31 was exceptionally important. I spoke to the vice chairman yesterday, and hes really enthused about expanding on a lot of this monetary mumbojumbo. It is an important speech, but the backdrop, you nailed this weeks ago, is the massive case build up in the United Kingdom that the Prime Minister talked about yesterday. Im sorry, the landscape changed yesterday when he went out to march of 2021. Jonathan the outlook for europe gets a little bit worse. The data on the Services Side backing that up. From my perspective for the Federal Reserve, the message they want to send if things get the message they want said, if things get better they want to send, if things get better. Tom how many times will we mention it . Jonathan i lost count. Lisa, will you count it . Lisa no, but im going to let tom know that. Tom 47 times. Lisa there you go, 47 times we mentioned fiscal stimulus. Jonathan just to clear this up for our listeners, our audience worldwide, tom keene has not counted how any times.
Edward tom good morning. Wfh, as the jargon now, you work from home. When do we all get back to the office . We thank you for watching. A really interesting wednesday. There are a lot of political moments, theres international relations. In the market, im sorry. I started out this morning with on, and all much going now a bid to equities once more. Jonathan you the word crosscurrents. I think that is the right word this week. We have betterthanexpected data in the United States. I think the data right now is absolutely critical. The Federal Reserve has played a huge role in this market, and clearly that is exacerbating this, but the veracity comes from the betterthanexpected data. You have to say that this rally tracks that pretty well so far. Tom lisa abramowicz, what have you learned about the efficacious nature of fed policy . Is it helping right now . Lisa it is helping to push down yields and push up prices of assets across the board, and certainly hoping to encourage companies to
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