by the economic fallout of the pandemic. For more than a decade, it h
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Kansas citys economic symposium titled, navigating the decade ahead. Implications for Monetary Policy. Name is esther george, president of the kansas city fed. Im pleased to be joined by Federal Reserve chairman jay powell as well as many of my colleagues from the Federal Reserve and by other central bankers, academics, public and private Sector Economists and members of the news media. Foras been our custom nearly four decades to welcome you to beautiful jackson hole, wyoming, part of the region served by the kansas city fed. Returning forward to to that setting next year. Format, instead of expressing my gratitude to those who travel around the globe to attend the symposium while managing jet lag, i will offer my appreciation to those attempting to manage local time zone where the current time now ranges from 6 00 a. M. Thursday to 1 00 a. M. Friday. This year has been an extraordinary one for Monetary Policy and central banking. Many of the issues that weve talked about for some tim
Laura. Jim, one of those every now and then we get a day that is truly consequential and that certainly fits at least the expectations for powells speech. I wish that we hadnt come in so hot when you have a company that gains 50 billion in one day, salesforce, when you have a tremendous number of nasdaq stocks that have just kind of out of control to the upside you dont want to have anything that could disrupt that i think its heightened, im glad were covering every minute of t david, you know that this is a day that we would normally be talking about abbott labs and talking about the mysterious tiktok mayor issue which are both huge stories but we have to defer to jay powell. We do we have to defer to powell we have to continue to understand what the fed Balance Sheet will look like with that 3 trillion thats been added to it which is a staggering sum, guys jim, your point is well taken. Yesterday salesforce i have rarely seen anything like that move, yes, they were extraordinarily st