We will talk about that later on. The bank of england is sounding more hawkish or maybe less dovish. The pound is down. 1. 2419. The Banking Sector, we talk about tltros and what the story there is. 1. 3 out of the door to european banks later on from the ecb. The Banking Sector under pressure. We will wrap some of those issues up a little bit later on. Willem bt her, uiter, former member of the bank of england will be joining us. He is a visiting professor of columbia university. He will be giving us his take later on. Lets focus on the bank of england in more detail. One of the big Central Banks today. The boe stepping up its response to the coronavirus pandemic. To boost bond purchases by 100 billion pounds. Joining us is seema shah. Giltdo i do if i am in the market with what ive learned today . The bank of england chief economist sounding much more optimistic than people would have anticipated. Seema yes. Although they met expectation in terms of the size of the expansion of asset
Chinese demand levels almost at precrisis level. Time for todays market moving news from our washington and new york teams. We want to start with fed chair jay powells comments on the economy. In an interview with cbs, he expressed confidence in the recovery, but timing is still hard to predict. Chair powell the economy will recover. It may take a while. It could stretch through the end of next year. We really dont know. Michael mckee, International Economics and policy correspondent, has more. Was there anything new on cbs . Michael nothing really new, just summarizing what we already knew from the fed and from economists and disease experts. He suggested that what it is really going to take is a vaccine before people feel really confident and the economy can start to move back in the direction of where it was before all of this started. He said congress and the central bank may need to do more to keep us afloat during that period. Appropriate government policy could buy time for work
The economy in the next 3, 6, 18 months. Tom it has been an extraordinary recharging of global recession. Germany looking at recession calls back to 2009, really no surprise there. But it has been the additive facts that we have seen over the weekend measuring global slowdown. There is no place you see it more than thiss morning, not only in the price decline of oil, but specifically brent has had worldwide crude has an extremely difficult six hours. Francine yeah, we also have to look at currencies, dollar had quite a move, and dollar of course is now benefiting, or at least moving on the back of the Credit Rating downgrade from other countries. We look at pound, a lot a lot of volatility there. Thats get to first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana President Donald Trump wants the public to continue practicing social distancing until at least the end of april and not by easter come as he previously suggested. Dr. Anthony fauci telling cnn if efforts to mitigate t
Investors say there is little chance of warding off a recession. The bank of japan is next. Governor kuroda may be more aggressive as the virus further weakens the economy. U. S. Futures start trading in the negative right now. Under pressure right now. 3 percent. Even after we saw the worst day since 1987. Forident trumps travel ban europe not today well with investors. Take a look at what we saw throughout the session. It was an incredible day on the s p 500. The fiveminute trading. If you can switch up the board, you can see what happened throughout the session. We were down 7 . We did see a little bit of a bounceback around 130 when the fed came in with surprise Market Operations. We have the fed ramping up measures to help the markets and liquidity with more than 5 trillion being promised. 1 30, that Center Markets a little higher. That did not last long. You can see how the 10 year yield did manage to pervak some lower,e but it was still around. 8 . The same thing for the u. S. D
Matt the coronavirus spreads stateside. New cases across the u. S. Including in new york city. President trump meets with pharma executive today as the global death toll passes 3000. The fed is in play. Policymakers stand ready to cut rates but doubted they can fully offset the virus in fact. Goldman sachs sees a 50 basis point reduction this month. Berlin reports its first case of the coronavirus. Italy seeks a wider deficit to pay for emergency economic measures as cases soar. We are under an hour away from cash trading in europe. You are getting 1 to 2 gains in futures, the ftse futures up. This is after the biggest route we have seen, we saw last week since 2008 for the broader stoxx 600 european index. Getting gains in the preachers in the u. S. Are not as sharp but we are 7. 5 hours away from the start of trading there. The nasdaq, down, many contracts rising this morning. What are you seeing . Money going into risk assets. That is the theme through the Asian Session and markets