At the same time, we generated more capital through earnings. Thats why are ratio is 12. 5 . Talk to me about the merging of the two units. What is the reasoning behind that . The Investment Bank merger is something weve been discussing for months. Even my predecessor, it was already a topic. 2015, clearlyn the two had to be separated. We had to restructure the trading business. Are at a stage or we can put them back together again. Most of our competitors have it anyway. This is not a cost exercise. There will be some cost benefits. Its really about having one overriding business to have one Investment Bank globally, one equities business. A Global Trading solution business, which build on our success. It serves our equity, fixed income, transactional business for the private bank and institutional business. How difficult was it to do this in the middle of the pandemic . Thomas it was relatively good. You get used to resume calls. Zoom calls. We had many internal calls to get this lin
600,000. Los angeles is facing a new lockdown. Tokyo and hong kong reporting record numbers. Australia is set to deliver a new budget, may be the biggest blowout since world war ii. Lets take a look at how we are setting up when it comes to markets. Ures this is how it is shaping up when it comes to the future contracts. A Third Straight week of gains when it comes to the s p, managing to withstand the lakesession latesession wound. Slow but steady rotation away from growth in tech. Much more going into value. Futures are up by about 0. 1 . Positivity when it comes to the trading in tokyo, just about 0. 2 higher. Chicago nikkei futures are higher, all eyes on whats going on in brussels with now three days of negotiations in the eu to reach this agreement on the stimulus package and hand out details. We are hearing details, including that the netherlands and austria remain the strongest holdouts in the eu recovery talks. A bit of anxiety playing through when it comes to the eurodollar t
Fed chair is currently testifying to the house ways and means committee. Whether it is eu in china or the u. S. In china, we will break that down. We will have exclusive interviews with the erickson ceo. The main story continues to be the fed. The pandemic may threaten the stability of longterm Inflation Expectations. That was according to the vice chair yesterday. I judge that measures of longerterm inflection Inflation Expectations were at the downturn at the lower end of the range that i consider consistent with our 2 inflation objective. Given the likely downturn, we are at risk of falling below that range. Us now is blackrock system medical systematic portfolio manager. What does that mean if we fall sustainably below that range . That is where we are today. This is a huge shock. It is a huge shock across both sides of the economy. That has been met with less price inflation. We have seen the impact across price commodities. We have seen it yesterday with retail sales in recovery
Up for an eighth straight day. The mega cap tech names making the new milestones josh, the big five as we say amazon, apple, facebook, alphabet, microsoft all but alphabet hitting the new highs today crossing 6 trillion as you flag end market cap for the first time ever. They, amazingly, are now equal to the next 24 largest s p 500 stocks combined. You flag that. Yeah. What do you make of it . Yeah, so my research. We put this up last night. Just incredible when you think about the companies that make up that next 24 were not talking about small potatoes were talking about jpmorgan which is a 300 million cap and pepsi, coke, mcdonalds. Its really wild and these stocks now are just going parabolic. I think i want to maketwo points very quickly. The first is that this is not unprecedented. In the mid 1960s just two stocks General Motors and at t made up 14. 5 of the total market cap of the s p 500. And the top ten names in the mid 60s made up about 50 of the market cap so, we have seen t
It is not over. It is just beginning the days are long right now. We are going to take that. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. We are sitting at the flat line. Dow down about 7 or 8 and nasdaq up by about 13 yesterday, the dow was down 710 points a decline of 2. 7 s p off 2. 6. Came with huge steep declines going as smoothly as people had hoped. All of those concerns added up to steep losses. Looking at the treasury yield at 0. 669 now you see additional pressure as we continue to watch that case count talking about that, the United States seeing a Record Number of new coronavirus cases in a single day. Tallyi tallying 45,000300 that tops the numbers from april reporting that visitors that travel from hot spots to new york, new jersey to connecticut will be asked to quarantine two weeks. Those who defy that order. Hot spots include arizona, utah, texas, arkansas, alabama, north and South Carolina President Trump says he will not follow the quarantine order wh